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mlmp08 posted:The building of that bridge is a trip. 20+ years total, with foundation laying in 2001, funding, canceling under new administration, then recompeting the design/quote idea, then finally starts being built by a Chinese firm in 2014, completed in 2022. Hm I have an idea about how they can save some money rebuilding the bridge then. Belt and Road is all about investing in infrastructure in underdeveloped countries, right?
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:
Does it ever get jealous over the poo poo coming out of your mouth?
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Fell Mood posted:Does it ever get jealous over the poo poo coming out of your mouth? ?? are you okay?
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sullat posted:Century of Humiliation began with the opium wars and the 'unequal' treaties in the 1840s, not the Sino-Japanese war of 1895. I know but most Chinese consider they have "paybacked the Brits but not properly paybacked the Japanese", I just wanted to name drop CoH in the sentence, don't nitpick mmmkay.
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Danann posted:2 years into a war and the best war understanders still think in GDP. Deploying the military might of our HFT arbitrage software to assault the frontline
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Danann posted:2 years into a war and the best war understanders still think in GDP. our vast legions of financial criminals are definitely a war resource. Look upon our fintech and weep
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betty voice: The US will lose WW3… to my rear end.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:?? are you okay? I'm nearly crippled but still have to go to work, but thanks for asking. It's just one of my favorite sayings concerning asses. I realize now it came off as needlessly aggressive.
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Silicon Valley Will Lose WWIIIquote:Three months before Hamas attacked Israel, Ronen Bar, the director of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, announced that his agency had developed its own generative artificial intelligence platform—similar to ChatGPT—and that the technology had been incorporated quite naturally into the agency’s “interdiction machine,” assisting in decision-making “like a partner at the table, a co-pilot.”
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stephenthinkpad posted:I know but most Chinese consider they have "paybacked the Brits but not properly paybacked the Japanese", I just wanted to name drop CoH in the sentence, don't nitpick mmmkay. also it was the Qing Dynasty
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I've complained about it before, but I was just checking the schedule again for the light rail station opening near my house and it's been pushed to fall but the entire 65+ billion dollar rail network is now looking at a 2041 completion date lmao. China will probably get to Mars for less money before you can easily take light rail around the Seattle area. By the time Boeing workers could take the rail to work the company probably won't even exist. They ain't ever rebuilding that Baltimore bridge.
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stephenthinkpad posted:China built this railway and road bridge for Bangeldesh last year, build it and they will cum
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FuzzySlippers posted:I've complained about it before, but I was just checking the schedule again for the light rail station opening near my house and it's been pushed to fall but the entire 65+ billion dollar rail network is now looking at a 2041 completion date lmao. China will probably get to Mars for less money before you can easily take light rail around the Seattle area. By the time Boeing workers could take the rail to work the company probably won't even exist. president doctor joe biden said he would personally see to it that you and i immediately paid to get the bridge rebuilt successfully and he would never tell a lie
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Delta-Wye posted:
Biden’s death will be used as the excuse why the bridge is never rebuilt.
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Delta-Wye posted:
https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1773050647279030304
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masterpiece is overselling it
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https://breakingdefense.com/2024/03/towed-artillery-has-reached-end-of-the-effectiveness-army-four-star-declares/?amp=1 Lmao top to bottom here
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The Oldest Man posted:https://breakingdefense.com/2024/03/towed-artillery-has-reached-end-of-the-effectiveness-army-four-star-declares/?amp=1 quote:What’s in, then? Rainey called out the desire to build and field autonomous, robotic cannons that soldiers and special operators can use for entry operations, and, for now, the service “is not wed to any caliber.”
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The Oldest Man posted:https://breakingdefense.com/2024/03/towed-artillery-has-reached-end-of-the-effectiveness-army-four-star-declares/?amp=1 yeah four golden stickers on that special ed homework buddy
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FF's gonna have an aneurysm reading that
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nah, all the tbi from artillery going off has inured his brain to aneurysms
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The Oldest Man posted:https://breakingdefense.com/2024/03/towed-artillery-has-reached-end-of-the-effectiveness-army-four-star-declares/?amp=1 *me, after watching the ukraine/russia war intently for the last 2 years* "you know, we'd really better get to work on self-propelled, autonomous 58mm robot cannons for use by special operators in entry operations"
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KomradeX posted:How does a person end up like this His dad wrote the musical "Grease" and procreated, unfortunately.
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stephenthinkpad posted:I know but most Chinese consider they have "paybacked the Brits but not properly paybacked the Japanese", I just wanted to name drop CoH in the sentence, don't nitpick mmmkay. most chinese people are weeaboos.
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Morbus posted:*me, after watching the ukraine/russia war intently for the last 2 years* I mean, he has a point. If we sent over an arty bat, they'd be mulched inside of a month. And the survivors crippled with red bag syndrome
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BrotherJayne posted:I mean, he has a point. The issue isn't that they have identified problems...Western artillery is in some ways either behind or not ready for peer to peer conflict, it is just the solution of a fully autonomous SPG drone is a little bit out there if you want anything larger (which seems like a decade+ grift in the making).
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500excf type r posted:Which is the bridge crossing a sea poo poo, uh uh uh, the Ganga of course as it is the embodiment of all sacred waters fizziester posted:U.K. General Rob Magoooooowan Furry howl
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Ardennes posted:The issue isn't that they have identified problems...Western artillery is in some ways either behind or not ready for peer to peer conflict, it is just the solution of a fully autonomous SPG drone is a little bit out there if you want anything larger (which seems like a decade+ grift in the making). I don't think we can create the conditions under which serious artillerywork could be conducted. Creating a permissive environment would require more gear and effort than we could sustain
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BrotherJayne posted:I don't think we can create the conditions under which serious artillerywork could be conducted. Creating a permissive environment would require more gear and effort than we could sustain It is just it doesn't work under the current ideological framework where the state can't conduct actual direction and at best you could throw billions at some contractors to maybe do something in a decade or two. There was talk about how bogus GDP is, and it is, but I would argue the US is also undercapitalizing on whatever industrial strength and resources it still has as well. Some of this is the limits of infrastructure, but even then it is really about ideology.
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Ardennes posted:It is just it doesn't work under the current ideological framework where the state can't conduct actual direction and at best you could throw billions at some contractors to maybe do something in a decade or two. I mean, we practiced the wrong wars. As a joke. Even if we could turn on the spigot, we're behind the eightball and have no tolerance for casualties or bad news days.
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BrotherJayne posted:I mean, we practiced the wrong wars. Lmao, someone post that article that argued that US covid policy proved that they are finally over Vietnam era casuality aversion.
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BrotherJayne posted:I mean, we practiced the wrong wars. A lot of it also not even the Gulf Wars or even the collapse of the Soviet Union but the US started re-organizing after Vietnam which in general was on mobility, technical sophistication, and air power in a large part to a move away from conscription. The First Gulf War is anything was a little party to show much how of a good job that was done. At that point it seemed like the entire West was on a one-way path.
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Ardennes posted:It is just it doesn't work under the current ideological framework where the state can't conduct actual direction and at best you could throw billions at some contractors to maybe do something in a decade or two. Yeah the only area Biden admin has prepared for war is in semiconductor with the CHIPS act, and neither the TSMC and Samsung plant can be completed because the US government is trying to short change on the promised subsidies. How is semiconductor going to win you a war? It doesn't. All these billions of spending are rest on untested theories and just excuses to funnel money into new grip. How about spending the money to order 5 times more weapons like tested Tomahawk missiles or Himars or drones? The problem of preparing for war is just not preparing in the wrong arra, the problem is also the Washington elites don't know how to prepare because all of them are former lawyers. There are no trained engineers in Washington who can plan things properly.
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The other day I went to 'Horsepower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars' in Winchester, England. I thought it might be worth posting about it in this thread, as the history of the regiments which are now the King's Royal Hussars basically charts the decline of the British Empire. Britain, as we all know, is now the US' hapless vassal, which soon won't be able to produce steel, let alone fight any wars independently. There were some nice paintings there, which was my favourite bit. Some of the images below are photos I took, but when there was a better image aviailable on the internet, I used that. I thought the way museum presented various events, particularly post-1945, was also pretty funny/absurd. Here's the blurb from one of the signs outside the museum: HORSEPOWER: THE MUSEUM OF THE KING'S ROYAL HUSSARS posted:The King's Royal Hussars proudly traces its history back for over three hundred years. The museum tells the story of seven famous regiments, and how the Cavalry of horse and sabre developed into the modern Armoured Regiment of today, at the forefront of the British Army. In Hampshire's only Cavalry Museum, discover stories of courage and valour and follow the experiences of those who fought in the Peninsular War, Waterloo, the Charge of the Light Brigade, through the two World Wars, and on operations around the globe to the present day. Another sign tells the history of the Upper Barracks site, which the museum is located on. There are three other military museums on the Upper Barracks site: The Adjutant General's Corps Museum, The Gurkha Museum, and the Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum. quote:On this historic site, William the Conqueror built a royal castle (1067), which was extended by King Henry III (1216-72). The castle was besieged by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War (1645) and, after its occupants had surrendered, was partially demolished in 1651. Much of the site is now, of course, housing. On to the actual Horsepower museum: Most of the museum is about the history of the 10th and 11th Hussars Regiments, who were in involved in many of the Empire's most glorious victories/heinous crimes, as shown on the Regimental gong for the 11th Hussars: I do like their guidons though: The 10th/11th Hussars started off as Dragoons. 'The Scouts' by William Barnes Wollen 'shows a patrol of 10th Light Dragoons somewhere in Spain or Portugal during the Peninsular War. Woollen completed this work in 1902, nearly 100 years after the war. He made a mistake: the "busby bag" should hang over the right side of the busby (fur hat).' Stupid William, getting the bag on the wrong side of the silly hat. 'The Scouts' by William Barnes Wolle posted:They fought in Waterloo. Here are some cool swords and other artefacts from around then: For those who are interested, the top sword is a light cavalry officer's sword, 1796 pattern, the centre one is a 1781 pattern sword and scabbard, and the bottom one is a sword used at Waterloo. Later they took part in the Empire's crimes in India: 'The Girls We Left Behind' by Thomas Jones Barker posted:"The British Empire posted:
Both the 10th and 11th Hussars fought in the Crimean War, with the 11th participating in the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Balaclava by Lady Butler shows the remnants of the Light Brigade after the charge: Balaclava by Lady Butler posted:The museum has a large memorial stone to 'Crimean Bob': 25 years of service and he was never off sick? Can you imagine a zoomer horse doing that? Kids just don't want to work these days. Here's how the museum explains the 10th Hussars fighting in Sudan: quote:Egypt asked Britain for help to defeat a rebellion by Sudanese nationalists. The 10th Hussars, who were sailing home after 11 years in India, were ordered off their troopship in the Red Sea to join a British Expeditionary Force. Charge of the 10th at El Teb by GD Giles posted:The 10th and 11th Hussars fought in the Boer War as well: '10th Hussars racing the Boers for a Kopje above the Modder River' by G.D. Giles posted:There wasn't that much of interest in the museum about WWI and WWII, but they were very sad about losing their horses/mechanisation, which I can understand, as Daimler Dingo just isn't the same. They also lost a tank to treacle: Post-war the 10th/11th were sent off to try and prop up Britain's failing empire and fight against people struggling for their liberation. quote:Malaya 1953 - 56 Here's some British anti-communist propaganda: The 10th and 11th Hussars also apparently protected us from the 'threat of Soviet communism'. Lol at the "Did you know?' at the bottom. The 10th and 11th were amalgamated to form the Royal Hussars in 1969. Hmm, I wonder why Britain's colonies became independent countries? The Royal Hussars later adopted Challenger tanks: TOP SECRET INVINCIBLE CHOBHAM ARMOUR DO NOT Okay, here's the next stage of decline. 'In December 1992, after a short but full life lasting 23 years, The Royal Hussars amalgamated with the 14th/20th King's Hussars.' A short but full life? What does that mean? 'The world felt safer' lol. At least food for soldiers is apparently 'plentiful' now. That's about where the museum ends. I understand that the museum was refurbished in 2006, so it probably hasn't been updated since then. Not that there's much to update on. So what's next for the King's Royal Hussars and British decline? How much further do we have to fall? Well, as it turns out, quite far, as the Hussars will be losing their Challenger 2 tanks and gaining Ajax vehicles, in 2025 apparently. Yes, the ones that cause 'excessive levels of noise and vibration' for their occupants...
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Weka posted:poo poo, uh uh uh, the Ganga of course as it is the embodiment of all sacred waters
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the british had a big garrison at poona because it was the erstwhile capital of the maratha confederacy.
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On the one hand, very cool. On the other, rubbing salt on the wound, since Firepower, the museum of the Royal Artillery is still closed and without a new home for the collection in sight. loving Hussars. e: but fr, as someone who has at various times worn both a busby (our pattern is the same as the Hussars) and the 1821 Light Cavalry sabre, I can tell you're a man after my own heart. Excellent post. ee: Which regiment of British Hussars was it that ran over a German family's car during exercises? (I believe the Americans also did this twice in the 80's) DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 17:22 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:On the one hand, very cool. ff what do you think about towed artillery being done forever and replaced with autonomous robot spgs
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lodging all my hussies in poona ftw
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