CapricornNoble

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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Laser-guided artillery rounds have been around a while. The Soviets were using laser-guided 240mm heavy mortar rounds in Afghanistan. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1351804050035499... https:&#x
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
The unimaginable vastness of the universe is so humbling. I love the effort of science teams to make their work accessible to the public too. EDIT: one of the galaxies in the article highlight photos (the top right one) sure has a structure
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
>>Does Israel have an undeclared nuclear arsenal? YES. > Probably. But assuming it does, did it ever threaten anyone with it even when it was under attack? Nope. It's not a "probably". It's in Wikileaks emails f
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
> That mostly damages a private company and doesn't cost Israel much in the grand scheme of things considering Israel has 2 additional large ports. Ansar Allah suppresses the port of Eilat while Iran suppresses the port of Haifa (
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
>The main damage they do to Israel is waking up Israelis due to a missile alarm. As a result they lose hundreds of lives in bombings and crucial resources. That doesn't deter them Ansar Allah has managed to largely shut down the por
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Yes, before 1947, back when the Secretary of State as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all seasoned professionals who had just won WW2, strongly advised AGAINST supporting Zionism in Palestine. They correctly asserted that demands from th
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNI7_u99rec They didn't steal "secrets", but they almost certainly were covertly supplied with US nuclear material with the tacit approval of the CIA.
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Why do you highlight that the theocracy "believes in jihad" and not that the theocracy has issued a religious decree opposing weapons of mass destruction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei%27s_fatwa_a
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Russia's drones are primarily domestic production, not imported. The original Shaheds and their design were imported, but now the Russians are on the Geran-3 version and are cranking them out at the cyclic rate. Ukrainian sources still
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
> for people who don't follow news. last year Iran strikes on Israel with IRBM (two times, 150 missiles each time) weren't particularly effective (either intercepted or falling in empty fields). For clarification, those interce
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
The French are not just active, they have capabilities Germany straight-up lacks. A nuclear aircraft carrier, nuclear ballistic missile submarines, solid overseas expeditionary capability (France could sustain a few thousand troops in Afric
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
>Collections? Like debt collection? Where are you getting that? It's a term used in the military/national security circles for intelligence gathering. https://www.intelligence.gov/careers/explore-careers&#x
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
>They just found a "loophole" around the Convention Against Torture Colonial Outcasts on YT regularly makes the point that "Techniques of Imperialism used against The Colonies eventually rebounds back domestically in the f
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
> What would you think of people who saw the same videos and cheered it on? I see that all the time online, actually. I think there are a lot of broken-brained, hurt people in the world, who don't know how to channel their emotions
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
No, I've watched enough narcosicario execution videos to know that there are objectively evil people in the world. These two guys in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Trevi%C3%B1o_Morales https:&#x
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
As an American minority who has emigrated to an Asian country known for strict immigration enforcement and ethnocentrism, this is just a bizarre take to me. On HN, where there are regular posts about cybersecurity and vulnerabilities, for s
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
"Being mad" at deportations in and of itself isn't the problem. It's getting to a place, mentally, where you feel that other Americans holding a position in any way contrary to your own can only be insane and/or e
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
I think that's a really succinct description of "how Trump works"....and it's also an interesting case study in Gerasimov's "Reflexive Control Doctrine".
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Marine officer here (Reservist). The officer corps has a LOT of careerist yes-men, if the enforcement of COVID vaccinations is anything to go by. I know a surprising number of Catholic Marines who refused to get COVID vaccinations and had t
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
> And idk, but I'm just saying what I feel. You are saying what you feel , but what do you think ? > The ideologies behind it are based on hate and fear and greed. Organizations across the political spectrum manipulating the em
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Nifty to see this. I was recently brainstorming about FOSS satellite tracking tools that could be pressed into service for military operations planning. Stuff ranging from planning attacks when certain space-based sensors have gaps in cover
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
What implications might this have for battlefield medicine?
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
It's been years since I've been to Vietnam, and I can't say I ever encountered this sub-culture. Closest was going on a few dates with a trophy-winning bachata dancer / dance instructor. But I'm not that surprised i
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
>> The eternal hope is that someday, somehow, we will be able to invent a natural language way of communicating something precise like a program, and it's just not going to happen. I think the closest might be the constructed lan
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
I know some pretty competent O-4s...but also a TON of mouth-breathing field grade officers too. Hegseth sucks on his own merits (or lack thereof) as a person. SecDef Lovett only rose to O-4 before going into the NYC business community and t
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Agreed. I thought Lloyd Austin should have been fired for going into surgery without advising his deputy or any of his staff of the risks, and his deputy should have been fired for taking over for him.....without leaving her vacation in Pue
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
Can't Trump just pull a Biden, and toss a blanket decade-long pardon to his entire staff? Would anyone bother to investigate them after that?
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by CapricornNoble 1y ago
That level of physical supremacy reminds me of Melvyn Downes: a guy who fellow SAS operators describe as a "machine" and a "physical specimen". The Royal Marine Commandos send a Physical Training Instructor to USMC OCS a
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by CapricornNoble 2y ago
People thought that international trade would prevent war before WW1[1]. The concept doesn't really account for how political leaders often care about things other than money, business, or the material welfare of their plebs. [1] http
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by CapricornNoble 2y ago
>What worries me is which side the US (government, not people) would choose to support if EU states send troops to Ukraine's front lines, which would absolutely instigate a Russian response. Even the Biden administration was going o

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