"the average person swallows 2 spiders per second!"
"what? that's not true"
"well... even one per year is too many 🙄"

Turkish financial analyst Geçrge Pærkasoglu

Rough ballpark answer I looked up: new car sales per capita are around 25% lower now than they were 40 years ago despite US/Canada being just as car-dependent as ever!

Also much fewer people are buying new cars to drive into the ground, because used cars are so much better now.

chuck mcgill as old phoenix wright losing his mind

I AM NOT CRAZY! I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 69. Two after six seven. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never!

I think if this is the case then in actuality drone warfare could very well become a case of "rich get richer" like with air superiority, because it is a genuinely high-end, expensive endeavour to have good drone training, good EW/signals and good cUAS.

The Dead Zone and the Empty Battlefield - Modern War Institute In a letter to his mother, British World War I poet Wilfred Owen described no man’s land, the piece of territory between belligerent trench lines, as “like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden...

This piece comes to mind as a counterpoint - that massive drone strike systems are *not* a substitute for other weapons and are outright more powerful than what came before, and not a product of manpower shortages, ammo shortages, static warfare, etc.

mwi.westpoint.edu/the-dead-zon...

Say what you will about firefighters but they will go into the fucking building

Firmly think the B-21 should have been called Marauder II but that would have involved a level of honesty about what the B-21 is

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Basically: a light logistics vehicle capable of towing trailers and etc but most importantly generating a LOT of power. Big generator on wheels, and also a payload of up to 4,000 pounds.

Well, it's about legal arguments. Blocking a different country (Oman's) territorial waters isn't legal in the current context.

At least one mine has been removed, so yes.

I would say that the issue is they have never attempted to board a vessel, and the strikes have been done with intent to disable without searching/seizing the vessels in question.

Also, the method of Iranian strait closure (mining someone else's waters and firing antiship missiles) is illegal as a blockade enforcement method - stopping, searching and seizing a ship is way it's "supposed" to be done.

Afaik the Iranian strait closure is flatly illegal due to interfering with freedom of navigation/blockading non-belligerent states.

Can you explain how giving money to Gazans causes more food to enter Gaza while it is being blockaded?

I understand you are making a very spiritual argument, but I am not swayed by that spiritual argument, I want to know that a given set of actions actually tangibly help end the genocide.

Best case scenario: No fewer people starve, but individually you and whoever you help both benefit morally and spiritually at the cost of someone you cannot see being deprived of that food.

Average case scenario: You feel morally benefited at the cost of enabling slavery in Myanmar.

It doesn't actually cause fewer people to starve, though.

I'm not going to deny that giving people cash helps them on an individual level but.. there is only a fixed amount of essentials to go around. One person getting enough food for their entire family is at the cost of someone else not being able to get that food.

The reason there is a genocide is because of Israeli actions restricting the overall flow of necessities of life into Gaza, not because residents of Gaza can't afford to import food.

I still do not understand how giving Palestinians cash to buy food with is anything but a complete zero-sum game.

But Trav, Father Grigori IS an oil painting

Especially if the toll ends up staying in place.

This is less of a cogent point but every time I see it I am reminded of how much I absolutely hate the "politics is just rich assholes robbing you" viewpoint. Fucking morons who have taken their entire lives for granted.

I think the kind of ideology on display here is a good example of why left-leaning politics that doesn't have a positive vision very frequently turns into Ron Paul 2012.

I think as far as military planning goes, there is a big gulf between "the soldiers/sailors/airmen aren't getting sufficient calories to do their job" and "the cooks don't have everything they need to keep morale up"

And yet *my* Bluetooth devices only work when I'm in the same country... unfair tbh

PGK is entirely unsuitable to the jamming environment that exists, as I understand it.

Precision artillery systems like Excalibur and GMLRS are meant for very specific high-priority targets in the operational rear of the enemy such as command posts, radars, enemy artillery, drone teams, etc. They are not filling the role FPVs are of essentially a very slow but effective 81mm mortar.