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bald eagles are allies now
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Aug 14, 2020 18:37
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A gaming company made a propaganda ad to drum up popular support for its lawsuit against a software company.
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Aug 14, 2020 18:38
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its how the previous lawsuit was won, the court of public opinion got apple to cave
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Aug 14, 2020 18:44
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vyelkin posted:bald eagles are allies now eh, there are already military programs training hawks to take down enemy drones for some retro shittiest-cyberpunk-dystopia with birds check out Project Pigeon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbPG8jSud14
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Aug 14, 2020 20:17
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https://twitter.com/superbunnyhop/status/1294235102751404033 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8fK8l_Wa2k it's real... it's finally real
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Aug 14, 2020 20:59
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The brand wars have begun. How do we make sure it goes nuclear?
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Aug 14, 2020 21:06
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:eh, there are already military programs training hawks to take down enemy drones if you want the shittiest cyberpunk dystopia, try out the chicken nuke for size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock quote:One technical problem was that during winter buried objects can get very cold, and it was possible the mine’s electronics would get too cold to work after some days underground. Various methods to get around this were studied, such as wrapping the bombs in insulating blankets. One particularly remarkable proposal suggested that live chickens be included in the mechanism. The chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water; they would remain alive for a week or so. Their body heat would, it seems, have been sufficient to keep the mine's components at a working temperature. nuclear weapons development prior to MAD really becoming big in the mid-60s was loving nuts by today's standards. so many people trying to fit nukes into standard land warfare poo poo. nuclear mines, nuclear artillery, and gently caress, check out this poo poo https://twitter.com/atomicarchive/status/1284247621096398848
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Aug 14, 2020 21:16
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https://twitter.com/ghostofjohnbro/status/1293744138173796356
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Aug 14, 2020 21:25
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Main Paineframe posted:if you want the shittiest cyberpunk dystopia, try out the chicken nuke for size yeah before the reality sunk in, the military treated nuclear weapons as simply a better explosive, the next step up from conventional explosives, no different from black powder being replaced by cordite and TNT at the end of the 19th century. every weapon would eventually use superior nuclear explosives!!! war would be identical and completely unchanged except that flights of bombers and lines of artillery would be replaced by single bombs and shells delivered with a single vehicle! edit: the mark 3 "fat man" bomb was mass produced in the late 40s, being replaced shortly afterward by the "GI proofed" mark 4, which redesigned the weapon as something easier and safer to maintain and use in the field. hundreds of fat men were in existence by the time the korean war rolled around and we are honestly lucky that none of them ended up getting used during that war. at the start of the war there was even a shortage of bombers because the US envisioned a much smaller air force delivering nukes, and when someone figured out how dumb that was they pulled planes out of mothballs and disposal sites in a hurry BattleMaster has issued a correction as of 22:14 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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Aug 14, 2020 22:07
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christmas boots posted:IIRC while they restored brain function there was no activity associated with consciousness so it might be that while some parts can be reactivated in a fairly generous window, once that poo poo is gone it's gone. blatman posted:I kind of wonder what's going on with people, are sociopaths actually super common and getting into the various rungs of business/politics is just a good way for them to let the mask slip, or does capitalism breed sociopaths, or both? I feel like if there were this many evil people back when we were hunter/gatherers we wouldn't have developed societies
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Aug 14, 2020 22:20
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BattleMaster posted:yeah before the reality sunk in, the military treated nuclear weapons as simply a better explosive, the next step up from conventional explosives, no different from black powder being replaced by cordite and TNT at the end of the 19th century. every weapon would eventually use superior nuclear explosives!!! war would be identical and completely unchanged except that flights of bombers and lines of artillery would be replaced by single bombs and shells delivered with a single vehicle! idk if it's accurate (and even if it is the moral implications are far from exonerating), but supposedly truman didn't fully grasp what he had green lit for hiroshima bc, following thinking like the above, the choice to use nuclear weapons was originally up to the generals -- after all why would the president want to micromanage what kind of munitions they use in an operation?
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Aug 14, 2020 23:34
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Chamale posted:Remember when Teller designed a nuclear bomb that would destroy the entire world and proposed that instead of thousands of warheads, America should just build one of those and threaten people with it? After that he was no longer allowed to design nuclear weapons. I feel like nowadays they'd build that nuke and wire it to go off automatically if the stock market goes down too fast. Who is teller in this instance? e: oh I assume Edward. I don't know my eschatactivists lol. What's the story here
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Aug 14, 2020 23:36
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:idk if it's accurate (and even if it is the moral implications are far from exonerating), but supposedly truman didn't fully grasp what he had green lit for hiroshima bc, following thinking like the above, the choice to use nuclear weapons was originally up to the generals -- after all why would the president want to micromanage what kind of munitions they use in an operation? Nuclear Secrecy has some great articles about this. There wasn't a specific decision to use the bomb, it was considered just another weapon; as soon as the military had an atom bomb, they would use it. But after the bombing of Nagasaki, which Truman did not specifically authorize, Truman decreed that any future uses of nuclear weapons must be ordered by the President.
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Aug 14, 2020 23:41
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:after all why would the president want to micromanage what kind of munitions they use in an operation?  gently caress EA and gently caress the US, though.
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Aug 14, 2020 23:45
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Tulip posted:A gaming company made a propaganda ad to drum up popular support for its lawsuit against a software company. I think I'm kind of on Epic's side here. Don't get me wrong, they're every bit as lovely as Apple (well, Apple might be worse wrt sweatshop labor) but I think the outcome of Epic winning and dealing a blow to Apple's 30% take has to the potential to be better for smaller developers and consumers than Apple winning and strengthening that. I know that's not why Epic is doing this, but I think maybe they're the lesser evil in this fight.
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Aug 14, 2020 23:48
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I am 100% in favor of Apple eating poo poo.
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Aug 14, 2020 23:49
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Milo and POTUS posted:Who is teller in this instance? Yeah, Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb. He drew up plans for a doomsday bomb in the early 1940s and called it the "backyard bomb", because you could set it off in your backyard and kill everyone on Earth. After the Atomic Energy Commission said there was no need to design new types of hydrogen bombs, he proposed a 10-gigaton bomb that would weigh at least 2,000 tonnes. The committee shut down the idea.
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Aug 14, 2020 23:54
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BattleMaster posted:hundreds of fat men were in existence by the time the korean war rolled around and we are honestly lucky that none of them ended up getting used during that war. They don't let you go to war if you're too fat.
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Aug 15, 2020 00:08
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It's worth remembering that Teller was, by and large, a huge rear end in a top hat, who both threw Oppenheimer under the bus and then advocated for nuking a harbor into existence.christmas boots posted:I think I'm kind of on Epic's side here. Oh yeah definitely. Epic absolutely sucks and this seems like a fairly transparent attempt for Tencent to leverage itself more into the American marketplace, but Apple-Google-Epic is better than just Apple-Google.
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Aug 15, 2020 00:12
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Chomp8645 posted:They don't let you go to war if you're too fat. Nah, they specifically modified some B-29s for that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverplate#Silverplate_operational_units
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Aug 15, 2020 00:16
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christmas boots posted:I think I'm kind of on Epic's side here. They will settle for a nicer cut for themselves and let everybody else pay the 30%
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Aug 15, 2020 01:21
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:They will settle for a nicer cut for themselves and let everybody else pay the 30% That's the most probable outcome sure.
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Aug 15, 2020 01:23
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Chomp8645 posted:They don't let you go to war if you're too fat. Finally a way to spin a lifetime of corpulence into doing praxis, I feel like a liberal on west wing day.
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Aug 15, 2020 01:27
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Milo and POTUS posted:Who is teller in this instance? you know how a lot of the Manhattan Project folks were unhappy with the impact of what they had created, and pushed for nuclear technology to move away from big bombs and toward peaceful applications? teller was basically the opposite of that. also, he publicly denounced the people who felt that way as Communists, to the point of actively aiding McCarthyist witchhunts against his colleagues he actively pushed for bigger bombs, and opposed test bans and arms control. was hugely into weapons development for the purposes of owning the Soviets in any way possible. when the Soviets sent up Sputnik, he proposed nuking the moon as a potential space race milestone dude loving loved Reagan and would supply him with all sorts of wildly optimistic weapon ideas that Reagan would then turn into programs like SDI/Star Wars
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Aug 15, 2020 01:58
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Tulip posted:Oh yeah definitely. Epic absolutely sucks and this seems like a fairly transparent attempt for Tencent to leverage itself more into the American marketplace, but Apple-Google-Epic is better than just Apple-Google. remember when microsoft got busted for antitrust? lol
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Aug 15, 2020 02:16
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So if Oppenheimer was despondent at the frankenstein he created, this guy was loving it basically
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Aug 15, 2020 02:16
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Smythe posted:remember when microsoft got busted for antitrust? lol that got me a whole second set of msdn windows keys
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Aug 15, 2020 02:26
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The Bloop posted:Finally a reliable source of chicken teeth Safe chicken...it's all in the numbers. Number one, that's teratoma. Number two, that's teratoma.
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Aug 15, 2020 02:43
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Milo and POTUS posted:So if Oppenheimer was despondent at the frankenstein he created, this guy was loving it basically Oppenheimer: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds..." Teller: "This is a good start"
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Aug 15, 2020 02:43
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Aug 15, 2020 02:45
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eSports Chaebol posted:Safe chicken...it's all in the numbers. Number one, that's teratoma. Number two, that's teratoma. brb founding a startup to market chicken tumors as fast casual dining apps.
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Aug 15, 2020 02:49
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taqueso posted:that got me a whole second set of msdn windows keys oh hell yes brother. gimme that N
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Aug 15, 2020 02:50
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michaelsoft comps me 9999999999999999 free windows licenses for my nonprofit. apple? dont give me poo poo. gently caress off tim. bitch.
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Aug 15, 2020 02:51
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just imagine what humanity would have done if nukes didn't create an invisible, long-term health problem we'd have removed mountain ranges and destroyed valleys and turned the sahara into a sea
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Aug 15, 2020 03:27
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and those would be the peaceful uses. vietnam and iraq would both be a single huge crater
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Aug 15, 2020 03:28
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teller was only a proponent of nuclear excavation because it was a theoretical way to skirt atmospheric testing bans, so if they were safe atmospheric tests would continue and the one guy who wanted nuclear excavation wouldn't care about using it for that
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Aug 15, 2020 05:45
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Nuclear excavation was a bad idea because they’re huge groundbursts and that’s pretty much as bad as it gets for fallout creation. …other than nuking coral reefs. Oops.
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Aug 15, 2020 05:57
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100% guarantee these are going to be insanely easy to hack. Assassination by bored script kiddie is going to be a thing that happens.
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Aug 15, 2020 06:07
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Platystemon posted:Nuclear excavation was a bad idea because they’re huge groundbursts and that’s pretty much as bad as it gets for fallout creation. that's why teller, being a psycho, was the only one interested in it
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Aug 15, 2020 06:09
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dr_rat posted:100% guarantee these are going to be insanely easy to hack. Well, it's a human in a costume, so you can only "hack" it with a machete.
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Aug 15, 2020 06:14
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