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@nprofile…0qut @nprofile…swlf the general understanding of warfare is exceptionally poor so people don't understand nuance
we won every battle in vietnam and lost the war politically, or maybe not, depending how you look at it. arguably it slowed the expansion of communism
we won overwhelmingly in afghanistan on military terms but the nonsense win conditions were never achievable to begin with
same thing in iraq
we're losing in ukraine because it's on the other side of the world against an industrialized power fighting on its own doorstep, and our military is no longer used to fighting that kind of war so it doesn't know how to train the proxy forces. even if we were still heavily industrialized ukraine would still lose, it would just be more painful for russia. the logistics costs supporting a war so far away are tremendous and the pipeline is only so fat, every bullet we ship over there probably costs us 50x more than it costs russia to put a bullet in the magazine of one of their rifles
the US military being used against a citizen rebellion in the US would be a fucking disaster because there would be no safe rear anywhere, no safe logistics, and a large contingent of the US forces would be disinclined to cooperate with orders
fighting mexico via targeting the cartels, mexico being a much weaker country on our own border, is almost as easy as it gets in terms of potential wars. safe rear, easy logistics along the border and across it, unpopular enemy, absolute air supremacy for hundreds of miles into their territory, etc
where you're fighting matters almost more than anything else. it's why russia and china are no threat to the US mainland, in the sense that they could never invade and conquer territory in any meaningful way. they simply do not have the ability to get enough troops here and support them. the fact that the US can fight across an ocean at all is a testament to our incredible military power, *but* as stated above it doesn't translate to incredible power at home because of the impossibility of securing logistics against a well armed citizenry

2025-01-24 23:35:59 UTC

impressive levels of delusion
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2025-01-24 22:48:34 UTC

I absolutely loathe discussing hypotheticals on the internet. Invariably the discussion turns into BUT WHAT ABOUT CURRENT STATE OF THINGS, THAT WOULDN'T WORK BECAUSE CURRENT THING!
Besides being fucking annoying as shit, it shows a real lack of problem solving spirit.

2025-01-24 22:25:06 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp I know perfectly well why the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. That's completely irrelevant to the question of potentially exploiting the resources. Saying it's not feasible to develop them is retarded and asinine. There is a friendly port in Kuwait. There is a highway from that port into Iraq. We have cargo ships and trucks. Building local processing is not a lost art.
Your opinion on how to deal with the locals is baseless. Apartheid works.

2025-01-24 22:05:06 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp I don't care if you agree with me about any of this. Being a smartass about something you have no experience with is meaningless.

2025-01-24 22:00:02 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp there are many prospects, mining is a big deal in alaska. the problem is the state and federal regulations that make everything expensive as fuck, plus litigation constantly getting in the way
there are proven prospects that have been held up in court for literally decades because every time one problem is cleared up the faggot ass environmentalists or "native americans" file another lawsuit to block it. mining in america generally has become a nightmare
and again, most of the state has never been meaningfully explored. there are not only no government incentives aimed at expanding the human footprint in alaska, but 2/3 of the state is owned by the feds and they actively do not want people there

2025-01-24 21:52:55 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp at no point were we speaking their language. we tried to treat them with kid gloves and accommodate their bullshit which does not work on middle eastern savages. you have to smash them and bring them to heel if you're not willing to simply slaughter them, and you need to keep your boot on their throat. that doesn't mean being cruel, but the relationship must be very clear
this was obvious to me as a 21 year old grunt and I have never seen anything to make me change my mind

2025-01-24 21:43:28 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp You're thinking in terms of a few years. I'm thinking in terms of the next century and onward.

2025-01-24 21:43:11 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp I used to work in mining in Alaska, as an economic geologist. I know what I'm talking about.

2025-01-24 21:27:45 UTC

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@nprofile…dw0m @nprofile…x66e that would be so funny

2025-01-24 21:26:29 UTC

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@nprofile…dw0m @nprofile…x66e I've seen people saying the EO excludes stuff going to ukraine and israel

2025-01-24 21:23:05 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp we're doing nothing to develop alaska either. it's a land mass nearly the size of CONUS full of mineral resources and the typical square mile of alaskan soil hasn't had a human set foot on it in 20000 years

2025-01-24 21:21:30 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp the US empire is run by small minded fools

2025-01-24 21:19:21 UTC

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@nprofile…kgzp they stole a little gold, big whoop. most of the looting was of our own treasury
afghanistan and iraq both have tons of natural resources left in the ground. we established no permanent presence for development, no colonization, just attempts at spreading feminism and gay sex. the world's most expensive sociology experiment run by jewish pedophiles

2025-01-24 21:14:02 UTC

I would rather annex greenland for its resources and conquer panama to control a strategically important waterway than invade another middle eastern country and not even fucking loot it

2025-01-24 21:11:18 UTC

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2025-01-24 21:00:28 UTC

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2025-01-24 20:55:10 UTC

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2025-01-24 20:46:39 UTC

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2025-01-24 20:46:07 UTC

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@nprofile…5dmj best I can do
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2025-01-24 20:43:55 UTC

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2025-01-24 20:41:50 UTC

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2025-01-24 20:40:03 UTC

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@nprofile…fqxy instead of a suicide pact, a homicide pact? kinda neat twist didn't see it coming

2025-01-24 20:34:27 UTC

I think AI peddlers should be deported into the nearest active volcano
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2025-01-24 20:22:56 UTC

ain't like they were doing anything with it
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2025-01-24 19:57:17 UTC

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@nprofile…9q59 I mean the government won't let it be sold that way

2025-01-24 19:55:00 UTC

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@nprofile…9q59 whatever they do next probably won't ever be a cheap surplus round anyway

2025-01-24 19:45:13 UTC

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@nprofile…9q59 6.5-7mm is a more appropriate bullet diameter for the case volume, we never should've stayed with 30 caliber bullets in the smaller cartridge

2025-01-24 19:18:58 UTC

you know what they should've done
buy a bunch of lightweight internal box magazine hunting rifles in 7mm Remington Magnum, put a fixed 10x mil dot scope on there, and issue two per squad. keep the weight to about 7.5 lb per rifle total package. this can be done for under $2000 per gun even if you're buying gucci shit
however this should be unnecessary for a properly equipped infantry unit. where's the M240B? 60mm mortars? were they restricted from using anything but carbines by some gay ROE?
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2025-01-24 18:42:38 UTC

now we're in this uncomfortable state where a settings page maybe has a save button but often doesn't and there's no consistency. the button, if it does exist, is not properly designed so you notice it. like it'll be below the page view and a bland color so it doesn't stand out
if the button doesn't exist there's often no visual indication that your settings *were* saved, or any indication of what you changed, or any way to easily revert. yes there are some pages that do this well but they stand out as exceptions
I have no idea how we got here but my wild ass guess is it's fundamentally because of the preponderance of dogshit web frameworks where the dev is totally disconnected from the page design and just uses whatever the default is
I'm okay with not needing an explicit save button but just taking the button away and silently saving things is not good design either

2025-01-24 18:31:57 UTC

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2025-01-24 18:14:44 UTC

after decades of development the various editors available in the wordpress dashboard have reached peak dogshit
very impressive

2025-01-24 05:49:03 UTC

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@nprofile…20wv
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2025-01-24 05:46:07 UTC

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2025-01-23 23:46:56 UTC

loled irl
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2025-01-23 05:18:39 UTC

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2025-01-20 02:17:42 UTC

the thing that makes me most pessimistic about our society is the fact that nobody wants me to do anything, with all my skills and knowledge, and there are a few million other guys just like me rotting away in dead end positions or unemployed
jobs are now prizes to be handed out to the favored (non-white) pets, a means of funneling them treasure mined from the dead husk we live in
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2025-01-20 02:03:19 UTC

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2025-01-20 01:38:28 UTC

if illegals started attacking cops or whatever for trying to deport them it would just increase public support for deportations

2025-01-20 00:42:25 UTC

the 55 year old guy makes that kind of money
new hire? best we can do is $18/hr
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2025-01-16 19:16:18 UTC

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2025-01-16 16:52:46 UTC

it's beyond laughable to call america the land of opportunity

2025-01-07 03:46:33 UTC

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2025-01-07 01:38:38 UTC

I hesitate to even use the term because it's so foreign to the modern mind, but what's entirely missing from our "elites" is any sense at all of noblesse oblige

2025-01-06 22:28:04 UTC

lmao
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2024-09-05 16:18:31 UTC

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cool waffle iron

2024-09-05 15:57:31 UTC

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2024-09-05 15:54:23 UTC

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2024-09-05 12:16:31 UTC

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2024-09-05 09:24:31 UTC

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this is a real job posting I'm looking at
they want to hire an entire multidisciplinary engineering firm in a single person and pay them below market

2024-09-05 09:23:42 UTC

we want to hire a controls engineer
but you also need to be skilled in CAD
also we're gonna need you to design pneumatic systems
electrical systems too
and do board layout
starts at $60k

2024-09-05 07:27:26 UTC

there's no job on the planet that justifies 7 rounds of interviews
the only reason that shit is even possible is because there's an entire class of HR clowns who have nothing productive to do with their time

2024-09-05 06:16:28 UTC

goodbye monkey
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2024-09-04 15:27:28 UTC

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the main character is a sassy black woman

2024-09-04 15:19:32 UTC

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it's garbage, I couldn't even stand watching a let's play

2024-09-04 15:04:28 UTC

I'm on the fence about the extra thick lasagna

2024-09-04 14:34:19 UTC

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2024-09-04 12:30:01 UTC

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2024-09-04 11:56:17 UTC

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2024-09-04 11:33:10 UTC

you know it's not that hard to write horror that doesn't hinge on the characters being fucking idiots

2024-09-04 10:17:29 UTC

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>add a bunch of useless shit
>charge a lot more money
modern business models are amazing
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2024-09-04 09:32:44 UTC

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apparently most of the norwegian game industry is a bunch of unprofitable indie studios that survives with government funding

2024-09-04 08:43:12 UTC

condition-based stacking is such a bad flaw in the long dark's inventory system

2024-09-04 08:22:36 UTC

I knew that shitty antifa simulator game had received some grants from european governments but I didn't know it was actually made in norway
why on earth is a norwegian game studio making a game about psychotic niggers set in an alternative universe america
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2024-09-04 06:26:38 UTC

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2024-09-04 05:33:52 UTC

we won't, though. the problem is too hard and the people controlling the money are too stupid
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2024-09-04 05:22:54 UTC

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2024-09-04 05:00:10 UTC

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computing time, I suppose, not power

2024-09-04 04:59:13 UTC

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context switching isn't free, and an increasingly large fraction of computing power is spent managing tasks and changing core state
this is magnified by the fact that modern programs don't care at all about data locality, so they have constant cache misses that require a main memory call, which blocks other threads that also need memory calls...

2024-09-04 04:49:05 UTC

my totally unquantified gut feeling is we took multithreading too far and it's just doing more harm than good now

2024-09-04 04:46:21 UTC

lol, why even ask about solving a problem if you're going to identify the root cause and declare that we need to keep it
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2024-09-04 04:42:58 UTC

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2024-09-03 20:23:18 UTC

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2024-09-03 20:01:23 UTC

baked stuffed manicotti is on the menu this week
I think I'll make lasagna tonight though... going back to the diavolo sauce, I decided I like the spice after all

2024-09-03 19:57:09 UTC

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2024-09-03 18:31:22 UTC

yeah great never buying any of that trash tho
DIE wasn't just a misstep for these companies and they haven't changed course. they're just taking their foot off the gas long enough for people to stop paying attention
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2024-09-03 18:25:17 UTC

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2024-09-03 18:13:40 UTC

why on earth does someone like jack ma need to go kiss the jew wall

2024-09-03 13:53:14 UTC

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2024-09-03 12:31:35 UTC

📽️
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2024-09-03 12:12:14 UTC

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they have to try to take over existing popular projects because nobody uses the shit they make

2024-09-03 11:25:42 UTC

have you tried not being fucking obnoxious
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2024-09-03 11:24:36 UTC

lol
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2024-09-03 10:05:43 UTC

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2024-09-03 09:22:20 UTC

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2024-09-02 17:46:43 UTC

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2024-09-02 16:24:16 UTC

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they can have them, but they have to come get them

2024-09-02 16:03:01 UTC

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2024-09-02 14:51:32 UTC

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I tend to end up with caches of stuff on any map where I spend much time but I don't think I'll die accidentally, I'm just too prepared
maybe once I max all my skills I'll jump off a cliff or something and respawn for a challenge

2024-09-02 13:44:29 UTC

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2024-09-02 13:27:56 UTC

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2024-09-02 10:22:39 UTC

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perfection is a ridiculous standard

2024-09-02 01:56:12 UTC

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2024-09-01 15:32:29 UTC

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2024-09-01 12:14:26 UTC

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apparently it's about 60/40