pigeonburger
10mo ago
Heavy torpedoes, like US/NATO Mk-48's, Russian SETs and UGSTs, etc...
“He was told it’s like a torpedo—once you fire it at the enemy, you can’t pull it back again, it just keeps going until it goes ‘boom,’ ” a senior officer familiar with the conversation said.
A bit of an aside, but that's an incorrect comparison coming from the ukrainian's head of the armed forces. I guess that can be forgiven seeing he was a general, not an admiral. Modern torpedoes are wire guided, they can be steered, armed, disarmed, have their homing feature activated or deactivate, or detonated after being launched, provided the wire didn't break (which can happen during manoevers from the ship or the torpedo, from the torpedo tube being closed to reload, from distance, etc...). But broadly speaking, modern torpedoes are guided weapons. There are exceptions (lightweight torpedoes don't always have wires as they are often launched from the air) but yeah.
pigeonburger
10mo ago
bigger cadre of workers who pay into SS but never get to withdraw
The slogan for the upcoming civil rights struggle for these people is already written though... "No taxation without representation!"
pigeonburger
10mo ago
India did that to a Sikh leader in Canada, and other than it being very embarassing that our government is unable to prevent or dissuade it, Canada isn't exactly going to war with India.
pigeonburger
10mo ago
For easier commute
This one is definitely without argument part of housing. Unless they work in the shittiest part of town, there is assuredly very nice housing close to almost every big job center in NY/CA/WA/DC. Just not affordable ones.
Anyway, "Jobs" was also likely entered as a second order reason for a LOT of the respondants. Like okay, they're moving because they found a job in Texas or Florida; but does the chart distinguish between those who for SOME REASON went looking for a job in TX/FL, and those for whom a too-good-to-ignore job offer in Texas or Florida just fell into their lap? What would likely be the reason someone living in NY/CA/WA/DC would look for a job in TX/FL? For these people we're back to the same chart but without the Jobs category.
The kind of people Trump is needing to convince to vote for him are those who want to know if he's able to act dignified. While Trump is certainly no stranger to unprompted personal attacks against the other side and its supporters, right now he's got the assassination attempt and the lawfare giving him that more dignified aura. He's managed to genuinely appear like a martyr, whose liberty and even his very life is under attack all because he has the courage to stand up for his people.
The Harris campaign is trying to drag him back down to his usual name-calling tactics, but if they exaggerate their case and make their attacks too vicious and too centered on supporters (as opposed to right wing politicians/leaders) then the electorate might give him a free pass to retaliate.
Exactly, and it's why the remasters pretty much always fall flat. Myst was a technological showcase, and what people are nostalgic for is not good gameplay design, or a particularly good story. It's for seeing a game where things didn't look so much like abstract pixels anymore but like the actual thing they are. For seeing full motion video in game, making them mentally project to the future where games look like movies (and gaming did take a dead end detour through FMV games to try to rush to that point in the aftermath of Myst). The production values were impressive for a video game of that time, but outside of that context they are awful. The acting was cringe, the FMVs were really really small and low res (which they cleverly hid through the "book" framing). The visuals, not as pretty and always look a lot more plasticky and cheap than they seem to be in my memories.
Remove the technological achievement and Myst is a step back from the puzzle and gameplay design from Sierra/LucasArts graphical adventure games and even the older interactive fiction games that preceded them, but with 3D pictures and movies. I guess story is debatable.
I'm not the person you asked, but here (Canada), adult board games are strongly associated since at least the early 2000s with hipster culture (craft microbreweries, kombucha, etc...), which is heavily leftist: liking "old fashioned" board games rather than modern videogames (or heavily capitalistic collectible card games / Warhammer style wargames) is inherently hipster-coded. Then there's the europhile part, seeing as some of the most celebrated modern games are european, and the ones most people famously dislike are american games like Monopoly...
pigeonburger
10mo ago
Also, FWIW, I used to work for the NSA red team running these types of operations.
Holy shit! And you still went to North Korea?
With that kind of past I would not have wanted to put myself within grasp of a regime with little to lose and a lot to gain in picking your brain.
pigeonburger
10mo ago
Sounds like a great way to incentivize assassinations!
pigeonburger
10mo ago
Yeah, english's not my first language and there's some words like that where the right spelling just doesn't seem to stick.
pigeonburger
10mo ago
I personally disagree with ACAB and think that police misconduct is vastly overstated, but I understand and sympathise with the reasoning behind it. I expressed this a year ago on this forum:
While I disagree on the object level towards ACAB, I have some sympathy towards people who dismiss all cops as being bastards as I have a similar attitude towards all mainstream journalists. The rationale for that attitude is that even if one journalist, multiple journalists or even a majority of them, are hardworking and try hard to report the truth, as a group my observation is that they are unwilling to push back against the large contingent of liars and frauds in their profession, and when outsiders push against them the wagons circle and end up pointing in a predictable direction, leading me to believe there is a tacit endorsement of the bad aspects. I can easily imagine someone making a similar argument against the police, that they are unwilling to truly clean up their profession in the eyes of the public, that there is a culture of silence and an anti-snitch mentality within the profession. As with journalists, they are performing a duty to society that is sacred and requires the population's absolute confidence so they cannot afford in-group loyalty when it clashes with their duty.
I guess one distinction could be that one could argue that cops are not always aware of specific actionable, denounceable action by bad apples in their group. I don't think journalists can use that argument.
For jobs that require the public's trust, even a hint of in-group loyalty or preference is poison. Sure, it's human to feel a kinship with other people doing the same job, but it's an instinct that has to be fought back, not leaned into. And cops as a profession reek of in-group loyalty, and an attitude like "you can't understand what our job is like" only makes it worse.
pigeonburger
10mo ago
I could imagine being confused and flustered and having a confused thought like "if they're afraid of the pot of water I'll just take it off the heat and put it away".
pigeonburger
10mo ago
Outside of the cynical takes you'll get by asking this online, there's four options that seem to be likely.
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Girls in their prime are often woefully ignorant of the assymetry in the dating market and she doesn't understand (or care, if you want to be cynical) how much more meaningful the attention she gave you was to you than it was to her. To her it was playful, and maybe an option she could explore later if other plans fall through, no harm done.
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She was interested but your message came off too desperate. Many such cases.
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She's interested but just hasn't come around to answer you. Of course, if she was really completely captivated she assuredly wouldn't forget or deprioritize answering you, but again girls in their prime are often unaware of the assymetry and to her an interesting prospect that's interested in her is a regular occurence so it doesn't feel as urgent to grasp it.
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She's playing games/trying "tactics". Of course average guys know the only tactic that women need to maximize getting our attention is "just be nice to us", but the advice women get from peers and media is just as disfunctional as the one men get.
Hillary Clinton (it was HER place in history!)
More seriously, the media and Democrat insiders extremely strongly insisted Biden WILL drop out that weekend. And he did. If he also died that weekend that's maybe a bit too much of a coincidence to just gloss over.
pigeonburger
11mo ago
I don't dislike the way Discord works; we really needed a replacement for IRC, as not everyone had the chops to run a bouncer and keeping a record was a big issue. Discord has the nice effect of mixing multiple types of communications people could want to have together in a semi-coherent structure.
I am a disappointed though that the solution we ended up going with was a centralized private company, instead of an open protocol. But Matrix is a mess.
pigeonburger
11mo ago
The problem is that no automatic updates is also a terrible idea, as a majority of systems don't get patched, ever. The ideal is manual updates but responsible companies/admins testing before deployment, and sadly I don't think that's gonna happen. The second best is gradual/tiered deployments with the ability to opt out, which is more realistic but still require more effort than many companies are willing to provide.
pigeonburger
11mo ago
Considering how millions of computers are gonna have to be booted into safe mode and have OS/antivirus files tampered with, just wait until malicious actors start "helpfully" supplying USB thumb drive images that promise to deploy the fix automatically (alongside rootkits). Rootkits that might silently disable or bypass Crowd Strike entirely.
pigeonburger
11mo ago
his current 10-4 workday
I'm sure if the Chinese decided to invade Taiwan they'll wait until those hours as a courtesy.
What would happen is they'd do it in the middle of the night, his aides would wake Biden up and he'd insist they put him on a call with Mao so he can talk him off this.
Him not running, so basically admitting he's not mentally sharp anymore, but remaining in office brings really uncomfortable questions for the Democratic nominee to answer (provided someone with a microphone and some reach in the public asks them).
Like "If Joe is not in condition to run, do you believe he is capable of taking charge of the most demanding office on earth? If he's not, who's in charge? Do you support this? Why aren't you (or your party) invoking the 25th? Aren't you irresponsibly gambling with the nation that there won't be a sudden crisis that will demand the President to act quickly and decisively until inauguration? Don't you think that our adversaries might see the Commander-in-Chief being unfit as a unique window of opportunity?"
If the media won't ask these questions, you can be sure the Republican campaign advertising will. "Kamala/Gavin/Gretchen/whoever thinks it's fine that america be without competent leadership for months. Should you trust the judgement of someone who leaves Dementia Joe with control of the nuclear football?"
pigeonburger
11mo ago
Exactly, expressing the idea that maybe unlimited immigration from absolutely anywhere, or unlimited free trade from absolutely anywhere are not unalloyed goods is, or was, outside the overton window regardless of who said it. Anyone who would express it would have gotten the same treatment. Trump noticed a majority of people still largely held that opinion even if they could not express it, saw an opportunity there, so he went and stood outside the window, drawing all the aggro to him. And since he's a legendary tank, to keep the MMORPG allegory going, he's somehow doing fine, and now the overton window is a bit wider than it was before. Outside of the specifics of his first and presumed second presidency, of whether he's too pro-Israel or too close to Russia, or of whether he's capable of wielding the executive bureaucracy effectively, at least his ability to take the slings and arrows is unmatched, and his forceful widening of the overton window was probably a necessary first step for any actual move to the right (or neutralisation of leftward drift).
I expressed the same idea a while back and people thought I was crazy. Even if the Democrats/deep state were not so terrified of another Trump presidency (which they might not be, Trump is a moderate and after 4 years they should know by now he's not a madman either), the thought of losing to him in a rematch is unthinkable, because it means unmistakably that after having had an A/B comparison of a populist and of the rule of the enlightened, the population prefers the populist. And that means they can't spin the election as anything but a complete repudiation of the last four years; it cannot be dismissed as the people being dazzled by some fresh new candidate, it's "this was shit, give us back the guy we had before". To avoid that, I thought they would quickly embrace ANY option, even letting the Republicans win and sweep, as long as Trump is not the one to do it, and offering amnesty in exchange for retirement could have been an option.
It's also especially personal and insulting for Biden himself, to the extent he's aware of it; being behind the guy you were supposed to replace in the polls. I think he refuses to leave because the only two ways for his legacy not to be that of a failure, is to retire while he's ahead in the polls (in which case, he'll think "Do I really HAVE to retire then?") or beat Trump himself. Well, before he possibly could have made the offer to exchange amnesty for retirement and added his retirement on top, that would have avoided him the humiliation of being beat by Trump (or of retiring because he's polling behind Trump). Both of them could have made a cute gesture like playing a game of golf together and then their legacy would have at least the positive note that they put themselves aside to help the country heal from its division or something. But it's looking like it's too late for that, now Trump holds almost all the cards, save from election day shenanigans, so I don't think he'll be inclined to accept, yeah.
I think the smarter Democrats will quickly learn to see as a positive that lawfare is not paying out, because they could soon be the defendants. Though I have to say that the recent assassination attempt reduces the likelihood of Trump retaliating, I believe. (he wants his legacy to be that of a uniter, and the attack gave him a path to that if he acts the bigger man)
And in any case, if Democrats want to replace Biden and have a chance in the election they need the spotlight squarely set on them, not on Trump, especially when it's clearly not even damaging his chances at election. Any attention spent on the Trump sideshow is not used to pressure Biden to step down, and then not used to build up the replacement.
pigeonburger
11mo ago
Interstellar?
As someone whose IT work has been all in the "real economy", this is something I'm eager to see. Non-IT fields have a decade of catch-up to do technology wise, maybe more, and the devs in those companies right now mostly specialize in CRUD apps and are not equipped to do that catch up. Some fresh blood coming in from the frontlines will help a lot.
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