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I visited a Japanese sub on my visit over there, and at the time I kind of thought all their brilliant organization was try hard, but maybe in retrospect they had a more robust maintenance, mentoring, and training programs.
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DancingShade posted:I'm the senator who owns the one floppy disk factory still in operation that survives solely off defence contracts. microsoft still backs tons of stuff up on tape I'm pretty sure a lot of big companies still do bc it's stable
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 07:39 |
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ProfessorBooty posted:I visited a Japanese sub on my visit over there, and at the time I kind of thought all their brilliant organization was try hard, but maybe in retrospect they had a more robust maintenance, mentoring, and training programs. Those grapes are probably sour anyway.
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 09:43 |
I love how every time people are like 'yeah, in general it's all rotten and hollowed out, but you can bet this particular strategically crucial thing is still looked after properly cause it would be crazy not to' someone steams in with firsthand knowledge that no, that thing is in fact also hosed
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 10:06 |
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when i first discovered the r key in popular video games, it was indeed a game changer
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 10:16 |
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FirstnameLastname posted:microsoft still backs tons of stuff up on tape everyone uses tape for backups because it's cheap, reliable, effectively infinitely overwritable, and doesn't literally rot from inside out like optical media
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 10:59 |
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Votskomit posted:https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-america-is-out-of-ammunition At our version of the Nuremburg trials, I want Ratt Stoller called to the dock, mocked for his total impotence to actually do anything to strengthen the Nazi empire he loves, but then reassured that he'll still get to go along to the scaffold with the senators, generals, and media magnates, we'll give him credit for effort. Pomeroy has issued a correction as of 04:41 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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ProfessorBooty posted:I was really proud of what I did though, and my friend and I just wanted our submarine to be happy divested of the evils of empire and the suffering they exist to perpetuate the idea of essentially maintaining a town/city on (or under!) the loving ocean is cool as hell so i can understand this
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 15:11 |
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atelier morgan posted:divested of the evils of empire and the suffering they exist to perpetuate the idea of essentially maintaining a town/city on (or under!) the loving ocean is cool as hell so i can understand this yeah same imagine what we could do with all this cool poo poo we’ve built if we didn’t have a parasitic class syphoning off all the value and burning it all in useless wars when then grotesque inequality grew too obvious to hide
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 17:23 |
Truga posted:everyone uses tape for backups because it's cheap, reliable, effectively infinitely overwritable, and doesn't literally rot from inside out like optical media and you can ship copies off to iron mountain for secure offsite storage
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 17:54 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/mercoglianos/status/1715701194461479036 Not tending to warships because...? Does the US still have submarine tenders and other depot ships?
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 21:00 |
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ProfessorBooty posted:What if the culture of maintaining gun tubes and hydropnumatics, but also everyone has to live in the tube surrounded by 50 atmospheres of pressure?
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 21:07 |
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ProfessorBooty posted:Right - - Like any sort of specialized bureaucratic insanity this is going to be difficult to condense but I'll try my best. By the way, the SSN-22 is a very special submarine. The nature of the seawolf platform means that suffering amongst the new guys is guaranteed. People typically don't re-up (particularly the nukes), and more senior enlisted come from the 688 class, so the nature of how everything works is completely different. There's 8 torpedo tubes instead of 4 which is twice the maintenance, sure, but SUBSAFE requires paperwork and folks with specialized training to ensure correct assembly of parts. I was a QAI for the nuke MM department, but there were times I would have to help the torpedo division with QA. o7 thank you for your post
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Frosted Flake posted:Not tending to warships because...? https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/12/us-navy-comments-on-new-asx-submarine-tenders/ quote:navalnews.com the last two submarine tenders might be gone and become living lostech lol
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Griz posted:and you can ship copies off to iron mountain for secure offsite storage Is that the bureaucratic equivalent of sending your records to a farm upstate?
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 21:42 |
Danann posted:https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/12/us-navy-comments-on-new-asx-submarine-tenders/ lol when america tries to kill the world they'll fire the slbms and a bunch of waterlogged pornos will float up out of the tubes like moths from a cartoon hobo's wallet
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 21:56 |
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America's Navy can't get its tendies.
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 22:10 |
Keep thinking about the late Soviet union And then thinking about that collapse guy talking about how the former Soviet union coped comparatively ok with collapse because of the massive institutional inertia, infrastructure and huge bureaucracy And then thinking about the monomaniacal drive to destroy institutional knowledge, bureaucracy and infrastructure/maintenance spending in the west And then having a good lol
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ProfessorBooty posted:toxic work culture This reminds me of all those telegram posts about units in russian army having to keep work logs of which work logs are being kept.
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Slavvy posted:Keep thinking about the late Soviet union when I first started reading communist poo poo a while ago I was thinking, I'm not sure revolutions make sense in high-tech first world countries. There's a lot of moving parts and maintenance that you'd have to pick up immediately. Don't you need all the institutional knowledge that's been built up? lol, lmao animist has issued a correction as of 01:23 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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animist posted:when I first started reading communist bullshit a while ago I was thinking, I'm not sure revolutions make sense in high-tech first world countries. There's a lot of moving parts and maintenance that you'd have to pick up immediately. Don't you need all the institutional knowledge that's been built up? Learn to sew and garden I guess. Fun fact, the awful captain that replaced my first captain got kicked off the sub for inappropriate control of classified material. Every time I look back at that ship it's something else. My division chief 'went sad', at the same time the ship engineer 'went sad'. The means are there for something great. I was told by other submariners that in the past they would generally get done early, and take off at noon, generally encouraged to chill out. I think with a class like the 688 that kind of thing is possible. My guess is the 688 and Ohio classes are undergoing something similar, but slower, when it comes to rot, due to more available parts and more institutional knowledge. I got out in 2011, so it's been more then a decade from my experience. edit: Wonder how many bottles of booze fell out of the outboard when they ran aground. There were all sorts of little nests you could mouse your way into if you could contort and squeeze right, found my fair share of rum when exploring. I followed the rules - I just didn't really give a poo poo about my uniform looking perfect. edit2: my little bro finished a deployment in Syria - I'm so thankful he left around August, and he's going to be completely out in November. A lot of the solders he worked with were anti-zionist and he told me about how he learned so much about the region while being there. He's buying a couple acres in Montana and is going to try out homesteading. ProfessorBooty has issued a correction as of 01:43 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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I just finished watching the first rambo movie - first blood. Anyway I was refreshingly surprised to discover a meditation on the brutal way police treat homeless people. I'm sure that the sequels won't disappoint me in some way!
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 02:01 |
First blood rules, it's got veterans being treated like poo poo, pigs treating people like poo poo, being a war hero meaning nothing in comparison to a cop badge, just a great movie in general
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Chris Dorner.
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LuxuryLarva posted:Chris Dorner. That's right, we have one strong institution.
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LuxuryLarva posted:Chris Dorner. It's not surprising Hollywood would travel back in time to preemptively whitewash the great martyr's story
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https://twitter.com/inarthurscourt/status/1716272225421062533 through the power of neoliberalism, tanks in texas counts as tanks in germany
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 05:08 |
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Danann posted:through the power of neoliberalism, tanks in texas counts as tanks in germany Well, yeah. All you have to do is click the Texas tanks, right click on Germany, select Move To, wait a few days, and they're there, right?
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# ? Oct 23, 2023 05:21 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/inarthurscourt/status/1716272225421062533 That twitter user is just tremendously confused. Or maybe he's just being misleading on purpose. What he is posting is not in the article at all and is incorrect. There is an argument to just station an armored brigade in Germany rather than constantly rotating new armored brigades forward and relieving one another. But there's all kinds of boring stationing and family considerations with moving a brigade forward, plus families, and then days off, etc, that they don't have when they're forward on a "rotation" where the understanding is that their work schedule is like a deployment.
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LuxuryLarva posted:I just finished watching the first rambo movie - first blood. Anyway I was refreshingly surprised to discover a meditation on the brutal way police treat homeless people. I'm sure that the sequels won't disappoint me in some way! Rambo 2 is up there with biggest thematic and tonal shift in a sequel compared to the original for sure.
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Orange Devil posted:Rambo 2 is up there with biggest thematic and tonal shift in a sequel compared to the original for sure.
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Remulak posted:Sicario 2 seemed to hit a similar shift. Well yeah, the first one was written by people who thought cold blooded child murder was bad. The American public knows that child murder rules if it's being done by operators to mini-tangos, that's why Benicio gets to be the main hero now.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/inarthurscourt/status/1716272225421062533
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The preceding post is good for context too https://twitter.com/inarthurscourt/status/1716270599259951391 a literal paper tiger, well, I guess liberalism is the belief in the paper tiger.
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The guy is either just really uninformed or lying, but people who want to believe will bite on the story hard. It’s the kind of falsehood that takes no special skills to disprove. The US rotates full armored brigade combat teams through Europe on back to back, regular rotations. So there is not an ABCT that is stationed inside Germany with families, houses, etc, but there is always an ABCT (minimum 1) deployed to Europe on a deployment work schedule, without their families. So on regular rotations the US ships back and forth over 4,000 troops and 2,700 pieces of equipment, which does get scrutinized as wondering if that’s a waste. presently IIRC, there are more than that due to the ongoing situation in Europe, because there is the regularly recurring ABCT plus another ABCT that manned the pre-positioned ABCT equipment which resides in Europe fulltime. https://www.army.mil/article/270028/army_announces_upcoming_unit_deployments_in_support_of_european_allies_and_partners
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mlmp08 posted:The guy is either just really uninformed or lying, but people who want to believe will bite on the story hard. It’s the kind of falsehood that takes no special skills to disprove. did you mean to link to something else because both of those units that are going to europe are light infantry
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500excf type r posted:did you mean to link to something else because both of those units that are going to europe are light infantry I did mean to link something else. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/11/10/army-announces-next-three-brigades-deploying-to-europe/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtyDj7EsqSM Can you do this with anything modern and western?
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Orange Devil posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtyDj7EsqSM A Mercedes-Benz G-Class, surely? Just like you can surely do this with a 777. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhdcnQZf3fo&t=146s
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a jeep with no suspension assembled with hand turned bolts seems like the shakiest piece of poo poo imaginable. it would rattle your skull for 5 miles and then fall to pieces
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