CapricornNoble

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by CapricornNoble 7mo ago
The value proposition of the Chinese knockoffs is off the charts IMO. For what I spent buying JUST ( https://www.brickeconomy.com/set/60229-1/lego-city-space-roc... ) last year for my daughter, I've since bou
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
1. The Russian position in 2014 was that the Ukrainian people in Donbas were being oppressed by the new Ukrainian central government. 2. There's a lot of domestic political/information suppression in Ukraine but I consider this so
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
> Has Israel even officially confirmed they have nukes? No. There's a number of reasons for this. #1 is Israel's policy of "strategic ambiguity" and #2 is that it might be illegal to even mention it in Israel. Israel
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
There's been rumors of Chinese kit arriving in Iran, but nothing concrete: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/02/10/how-iran-gained-the-ab... If China didn't anticipate the US attacking Iran after Madu
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
>If nukes are so good why Israel isn't safe? Israeli nukes are the main reason we haven't had regime change in Tel Aviv at the hands of a Turkish/Egyptian/Saudi/Iranian coalition. Israeli nukes are why Iran has h
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
>We don't know the details of the strikes, but I hope it doesn't go into a full blown war Well, if the Chinese are smart, they will capitalize on this opportunity. They can prop up the Iranian regime with intelligence, weapon
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
Why do you call the concept a "North Korea style nuclear blackmail state" and not an "Israel style nuclear blackmail state"?
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
> First Brands didn’t have the kind of money necessary to buy so many companies in such a short order, so it turned to financing. So can we say that this collapse is a fallout from the easy money availability at the height of COVID? What
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
Thanks for the data, nice find!
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
You're barking up the wrong tree; I haven't lived in the US for 15 years. Looking at the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street, and the militarization of law enforcement during the Ferguson Riots when we had a black President was enou
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
Re: fighter jets, the US and China are each producing about 4x as many jets as all of Europe combined. Europe's deliveries (41) barely exceed Russia's (33-39) despite Europe having 3x the population, supposedly superior industrial
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
I come here to HN. For certain niche subjects, Reddit comments have some good links (specific sub-reddits for a tech framework of interest, military subs with a more mature crowd like r/warcollege, etc...). I guess I'm not at a po
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by CapricornNoble 8mo ago
Yeah, elogind + sddm is what I'm running on Void Linux with KDE.
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by CapricornNoble 9mo ago
Nah, free blood money was when my General Dynamics shares went from $60->$120, then did a stock split and went from $60-> ~$100. I think that was in....2005? The Stryker (a GD product) was coming into service in Iraq, which drove my p
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by CapricornNoble 9mo ago
A Palantir rep was supporting one of our exercises late last summer, and he said "Knowing what I know about how the military is going all-in on Maven....I recommend buying Palantir stock." I picked up a few shares, but I haven&#x2
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
>one or more persons taking no active part in the hostilities Remember when we bombed Yemen and in the Signal chat they laughed about killing a High-Value Target while he was visiting his girlfriend? Sounds like this section would apply
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
Or nuclear weapons. Bin Laden found in Afghanistan? Invade and occupy the whole country. Bin Laden found in nuclear-armed Pakistan? Quietly sneak in with a handful of SOF operators to shoot him in the face then GTFO.
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
>So one part of my heart is glad. Plenty of Venezuelans are. I just hope they are quick to either put Corina Machado in charge or call for elections and at last bring true freedom to that country. Putting her in charge just means that th
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
> In the US, they want to fuel instability and separatism through ethnic, social and racial conflicts to keep Americans busy with holding their country together while Russia rules the world. If they want it they can have it. Not that Rus
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
> Trump antagonizes traditional EU allies, except those with authoritarian tendencies like Orban's Hungary. Trump in his first term warned Europe about sucking on the teet of Russian natgas, and those "traditional allies"
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
>There was no "narrow window" in 1999-2007. The window for keeping Russia on a path toward becoming a normal European state closed around 1995. Expecting Russia to ever become a "normal European state" is the main mis
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
If I go to a particular Sci-Hub mirror and it's down, I often go to the Wiki page to see the different TLD options. Same for checking some of my favorite Torrent trackers. I don't use Google for any controversial searches anymore,
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
We can debate the scale/scope/impact of the US's influence campaigns, but the outcomes are clear: they definitely contributed to souring US-Russian relations. Here's why I consider this whole issue important, and it has
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
Are you suggesting that the Russians were using __ The Guardian __ as part of an influence campaign....in 2004? That's an extraordinary claim, for which you present no supporting evidence while blasting the article for being "shor
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (The Guardian, Nov2004) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa Do you think fomenting revolution in Russia's near-abroad sphere of influen
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
>NATO expands because it's in NATO's interest to do so. I highly recommend reading the 1997 US Senate debate about NATO expansion. There were a number of experienced statesmen who vehemently disagreed that NATO expansion was in
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by CapricornNoble 10mo ago
plays world's smallest violin Here in the First Island Chain we've had Chinese drones buzzing our military installations since before COVID. In Afghanistan, Yemen, or Somalia, the sound of drones buzzing overhead usually means a
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by CapricornNoble 11mo ago
sigh I like KDE but I'm still running X11 on Void Linux, partly because I just don't feel like trying to switch over to Wayland and reconfigure my two systems.
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by CapricornNoble 11mo ago
I dunno, I would think AT LEAST Jackie Chan is a household name due to the Rush Hour movies, and for anyone who grew up watching Hong Kong action flicks, they'd probably also know Jet Li at least, and Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, and may
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by CapricornNoble 11mo ago
For anyone else who enjoyed The Raid, the sub-genre of graphic and brutally violent Indonesian action movies is a gem. The Raid 2; The Night Comes For Us; The Shadow Strays....those should get anyone started going down the rabbit hole.

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