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by kcplate 1y ago
> His base will be happy No…Trump’s base didn’t want this. They might not pull back support if the deescalation holds (because he is scratching their other itches) but the MAGA base are definitely not excited about more war and conflict
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by kcplate 1y ago
> Oh, I see Apparently not.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Who is arguing that? I’m not. The only argument I have made is that you do not have all the values you need to plug into your “calculator” to make a BDA. But perhaps you can figure all of those values you need by just knowing the wingsp
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by kcplate 1y ago
Gotcha. So your perspective is there are other entities making airplanes with the capabilities of the B-2 and a bunker buster bomb equivalent to the GBU-57 so much so that you can reliably determine capabilities of those weapon systems…as
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by kcplate 1y ago
This one… https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708435/
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by kcplate 1y ago
Did anyone else feel like the controversy about the finder icon remind them of a certain Star Trek TOS episode?
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by kcplate 1y ago
> You can calculate these things based on wing size and airspeed If you can calculate the depth and damage those bombs did based on wing size and airspeed (which technically is another parameter you really don’t know, but are relying on
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by kcplate 1y ago
> AIUI the various US Constitution Amendments apply to everyone with-in the US Mostly correct (depends on which amendment), but technically this guy didn’t cross into the US yet since he hadn’t cleared customs and border control…so the f
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by kcplate 1y ago
Sure, but you have no firsthand knowledge of that information. You are told the B2 can carry a certain payload weight. You are told the B2 has a certain operational ceiling. You are told the bombs are a certain weight. You are told
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by kcplate 1y ago
Would you sign on with a company that would have a reputation to do that sort of thing? That is why…
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by kcplate 1y ago
You are still relying on parameters that they are disclosing to you.
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by kcplate 1y ago
The real weapons system specs are never disclosed. Even on retired systems the real capabilities are often still classified because they can provide clues to their replacements capabilities.
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by kcplate 1y ago
A non-compete wouldn’t stop me unless it specifically named the competitors, what they wanted to protect, and why. Non-competes have such a high reasonableness standard that they are not even worth trying to enforce unless you are specifica
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by kcplate 1y ago
It really depends on what your employment agreement says. If it specifically stipulates that your position is “remote” and your company decides to change that, you could argue that your agreement would need to be renegotiated and their bre
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by kcplate 1y ago
When I started out in the eighties I was maintaining (repairing) these little monsters for a major daily newspaper. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 Those Alphas were the upgrades. Fancy!
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by kcplate 1y ago
Sure, it may increase anti-us sentiment, but I don’t think you can confidently say that “enhanced vetting measures don’t actually provide any protection” because there is simply no way to know or measure what didn’t happen if you didn’t h
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by kcplate 1y ago
> A $400 drone can now take out a $2B piece of equipment. That waters the mouth of any adversary. Aren’t you actually arguing for these kind of enhanced vetting measures with this realization? If anti-US sentiment is high and if the b
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by kcplate 1y ago
That might be and while the government certainly takes advantage of that sentiment to preserve its Israel policies, but the real reason the US government supports israel has more to do with the general region being oil rich and having a rel
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by kcplate 1y ago
Because it’s always the case with the US military equipment capabilities that full capability is never disclosed. What possible reason would the military have in divulging actual specs? Military: We can penetrate up to 200 feet with thi
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by kcplate 1y ago
According to the pentagon briefing this morning they dropped 14. News is reporting that it was in 3 specific locations and they were dropped successively. Assuming most detonated successfully, that much specialized ordinance did some dama
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by kcplate 1y ago
Well I regularly walk barefoot in wet sand and I don’t see any noticeable difference between my footprints and those in the article. I can assure you I am not simian.
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by kcplate 1y ago
> If you’ve never worn shoes your toes are far more splayed. After 7 years of remote work and living in a warm climate where I rarely wear shoes, I can confirm that my own toes have splayed out.
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by kcplate 1y ago
> In this late stage of his illness, he must have been aware that this capacity was deteriorating rapidly, and the panic that caused was worse than any physical pain. I watched my father go through this (due to Alzheimer’s) before he pas
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by kcplate 1y ago
Myself and others have posted compilation videos on here of the prior administration mischaracterizing COVID vaccine efficacy. However, believe what you want to believe and split hairs on language how you want. Doesn’t change the fact that
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by kcplate 1y ago
> Apparently you've never heard of what a good chunk… Apparently you haven’t read all of the robust discussion on this thread. This wasn’t a “what came first the chicken or the egg” discussion. It was a “what made eating eggs so p
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by kcplate 1y ago
Reassessed and my opinion has not changed in light of the “new” information…or better described perhaps as “new theory to try and exonerate Fauci”
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by kcplate 1y ago
What does that have to do with public opinion of vaccine efficacy?
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by kcplate 1y ago
Ahh…so he was playing the long game from the get go. Every word was calculated precisely and even his reputation suffering and the skepticism of science and vaccines were part of the master plan to save America. Sorry, but I am not going t
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by kcplate 1y ago
Trump and RFKjr of course will own their own part of this if public antivax sentiment descends further. However as I have said elsewhere on this thread, I prefer to blame causes more than effects as having the ultimate responsibility.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Was that after the first Fauci lie about them not being helpful or the second lie where he said they were? Now you are suggesting it was all some form of performative behavior modification theater? It’s no wonder our public trust in our he

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