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DancingShade posted:(puts on top hat and monocle, swirls brandy) I have a modest proposal that you may be interested in.
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Bringing the space chat back to how the US will lose ww3, I could definitely see a future in which a pressured US, having failed in every other military domain, goes to Elmo for some non-nuclear wunderwaffe WMDs
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 03:23 |
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The loss of saturn 5 rocket technology despite having all the schematics and notes on hand should be a good indicator for what will happen. All the technology and such for modern and near future USA cutting edge stuff will technically be on hand but nobody will be able to assemble all the pieces into a new humpty dumpty. Certainly not with abbreviated supply chains, at least not unless it becomes a national priority and even then...? Especially as practically everything will be proprietary this or copyright that. Intellectual property of musk's pet cat whose paw print is needed to authorise derivative works. You get the idea. 3D printing only helps so much but if most of the domestic USA machine shops close up in the next decade or so (as I understand they have a very serious lack of apprentices) then those printers better start improving a lot.
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skooma512 posted:School lunch programs were introduced because they noticed that guys showing up for service for WW2 were malnourished. and they are having problems feeding 1/4 of troops
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Palladium posted:and they are having problems feeding 1/4 of troops An army marches on its marginal cost optimization. But anyway get a load of Russia their commanders just take poo poo and leave the soldiers with nothing US commanders would never sell out their troops for a nice dacha in northern Virginia.
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DancingShade posted:
Guess who leads the industry in large scale metal 3d printing.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Guess who leads the industry in large scale metal 3d printing. Starsector.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Guess who leads the industry in large scale metal 3d printing. yemen
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Here's what Energia 2 could have looked like. This conception uses Baikal-style flyback boosters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6GG8KHDjZk
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quote:Chinese Navy ships were able to lock on the EA-18G Growler while it was flying South of Taiwan rendering it vulnerable to attack and useless. Stars and Stripes: Navy relieves commander of electronic warfare squadron deployed on USS Carl Vinson in the Western Pacific warontherocks.com: To Rule the Invisible Battlefield: The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Chinese Military Power quote:The fight for electromagnetic spectrum superiority has been ongoing for over a century. The U.S. military’s domination of the spectrum has steadily declined over the past two decades. This is mainly because American defense planners and warfighters have been preoccupied with non-peer adversaries operating in a highly permissive spectrum environment. In the same timeframe, China has been making moves to strengthen its electromagnetic spectrum-enabled capabilities, and has brought itself to near parity with the United States. Five years ago, against the backdrop of broader structural reforms, the People’s Liberation Army took a major institutional step to fuse its previously disaggregated space, network, and electronic warfare elements by creating the Strategic Support Force. Washington views this as evidence of Chinese military leaders’ belief that “achieving information dominance and denying adversaries the use of the electromagnetic spectrum is necessary to seize and maintain the strategic initiative in a conflict.”
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gradenko_2000 posted:brought itself to near parity with the United States we have the best EM warfare + also we can't do EM poo poo against yemeni drones = china must be worse than us
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Palladium posted:we have the best EM warfare + also we can't do EM poo poo against yemeni drones = china must be worse than us us: congress passed a $100bn stimulus package to incentivize r&d into em warfare china: would you like to engage in a win-win mutual trade agreement with bilateral currency exchanges?
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gradenko_2000 posted:
Voice of an extremely badly lip synced locally dubbed 1970s era Hong Kong kung fu flick: "Hey Americaaan! Why you no send good plane? It almost 2024 not 2004!"
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So they blamed and fired the electronic warfare guy when the F18G was exposed to have old and inferior jamming equipment?
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palindrome posted:I like the idea of space mineral exploitation. It's obviously out of reach and completely infeasible but it's fun to imagine spaceX moving a huge chunk of gold, platinum, or emeralds into near earth orbit. But then rather than actually land it on earth or use the material for manufacturing, it becomes a threat used to manipulate market prices on spreadsheets. lol that would be a sick high-level spell in some 4x/grognard game like Dominions or something. someone corners the market on gold and you start just making it rain
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stephenthinkpad posted:So they blamed and fired the electronic warfare guy when the F18G was exposed to have old and inferior jamming equipment? one of the many reasons the us will lose ww3 is that the blame for any military fuckup always, always goes to the lowest ranking plausible scapegoat
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Palladium posted:we have the best EM warfare + also we can't do EM poo poo against yemeni drones = china must be worse than us yeah, feels wrong to be talking about near parity when china's clearly passed burgerland awhile ago and the gap is only increasing
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Danann posted:“No kid ever said, ‘I want to be born into a family that struggles,’” said Jenni Benson, president of the Nebraska State Education Association — the state’s largest teachers union. “Why would we even question that people and children deserve food?” Lol at being the president of an education association without even knowing what country you're in.
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Ardennes posted:Basically, as the empire shrinks do to fundamental military and economic constraints, and the eventual move is going to grind up the population to extract a little more value from it. The quality of life for average people is going to go down while the media tries to scapegoat anyone it can. In reality, America is already fascist, but it is just going to be a more open form of it. that's right
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gradenko_2000 posted:
Where is the source for the lockon - other than the Ignis guy? Also seems like an electronic warfare plane, that is not a stealth plane getting locked on to is not a huge deal if it is not attempting to actively jam. And I don't think it would be doing that given that would be a good way to get shot down.
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Man theres hundreds of cases of "Losing trust in the ability to command" and it could be something as silly as not parking in the right place with a GSA. I wouldnt interpolate anything from a guy getting fired in the military.
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Ardennes posted:
Zodium posted:that's right Ardennes posted:I used to post more in the econ-thread but it is so stock market/BTC centric it is a bit tough and it is just hard to talk about certain issues there. In Varoufakis' book on the 2008 crisis (the Great Minotaur) he made the point that the post war world system was the US lending other countries dollars so they could buy their export surplus, while the post Nixon system is the US sucking the world's surplus value into their financial scams and fund their trade deficit that way. Which makes a lot of sense and also means those scams are load bearing. So yeah, Number can't go down or the world ends.
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stephenthinkpad posted:So they blamed and fired the electronic warfare guy when the F18G was exposed to have old and inferior jamming equipment? Sounds like he was fired for some kind of unwritten misconduct. stripes posted:“Navy commanding officers are held to high standards of personal and professional conduct. They are expected to uphold the highest standards of responsibility, reliability, and leadership, and the Navy holds them accountable when they fall short of those standards,” the Navy said in the Coulter announcement. All that stuff about how EA-18Gs are useless is just an unsourced post by some person on twitter, not related to the person being relieved. The twitter user (and a few others) have posted that copypasta and then a link to a Stripes article that includes none of their claims. So basically social media clickbait being repeated by a few Twitter subscription havers to trick people who don't actually click the link and read the "source" article. Notably, the twitter user is also talking about F-15s taking off from carriers. F-15s aren't carrier aircraft. It's just bullshit to generate twitter clicks from people who don't read sources. E: the stripes link https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-12-22/navy-growler-squadron-commander-relieved-carl-vinson-12441615.html Here is the link to the tweet. Also claims the US was inside Chinese sovereign airspace using electronic warfare and forced depart. Would hear something from the Chinese government themselves if that was true and the US was flying around jamming Chinese systems inside Chinese airspace. https://x.com/Ignis_Rex/status/1740737839015616518?s=20 E: this account is something... https://x.com/Ignis_Rex/status/1740636827797905909?s=20 mlmp08 has issued a correction as of 16:00 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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crepeface posted:lol that would be a sick high-level spell in some 4x/grognard game like Dominions or something. someone corners the market on gold and you start just making it rain gifts from heaven but it gives -pop +income
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IIRC aren't pacific fleet guys who get sacked for "lack of confidence" usually involved in like smuggling or sex trafficking or selling Navy poo poo to Southeast Asian crime syndicates remember this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal
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found this article kinda interesting and relevant to the thread. i snipped out some of the earlier history cause it's long. “No inventions; no innovations” A History of US Steel www.construction-physics.com posted:Last week US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel. The milestone gives an opportunity to look back at what once was the largest and most important company in the US (and arguably the world), and how it slowly declined. Prior to the acquisition announcement, US Steel had a market cap of around $8 billion, not even enough to put it in the Fortune 500 (it would come in at around #690, slightly below the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain).1 Over its lifespan, the company slowly but steadily lost market share and importance. When it was formed in 1901, it was by far the largest company in the world, and produced nearly 2/3rds of American steel. Today, it makes just 12% of American steel, around a third of the steel that it made in 1955, and employs around the same number of people as online pet retailer Chewy.
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mawarannahr posted:found this article kinda interesting and relevant to the thread. i snipped out some of the earlier history cause it's long. also the minimills are primarily located in anti-union states, while US Steel and the older steel industry was heavily unionized.
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The Oldest Man posted:IIRC aren't pacific fleet guys who get sacked for "lack of confidence" usually involved in like smuggling or sex trafficking or selling Navy poo poo to Southeast Asian crime syndicates That is a common reason, yes. Or just being lovely at their job or doing some hosed up abusive thing to someone and getting caught.
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they just got Fat Leonard back from Venezuela in a prisoner swap so hopefully we get some good stuff in the next 12 months
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The Oldest Man posted:IIRC aren't pacific fleet guys who get sacked for "lack of confidence" usually involved in like smuggling or sex trafficking or selling Navy poo poo to Southeast Asian crime syndicates Wikipedia posted:Allegedly in February 2007, he and other officers used MacArthur memorabilia in the commission of sex acts with prostitutes in the Manila hotel suite hell yeah
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you don't wanna know what that corn cob pipe's been through
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quote:The entire American steel industry (and indeed, the worldwide steel industry) shed hundreds of thousands of workers as it dealt with its overcapacity.) Capitalism leads to overproduction and waste and violent contractions in employment? Some German guy wrote a book like that.
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oscarthewilde posted:hell yeah Dudes rock
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:they just got Fat Leonard back from Venezuela in a prisoner swap so hopefully we get some good stuff in the next 12 months I thought he died in jail
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the Eilat longshoreman has become the maytag repairman of our times https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1741118159262793970?s=20 e: meant to go in the other thread but works here too Owlbear Camus has issued a correction as of 01:46 on Dec 31, 2023 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:the Eilat longshoreman has become the maytag repairman of our times bitcoin voice: put the shipping contracts on the blockchain
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sullat posted:I thought he died in jail https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220816420/who-is-fat-leonard-and-how-did-he-end-up-as-part-of-the-venezuelan-prisoner-swap
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:https://www.npr.org/2023/12/20/1220816420/who-is-fat-leonard-and-how-did-he-end-up-as-part-of-the-venezuelan-prisoner-swap Well good for him. I hope he beat that cancer like he beat the navy's extremely weak safeguards against corruption.
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https://twitter.com/IranObserver0/status/1741195592104108317 venezuela has antiship missile speedboats too
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