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Icochet posted:Is it ok to call the russian invaders "droids", as in battle-hardened droid army? I think we can just call them people instead of calling them robots.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Still loling at the time the usa lost a wargame because the guy they put in charge of opfor realised the usa military wouldnt be able to deal with small suicide powerboats or mass cruise missle attacks owing to control issues and sunk like half the us navy by ramming them with suicide powerboats while the limited point defence weapons were trying to shoot down incoming cruise missles. This comes up a lot, but the dude did in fact cheat because his plan and strategy relied on physically impossible things like 1. Motorcycle couriers that are invisible and instantly go from A to B, and 2. Mounting ASM missiles on basically inflatable boats that in no way could have actually taken the weight. When called out on this and basically called a loving idiot for wasting everyones time and money, he went to the media. It's pretty telling that from what I can tell, he's not looked fondly on by anyone whose done any military wargaming. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Mar 9, 2023 16:25
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spankmeister posted:Post the list coward #1 Is the have any grapes duck.
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Mar 12, 2023 06:49
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Splitting the skin on a live bear is such a good turn of phrase, holy poo poo.
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Mar 13, 2023 19:14
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Recruiting high schoolers in Moscow seems like a bad idea
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Mar 13, 2023 20:45
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Their plane likely did not go down because 1. The USA would be blasting that poo poo from the roof tops if it did. And 2. Because they just clipped the prop which probably did some form of structural damage to whatever clipped it, but it's not like they full body rammed it.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:41
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Power Khan posted:That's a pretty stupid game. Do they feel they're in a position to anger the US now? While it's a pretty stupid game it kinda happens all the time. Not the downing bit though.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:59
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Civilian planes also can dump fuel, depending on the altitude they do it at a lot/most of it evaporates before it hits the ground/ocean. Though idk if that makes it better. If you do it too low though it hits the ground and there is at least 1 instance where they dumped fuel over a neighboorhood and everyone got sick.
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Mar 14, 2023 20:19
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mobby_6kl posted:OTOH Russia's had the artillery advantage almost the whole time, but they seemed to be forced to tone it down recently. And they're throwing more men at fortified positions than before. 100-120k is what was recently thrown out by the UK intelligence agencies and if we are going to trust their numbers and whatnot for other stuff there's no reason to not trust that one.* Ukraine hasn't released any real, significant info on the matter. *arguably it's more trustworthy then their figures on Russian casualties because they are working with Ukraine so in theory they can cut through some of the bullshit.
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Mar 15, 2023 16:52
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Pekinduck posted:Ah gotcha, American dorms sometimes have workers like that. You get your own keys though, they just try to catch you smoking and drinking. (and don't take bribes I transfered into the dorms at my 4 year at 21 and there was a floor specifically for transfer students who could and were allowed to drink, which consistently confused our RA (he didn't really care he just kept forgetting that this one floor was different). I then moved out into the basement room of a frat I was not a member of and in no way was associated with, which was an interesting experience.
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Mar 16, 2023 00:38
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sexy tiger boobs posted:Pretty sure your "lemur" is a coatimundi, sorry to burst your bubble. It's like a South American raccoon. Yeah, that's a coati. You get them in the US too. Just in the southwest though.
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Mar 16, 2023 01:57
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zone posted:
In theory Russia has something like 1,500 active mutirole/fighters/ground attack aircraft. Even assuming that a large fraction of those are scrap or whatever that is still franky an absolute insane amount of aircraft.
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Mar 17, 2023 16:54
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mobby_6kl posted:Yes I'd guess lots of them aren't functional, many of the remaining are needed to cover the enormous territory of the empire to keep China/Japan away, and the rest haven't been that effective due to heavy AA coverage (outside of launching cruise missiles). So if the front gets close enough to Crimea, I'd expect that they won't be able to do that much either. That's a ton of assumptions to be making though, and it's not like Russia has shown any fear of China or Japan encroaching on their territory since they have very visbily pulled troops from those "threatened" areas. The entire area is so saturated with AA that I'm not really sure anybody can really do anything effectively outside maybe getting a couple of rare strikes in. Edit: like if we say that 2/3rds of those aircraft are scrap, so 1000 aircraft, that still leaves like 500 to throw at poo poo. Ukraine has ~80 with the new deliveries. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Mar 17, 2023 17:11
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mobby_6kl posted:Sure they do have many, but all this is based on what they've been doing so far this war. Which is launching cruise missiles from out of range and occasional CAS attempts. Yeah, I don't disagree with the fact they are doing that. I just don't see Ukraine not being forced to also act similarly given the AA situation and the fact that it's highly unlikely they will be able to force air superiority.
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Mar 17, 2023 17:24
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Der Kyhe posted:So hypothetically, if Putin were to travel abroad to non-curbstombed vassal state or likeminded dictatorship, would he be wanted criminal or head of state with diplomatic immunity? In theory he would have diplomatic immunity.
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Mar 17, 2023 18:10
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Rust Martialis posted:I should point out that violations of such peremptory norms of international law are crimes of *universal* jurisdiction. And that any treaty clause in violation of jus cogens is invalid. I have absolutely zero idea, it may be yesterday, so this isnt a gotcha, but whens the last time we actually applied/arrested someone like that.
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Mar 17, 2023 18:54
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mobby_6kl posted:Couldn't it just spill out from a truck? I know the they're monsters but surely it's better to sell the stolen grain for vodka than dump it. I mean unless anyone has any actual evidence to the contrary, yeah, probably. Also while I'm kinda on the point unless someone actually has the numbers to compare it to, there's little reason to believe that the vast majority of fires being tweeted about in Russia aren't just like, the normal amount that are suddenly being reported way more on Twitter as acts of sabotage or whatever because people are hyperaware/paranoid and keeping and eye out for that kinda stuff way more. Some might be sabotage though. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Mar 19, 2023 |
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Mar 19, 2023 19:44
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Mr. Sunshine posted:Brexit is an unfathomably massive national self-own, but even that has yet to kill 200.000 brits. Casualties do not equal deaths my guys, even if news stations consistently either gently caress that up or lie about it.
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Mar 26, 2023 00:46
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mobby_6kl posted:I wonder how much the camo net is going to do against thermals (which admittedly not all drones have). I have some net and checked it on on the balcony, my leg can pretty easily bee seen behind it Any bit of obscuriation is good, people are not going to be 100% on point all the time so if you can be behind cover of some kind that hides you even slightly you are improving your chances.
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Mar 28, 2023 00:30
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Captain Fargle posted:Has there actually been a meaningful uptick in "smoking accidents" in Russia since the war started or is it just confirmation bias and a lack of proper safety standards? If someone has posted before war/after war numbers of fires happening in Russia I have not seen it. I'm fairly confident that 99% of them are just normal poo poo that is getting reported as war time acts of sabatoge because I feel like the US/UK/other folks would be stating in their briefings if they thought otherwise.
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Mar 30, 2023 02:19
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Nooner posted:Is Sweden already gotten the go ahead for NATO? I thought they and finland were doing a both or neither thing and turkey was saying no way Jose to sweden Fairly certain that everyone quickly realized that was dumb and hoped everyone would forget
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Mar 31, 2023 04:25
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Philonius posted:Why do we even have a UN security council? It can only act against countries that are Nukes and WW3
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Apr 12, 2023 20:25
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Zippy the Bummer posted:why are they doing that beach stuff? if it is makework to show superiors/someone up the chain that "something" is being done, is that meant to be passable work? someone must be looking at it and saying "yes, good". who would that someone be and why Did not watch the video and did not serve in a military but basically every military is famous for having people do absolutely bullshit makework to kill time, so it could easily be that.
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Apr 13, 2023 01:36
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HonorableTB posted:Remember the Russian aircraft that mistakenly fired a missile at a British plane? I've also called you out in the DnD thread but just to be clear to people who don't know this kinda stuff the UK would almost certainly not start WW3 over a spy plane being shot down, which is a thing that happens all the loving time, and would either use it as an excuse to send more poo poo or just use it to wallop Russia in the diplomatic sphere.
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Apr 13, 2023 20:04
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HonorableTB posted:Manned spy planes with more than two dozen crew get shot down all the time 30 people is not even a factor in considering poo poo if you are discussing a Nato member and/or nuclear armed power entering war with another one. If they kept doing it, maybe. But a one off is going to get descalated and ignored because no one wants to push the button because a spy plane got shot down.
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Apr 13, 2023 20:13
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Burns posted:People have gone to war over much much less buckaroo. Yes, but I'm willing to bet that in many of those cases they were already chomping at the bit to go and just needed a passable reason. Do you think the UK is just raring to go send troops to fight Russia in Ukraine? bob dobbs is dead posted:the only coherent individual vehicle that if you blew it up would unquestionably be casus belli for ww3 is an aircraft carrier Presidential/Country Leader personal vehicles, maybe.
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Apr 13, 2023 20:20
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Jonny Nox posted:Russia has already shot down an airliner full of civilians during this invasion. Sinking the Lusitania is only an issue when someone wants it to be an issue. They also shot at merchant ships, iirc.
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Apr 13, 2023 20:25
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HonorableTB posted:I'm not saying shooting down the airplane directly goes from shoot plane -> nukes. There would be many steps of further escalation in between but the act itself of deliberately targeting and shooting down a NATO military plane would be the catalyst needed to make those escalation steps not just possible but likely. That would demand a response of some kind. Your own post and the NYT article points out it was a pilot gently caress up and not an overall standing order engage Nato planes.
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Apr 13, 2023 20:44
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:So hey remember those Finnish morons who got charged with doing some light treason for Russia's benefit? And how before getting in bed with Putin's PR trumpet they were really into "the tunnel war"? Well, a friend looked into it and this is literally what it's about : This is literally the plot of a series of books. Edit: It's the Descent series by Jeff Long. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Apr 15, 2023 |
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Apr 15, 2023 17:44
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Today I learned that kidnapping children is listed in the Genocide Convention as an act of genocide. Like, no poo poo, right? I never bothered to read the thing until today. It's possible that Native American groups also litigated over that point given the forced boarding school system.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:48
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orange juche posted:Was Willo567 afraid that their balls were going to be the target for a Tactical Nuclear Weapon? They already were, last Tuesday. The concern was a second strike this upcoming Tuesday
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Apr 25, 2023 03:56
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OctaMurk posted:They invaded a nation and broke a whole bunch of treaties and ate a million sanctions. Breaking a contract in a time of special military operation is really that big of a deal?? Yes, because it's basically a big neon sign to all your possible trade partners that you are not trust worthy enough to make deals with and they would be better off looking elsewhere. It's own little bubble.
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Apr 28, 2023 00:47
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Prettz posted:where are they coming up with these absolutely comical dead numbers? Classified intel it looks like.
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May 1, 2023 20:23
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Edit: lol nvm
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May 11, 2023 01:01
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Shoulda refreshed!
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May 11, 2023 01:01
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There are a lot of old, old stories/myths of apes being rapey and abducting woman so its probably a call out to that.
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May 11, 2023 20:09
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XYZAB posted:that's the power of JESUS Rome was pretty not okay with the whole Christianity thing at first so the whole it was a roman goverment conspiracy is pretty insane. Also it's 2023, while super religious crazy people are cringe in close second is internet atheists. Thanks for listening to my Tedx talk
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May 25, 2023 02:38
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Molothecat posted:when do we get back into Russian wildfire season? I don't know how the weather system works in Russia but typically peak summer when the fuels have had time to grow then dry out, or whenever they have somewhat frequent lightening storms.
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May 30, 2023 15:15
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This constant back and forth about the right to use slurs and the right to dehumanize and make broad generalizations about large groups of people based on ethnicity or nationality because of *insert world event here* has been hilariously fun to read as a minority. Actually, wait, no it loving sucks.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:37
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HonorableTB posted:the complaint is russia is getting its poo poo kicked in and they dont like it No, the complaint is that posters in this thread have posted extremely heinous takes and a slurs, and their defense for doing so basically boils down to combination of they started it, its not really a real slur, man, or some other stupid bullshit. That post in particular wasn't the worst one, but I'm just loving of tired seeing poo poo like that because it's 100% the type of language that gets leveraged at minorities.
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Jun 16, 2023 13:50
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