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Agean90 posted:the thing is that trees are great for helping mitigate weather poo poo, live snow fences are a thing that are pretty effective. what they're really saying is "trees don't do poo poo!!!!!! roll back all the building codes and cut em all down" and then soil erosion from regular weather washes them into the sea anyway
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thank you Comrade Michael for destroying imperialist war machines
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Taintrunner posted:thank you Comrade Michael for destroying imperialist war machines step aside swamp maoists, we've got hurricane maoists now
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F-22 is like the opposite of the F-35 in that it really is the best/most advanced fighter around and not a giant chunk of idiot poo poo lol that they didn't scramble them all out to different bases when mikey's eye was basically a 30 mile wide tornado coming right at them the brilliant flawless united states armed forces, owned by nature
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all those fighters getting destroyed just means more money for the MIC, why the gently caress would they care about saving them
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it's rly quite comforting and heartwarming to visualize ultra high tech macho death machines being effortlessly wrecked by mother nature though 
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I’m pretty sure F-22 was the one that couldn’t fly in the rain and had a bunch of problems anyways I’m glad Comrade Michael punished the troops
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Taintrunner posted:I’m pretty sure F-22 was the one that couldn’t fly in the rain and had a bunch of problems I think they were undergoing maintenance and they were' expecting the roof of the hanger to get blown off The F-22 had a bunch of issues when they were new, but those have been pretty much worked out. Unlike the F-35, this was actually a very good fighter once they figured out the bugs
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still pretty pointless considering that our evil empire will collapse before we ever again get into a war where we do not have absolute air supremacy from day 1
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Tyndall is where the USAF trains F-22 pilots so They were early production training airframes (that 'couldn't be upgraded') but yeah, "put em in hangers, hope for the best" was the only option. If the eye had been 20 km further west it would have been a nonissue Still not a good thing, though. The airframes are not replaceable, and this is the latest time where America's patented method of "spending lots to develop cutting edge technology" -> "dumb short term decision leads to production being a fraction of what was needed" -> "now the old things that needed to be replaced still need to be replaced while the new things are 'silver bullets'" -> "it turns out keeping in airframes and parts for things that had their order vastly cut down is more expensive than doing the same thing to the full order" didn't work out See also the Zumwalt Destroyers, which because of this process cost as much as a Nimitz class supercarrier, and because of their lack of small guns that pretty much any naval ship has, the magic stelth destroyers must be escorted by two old frigates that do have those guns It's not like its main guns work though, because the magic next generation guns were made, then the order got cut so the cost of the shells for the guns went up to $800,000 per, and the Navy was like "NOPE" to that so now the guns have no shells
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Epic High Five posted:if we ever get into an actual war with someone who can fight back, we're gonna go nuclear like instantly because every other system has become a MIC quagmire of failure and pain What's darkly funny is that there are some production lines essentially unchanged from the 60s for making those nukes.
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can it really be 10% of the operational fleet if none of them are operational
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the bitcoin of weed posted:yeah most of the city lost power from falling trees, again, and a bunch of roads are blocked from fallen trees, again. they'll probably figure it out eventually Doesn't the US clear trees around major powerlines?  Also 
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Doesn't the US clear trees around major powerlines?
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Feranon posted:F-22 is like the opposite of the F-35 in that it really is the best/most advanced fighter around and not a giant chunk of idiot poo poo They flew all of them out that were air ready. The ones that were hit were in maintenance. Only so much you can do with the lead time we know for hurricanes. Having a major base in a hurricane zone and keeping that much of the fleet inoperable may be another problem all its own though.
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The Glumslinger posted:The F-22 had a bunch of issues when they were new, but those have been pretty much worked out. Unlike the F-35, this was actually a very good fighter once they figured out the bugs yeah it was alright once they went back and corrected grover's mistakes like mismatched windows on the cockpit and load-bearing ailerons Notorious R.I.M. posted:Having a major base in a hurricane zone and keeping that much of the fleet inoperable may be another problem all its own though. the southeastern coast of the us is nothing but military bases and tourist traps The Muppets On PCP has issued a correction as of 10:27 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Gum posted:https://twitter.com/glendon_31/status/1051179675681214465 
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Nebakenezzer posted:They were early production training airframes (that 'couldn't be upgraded') but yeah, "put em in hangers, hope for the best" was the only option. If the eye had been 20 km further west it would have been a nonissue
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The Muppets On PCP posted:
this fascism kills machines
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So far the official death toll is: 8 Florida People 1 Georgian 3 North Carolinians 6 Virginians
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twoday posted:So far the official death toll is: And a partridge in a palm tree.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Doesn't the US clear trees around major powerlines? in theory but a third of tallahassee looks like this  it's the smaller poles that get hosed up from big storms, the big high-voltage lines are safer because they clearcut a wide easement for them but are still vulnerable to stuff getting flung into them at 120 mph
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Bob Socko posted:Yes, but trees are pruned as time and budget allows, so any given area could have been due or overdue for pruning when the storm hit. GILLLUUUMMMM!!!!
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Doesn't the US clear trees around major powerlines? yes we do, a hurricane or tornado throws stuff into them anyway, and normally what actually is getting wrecked is stuff like the second image, not the big transmission lines
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the bitcoin of weed posted:in theory but a third of tallahassee looks like this Tbf, they're really pretty to drive through during the day and really spooky (in a good way) to drive through at night. But without regular storms pruning trees, you end up getting big limbs falling into roads and stuff.
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Silly Burrito posted:And a partridge in a palm tree. (The tree also died.)
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Do you think the Hurricane blew all the Spanish moss off the trees?
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My name is Floridamandias, king of kings
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Nebakenezzer posted:They were early production training airframes (that 'couldn't be upgraded') but yeah, "put em in hangers, hope for the best" was the only option. If the eye had been 20 km further west it would have been a nonissue Hahaha jfc, heard most of that before but the main guns on the Zumwalt being too expensive to fire is just  Those same idiots don't faze an inch firing tomahawks at brown people for $1.4 mil each. The MIC lusts for the most expensive brown death imaginable.
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Nebakenezzer posted:They were early production training airframes (that 'couldn't be upgraded') but yeah, "put em in hangers, hope for the best" was the only option. If the eye had been 20 km further west it would have been a nonissue Lmfao
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sneak attack on houston from the wrong direction lol
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Как тебе такое, Илон Маск?
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nothing interesting will come of willa sorry
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