Wait… they let girls on nuclear submarines now?
Presumably, at least one happy couple has already joined the -500 Meter Club.
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Thermal capes work well at night if you maintain coverage.
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Why’s the Ukrainian guy at the end wearing a voice-muffling mask? IMO plain text would be better than the distraction of mumbles and a puffing in and out mask.
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God I hate war. I don’t give a f*** how trite that sounds. The problem is people think war must be violent. The most pervasive and destructive form of war is war by fraud.
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Why’s the Ukrainian guy at the end wearing a voice-muffling mask? IMO plain text would be better than the distraction of mumbles and a puffing in and out mask.
You get the war you can pay for.
Worried about covid? 
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Information is the new Oil.
Oil was the old Spice.
How many data centers?
Those who believe “Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength” had better review how I got the risibly Woke ChatGPT to admit separatism may be necessary.
There’s a reason people aren’t taught about The Thirty Years War except in the most pedantically autistic obscurantist manner possible.
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Or file this under The Crazy Years:
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In an antidrone technology competition earlier this year, Boeing showcased a futuristic laser weapon that can punch a hole straight through a hostile aerial threat.
The multinational—and several other defense giants—lost to four college students who knocked drones out of the sky using sound waves. The rookies’ device was developed in the backyard of one of the student’s parents, using an old car speaker.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/antidrone-tech-competition-college-students-4765a6ed
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It looks like we don’t have a multipolar world - it’s increasingly like a bipolar one, with increasing heat between the US-Europe-Latin America-Australia – and Asia-Middle East-Africa on the other end.
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A lot of wishful thinking in that Estonian article – especially the idea that the populations of the US, Germany, England, France, etc are all willing to die in a nuclear holocaust rather than let the evil Russians slap down Estonia.
But the most interesting quote (explaining how Russia is vastly outproducing NATO in weapons) is this:
“.… in 2022 and 2023, the Russians managed to import a large number of metalworking CNC lathes from Taiwan in spite of international sanctions.”
Presumably that is the same Taiwan which the populations of the US and Europe are supposedly all willing to die for, defending from the evil Chinese. With friends like that …
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The question of where things are actually made – physical real goods – is fascinating … and important. I have seen graphics similar to that for drones for items like US missiles and even aircraft carriers. All this supply from China would automatically be cut off in the event of a war, leaving the West defenseless (short of triggering thermonuclear armageddon).
This is so obvious that one wonders how stupid Our Betters have to be as they pivot to conflict with China? Their rational course of action would be to avoid provoking China for the next 25-50 years while they painfully rebuild that lost “Arsenal of Democracy” – and only then think about war.
Another implication of the West’s de-industrialization is that Taiwan is effectively on its own – grand speeches by Our Rulers not withstanding. Given that the average IQ is higher among those of Chinese ethnicity, Taiwan may quietly recognize this. That could explain why Taiwan is happy to ignore the West and sell advanced machine tools to Russia during war-time. It is smart to keep one’s options open!
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Western officials believe the fires originated in electric massage machines containing a “magnesium-based” substance.
Is “electric massage machine” a euphemism?
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The Far East has long abused its relationship with us. IRRC, it was the Japanese that sold Russia our sub prop tech that allowed them to become quiet underwater. Prior to that, they were as loud as a carnival, while ours were able to sneak into their eastern bay and plant listening devices on their “secure” land lines between the two command structures on either side of the bay. When, BTW, the Russians finally found them, we, of course, denied we placed them, but prominent white labels (on an otherwise olive drab large box) stated, “Property of the US Government”. It’s almost as if we were daring them to find them
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