April CE thread: begun, the drone wars have

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hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Hyrax Attack! posted:

$30 million stolen in LA from a cash storage facility on Easter. Which apparently didn�t have any staff on site that day?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-03/sylmar-burglary-money-storage-facility-30-million

If you pull off an ocean�s eleven heist irl you should get to keep the money.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 02:51

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 23:26

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Milo and POTUS posted:

I started concerta recently and the first day I nearly went back to bed within a couple hours. I thought it was supposed to wake me up damnit

That�s basically the firmest confirmation you have ADHD

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 17:12

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

CBJSprague24 posted:

So it's in line with Elon's use of very niche literature references to name the barges his rockets use to land.

Wikipedia has a good summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok?wprov=sfti1

It�s not even the first utility to be called grok, by far https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/grok.html

# ¿ Apr 6, 2024 15:35

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

SerthVarnee posted:

This bit reminded me of the difference between pilot training on the Enterprise and the Hornet.

If you hosed up a flight on the Enterprise, your punishment was extra flight hours until you got it right and could be relied upon to do it right.
If you hosed up a flight on the Hornet, your punishment was to be allotted LESS flight hours, presumably to teach you a lesson about not loving up under pressure.

For some reason, the Hornet did a piss poor job during the battle of Midway and that reason lies squarely on the shoulders of the air commander, Stanhope Ring.

I really wish I had been really big into history while my grandpa was alive because he would�ve had opinions on this. He�d always talk about people.

He had died before I truly understood the insanity it must�ve been to be on the Lexington after graduating from academy in December of 1941, then the Yorktown and then the Hornet.

(My mom said all he�d say about that, in her presence at least, is that he �never got wet�)

# ¿ Apr 7, 2024 03:02

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Zamujasa posted:

i cannot fathom an 80,000 square foot gas station. that's over half the size of the loving costco here.

what do you even do with all that space?

It�s best thought of as similar to a large toll road travel plaza with a bunch of stores inside.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2024 19:47

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

maffew buildings posted:

and he was SO CLOSE to catching the real killer, too

I once worked for a very conservative anesthesiologist that said that he watched a ton of the trial because his normal schedule at the time was scheduled stuff early morning and then on call for the afternoon east coast time. He believed OJ was innocent.

Why? Well, he determined LAPD were lying and making poo poo up but it couldn�t be because they were racist and this was their standard SOP. No, he outlined some sort of crazy mob hit gone wrong that the LAPD was in on. LAPD had probably made enough of a mess of it that the real truth couldn�t be determined anymore.

Honestly that was kinda refreshing compared to where I was expecting that conversation to go.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2024 00:46

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Guessing Iran using DRONES won't be super effective.

My biggest concern would be drone swarms as decoys to overwhelm air defenses.

Ie, how the coalition completely clowned the Iraqi defenses in 1991.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2024 22:38

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Icon Of Sin posted:

Movie could�ve ended here and still been good, but then someone said �prepare a boarding party� and we got to see a genuine force of nature get unleashed upon some poor bastards

Though it�s now kinda funny how much he calmed down in the 15 minutes between rogue one and ANH.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2024 14:01

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

pmchem posted:

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1781140823284801699

interesting to target the tomcats.

rumor has it a couple of israeli pilots were shot down and this is video of their escape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n__rJ1vvPQ

I also like this form of the joke

https://x.com/andrewcfollett/status/1781143165094764633?s=46

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 04:25

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

bird food bathtub posted:

Every day I become a little more convinced we live in a cyberpunk dystopia, but not anything cool like in the books more closer to latter generation Hapsburgs of cyberpunk. Just the stupidest most defective possible interpretation of the source material made in to reality.

Speaking of latter day Habsburg, this is cyberpunk as gently caress

https://x.com/eduardhabsburg/status/1726496215402197216?s=46

# ¿ Apr 22, 2024 02:54

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

My Spirit Otter posted:

goddamn, thats incredibly stupid.

imagine being able to change the rule, but not doing it. but by not doing it, you have a chance of being known as the guy who lost his job because of marjorie taylor greene. if she ever learned how to write a bill.... or write

That�s a feature - Republicans choose their speaker by picking whoever said �not it� last.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2024 04:23

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

McNally posted:

NASA engineers are wizards and I will not hear otherwise.

17776 is a documentary

# ¿ Apr 22, 2024 21:22

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 23:26

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

ASAPI posted:

Are they trying the Air Bud defense? The law doesn't say the president can't assassinate his domestic political rival

There is some logic here:

https://x.com/stephengutowski/status/1783506213700841777?s=46

�then it goes completely off the rails

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 17:13

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