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Madurai posted:(My M1 carbine is one of the IBM ones!) Nice! Mine's a common gutter Inland Division one (i.e. General Motors), but it's one of my favorite shooters.
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The Lone Badger posted:What would the vehicular equivalent of fixing bayonets be? I think dozer blades or mine rollers are the tank bayonet equivalent.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Idk how accurate Bradley gunners are supposed to be, but from the video of the Bradleys vs a T-90…dude did not miss. Nah, he missed a few short and long. But that's still outstanding shooting given the adrenaline surge from "oh gently caress, that's a tank". It sounds like the TOWs (anti-armor in translation, I think) didn't work for some reason, "so I blinded it". And yeah, he deserves some leave. US doctrine in WW2 would be to send him to factories and recruitment rallies. I think he's due more time at the front before he gets rotated to training duties, but he's on the short list for that.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Pretty sure we'd have some pretty big, maybe insurmountable, bottlenecks in the supply chain for ramping up production of artillery shells and other munitions. I feel that we'd get some really weird intermittent shortages that make no sense because of JIT Manufacturing like, a peer adversary is able to gently caress up saltpeter shipments from chilie so we can't arsenal of democracy bullets for a month.
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Whoever pushed jit should burn in hell. Same with six sigma and all that MBA bullshit.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Whoever pushed jit should burn in hell. Same with six sigma and all that MBA bullshit. I got to be part of the last MBA class to suffer the cult of JIT. I kinda wish I had gotten to see HBR writers suffer the death of shibboleths like "Inventory is sinful"
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Whoever pushed jit should burn in hell. Same with six sigma and all that MBA bullshit. I live that bullshit everyday. Houthis hosed poo poo up for my job. I actually criticize management for it.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:People lost their poo poo over being asked to wear a mask and not go to Applebee's for a few months, I can only imagine the seething ball of incandescent rage that would be generated today by introducing rationing, mandatory recycling, limited consumer products, and everything else that they did during WWII. i think the last time america had any sort of rationing was during the manufactured "oil crisis" in the 70s and people could only get gas on certain days
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Whoever pushed jit should burn in hell. Same with six sigma and all that MBA bullshit. Much like driving drunk or stealing your employees' wages, it's hugely advantageous as long as you don't get caught by any of the down sides. Roll those dice a few times and then hand the bag to someone else, you've got pretty good odds.
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What advantage do you get by driving drunk?
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ded posted:i think the last time america had any sort of rationing was during the manufactured "oil crisis" in the 70s and people could only get gas on certain days During COVID the walmart wouldn't let me buy more than four sixteen-packs of toilet paper at a time, it was tyranny 
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Powered Descent posted:During COVID the walmart wouldn't let me buy more than four sixteen-packs of toilet paper at a time, it was tyranny oh god i forgot about the toilet paper crisis 
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EasilyConfused posted:What advantage do you get by driving drunk? 
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ded posted:i think the last time america had any sort of rationing was during the manufactured "oil crisis" in the 70s and people could only get gas on certain days TIL Nixon made the national speed limit 55, not Carter.
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EasilyConfused posted:What advantage do you get by driving drunk? I get to be drunk alone in my car
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Powered Descent posted:During COVID the walmart wouldn't let me buy more than four sixteen-packs of toilet paper at a time, it was tyranny Costco limited the big bags of rice too, but the freedom slop buckets were still available.
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The toilet paper crisis was real. I remember going to a kroger and there was only like three four packs of single ply tp left. It was dire enough that I pondered installing a *spits on ground* bidet
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MH Knights posted:So if the US/NATO got into a large scale conventional war with a peer or near-peer adversary the fighting would stop after a couple of months due to running out of ammo? There was that bit about the US not drawing on their stocks for this war, though. And, also, if this war is indicative of anything, it's that there are no peers to US/NATO. Russia's turned out to be a rusted paper tiger. Unless the PRC is different?
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Hyperlynx posted:There was that bit about the US not drawing on their stocks for this war, though. i do not know about the ground forces, but china has built up a respectable navy and has been putting it to use. they also have very active spy programs through physical & electronic means. they are most likely on par or better than what we thought russia might be.
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Defenestrategy posted:The toilet paper crisis was real. I remember going to a kroger and there was only like three four packs of single ply tp left. It was dire enough that I pondered installing a *spits on ground* bidet We were fortunate enough to have purchased a Costco cube of toilet paper just before the lockdowns started. Thing lasted us for the better part of a year.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:People lost their poo poo over being asked to wear a mask and not go to Applebee's for a few months, I can only imagine the seething ball of incandescent rage that would be generated today by introducing rationing, mandatory recycling, limited consumer products, and everything else that they did during WWII. I mean, 911 gave metric loads of cover for metric assloads of spending, and that was against an opponent that wasn't a threat to the US. The only near peer left that's credible is China, and that's due to a number of geopolitical factors (no friendly nations to base out of for land invasions) and their armed forces build up. I would think if things got hot though and somehow the conflict dragged on for months then suddenly there'd be money to build up factories and supply lines. Drifting pretty close to Clancy chat though.
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GD_American posted:I got to be part of the last MBA class to suffer the cult of JIT. But nothing could ever interrupt shipments! Nothing at all! Logistics are impregnable! Wait, what's that? I'm hearing that due to the vagaries of global capitalism, we're importing a large amount of our stock from Asia and through a very specific route that's been majorly disrupted at least twice during the last five years? Must be a fluke. Our fuckwit top management actually "fines" departments for having too much inventory, in the most insane way. If your inventory "cost" is too high, your staffing budget gets hacked down. It's the absolutely dumbest poo poo.
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PurpleXVI posted:But nothing could ever interrupt shipments! Nothing at all! Logistics are impregnable! Wait, what's that? I'm hearing that due to the vagaries of global capitalism, we're importing a large amount of our stock from Asia and through a very specific route that's been majorly disrupted at least twice during the last five years? Must be a fluke. lol, "I'm pointing this gun at my leg. You don't want me to shoot my own leg, do you?"
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I vaugely remember one of the reasons the soviet union's planned economy fell apart was there was not enough slack in the system causing inventory flow shortages. Then apparently capitalism decided to just do it because if you sell off all the lights in the building and leave with your severance package before it gets dark, you win.
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Ronwayne posted:I vaugely remember one of the reasons the soviet union's planned economy fell apart was there was not enough slack in the system causing inventory flow shortages. Then apparently capitalism decided to just do it because if you sell off all the lights in the building and leave with your severance package before it gets dark, you win. Nah, the Soviet Union was just poo poo at allocating resources to useful ends. Reducing inactive inventory is legitimately a more efficient way to arrange production, much like it's much more efficient to regularly go to the shop than buy a whole year's worth of food and store in a root cellar. Like JIT, this depends on shops reliably having stuff. A reasonable business logic becomes a problem if you don't understand your MBA course material on risk management and just cargo cult it. Then you start doing dumb stuff like getting rid of the fridge and exclusively relying on doordash for sustenance.
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Pikehead posted:The only near peer left that's credible is China, and that's due to a number of geopolitical factors (no friendly nations to base out of for land invasions) and their armed forces build up. I would think if things got hot though and somehow the conflict dragged on for months then suddenly there'd be money to build up factories and supply lines. i mean hey, kyrgyzstan let us use some stuff for the war in afghanistan, maybe they'd let us invade china over that one road into kashgar, for EXTREME CLANCYCHAT
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Defenestrategy posted:The toilet paper crisis was real. I remember going to a kroger and there was only like three four packs of single ply tp left. It was dire enough that I pondered installing a *spits on ground* bidet I have a Japanese toilet and after more than a year of using it you start to feel uncivilized doing you business anywhere else.
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:I have a Japanese toilet and after more than a year of using it you start to feel uncivilized doing you business anywhere else. Like, luxury heated seats that talks to you before giving a complimentary butthole squirt and massage when you're done, or hole-in-the-ground-with-two-footpads?
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bird food bathtub posted:Like, luxury heated seats that talks to you before giving a complimentary butthole squirt and massage when you're done, or hole-in-the-ground-with-two-footpads? 
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Nah, the Soviet Union was just poo poo at allocating resources to useful ends. I don't know, given the state of the world, I'd assume more major disruptions and upgrading to a chest freezer in addition to the fridge, in the metaphor, because global supply chains can get disrupted easily. At what point of general chaos is it better to rely on multiple redundancies rather than efficiency? You'd want warehoused goods in stock because all of a sudden ships are no longer coming for the next week/month/months, or whatever.
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The value of JIT inventory management relates to the product that your business is dealing with. As far as the grocery analogy goes, there’s three different types of items that quickly go out of stock before a storm: sriracha, eggs, and toilet paper. Sriracha goes out of stock because the alternatives just aren’t as nice. If you want your sauce to taste right, you don’t want to substitute anything. The specifics matter, though you can make something else if you need to. Eggs go out of stock because everyone wants them, they go into all sorts of food, and they’re always useful. However, you don’t really care what kind of eggs you get. And there’s a variety of substitutes like bananas, tofu, or yogurt if you need them. Toilet paper goes out of stock because doing without it sucks. Low grade toilet paper is not as good, and doing without entirely is a miserable experience. A sriracha company can be flexible in its output - they make something else while supplies are short. An egg company can be flexible in its input - they can source different materials to make their core product. A toilet paper company needs to stock up supplies, or it risks going out of business entirely. Kaal fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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Pretty good debris analysis of the KN-23/24 components found in Ukraine, showing that Russia has purchased and is using North Korean ballistic missiles in combat operations. Arms Control Wonk agrees with the analysis from Conflict Armament Research. Highlights different components, different dimensions which are harder to make out from a distant photo in flight. Jeffrey Lewis points out that it's a similar design philosophy to an Iskander, but it's different in very important ways, is a different size (larger), shaped differently, but also argues that all modern solid-fuel SRBMs kind of look the same. Lewis' argument is that laymen try to undercut Korean capabilities as not being real by making the claim that they only have these weapons because of foreign gifts/assistance. In reality, the challenge is that North Korea (and some other developers worldwide) have been building reasonably capable SRBMs on their own. In North Korea's case, this extends to their IRBM/ICBM programs as well. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3a4e9d713f59426d9d1ea3881abecbf3 So the idea that they can only make this with Russian or Chinese assistance or design bureau input at this point is either wishful thinking or just racist and outdated. Wishful in that imagining that if only there were a better arms control regime or a deal cut with Russia/China to cut off a "rogue" nation from access, the rogue nation would stop being capable of this kind of weapons development, which is largely a false hope. Or just racist and outdated in that for years and years, a mix of laymen, political pundits and frankly some just racist dumbasses have just refused to acknowledge that maybe a country we didn't traditionally think of as a missile builder and exporter 30 years ago can use decades of earnest R&D and publicly observed test-fires research work to build up their own domestic capabilities. https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1219101/russia-buys-north-korean-missiles/
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mlmp08 posted:political pundits and frankly some just racist dumbasses Looks like you accidentally repeated yourself there
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The Soviet Union coupled poorly-informed production mandates with systems of accountability that prioritized appearing to adhere to the mandates over actually producing quality output. Say factory manager Ivan and factory manager Dmitri receive the same mandate for 50,000 widgets. Ivan, a true believer in Soviet promise of a better future, valiantly struggles to obtain the quality inputs and skilled engineers his factory needs to meet the request. Dmitri, a cynical apparatchik, lazily goes about schmoozing with those who will assess his output, then does the bare minimum to deliver what might, at a glance, be taken for widgets. Dmitri delivers 50,000 widgets completely unworthy of the name, barely able to fulfill their role more than a few dozen times within acceptable error boundaries. Ivan, facing great difficulty navigating the Dmitris up his own supply chain or finding engineers worth their degrees, ultimately delivers only 30,000 widgets, but of satisfactory quality. Dmitri gets lauded by the party and Ivan gets sent to a post office in Siberia. Repeat for a few decades and you end up with an utterly moribund economy fundamentally incapable of satisfying the basic needs of its people.
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Ronwayne posted:I don't know, given the state of the world, I'd assume more major disruptions and upgrading to a chest freezer in addition to the fridge, in the metaphor, because global supply chains can get disrupted easily. At what point of general chaos is it better to rely on multiple redundancies rather than efficiency? You'd want warehoused goods in stock because all of a sudden ships are no longer coming for the next week/month/months, or whatever. Realistically you should be depending on models built by your IMEs, and those models have gotten very good even accounting for COVID. Theres always going to be a push pull between efficiency and flexibility. Even Deming argued for single source suppliers to build trust, efficiency and reliability. Its really loving complicated.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Dmitri gets lauded by the party and Ivan gets sent to a post office in Siberia. Repeat for a few decades and you end up with an utterly moribund economy fundamentally incapable of satisfying the basic needs of its people. oh drat thats wild. I hope they're ok...
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Reading up on the USSR's economy in the 1930s, particularly the first five year plan, is pretty eye opening with respect to how off the rails Trotsky and Stalin had gone.
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A.o.D. posted:They'd be a lot more compliant if you wrapped it in jingoism and naked racism. They'd also be orders of magnitude more compliant if outliers were being imprisoned after very brief , very publicized rubber-stamp show trials. If your economy is on a total-war footing you're likely fighting for your life, or trying your hardest to cash in on someone who is. Either way, anyone getting in the way is going to get a massive government curb-stomping.
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Dandywalken posted:oh drat thats wild. I hope they're ok... 
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Cugel the Clever posted:systems of accountability that prioritized appearing to adhere to the mandates over actually producing quality output. Ah, yes, good thing we dodged anything like numbers-based success metrics in our successful capitalist society that lead to perverted incentives that undermine the entire enterprise they're supposed to be supporting... oh wait, what's that... oh no... Also read Normal Accidents by Perrow, it's pretty good insight into why so many enterprises are utterly hosed in execution and hugely vulnerable to even minor disruption.
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