The US will lose WW3

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poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

why am I working in any industry that isn�t defense

# ¿ Jun 1, 2023 22:58

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 03:56

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Frosted Flake posted:

"If a thing has a system, then it can be systematically exploited. If there is effect, then causation can be engineered. If there is behavior, then influence can be applied. If one can see the puppet strings, then one can learn to pull them regardless of which side of them you�re on. Accept nothing. Fear less than nothing. There is rationality in all things. Even that which is irrational can be identified and measured for the degree to which it deviates from rationality. With no fear there is no need for bravery. Problem solving is the finest crusade; knowledge the only weapon necessary. Economics is unique in that, without exception, every action that any person takes will influence the external environment. Economists seek to identify, measure, and, when proper, control those influences. That is the heart of economic combat."

this reads like the villain speech before the boss battle of a jrpg

# ¿ Jun 23, 2023 18:45

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

what is it with old morons being obsessed with dropouts

�oh he�s so smart that he didnt finish school? must be a genius!�

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 23:54

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

yeah he�s such a genius he did some science project in high school with it. and didn�t need to learn anything in college (like why it�s an insanely dumb idea, for instance)

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 00:52

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

yo what�s going on with us special forces? is there a series of articles or a book to explain how they went from the best of the best to drug smuggling murderers?

# ¿ Jul 26, 2023 00:51

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Slavvy posted:

That's all I can think of on short notice

the correct version is to leave this unfinished and sell the squares required to complete it in a cost plus basis over the next decade before canceling the project

# ¿ Aug 29, 2023 03:14

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/CNBCtech/status/1699771248480334291?s=20

Monash University
Bachelor of CommerceAccounting & Business Law/TaxationDid not graduate
2008 - 2013

:lol:

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 19:21

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

maybe we should fund education more in the US�? no, it�s the children who are wrong

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 20:17

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

sounds like every single one of these problems stems from a single, ideological, source:
WOKE MILITARY

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 21:31

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

I�m not sure I�m following this conversation any more than I understood The Pentsgon Wars, but is the argument that infantry should have a faster, lighter transportation that doesn�t have defense? or that it should have more guns and just be a tank with troop carrying abilities?

# ¿ Sep 9, 2023 20:19

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

I really appreciate the explanations. so for someone who hasn�t been following Ukraine, is this a correct understanding of how modern war works?

-there is long range artillery and missiles for attacking distant targets. these are probably the best in terms of breaking things and not dying
-when you actually need to attack something, like a city, you need a combination of infantry and tanks. there are also transport vehicles that are light and assault vehicles for blowing up foxholes
-javelins let infantry blow up tanks. drones let infantry blow up infantry. it�s harder and harder to not die against these.

what am I missing? are there solutions or problems i missed out on?

# ¿ Sep 9, 2023 20:43

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

yellowcar posted:

the x-32, boeing's competing design, looked even fatter

absolutely lost because the Air Force brass were by this time used to nothing but unopposed domination of the skies, and didn�t want to pick an ugly plane. essentially so tired of winning they were spending their days rearranging the set dressing.

did this thing actually fly well? in a universe like ours where this won, would they still be losing planes left and right for no reason?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2023 03:54

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

am I insane for thinking the US mil could buy like four hundred super tucanos and use them basically everywhere they normally spend like 1,000x the cost per flight? is the only downside that our super special pilots wouldn�t like being on a prop plane instead of a jet?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2023 16:01

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

it�s almost impossible to overstate the negative impact the F-35 project has had in western military readiness

# ¿ Sep 30, 2023 13:07

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Proust Malone posted:

honestly best possible outcome here. dude did you a favor. friends don�t let friends go nuke. even if they have to hit you with a car.

what�s the best MOST in the Navy? or army / Air Force?

# ¿ Oct 9, 2023 01:41

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

ProfessorBooty posted:

Europe was threatened to toe the line when Nord Stream was sabotaged. Their reaction to what's happening in Gaza is kind of mind melting,

not to melt your brain much more, but can you explain? I�m not sure how Gaza is unfolding other than the headlines

# ¿ Oct 14, 2023 15:26

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Palladium posted:

every reload is now counted in terms of a new chinese destroyer built per month

if one side can build ships faster than the other can build ammunition to shoot at those ships, which side is more likely to win??

# ¿ Oct 22, 2023 05:04

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Calhoun

quote:

In 2020, Boeing had a historically bad year, reporting a $12 billion loss and laying off 30,000 workers. At the same time, Calhoun earned $21.1 million in compensation.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2023 18:18

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Buckley sounded smart; he could articulate logical premises and identify fallacies; was polite and had upper class mannerisms. essentially the diametric opposite of the modern gop

# ¿ Oct 28, 2023 15:18

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

being a Roman citizen living in the city might have been the best life any human ever had except for post-WWII European socialism

# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 17:27

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

ClassActionFursuit posted:

I guess I have different expectations for environmental legislation written in the 70s than someone coming to the table 50 years later.

your mistake, indeed. if the environmental legislation of 1970 didn�t perfectly address your concerns in 2023, it was completely bad and wrong and worse than nothing

# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 18:03

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

pay more? esprit d�corp? all impossible in modern America, apparently

# ¿ Nov 2, 2023 18:17

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

one of those where you either lose a rank or gain one, depending on the COs mood

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 15:19

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Bar Crow posted:

Telling my commanding officer that the brain damage app says I�ve had too many brain damage points today.

-Me, after reading CSPAM

# ¿ Nov 6, 2023 23:23

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

it�s against the rules to put weapons in space

# ¿ Nov 8, 2023 01:33

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Jake was too close to the mil to want to join up; Nog was using it as a jumping off point to improve his life rather than end up like his father

tale as old as time

# ¿ Nov 23, 2023 19:40

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

double nine posted:

an important point, this could be so much worse if they were driving personal cars

They don�t feel like big tough guys because they aren�t driving F350s
:-(

# ¿ Nov 25, 2023 21:11

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

b b b but but uhhh those aren�t stealth

# ¿ Dec 3, 2023 21:30

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

would�ve collapsed the roads in dc

# ¿ Dec 4, 2023 01:07

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

it�ll never beat a real MAN up there on the joystick bro!!!!

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 04:03

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

samogonka posted:

A quick look at this makes it immediately clear what the top priority of US foreign policy should be.

hahaha yeah totally obvious�. can you just say what those are, for, uhhh, anyone that�s afraid to ask

# ¿ Dec 9, 2023 01:05

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

Playing the greatest hits, "the dominant ideology is the ideology of the dominant class" from the The German Ideology.

As financial capitalism takes hold and becomes dominant in neoliberalism, it's the financier capitalist's worldview that becomes more imperative. As they have the greater means of capital and capital has more pull of power in those conditions, it is as if things are spontaneously rearranged in their favor.

Try to view such problems in their shoes. What background does the financier capitalist have? What education, what parents, what activities their families were involved? A CEO, a managerial financier, is someone who deals with the world in terms of finance, because that is their function, their social role. Individually, there are capitalists who of course have command of history, of sociology; there are the rare ones who do also have command of political economy.

However, even as powerful individuals, that doesn't mean that they necessarily are able to leverage that force in structural matters. For example: such an individual, seized by a bout of nationalist fervor and imperial sentiment, decides to mobilize capital to build a no-bullshit military factory. His potential investors, however, don't get swayed by the less-than-average predicted ROI and initial estimates of valuation. Raytheon, Lockheed et al don't like this unexpected surge of competition one bit and take to the government to judicially pile upon the company; consultant groups analyze if they would be committing unfair market practices by delivering prices below average rate while having lesser average profitability and so on and on

This individual wants to address a real material problem, but the others around him do not see how that can be interesting if there are no gains in profitability to be had, because that is the main ideological problem to be dealt with. "Do I receive a greater return than what I invested? Is that return better than other possible investments? How can I have more?"

This capitalist class takes things like redundancy or capacity as anathema. Efficiency, for them, is a purely financial angle: spend less as possible and get the most out of it for the sake of profit, not for the actual problem that they are engaging with.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 19:05

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

sum posted:

Can anyone recommend any good military histories of the Iraq and/or Afghan wars? Besides Blowback I guess. It seems like most texts on the subject are some combination of written while the wars were still going on, written by neocons, or are simple histories of individual operations.

there was no coherent strategy or political decision making except to win more battles, so just read all the histories of individual operations

# ¿ Dec 13, 2023 04:36

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

everyone itt is about to end up on a watchlist

for liking firefly

# ¿ Dec 15, 2023 15:50

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

fight less forever wars

# ¿ Dec 20, 2023 03:44

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

someone uploaded the entire movie The Pentsgon Wars :ohno:

# ¿ Dec 21, 2023 03:06

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

Why is every branch so reticent to move to unmanned stuff? Like drones, robots, etc.? It seems like trying to make it so that it could either have a crew or be empty will get you the worst of both worlds and please don�t just say grift

# ¿ Dec 21, 2023 20:33

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

why isn�t the US launching rockets at random targets in Yemen; like when Hillary went nuts on Libya to help her run for president?

# ¿ Dec 23, 2023 19:22

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

hell, imagine a single congressman or president trying to do it and winning their next reelection bid before everything reverts to normal

# ¿ Dec 24, 2023 22:31

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 03:56

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

hang on, let me try something:

why should we even buy any more artillery? rockets can do everything better

# ¿ Dec 31, 2023 20:56

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