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Like lint or a loose coin. You put them in a pocket and forget about them.
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On trains: there is a simple steel ramp piece that can be staked into gravel then spot welded to the track that will derail every car that rolls over it. It simply works by the trains own inertia lifting the inner flange enough to kick it the few inches to the outside, meaning as it comes down it finds nothing but air.
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Before anyone asks "why would such a thing exist", it's how the maintenance crews LO/TO a section of track before they start wandering around on it. Can't get hit by a train that's in the ditch.
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https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1505654066575204358 God.
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The only reasonable reply is "горіхи!" A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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Has war crime-ing across the land ever worked out for invaders in the modern era? Seems like all you'd do is make martyrs out of everyone in the city doing stuff like that, and start making everyone in the country fight til death rather than think about ever surrendering.
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Defenestrategy posted:Has war crime-ing across the land ever worked out for invaders in the modern era? Seems like all you'd do is make martyrs out of everyone in the city doing stuff like that, and start making everyone in the country fight til death rather than think about ever surrendering. It worked pretty well for Stalin.
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bees everywhere posted:It mostly is but the US (and many other countries) likes to give a lot of autonomy to lower level commanders so they can improvise and be flexible while still working towards achieving the tasks they were assigned. Historian Bret Devereaux calls it the 'modern system'. (Section's about halfway down the page.)
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I'm guessing setting the stage either for a chemical attack or something worse. They don't really have the forces locally to launch any kind of full assault without getting chewed up.
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Yeah.... sounds like a tac-nuke to me. I hope not.
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You can't "military tribunal" anyone if you nuke them. This seems like scare tactics.
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A.o.D. posted:The time only reasonable reply is "горіхи!" Had to google translate; was exactly what I expected; strongly agree
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Soul Dentist posted:Azov pennies Russian spokesperson: "All of Ukrainian people has touched Azov pennies"
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A.o.D. posted:The only reasonable reply is "горіхи!" Any man who is that eloquent deserves to be relieved
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Mar 20, 2022 23:47
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https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1505624176903790604?t=UugvzxrO9iWF2CWDezIkvA&s=19
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this is your brain on nu-metal
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Yeah.... sounds like a tac-nuke to me. I hope not. Putin is crazy but he's not stupid. NSNW are definitely something in the Russian doctrine, but he is still getting some info from outside of his little circle of sycophants, and somewhere in his brain is rattling around the knowledge of what would happen if he decides to uncork sunshine.
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How long has it been since staind was relevant? 20 years?
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Midjack posted:How long has it been since staind was relevant? 20 years? Almost exactly but Aaron Lewis keeps popping up like a whack-a-mole target. He's been courting the country music crowd for a few years so it's not surprising that he's spewing GOP talking points.
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orange juche posted:Putin is crazy but he's not stupid. NSNW are definitely something in the Russian doctrine, but he is still getting some info from outside of his little circle of sycophants, and somewhere in his brain is rattling around the knowledge of what would happen if he decides to uncork sunshine. Let's say he nukes Mariupol. It's a smaller city compared to some others in Ukraine and a lot of people have already managed to get out. It's largely destroyed anyway. What happens next? NATO still doesn't engage in Ukraine. Germany stops buying Russian gas (and EU stops buying RUS oil/gas in general)? What else?
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after reading how Putin won't invade Ukraine for 'reasons' prior to the invasion I absolutely don't think any argument for why Putin won't do crazy thing X should be taken too serious
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Someone's floated the idea of Polish intervention in Ukraine. Is anyone here able to comment on the state of the Polish armed forces and how they might fare in a real war right now?
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Tomn posted:Someone's floated the idea of Polish intervention in Ukraine. Is anyone here able to comment on the state of the Polish armed forces and how they might fare in a real war right now? Just wait a few days for an assessment.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Yeah.... sounds like a tac-nuke to me. I hope not. You think the Russians are going to drop a tactical nuke on a city they have troops in? Mariupol is one of the only places where they're actually making progress.
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pmchem posted:Let's say he nukes Mariupol. It's a smaller city compared to some others in Ukraine and a lot of people have already managed to get out. It's largely destroyed anyway. What happens next? NATO still doesn't engage in Ukraine. Germany stops buying Russian gas (and EU stops buying RUS oil/gas in general)? What else? My guess is we wait a tense 30 minutes and if the worlds still here THEN try to figure out a gameplan.
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Tomn posted:Someone's floated the idea of Polish intervention in Ukraine. Is anyone here able to comment on the state of the Polish armed forces and how they might fare in a real war right now? A lot of people consider Poland one of the heavy hitters of continental NATO. They have a ton of equipment and seem to do well in NATO exercises. Against belarus Its a question How much air and anti-air support is russia providing, and comparably How much NATO air support from other ”individually acting” European countries comes in. If even one country operating F-35s currently joins up… (Poland has them in-order, But not yet operational)
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EasilyConfused posted:You think the Russians are going to drop a tactical nuke on a city they have troops in? Mariupol is one of the only places where they're actually making progress. At this point? gently caress knows. It would be in line with how stupid everything else is
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Valtonen posted:If even one country operating F-35s currently joins up… (Poland has them in-order, But not yet operational) The pentagon cut their own order down last week, so maybe they'll get them a bit sooner.
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Midjack posted:How long has it been since staind was relevant? 20 years? Well, it's been a while.
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It's been a whil--not caring here posted:Well, it's been a while. God DAMNIT.
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not caring here posted:Well, it's been a while. 
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Do not applaud knowledge of staind songs.
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EasilyConfused posted:You think the Russians are going to drop a tactical nuke on a city they have troops in? Mariupol is one of the only places where they're actually making progress. There's film footage from the 60s of a Chinese nuclear test wherein after the bomb goes off literal cavalry rides into the blast wave on horseback with gas masks on. I'm imagining something similar to that.
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Kazinsal posted:There's film footage from the 60s of a Chinese nuclear test wherein after the bomb goes off literal cavalry rides into the blast wave on horseback with gas masks on. Didn't the US do something similar except with infantry forces during a test?
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If you're in the UK, Servant of the People is on All4 on demand for free, not Netflix.
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orange juche posted:Didn't the US do something similar except with infantry forces during a test? Yes. Even detonated one miles above a group of guys, and there's video of their reaction. E: NPR link https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb
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 at the idea of a NATO military not named France or the USA actually intervening in another country right now. Poland upped their defence spending after 2014 but their armed forces are not nearly in the state to fight an actual war.
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Reason I think nukes wont be used is there's only one possible source for nuclear weapons in this conflict right now, and that is Russia, it can't be false-flagged away, and nuclear weapons have not been utilized in anger since 1945 and nobody is quite sure what will happen if they are. However, chem/bio remains a threat, and Russia definitely has stockpiles of chem/bio weapons, and a demonstrated willingness to use them, for example, Syria. They also know or think they know what will happen if they pull out chem weapons, based on the international response to their use in Syria, which was fuckall. Will that be the same case in Ukraine? Who the gently caress knows, Ukraine has a really good PR game, compared to the Syrian rebels, so there's a better shot of international intervention on behalf of Ukraine if Russia uses unconventional weaps, but I wouldn't count on it.
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orange juche posted:Didn't the US do something similar except with infantry forces during a test? https://youtu.be/YuKMCtna19E
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