You haven’t read a single one of these links.

You certainly haven’t read about

kidnappings, killings, repression, illegal arrests, sabotage, etc

Committed by the Marcos and Duterte governments of The Philippines. Much less the long history of Red Tagging used to justify the pogroms.

All it takes is excusing no tribe

“Both Sides!” But always the Evil Foreigners first.

Defending a US backed military junta in the midst of monstrous crimes against humanity, because you’ve been pre-programmed to hate anyone outside your nation’s sphere of influence.

I’m sure you clapped like a seal during the Bloody Sunday killing. Fucking MAGA fascist.

Using N-force, which is the little can of Nox under my seat

$5 of electricity to lift an airplane 10,000 feet definitely seems low.

If you want to be really smug, you could say a gas powered plane requires $0 of fuel to glide for 30 minutes

I pick 30 minutes at Mach 7

How long do you want to spend at Mach 7 relative to stopping and starting? Because that could be a lot of G-force.

You really can’t figure out how an institution as large and complex as the US military might have a way to learn things

It’s a matter of thinking of them. You’re got to actually employ them, too.

Is the US actually doing this? Or is institutional memory getting shredded by DOGE, et al?

Van Riper only won by using “motorcycle messengers” that traveled at the speed of light

Van Riper used units designated as civilian material/personal to fill a gap in communications, in a war game that substituted certain functions of the combat as turn-based for expediency. They weren’t moving at the speed of light. They simply existed in the scenario, were used in a clever manner, and were able to function freely because the attacking US forces ignored them.

Van Riper used a few other tricks - toggling mobile radar stations so they won’t be easy to target by enemy artillery and using speedboats to harry American Navy - which the US leadership considered “cheating”.

But then… 24 years later… all of these tricks (and more) were used by the IRGC to devestating effect.

Americans learned absolutely nothing.

Manila asserts its “indivisible, incontrovertible, and longstanding sovereignty over Bajo de Masinloc,” its term for Scarborough Shoal. It maintains that only the Philippines possesses the right to construct structures or conduct activities, including marine scientific research, within the shoal and its territorial waters.

China’s Foreign Ministry, however, reiterates Beijing’s “indisputable sovereignty” over the shoal, which it calls Huangyan Island, and its adjacent waters.

Really depends on the tanks and drones in question, the soldiers involved, the commanders running the operation, the actual objectives of the mission, yada yada.

Just straight off the bat, drones aren’t great at securing supply lines or moving large volumes of cargo long distances.

you learn a lot from losing.

What do you really think the Hegseth military is going to learn from this?

It should be noted that the U.S. military loses effectively on purpose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Because the reason it isn’t happening soon is Xi’s personal fears

No direct quotes from anyone in the Chinese government. It’s all just a former ambassador from an English speaking country making speculative statements a hemisphere away.

They prefer to use their size to threaten over initiating wars.

Incoherent. A country isn’t threatening merely because it is large.

There are significantly more state troopers than federal troopers policing interstate borders, so I’d be more worried about the state laws than the federal ones.

Skewering the Integrated Survivability Onion

Weird to give all this up now

Taking a lighter sentence or gambling on the death penalty? I wouldn’t call that weird at all.

I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn’t have the Internet.

I mean, I considered the internet a godsend for a whole host of reasons and have been much better off with it than without it. Auto-Nav alone has saved me more hours utterly lost in my car than I care to think about.

But i would manage either way.

Wouldn’t really have a choice.

But then that’s the thing with AI. It’s not “the internet”. It’s this superfluous annoying add-on that keeps getting forced into platforms I was perfectly happy to use without it.

I’m constantly “choosing” not to use it and then finding the damned thing branded onto the ass-end of whatever new application or environment I approach.

Mail Models

Me, a Meth Addict, constantly trying to blow meth smoke in your face and stab you with meth needles: “You’re going to have a pretty hard time getting by without it!”

So does Pikes Peak in Colorado, all the way up 14,000 feet.

Ah, yes. The Old Gods of Appalachia.

The thing about mountains is that they’re all big when you’re at the bottom of them

She seems pretty active unless all of that has changed.

Spyglass Media Group determined that her social media posts about Israel’s military campaign in Gaza had crossed into hate speech.

Is this the Woke 2 everyone’s been talking about?