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Thwomp posted:I wonder how Cait Jenner feels. Rich and not a federal employee, so "let them eat poo poo" about it all, I assume? Turns out being an oppressed minority is always fraught, but money/power makes it easier.
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A better comparison would be if Iran killed the commander of JSOC. Or maybe even just commander of SOCCENT. So still real serious.
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Jan 3, 2020 02:40
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Just gonna say that it's like... way easier and less risky to shoot a missile or drop a bomb than coordinate a streetside abduction of a VIP under armed escort in a city potentially hostile to your ground forces.
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Jan 4, 2020 01:23
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Tucker’s brand of white nationalism has included a desire to pull out of the middle east to focus on domestic issues and anti-immigration expenditures for a while now.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Yes because we can absolutely believe without proof that Suilemani was Actually Good now and was gonna try rapprochement with the Saudis instead of continuing the proxy wars and terrorist attacks. Yeah, if you invent a narrative no one has taken, it is easy to paint that narrative as stupid. Peloton having server issues: https://twitter.com/eggymce/status/1213576201857425408?s=21
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Jan 5, 2020 16:51
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SimonCat posted:The BBC says that the Iraqi Parliament passed a non-binding resolution asking US troops to leave. I don't think that carries any weight. Correct. Legislation would be required to formally boot the US. And the forces agreement deal has a one year lead time, IIRC, for US forces to leave. Of course Iraq could say “gently caress that, deal is canceled, get out faster,” but presumably there are monetary or other carrots that Iraq would forego if it broke a one year timeline agreement. There are likely a lot of ways Iraq could honor a one year timeline but just make everything a pain in the rear end such that it’s less trouble to get most forces out faster anyway.
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Jan 5, 2020 19:08
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Isn't the green zone covered in multiple overlapping CIWS sectors or some other form of anti-missile/ballistic poo poo? No. I would not recklessly publish a list of passive defense measures, but it’s public knowledge that there is no C-RAM remaining in Iraq. Just in Afghanistan for now.
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Jan 5, 2020 21:30
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Stravag posted:75 rounds a second of 20mill that can reach out to 2.2 miles? gently caress i would NOT want to live anywhere near a us embassy if we have thise things parked all around them It’s less dangerous than it sounds. You can program in no-fire zones, radars connected to the system dynamically cease fire if they detect aircraft in the path, and the rounds self-destruct while airborne, such that small enough pieces of metal fall down to make it so to take lethal damage from the debris they’d basically have to swallow or inhale the C-RAM round debris on the way down. Debris size from the incoming varies!
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Jan 5, 2020 21:36
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LibCrusher posted:In the videos of recent rocket attacks you can see C-RAM attempting to intercept Source them videos please.
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~400 or so, but those are rough numbers and include those for training etc.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:20
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https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1214566578152361992?s=21 That is not what most people consider imminent.
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Jan 7, 2020 16:33
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That account has been making some real wild claims. Including that the US created all the previous anti-corruption protests, of which al-Sadr was a supporter, but also suddenly all the Iraqi leadership decided to tell the US to get hosed, including al-Sadr. And that actually, SMGs didn’t shoot anti-Iranian protesters when those protesters were rushing Iran-friendly posts and facikities, it was secret US Marine sniper teams.
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Jan 7, 2020 17:25
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It makes certain business models less viable. Or at least forces them to play a shell game with employees. Basically just an annoying way to block or remove certain existing or future shooting ranges.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:23
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Imagine it's month 3 of generally heightened tensions, sittin in Kuwait, and your resentment is exploding at being the one guy in the squad who didn't smuggle in a phone. Just kidding, that guy will have just bought one at the PX or via Amazon or something by then.
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Jan 7, 2020 20:21
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:This is gonna be a long, sleepless night. Meh, go to sleep, being tired tomorrow wont make the day any less stupid or weird or whatever.
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Jan 8, 2020 04:03
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Joanna Piacenza (@jpiacenza) Tweeted: Respondents were first given a larger, global map. 23% were able to correctly identify Iran. https://t.co/XhP5OU9s2n https://t.co/HVsWpf9ujt https://twitter.com/jpiacenza/status/1214897511414013954?s=20
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Jan 8, 2020 14:48
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Stravag posted:So i hear regulation is nothing but a feelgood tactic that wastes money our proud american companies could be earning because they police themselves fantastically When the company culture needs to improve, the markets will dictate it!
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Jan 10, 2020 05:05
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Pompeo now says the imminent attacks were going to happen, but they don't know when or where. In other news, death of the Sun is imminent.
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Jan 10, 2020 15:58
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MA-Horus posted:I'm trying to wrap my head around the sequence of events in that missile launch. If you think that’s bad, wait til you hear about the USS Vincennes. Makes the more recent shootdown seem downright understandable by comparison.
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Jan 10, 2020 17:15
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MA-Horus posted:No I know about the Vincennes shootdown, dumb as poo poo. This is even dumber and I just don't get it. SAM launchers usually work in a networked configuration with a command vehicle. Was this one standalone? There's so many questions I want answered. No this was objectivley less dumb (still bad) but like infinitely less dumb than the Vincennes shootdown.
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Jan 10, 2020 20:22
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Jarmak posted:Do you have anything to justify this volcanicly hot take? A destroyer/cruiser with a fully manned CIC and commanded by an O-5/6 illegally entering Iranian waters and shooting a codes-broadcasting airliner is objectively loving dumber than some 2-4 man SHORAD crew screwing up. And their bodycount was higher to boot.
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Jan 10, 2020 21:22
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Jarmak posted:Illegally entering Iranian waters (to chase a gunboat that allegedly fired on a US helicopter crew) makes them more likely to think they're going to be attacked not less (wash with Iran launching missiles), and the Ukrainian flight was also squawking mode 3 so the codes broadcasting is a wash on relative stupidity (and not really notable if we're talking about airline shootdown incidents because AFAIK all such historic incidents involved a code broadcasting plane. Dude, you’re pro-USA blind on this one. The cruiser illegally entering Iranian TTW and then shooting down an airliner doesn’t get to excuse its massive CIC fuckup. And describing the airliner as “flying at” the Vincennes is such utter bullshit charged language. An airliner inside a civil corridor, squawking civil codes, climbing on an approved flight path, which happens to pass over a cruiser which is busy violating Iranian waters at the O-6’s orders, is not “flying at” the cruiser. A SHORAD crew loving up and shooting down the Ukrainian airliner is Very loving Bad and should not have occurred and should be fully accounted for. But on decision cycle, timeline, senior leadership involvement (as far as we know), range, expected threat, and loss of innocent human life, the Vincennes incident is objectively far loving stupider.
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Jan 11, 2020 01:56
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You are focusing on the current hot topic bad action and then as a result minimizing an even more egregious past fuckup. Air defense is loving hard to do well. Everyone who does air defense for a living realizes you need small tactical units but they inherently carry more risk than a giant centralized machine like an O-6 led CG. Unless the O-6 is bad at his job and has an incompetent CIC crew. The Vincennes defense you posted is basically this: “Yeah, I am not sorry that I shot this puppy. You see, I was breaking into this home, so I was scared, so I shot the puppy because I thought the puppy was the homeowner.”
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Jan 11, 2020 02:19
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Yeah, any rear end in a top hat butterbar idiot knows about codeswapping, which is extremely common at initial takeoff. It is true that maybe people didn’t know this PFC-level info in 1988, but it is extremely basic physics. Also the CIC crew said it was descending when their system showed directly to them that it was not descending. Another US ship ID’d the flight as commercial air, but the Vincennes crew hosed it up and shot anyway. The US Navy officially declared it human error. Mich has been done in the US to assuage ourselves of killing 290 innocents on flight 655. It’s mostly rah rah bullshit, but at least more quietly on the training and system design side, people took note. Quietly.
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Jan 11, 2020 02:37
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Jarmak posted:Trying to handwaive away the egregiousness of the idiocy of this one by whatabouting a 30+ year old incident that isn't comparable is some Glenn Greenwald poo poo though. Hey. gently caress this dumb poo poo know-nothing nonsense. I know it hurts your feelings to know that the big and good US military super hosed up in 1988, and you’re butthurt that people who have literally served on cruisers in the air defense section think you’re wrong, but don’t compare those arguments with Glenn loving Greenwald. I’ll take my sixer or whatever , but Jarmak does not even remotely know what the gently caress he is talking about and has a “USA! USA!” sized blind spot.
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Jan 11, 2020 06:19
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Trashing the crash scene still not good. Sure, mystery solved on blowing it out of the sky, but increased odds of misplacing or burying keepsakes, documents, or remains, I imagine.
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Jan 11, 2020 19:43
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Glenn is having a normal day, and he’s not mad, you’re mad!  https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1216052596819025920?s=21
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Jan 11, 2020 21:11
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Jan 12, 2020 16:38
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E: beaten The twitter model giving out nudes for people who sent her donation receipts got people to donate more money than Bezos gave.
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Jan 13, 2020 18:05
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https://twitter.com/ksieff/status/1216797706276032513?s=21 Cool cool cool
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Jan 13, 2020 21:44
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One theory is that the media felt like they’d already covered him enough as a rising star pol, so they instead jumped all over the shiny object new centrist-y Dem, in the form of Pete. But Americans who aren’t political junkies don’t really know who Booker is.
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I’ve been backing out of more serious podcasts in favor of just humor and fun things to listen to. A few favorites: Superego - Sketch characters with lots of mix/editing. Done in real time at live shows. Comedy Bang Bang - Hot Saucerman interviews interesting people Hollywood Handbook A very funny fake Hollywood industry insider/advice show? I guess? The Flophouse Comedy writers / a bar owner talk about bad movies. Not Another D&D Podcast probably the best comedy D&D podcast out there. The Adventure Zone - I’ve bailed on it now, but S1 is great. MacElroy brothers doing D&D. Doughboys - Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell friend-bitch at each other and review chains and fast food restaurants, usually alongside a comedy writer/comedian/actor. Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - At its best when interviewing interesting entertainment industry folks and Gourley and Sona are clowning him, at it’s worst when just boosting Neo-Lib icons. Pop Culture Happy Hour - NPR writers review usually new release pop culture things. Short episodes. Reply All Kind of a techie/internet deep dive or investigative podcast? There are times it’s some weird internet poo poo I already know about and other tines it’s a fascinating look into online scams, phone-banking law, etc. I listen to anything that does not require comedic timing at 1.5x or 2x, and if you don’t already you’ll be surprised by how easy that is to attune to. btw, lurking the SA sub forum Rapidly Going Deaf is useful for podcast reviews/suggestions. And more. This is where my phone-posting endurance wears out. (Friendly Fire is also good! Podcasts and running mix well!)
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Stultus Maximus posted:is garbage. Yep. It has maybe two or three good explainers that then caused it to be blown up as the smartest thing, but it’s extremely neo-lib financier poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2020 03:28
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http://uaw2865.org/cal-tas-win-multi-million-dollar-grievance-victory/?fbclid=IwAR2VsOtzADX8uH9kXvW22FG9H3JYa-ZZMkCJIbRNSV3cAawhd_E2PaQaJNU Union wins tuition remission arbitration against University of California, for the practice of assigning TAs to teach classes at just low enough hours to avoid giving then tuition remission.
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Jan 15, 2020 16:08
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VV might’ve burned up the remaining stock of good will with his long history of shitposting.
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maffew buildings posted:It's a podcast primarily for people angry Sara didn't put out when they took her to Buffalo Wild Wings and their friends who agree she's a bitch After all, enjoying BWW is literally Sara’s job, so don’t act like it’s special to take her back to work. https://twitter.com/sayhop/status/1039988916449886214?s=21
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