Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
The better question: is this a new development? Presumably American industrial base has always functioned this way (and, of course, nationalized industries themselves are hardly immune to graft and incompetence...)
Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
I'm not sure how or why we failed there.
The short version is, "we tried to build their military, institutions, and infrastructure to be like what works for America, but without actually changing any of the foundational stuff locally to make what works for America work."
Mantergeistmann
4hr ago
I don't remember hearing about Iran having warships worth mentioning before the war.
The 2017 ONI report is a bit out of date, but still reasonably useful. The regular Navy, IRIN (NEDAJA) is responsible for everything outside the Gulf and shares responsibility over the Strait. This is where you find the traditional vessels, this is where you find the power projection capability, this is where you find the deep water capability, and this has by its nature been pretty much completely destroyed.
There's also the IRGCN, or NEDSA. As the name implies, this is the IRGC's version of the regular Navy, and it's a bunch of whatever-the-hell. Small boats, fast boats, a few other things. Primarily used to harass/board ships and lay mines. No idea how they're doing these days, but if they'd been given a bit more time to observe and react to the Russo-Ukrainian War, I'm sure they'd have added an absolute ton of MAGUROs and similar. Seems very in line with their philosophy of small & fast swarms.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I'm reminded of a joke about college football refs and fixing games: "If you want us to believe that they're not fixing the games, pay them enough money that it's not plausible!"
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
This does seem to be the market the SMR folks were expecting. I hope it works out for them.
As do I, but if there's one thing the green types hate more than AI data centers, it's nuclear power.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
This appears to be an appeal to formal rule-based systems.
"So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!"
"Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?"
"Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!"
"Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
How about Fellowship? Power metal with upbeat lyrics and themes.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
It's AI hate. In my experience, the anti-DC crowd try to weasel out of their position when you ask about (say) streaming video data centers, those somehow being different and fine.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
the newest of whom came here one thousand years ago
Close, but we're still 40 years shy.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
So I say hang on a second. Their country was attacked, that's for sure. And I validate their right to respond, even if I question the means by which they do so. But now they're suggesting that their ethnic and religious identity is the actual target of attack, then pushing that as grounds to take actions in countries that were otherwise uninvolved in the conflict.
I mean, all those things can be true? Their country was attacked largely because of ethnic/religious identity, and many of the attacks "on zionists" are due to ethnic/religious identity. If there were multiple Jewish-majority nations, perhaps it would be easier to distinguish, but that's not the case.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Meanwhile there's obviously people who belong to a British ethnicity (English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish) and then there's immigrants (mainly blacks, Indians, and other Europeans).
Would you classify the Angles and Saxons as British identities, or immigrant?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Of the scores of people I spoke to, all of whom were adults, all perceived their lives to be better off thanks to a diagnosis. Every person welcome the diagnosis into their lives. But almost all had left their job, dropped out of education and lost many old friends. Several were housebound.
I saw that happen to an old university friend of mine. I don't suppose O'sullivan gives any advice for helping these people?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
'Then it was not made, not made' – Pippin hesitated – 'by the Enemy?'
'No,' said Gandalf. 'Nor by Saruman. It is beyond his art, and beyond Sauron's too. The palantíri came from beyond Westernesse from Eldamar. The Noldor made them. Fëanor himself, maybe, wrought them, in days so long ago that the time cannot be measured in years. But there is nothing that Sauron cannot turn to evil uses. Alas for Saruman! It was his downfall, as I now perceive. Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
The killer in 'And then there were none' was
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
What about the murderer in the Christie's Orient Express?
As opposed to the killer in Christie's Ten Little Indians/And Then There Were None?
At the end of the Count of Monte Christo
I'm more familiar with the space version it inspired, The Stars My Destination, where the ending is all about the antihero's desire to be purged and punished and so achieve forgiveness. But that's probably from a similar era/culture as a lot of Westerns.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Yeah, I think gettting less than 4 hours of sleep per day while running a daily marathon split into two parts for several months would be an implausibly superhuman achievement.
I once knew someone who only required 2-3 hours of sleep per night to function perfectly.
Of course, she was a project manager who was the sort to literally make a schedule space for "spontaneity" when on vacation, and as far as I could tell not very physically active, so I don't know if the physcial part of a body has different sleep/rest requirements than the mental.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Speaking of bad adaptations, your user name certainly reminds me of one of them.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
AIUI, he wanted to do a completely unrelated sci-fi action movie, but only got greenlight with an established IP attached
I've heard rumours that that's rather commonly what happens with IPs.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Speaking of adaptations starring Gene Wilder, didn't Roald Dahl take issue with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I mean, orcs are said to be very clever at devices of destruction and mischief. RoP's sin isn't that it wants to discuss orc culture, it's that it wants to claims orcs have culture without discussing it. One orc has.a wife and child? Well, what does that mean for orc society? How do they rear/partner/etc? Is he an outlier, or is this the way most of them are? But it doesn't care, it just mentions it and says "oh, you should feel bad for Daddy's children, they can feel emotions too!" without going in to "well, are they always cruel to the men around them, do some want to learn to be farmers, do they have songs and art and anything that would actually make them a culture rather than just violent mooks?"
RoP claims to want to start a conversation, but the writers either don't want to or don't know how to say anything.
That said, whoever is doing some of the background stuff and minor writing bits clearly knows their LotR and cares very deeply. There's a lot of little stuff that's sadly overshadowed by the main writing.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
There's also some other issues like the instance where wellwater was poisoned with nitrates in at least one instance which probably contributes to the fears though I can find like a grand total of like 2 stories on water contamination (this and the Morgan County story).
Was that a data center specific issue, though, or just "this could happen with any construction but we don't like this construction so we're using it as a negative example"?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Wasn't that a specific workaround of a court ruling? That the companies could use books, as long as they a) had physical copies, and b) destroyed them as part of the process? So it was people getting upset over companies complying with a law, because it was never about what the process was, just that people didn't like the end result of "the companies trained AI on all these books".
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I think what they're saying is that whatever the market has them at is what the appropriate P/E is.
Recently I think they also had a large deck drone carrier? But yeah, other than that, I think they topped out at frigate. And not even a Kriegsmarine frigate.
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