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Frosted Flake posted:Here’s the entry in the Word Bank (not sure if you’ll be able to see it) We hewed all the wood and drew all the water and our only real economy is selling the same house to each other
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Enjoy your new J-20s king that will actually be on spec and on schedule (I would like to be liberated by the Philippines, thanks)
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gradenko_2000 posted:[at this point, I want to throw in a disclaimer that this is of course an account coming from a CIA analyst themselves, and that they never actually opposed the war - their problem was that the US was not prosecuting it intelligently, but it is interesting] Some of the best books are written by spooks. Edward Luttwaks Coup D'état, written about 1969, describes several key characteristics of how the CIA thinks about how a country can be overthrown and correctly identified Portugal as a country that would be easy to be overthrown. Although their president* at the time was in a worse off state than Biden.
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Laterite posted:lmao a C-17 flyover At least use the c-5
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*Lol someone at JH sprinting to buy a radio Phone post. Isentropy has issued a correction as of 04:10 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Centrist Committee posted:would lol if brandon turns out to be one of those emperors who loses a standard on the frontier Battle of Sedan who up
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Wheeee posted:what if it turns out all the fancy new Chinese stuff is just as lovely and unreliable as the fancy new American stuff China doesn't have the profit motive/"gotta make it in 50 states"/"subcontract forever" stuff rotting their industry though?
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Bar Ran Dun posted:oh I get that you think it’s impossible. I'm kind of new to this poo poo, but I would really recommend Wages of Destruction. The Nazi economy was based around private industry first and relied on what the oligarchs wanted. It wasn't anything like the US economy where FDR would knock heads with the hard headed oligarchs to get them to treat labour relatively fairly or Canada where consumer manufacturing was converted into military manufacturing. Also Speer kinda, well, significantly exaggerated his effectiveness. ETA: also to use a previous example, known working designs (e.g. the P3) get replaced with more expensive, less effective designs (the P8) or have the tooling decomissioned when it isn't profitable (the F22). Add the point about all the FDR types who at least believed in a State being pretty much gone and... Isentropy has issued a correction as of 11:33 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I was loving around with ChatGPT on lunch and accidentally reinvented the QF 17 Pdr, if anyone wants to get in on the grift for real and bid on a contract: no loving way. as someone who’s seen this poo poo and don’t ask why or where, this would pass as a submission easily
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Mar 24, 2023 23:47
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Frosted Flake posted:It really depends on if you believe there's a functional difference between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. this means « do you think the opposition won’t just use their own nuclear weapons » right
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Apr 4, 2023 17:25
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are the Canadian Melnyks uh… political? Eugene Melnyk sure had some Political views about minorities in the NHL for the non Canadians Eugene Melnyk was a Donald Sterling level rear end in a top hat who owned a major hockey team here
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Hatebag posted:American great leap forward should be melting down guns to make worse guns how many of those liberator pistols could you make from an ar-15?
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Apr 26, 2023 18:47
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Slavvy posted:Nobody wants to see it but in a real war we're going to have to watch some of our faves crash and burn some of our faves may be detonated
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Cerebral Bore posted:bit of two minds on this - on the one hand senator tommy tubbyman throwing a wrench into the gears of the us military machine seems commendable, but on the other hand it might actually end up working better the less generals they have if it actually mattered they wouldn’t let a failed college coach dipshit from Alabama hold up the process thinning out the ranks of generals who have to be paid and having more contractors is a win for lean clean war fighting ETA: imagine if tuberville was doing this poo poo over the military budget and what the reaction would be
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palindrome posted:Kids' can't learning to read good? No check it out, the children that can successfully learn to read and speak English correctly will simply assume their rightful place in the social hierarchy. Surely you've heard of the opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose order of grammar? Well if you don't know that intuitively, I'm afraid you're not invited to the six figure pizza party. I’ve encountered my first use of people writing ChatGPT code into production without trying to check whether it makes any sense
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Frosted Flake posted:This is called "eating on the economy", it's reimbursed, and in some commands, yes they prefer it over giving you a mess card. that loving rules. I’m sure it was the finest restaurants of Gagetown and Trenton complaining and not the kind of places that churn through Pinoy TFWs having to live in a remote rear end area and having the finest food orange order white new Brunswickers have to offer
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Oct 2, 2023 11:03
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stephenthinkpad posted:US is powerful enough to make Australia get rid of their PM Gough Whitlam.
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Real hurthling! posted:tacticool nukes with rails and dot sights and awkward foregrips under barrel Davy Crockett launcher
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What if we gave Aaron Hernandez worse CTE and firearms training
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Promoting a cringe non threatening loser is a good way to make fighting for more senior appointments or winning policy arguments easier, since rather than the position being filled by a partisan of one camp or another, it’s filled with a zero. Or, they’re a gormless idiot that owes their position to you so you can count on their backing. Eunuchs installing the most useless royal child so they can continue doing what they want?
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Mar 7, 2024 15:26
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Tankbuster posted:The real communist is the fat amerilard who makes youtube videos on the revolutionary potential of Fallout New Vegas. They wouldn't like that because in that ending you had an army and coalition. Why have an armed vanguard when you can just have vibes
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No why should I march on Versailles and kill or capture the royalists this commune is working fine
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stephenthinkpad posted:Did you guys discuss Ansarallah announced they now have hypersonic anti ship missiles? I forget which country but when someone developed nukes they would meet with Americans and get told "no, try this. No try this". Basically help them get at the right answer without giving it. Maybe that's what happened
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Mar 18, 2024 19:51
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stephenthinkpad posted:An offer they couldn't refuse as in they have ScoMo's video on Epstein island. Isn't ScoMo just a standard issue religious pedo (Hillsong)
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Apr 3, 2024 23:49
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stephenthinkpad posted:Funny AU and UK still have "labour" parties in their politics huh? AU doesn't even have a Labour party at all it's called Labor for some stupid reason
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Apr 4, 2024 02:29
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The only way the English ever learned to treat the browns and blacks as equals was by the likes of Sam Sharpe and Nanny of the Maroons
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Bar Crow posted:Science fiction is a plague on mankind. It isn't but we took the wrong lessons. The "we need to work together and be communist" lost to "epic space tech" side
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I think they've actively made anything beyond undergrad as miserable as possible because I see really promising kids drop out all the time now. Financially it's miserable, getting admitted is miserable, the course work and/or dissertations were always miserable, and what few RA or GA positions seem designed to impoverish and or kill you with stress. Yeah in engineering it would have been insane to go into academia: make enough money to probably buy a house and have a reasonable chance at promotions OR compete with 69,420 people under threat of deportation who will wash their professors clothes by hand if needs be
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Like unless you were doing basically industrial research it wouldn't make sense. And stay the hell away from any science or engineering prof who only has international students
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Rhugor posted:This is 100% true and it is deliberate. It enforces the class hierarchy of the neo-lib social/political/economic culture, as upon completion you’ve been hazed/blooded into the system and your reward is do-nothing jobs or easy management gigs regardless of merit or competency. And once someone has “made it”, they’re going to do everything to keep it, and keep others down and out. Now after those 2-6 years of hell getting a masters or PhD and you’ve got a justification for acting that way in many people’s eyes. I'm going to triple post, mods hit me if this is bad, but in engineering having a PhD actually locks you out of certain kinds of work. You're not gonna work for Mattamy Homes or Bird Construction anymore - it really really cuts out who'll look at you
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Hatebag posted:i think that is highly dependent on what kinda engineering you do. for civil/environmental/geotech engineers a masters is pretty beneficial. though a lot of civil engineers end up getting management-related masters instead of technical ones. Yeah that's the exception. Structural engineering and a few other disciplines require a MS. The only practicing PhDs I've seen worked for LockMart though
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:If the King over the water could stop collecting art and kissing his boyfriend for a second, we could do something about it. We could also fund tons of academic jobs by trying to figure out how to become a republic though? Or just make someone Lord Protector
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gradenko_2000 posted:the idea that a globally interconnected world prevents wars because no one would ever want to cut themselves off from global trade stops working the moment that principle gets weaponized: if nations actively start getting cut off from trade as a punishment, then they (and those that recognize the danger of such sanctions) will begin to circumvent the global system, and once secondary or even tertiary networks of trade begin to exist, then suddenly you don't have a globally interconnected world anymore and instead have gone back to competing blocs of power and spheres of influence. The west not making anything but spreadsheets has made this way easier. Wait you don't want 25 year old DND posters running your economy?
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The west used to offer access to advanced tech and manufacturing and know how. We've gutted that for number go up
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gradenko_2000 posted:I know it's Sorkinesque slop, but there's that scene from Charlie Wilson's War where Gust Avrakotos decries the CIA's policy of dismissing a bunch of first-generation hyphenated-American agents over suspicions of insufficient national loyalty because "they're barely Americans themselves" and that sort of contradiction undergirds this particular aspect of imperialism where America is supposed to extract the brains of their colonial holdings and create legions of compradors raised on American culture that will ensure pro-USA politics in their home countries... but it's constantly tugging against the latent xenophobia. You can't plant native-speaking saboteurs inside China (or wherever) if you refuse to let them attend your universities for fear of them being spies for the other side. That's right though. Remember that even Ho himself wanted to be an American and believed in it until the racism and bigotry turned him away. Like he couldn't even get them to agree Vietnam could be an independent suzerain
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Delta-Wye posted:is this a new dateline issue? i was thinking of the older f22 story I might doxx myself here: one of the checks used in the area of safety critical software I worked in that required a security clearance and wasn't military was "does the software need time of day to do it's job"
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mawarannahr posted:let me guess, nsa or export regulations inspector? Nuclear. 
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Just to be clear heavy water facilities and some US ones. Most of my work was for somewhere up north in Ontario, FF knows where.
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