No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
14d ago
Are you familiar with Soviet attempts to find carrier battle groups?
I'm familiar China has a satellite constellation for the same and rocket propelled hypersonic drones. And also recently tested a pulse detonation engine for really high speeds.
I don't think is a problem for them. You can't intercept mach 5 drones 35 km up that evade at 15 G.. you simply don't have the dV for it.
some dude with a quadcopter, SIGINT, etc.
China is a panopticon state with a nationalist population.
But as I said above, I think it would be a dumb use of munitions. Which, again, goes to my point: having the theoretical ability to destroy something does not mean that such a course is easy, or even a good idea.
They only need to deter the carrier groups long enough to secure Taiwan.
No_one
15d ago
this is an open secret in austin among the very well off tech set btw. ppl who know me know this cuz i have been telling them "you don't know the tenth of it..."
The true number of his children is at least low hundreds.
I don't think he's making it up and it's also somewhat in line with Elon's single-minded mindest. This is probably going to blow up eventually. I don't think this is bad, at all, depending on the arrangement.
Well, I guess SpaceX's future is secured then. If he went and offered some great deals to smart families, say $10 million for raising a biological child of mine along your other ones, the children are going to be brought up properly and there's decent odds they're going to be exceptionally able.
No_one
15d ago
The US has the same (perhaps better) apparatus to kill Chinese missile launchers that China does to kill carriers, do
- Ok I'm going to reply in depth later but you shuold familiarize yourself with how well the 'Scud hunt' went during Gulf war
- the estimates for breaking through into an static, decades prepare air-defense grid (it's weeks in case of Russia)
- the multiple methods for detecting stealth planes (multilateration, undoubtedly networked parabolic microphones and more!
Also that China does have satellite dazzlers ready. In short US wouldn't be likely to acquire these launchers, wouldn't have much to hit them with - cruise missiles aren't great at following moving targets and also planes wouldn't be able to get near.
No_one
15d ago
Imperium is a famous neo-nazi book after WW2 though..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium:_The_Philosophy_of_History_and_Politics
by a guy who liked occult crap too, though he was a more harmless kind of perv- some sort of dominant sadist or something. Wisely ate cyanide after FBI arrested him.
No_one
15d ago
I probably would not take either side of this bet.
Few modern Iranian missiles were intercepted in the last attack. Almost none. And these aren't as flat flying or as evasive as Iskander. Jamming satellites might work perhaps but it has inertial guidance so who knows how well..
No they have not.
That's your supposition, yank. Ask yourself what is a carrier group going to do when 128 maneuvering hypersonic glide vehicles appear over it.
Ask yourself how the carrier group is going to fare when it has what, 200 anti missiles. Even with perfect interception rates that's only 100 intercepted inbound missiles. Chinese LOVE large number production and they dug 1000kms of tunnels in mountains north of beijing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Great_Wall_of_China
They can shoot a lot of missiles out from China.
an anti-ship version to withstand the stress and heat of high-speed travel.
The earlier version solved this elegantly, the missiles just delivered guided bombs with a speed of 1000 m/s high up, maybe terminal 800 m/s. You can have seekers then no problem.
It'd still probably work because 100 of these would be very tough to intercept and even 5-10 hits would seriously degrade operations from a carrier. Ships are hard to sink but the internal operations aren't very redundant for reasons of space.
I'm not sure how the later version solve this, the HGV ones.
No_one
15d ago
If this really is an SBU operation, they've taken leave of their senses and are running on pure emotion.
I don't think so either. At this point I'm pretty sure SS has to be using jammers. (BTW Putin has been reputedly jamming the shit out of area around his limo since early 2010s so it seems someone knew about FPVs back then)
I think the scam angle is more likely.
No_one
15d ago
There's a rumor Scam Saltman is making a social network ..
If you are a bit paranoid and connect the dots obviously what is going to happen he's gonna get EU to ban twitter as extremist whatever and simultaneously roll out that and get people hooked on something that's much easier to police and functions better.
Remember: it's vibes
Neoliberals -The experts -TDSers -The elite media -Chinese and Canadian liberals -Deficit hawks
These people are all out of touch, with the exceptions of maybe Chinese. The perception of being 'up' or 'down' doesn't mean anything. In the long run, reality reasserts itself.
No_one
15d ago
The ONA advocates accelerationism, and promotes the idea that human history can be divided into a series of aeons, each of which contains a corresponding human civilization. Adherents believe that the current aeonic civilization is that of the Western world, but that the evolution of this society is threatened by the "Magian/Nazarene" influence of the Judeo-Christian religion, which the Order seeks to combat in order to establish a militaristic new social order, which it calls the "Imperium". According to Order teachings, this is necessary in order for a galactic civilization to form, in which "Aryan" society will colonise the Milky Way. It advocates a spiritual path in which practitioners are required to break societal taboos by isolating themselves from society, committing crimes, embracing political extremism and violence, and carrying out acts of human sacrifice. ONA members practice magic, believing that they are able to do it by channeling energies into their own "causal" realm from an "acausal" realm where the laws of physics do not apply, and these magical actions are designed to help them achieve their ultimate goal of establishing the Imperium.
This is some quality lore on wikipedia. Science-Fiction literature and its consequences can be rather darkly funny. If you're not related to any of the victims of course.
There's a rather hefty list of crimes supposedly involving these guys.
According to the affidavit FBI submitted to get a warrant for searching the devices of the satanist O9A* affiliated matricide accelerationist Kasap, who was caught less than two weeks after he murdered his mother in early February, was in contact with a number of people and was, among other things
- attempting to purchase a drone to drop some IED to kill or attack Trump
- talking to someone apparently from Ukraine and asking about relocation and exfiltration from the US
- getting advice on how to use repeaters to extend drone range
This is being spun two ways:
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Russians are saying approximately: This is typical SBU work, they find some expendable extremists and give them advice to kill and cause chaos, this is just like the Crocus attack
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media is quiet about the foreign angle now, and probably indefinitely but I imagine later it could be spun as Muscovite trolls seeking out vulnerable teenagers and egging them on to kill to frame the glorious SBU
The real story is probably the budding teenage satanist was
- getting scammed out of crypto by one troll
- getting lies about exfiltration to make him kill by another sadistic troll
Guy may have swapped his plates but was still using the same cell phones so absolutely NGMI tradecraft.
*Order of Nine Angles. Some sort of satanist cult, or more likely by now very loose online group.
No_one
15d ago
Spooks? I find that ridiculous as I left 4chan around '16 after it became clear the site was overrun by various fucked up bots.
No_one
15d ago
But I think the Soviets leapfrogged or sidestepped the US on military tech more often than China has – maybe that's just vibes.
China has made the supercarrier obsolete. Is that not impressive? You know those Iskander missiles that have never been intercepted yet because they evade and allegedly can also drop countermeasures? Well, China has gliding anti-ship versions deliverable across half the planet. Is that not impressive?
No_one
15d ago
- Not game dependant skill, like for instance social deduction games like Among Us reward social skills. This is rare outside of like social or puzzle games.
Social skill is highly important in MMO PvP games, no? Like group size matters, if you can't find a group and keep it, you're dead.
No_one
15d ago
Sure, but if you have better logistics and more weapons you're going to 'win' at that failure state because enemy keeps losing more troops and as he's smllaer, you win the war in the end because the enemy force collapses and then you can claim all the oblasts you require.
it fundamentally sucks for the attacker.
That was the case before drones and artillery combo. It's not true anymore. Now it sucks for both equally, basically. Whether it 'sucks' depends on how good is your recon, camouflage and anti-drone defenses.
No_one
16d ago
Something like that, but I think what could work would be having servers that only open at specific times, for games where you can't segment the world, or having segmented worlds where distant areas can do their turns inside a period.
You can play say, 8 hours a week, whenever, but any travel/attack across a zone border would happen in the next period, with say battles between areas happening at a mutually agreed upon time.
No_one
16d ago
No, they don't, even though they could. There's nothing stopping a good military from making a simulation of a war, sticking officers into dorms rooms for a month and having them wage virtual war 16 hours a day and communicating through monitored, anonymized chat so no cliques possibly, you wouldn't even know who is on the other side.
Officer schools filter out the worst performers, but they don't and can't evaluate the ability to lead people or improvise. In addition, this should be all promotions above a certain level.
In US armed forces it's notorious that any and every position above captain requires being political, having patrons and all that bullshit. That's how you get the level of dysfunction they have now - they stopped being able to build ships, they can't get rid of Houthis, etc. In all likelihood, every capable, disagreeable officer got filtered out by this clique system.
No_one
16d ago
This is just mostly for me so I can feel awkward later.
List of essays I need to write for various reasons
- non-gamer accessible description of huge Ark: Survival clusters and the lessons 24/7 no rules, no safezones PvP has to teach about society/people.
- the idea for an PvP MMO that wouldn't devolve to "the biggest no lifers win"
- essay on how militaries that promote officers on the basis of other qualities than anonymously demonstrated command competence in weeks-long highly stressful immersive simulations are NGMI (kinda superfluous now hat 1st Lt. Skynet is coming but maybe good writing practice)
No_one
16d ago
Killing people is much easier than rapidly maneuvering large forces through heavily surveilled terrain against an adversary.
It's also harder than ever to achieve some big maneuver.
No_one
16d ago
This is not a blow.
Losing weight through cold exposure is a well known trick. Cold exposure also leads to an increase in brown fat which can burn white fat for energy, making it easier to lose weight.
No_one
16d ago
Probably at least 2:1 in favor of Russians. Might be more depending on how good / bad their artillery has been throughout the conflict. Remember 2% of people in this war die to bullets. Rest is artillery and drones. Some say it's more than 5:1 but I doubt it.
Russians also did clever and unscrupulous things like lightly training their criminals and then expending them in Bakhmut against the better Ukrainian forces. They'd use drones to direct these guys close - Ukrainians who revealed themselves by fighting would get blasted. Most of the convicts died but that was okay - they paid their debt to society that way. The kill ratio wasn't too bad, it was maybe 1-2 convicts pre one Ukrainian soldier.
Yeah, I'm thinking there's someone in the fun and secretive part of Russian state who was just like me as a kid and wondering why you're not putting bombs in RC cars. Never got around to doing it as a kid only bc it was 1990s eastern Europe and we were just too poor, I think.
I developed tinnitus at age 8.
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