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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1642180881954512902 fortunately the russians dont make superhero movies so were not losing out on anything of cultural value
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Frosted Flake posted:Australia possesses limited domestic capability to design warships that are larger than patrol vessels that's a very long winded way to spell "none"
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Apr 1, 2023 23:56
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If I recall the armidale patrol boat was initially designed and built with the white ensign directly in the path of the smoke funnel. Took a year or two before someone wrote a report "hmm maybe we should move the flag, we have to keep replacing them this is ridiculous, who put it there?". Quite an obvious outcome to anyone who understood what those funny things that emit smoke on ships are for. Australian designed & made. 
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Apr 2, 2023 00:19
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DancingShade posted:If I recall the armidale patrol boat was initially designed and built with the white ensign directly in the path of the smoke funnel. Took a year or two before someone wrote a report "hmm maybe we should move the flag, we have to keep replacing them this is ridiculous, who put it there?". Quite an obvious outcome to anyone who understood what those funny things that emit smoke on ships are for. its hilarious a much smaller country like singapore have all their military stuff designed, built and maintained 100% domestically except aircraft (US), subs (sweden) and MBT (germany). Even for the latter they push as hard to retain domestic control in maintenance and upgrades as possible, and some people are pissed buying overpriced trashfire DRMed F-35s are violating that principle
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Apr 2, 2023 00:26
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MallWorld rules
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Apr 2, 2023 00:41
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DancingShade posted:If I recall the armidale patrol boat was initially designed and built with the white ensign directly in the path of the smoke funnel. Took a year or two before someone wrote a report "hmm maybe we should move the flag, we have to keep replacing them this is ridiculous, who put it there?". Quite an obvious outcome to anyone who understood what those funny things that emit smoke on ships are for. The finest traditions of the service, going back to Dreadnought, “Unfortunately, the effectiveness of the system was greatly degraded by positioning the mast abaft the forward funnel so that access to the top was difficult due to heat whilst visibility, particularly with a wind from astern, was bad.” “This selection of sketches (by R Perkins) illustrates the problems of upper deck layout in Dreadnought battleships. Blast from the big guns could affect exposed personnel in control positions, at secondary armament and, through the sighting hoods in the turret roofs, gun crews in other turrets, which seemed to rule out superfiring turrets in the early ships. Since increasing the length of the armoured citadel was very expensive, funnels and masts were very cramped and in many ships, the spotting top was in the hot, thick exhaust plume from the funnels.” “Dreadnought. To some extent, her layout derived from Agamemnon with the latter’s 9.2in guns replaced with 12in turrets. The mast was placed behind the funnel on Jellicoe’s advice to suit boat handling, which often rendered the foretoo untenable from heat and fumes.” “This photo clearly shows the difficulties in arranging the superstructure of Dreadnoughts. The blast from the wing turrets would cause structural damage if fired closer than about 30° from the axis. The foremast and its top is ahead of the funnel (just) but the main mast and its secondary spotting top is in the plume from the forward funnel and was almost useless. ” “By 1908 the difficulties suffered by all spotting tops were realised and it was suggested by the C-in-C Home Fleet (Sir Francis Bridgeman) that masts were a hazard and that spotting should be carried out from an armoured position on the roof of the conning tower. The advantage of the high spotting top lay first in the greater horizon range, roughly proportional to the square root of the height, but it was argued that in typical North Sea weather it was rarely possible to see the horizon anyway. A well-placed top should also be clear of both funnel smoke and that from fires started in action.”
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Apr 2, 2023 00:57
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Frosted Flake posted:We're almost certainly going to be saddled with HIMARS because of that stupid loving news cycle, I'll find out later this year. What's you objection to this? Is it strictly procurement based or do you think there is a problem with the system itself? I thought they were pretty good MLRS.
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Apr 2, 2023 01:30
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bad news everyone https://twitter.com/Justinhead1982/status/1642007476466851842 it has come to my attention that our favorite irish wine bars may not be nafo certified
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Apr 2, 2023 01:31
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https://twitter.com/InfoAgeStrategy/status/1641842936160583687 Lifelong HUMINTer, U.S. Army FAO 🇩🇪 & 🇨🇳, military attaché and Info Warrior. Prof of Intelligence Studies. Politically centrist. Seen things - done stuff.
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Apr 2, 2023 02:12
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Weka posted:What's you objection to this? Is it strictly procurement based or do you think there is a problem with the system itself? I thought they were pretty good MLRS. Canada has 3 bdes, each with a single shooting regiment and the independent regiment, 4 RCA, is now JTAC/ISR/UAV/GSR so … where are we putting the very expensive division/corps artillery?
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Apr 2, 2023 02:15
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1642092367791419392 did we ever find out why putin would destroy his own fuel depots like this
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Apr 2, 2023 02:19
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Frosted Flake posted:Canada has 3 bdes, each with a single shooting regiment and the independent regiment, 4 RCA, is now JTAC/ISR/UAV/GSR so … where are we putting the very expensive division/corps artillery? Umm just make more brigades duh!!!!
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Apr 2, 2023 02:21
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1642180881954512902 pretty shameful the way Munich got rid of him.
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Apr 2, 2023 02:21
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Frosted Flake posted:Canada has 3 bdes, each with a single shooting regiment and the independent regiment, 4 RCA, is now JTAC/ISR/UAV/GSR so … where are we putting the very expensive division/corps artillery? just send em to ukraine i mean cmon its obvious
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Apr 2, 2023 02:22
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https://twitter.com/AleksandrX13/status/1642175028698529793 hard agree no country that openly engages in naked racism against its own people has any right to exist
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Apr 2, 2023 02:23
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/InfoAgeStrategy/status/1641842936160583687 a rat bit my sister nell,
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Apr 2, 2023 02:23
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the imperial japanese tried to get around some of that by angling their smokestacks out and down, i'd be interested in reading a real analysis of how that worked out for them. lots of war thunder and quora style results on the dread GOOGLE
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Apr 2, 2023 02:26
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good news fellow bolivar lovers https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1642274543199821829
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Apr 2, 2023 02:28
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OT for thread but following the google discussion, I was able to solve a minor Bermuda Triangle mystery based upon reading sources not available online, about the apocryphal "Ellen Austin," a ship which found a derelict adrift and attempted to tow it to port: 2 sets of crew members were sent over to handle it and both disappeared, quite spookily, and then the derelict disappeared into the fog. Triangle researcher Lawrence David Kusch chalked it up to an invented tale but could find no original source for it, though the story was repeated across many paperbacks of the '70s. I was reading a collection of William Hope Hodgson stories when I came across "The Mystery of the Waterlogged Ship" from 1911, the first half of which matches the Ellen Austin tale beat for beat. I haven't tracked its first usage as a Triangle story either, but I'm betting on John Vincent Gaddis as he was an early Triangle popularizer and none too meticulous when it came to sourcing. I've got a couple titles of his I've yet to read through. A relatively simple matter all told but another illustration of our impoverished internet.
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Apr 2, 2023 02:35
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/InfoAgeStrategy/status/1641842936160583687 brain so smooth it turns in perpetual motion inside the bone
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Apr 2, 2023 02:42
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Some Guy TT posted:good news fellow bolivar lovers Is Juan Guaido the commanding officer? 
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Apr 2, 2023 02:42
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Операция Z: Военкоры Русской Весны posted:
artillery thirst is real, ukraine's brought out the 100mm AA guns from storage and museums
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Apr 2, 2023 03:04
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https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1642068156112859139 also it may be a surprise to some but russia still has the decent tanks to pull out, repair, and modernize
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Apr 2, 2023 03:24
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/AleksandrX13/status/1642175028698529793 Lol even in the hit piece this makes Russia seem way less racist than the west. The first dude saying he's never felt discriminated against in Moscow.
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Apr 2, 2023 03:56
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Throatwarbler posted:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T5SY43L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 i have 30" monsters tho
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Apr 2, 2023 04:03
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Yeah I put a like a 20lbs monitor on the ergotron and it was fine. But that was about the maximum weight it could support without any problems starting to show up. It's also a real pain in the rear end to mount something that heavy on the arm.
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Apr 2, 2023 04:14
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Ok time to wrap up this regional conflict.
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Apr 2, 2023 04:18
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Mr Hootington posted:Ok time to wrap up this regional conflict. We're launching the nukes already?? But I haven't even finished mechwarrior 5!
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Apr 2, 2023 04:19
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Some Guy TT posted:fortunately the russians dont make superhero movies so were not losing out on anything of cultural value putinishly: well, THAT just happened!
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Apr 2, 2023 04:20
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noting with some disapproval the lack of comment on the last thread i posted about how aaron mate is wrong and a tankie https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1642222813049401346
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Apr 2, 2023 04:37
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heard ukraines counter offensive is cancelled due to snow
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Apr 2, 2023 04:50
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/AleksandrX13/status/1642175028698529793 trying their hardest to not call russians european
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Apr 2, 2023 04:54
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CODChimera posted:heard ukraines counter offensive is cancelled due to snow It's ok, they can make up that time at the end of the school year.
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Apr 2, 2023 04:59
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Cerebral Bore posted:i always imagined that ff posts from some old-timey typewriter that's somehow hooked up to the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE
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Apr 2, 2023 05:01
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1642115281215520768quote:Previously, soldiers, members of the Territorial Defense forces and police got an extra Hr 100,000 ($2,700) per month if they served in a designated active combat zone – a significant bonus in a country where the official average salary is just under Hr 15,000 ($400). Those who served outside active combat areas got an extra Hr 30,000 ($800) per month. wait ukrainian salaries have been at shithole country levels this entire time
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Apr 2, 2023 05:07
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Endman posted:I recently bought a copy of 'Poilu', the letters and notebooks of Cpl Louis Barthas, and now I have something to look forward to in reading it Probably the exception to this rule unfortunately, or those letters were in his private stash and his kids didn't put them in the book.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:15
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https://twitter.com/PuckNews/status/1641566660346740737 wait what happened in 1986
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Apr 2, 2023 05:16
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/PuckNews/status/1641566660346740737 Wham! broke up.
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Apr 2, 2023 06:16
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https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1642284364791967746 finland...good???
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1642284364791967746 maybe i'm being reverse-reverse-racist but isn't this steve buscemi?
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