Let me introduce you to the Disney Bomb… circa 1943:
[it] was fitted with solid-fuel rockets to accelerate its descent, giving it an impact speed of 990 mph (1,590 km/h)—substantially beyond the 750 mph (1,210 km/h) free-fall impact velocity of the 5-tonne Tallboy “earthquake” bomb for comparable purposes.
The Disney could penetrate 16 ft (4.9 m) of solid concrete before detonating.
The police are the public and the public are the police
I swear, smokers in Europe have atrocious social graces with no concept of personal space. Even at the busiest and most cramped cafes, they will light up at the table with you or standing next to a doorway, and then act like you’re the problem if you’re annoyed or upset about second hand smoke. Beer gardens and outdoor seating almost universally include a carcinogenic haze, it just ruins the meal/drink imo to be tasting the air between bites
At least in America the social stigma is strong enough where they scurry off to their opium den smoking area and get their nicotine hit with their brethren. Go in peace friend, you do you over there to y’all’s lungs
FYI the people who run that site are fairly alt-right chud - not like “your local HVAC guy has problematic opinions” chud, but “unusual obsession with Rhodeisa” and “unapologetically collaborates with apartheid South Africa era government goons” chud.
African decolonization is a really interesting portion of Cold War history, but tbh the Congo, Angola, or Eritrea are more interesting than ‘those brave white men defending civilization’ narrative that are baked into minority rule states
It’s been both funny and disheartening to see how some world leaders learned from Trump 1.0’s bombast and arrogance for breaking ‘the rules’, and have now realized the manchild can, and will be directly bribed and manipulated by the dumbest things. Gold planes. Nameplates. Fantastical ideas that appeal to the ego. Being ‘the only one’ who can solve their problem.
Israeli diplomacy on this issue has been virtually non-existent. It really cannot be reiterated how badly the Israeli state department has bungled international relations, given that they had an open hand at genocide as recently as a month ago.
It’s genuinely incredible to see how openly evil the Likud/Khanist extremists in charge have acted, and how reflexive and hollow the counter-messaging has become from Netanyahu
Yair Golan, the leader of the opposition Democrats who served as deputy chief of staff for Israel’s military before entering politics, said that after an unjustifiably brutal campaign, much of the damage [to Israel’s reputation] had already been done. “A sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set the expulsion of a population as a goal,” he said.
Netanyahu attacked Golan’s comments as “contemptible antisemitic blood libels against IDF soldiers and the state of Israel”, but Golan later doubled down on his position in a press conference.
I rewatched the broadcast to confirm, Trump absolutely inadvertently stepped out of the shot right as the shooter pulled the trigger. Trump went from standing with a hand on the podium, to leaning forward on it as he turned his head to his right.
The shooter brought a laser rangefinder which suggests he was aware of at least basic marksmanship fundamentals like bullet drop from gravity. He also had an AR-15, with a red dot and was laying prone with no visual barriers between him and the dais where Trump was about 130 yards away. Even a budget AR shooting basic af ammo can expect to shoot a 4 inch circle at that distance- plenty enough for a headshot.
Trump survived through dumb luck.
While this is a serious escalation of the regime’s conduct towards the judiciary by punitively charging a judge for actions taken in her own courtroom during an active trial, a grand jury indictment ultimately means nothing, as it always has - they get to present an entirely one-sided opinion.
As NY Judge Sol Wachtler said, “If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.”
During a grand jury proceeding, the [prosecuting] U.S. Attorney presents its case to the grand jury; there is no judge present, and the target of the investigation is not present… Thus, the prosecutor is the only party who controls what the grand jury hears.
The methods of capital punishment are often chosen for those administering and witnessing it, not so much for the condemned. Because yes, you could have shot him in the head and destroy the brain/stem causing immediate death, but headshots with rifles cause extreme amounts of gore and viscera.
The electric chair, lethal injection, gas chambers, etc all leave the body mostly whole, and the desire is minimal cleanup. Unlike more classic executions like beheading, crushed by elephants, breaking on the wheel, burning at the stake, drawing and quartering, etc that were (by design) agonizing deaths and extremely messy.
The British used to hang people for almost anything, and they go so proficient at long drop hanging there was a calculation so the neck broke causing immediate death, but their head wouldn’t pop off too.
I’d highly recommend Discipline and Punish by Focault, he does a solid job chronicling how we ‘reformed’ the death penalty for the living’s sake.
What the hell is he dragging? It looks too big to be TM-62, MON-200 maybe?
The stupidity never ceases to amaze…
I’m torn here, as both a taxpayer and someone who works adjacent to manufacturing on the engineer side.
The military has some super duper complex stuff like AESA radar or ICBMs, that while inherently needn’t have proprietary/contractual barriers for self-maintenance, it is not always the best idea to let maintenance level end users loose with the tools. Breaking something you don’t understand/comprehend like a stealth bomber’s paint can lead to adverse outcomes down the line.
However the MIC has been abusing this and other loopholes to essentially ‘launder’ profit after a deliberate lowball bid to secure a contract. So I’m tentatively excited to nix this…? The Nsvy does solid work training schooling people for nuclear reactors, so this is not new ground for the DoD
Pure guess, but they might perceive the FPV falling out of the sky as an EW kill/signal loss, which is temporary, leaving an otherwise functioning drone uncomfortably close by just waiting for a clear signal from the pilot.
First guy had the right idea with the long stick to try and trigger the impact detonator, but then picked it up… Russians please continue, I see no issue with hand carrying UXO. Your friends also want to see it!
People were trying that last year already, together with the arms deliveries. Until you came along and fucked with everything.
There must be a specific phrase or stolen-language word for this idiocy, because ‘hubris’ ain’t cutting it. To assume that everyone is wrong for doing it X way that you quickly do a 180 on, only to slowly realize the reality that drove everyone else’s decisions.
And then slowly and very publicly course correct back to ‘the way things were’ while never coming to terms with your mistake.
Just buy a seam ripper, and sanitize your branded sweater/blanket/jacket/etc from their embroidered trademark.
Isopropyl alcohol or xylene can take off most printed/transfer logos on plastic or metal objects.
Worst case scenario you give it to someone else/homeless so it doesn’t end up in a landfill or wastefully recycling an otherwise usable product.
Not gonna lie, his return to music and most recent two albums are pretty good if you like the Fred Again style of production.
Dubstep is a hard genre to get into, aside from very few album releases (there are A LOT of singles/splits) there’s some big sonic variation. Some of the faster, more frantic tracks sound closer to Jungle, while other artists like Burial bring a lot more of the UK Bass sound, and then you’ll get a very downtempo track, or a flute as the main instrument.
It’s kind of a “I know it when I hear it” vibe lol
The old heads remember what dubstep actually is, before Skrillex took the name and ruined everyone’s understanding of the newest genre from the UK garage/drum and bass scene. All my homies hate Skrillex.
And if this goes on long enough, we’ll have samizdat resistance ‘zines typewritten and passed around at dead drops to avoid ISPs having data any to give up to a warrant/less search, or metadata to trace the authorship
Vladimir Bukovsky summarized the samizdat process as follows:
“I write myself, edit myself, censor myself, publish myself, distribute myself, go to jail for it myself”
I’d rather not find out what else that future entails
Having worked a wage slave summer job assembling fireworks, you eventually get comfortable. Usually complacent too, which isn’t great in a factory but there’s standards like spark prevention and max magazine size that keeps most accidents inconsequential.
In a battlefield tho, 100% not. The rule of “If you didn’t see it placed there, it’s booby trapped” should be universal, doubly so if you’re handling UXO.