Yeah that’s a good point—you missed your off duty 2 hour window when you could go to the bathroom, and now you’re trying to parse radar returns but can’t focus because you’re about to shit your coveralls….

Maybe more hilarious dropping hornets overboard hijinx are coming our way.

Yeah no worries I was joking really. The screens look like pixel art with some mild 3d so am hoping it will also be pretty easy to run.

Seriously, they don’t need to strike it with munitions, they just need to get some norovirus onboard, that puppy would be done.

What kind of laptop are you using—I feel like the vamp games could be run on my 90s graphing calculator with some tweaks… 😉

I mean at this point, if you polled Americans, they should say the same thing. China and Russia never did anything to me, meanwhile…

Yeah others have posted good sources on it but basically they used a fancy vacuum system based on how cruise ships handle waste plumbing, and it has never worked particularly well. It clogs easily and the vacuum setup means that when a leak or clog occurs a huge part of the system ceases to function. Unlike the cruise ships, the carrier is a weird and complicated system so finding and repairing these issues is also hard and takes forever.

The 400k acid flush is a total system treatment that they’ve had to do 10 times over its lifetime, and this can only be done when the carrier is docked and presumably at minimal crew levels since they have to take the whole system down to do it.

In any case, they put in a more complicated and finicky system into a very complex ship environment and it’s basically been busted since it was launched. There are anecdotal reports of everyone having to wait in hour plus lines for access to the head, which in a ship with 4-6k people would be pretty awful I’d assume for morale.

I don’t have a link for it, but so far the only source for the nuke rumors I’ve seen is a 4chan post claiming that Israel is going to use tac nukes to disable missile bases and possibly get a leadership bunker in Tehran. The post is worded to suggest that the poster is someone inside some aspect of the operation or military buildup which I suppose is getting people to take it more seriously, but it’s an anonymous source on 4chan, so not something credible.

Oh cool didn’t realize! They are rat-maxxing

There’s also those huge rats they train to find landmines… rats are truly under appreciated.

That section cracked me up when I was listening to my phone read the article the other day. My wife heard me and wanted to know what was funny… “oh boy here we go” I thought as I launched into a 20 minute explanation of the maxxing haha

Going out of business sale, ‘cept its invite only.

So good

Ok that makes sense actually—you want pilots trained on hardware you want to use, everything has specialized mission types now so you can’t just be basic pilot, you have to do x or y vis-a-vis ECW / air defense, etc. thanks for the info and for your general analysis you do in the news feed, always appreciated on my end.

I feel like you’ve probably explained this a bunch already, but if you don’t mind—how does the linkage work with “air national guard”. I know we use natl guard in different scenarios, ie the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. Just initially strikes me as strange that Vermont would have such a highly developed air guard with such a specific purview? Or put another way, why does a unit in theory dedicated to home defense have such a specialized SEAD focus? Maybe it’s just like how you have these random groupings and units in the army with different specializations like that weird Virginia based army group, intelligence support activity, etc.

I’ve been wondering about this since I saw it—they had to have filmed that a year or longer ago, and it feels obvious that the Penn character is a send up of bovino, but personally I wasn’t aware of him until this year… one more point in favor of how great that movie is.

Jesus. I don’t want to watch that again, but that really looks like a straight up execution. Can’t wait to see what bullshit lies they trot out for this one. This is the kind thing that really blows shit up, we might be in for a wild ride cool zone style

Not sure if I know how to properly analyze in this vein, but I’d say that manipulating people into avoiding public health, higher disease spread, etc can support a general push to dismantle institutions, sell drugs and healthcare equip, and generally keep the unwashed masses at odds with each other and scared/sick while the grifter elite raid the henhouse and build up better walls and security.

It’s fairly clear that the elites somewhat see the writing on the wall, and that their choice has been not to retreat/reduce their footprint, but to aggressively pursue rentier extremism / ecofascism / eugenics option.

No you’re right, and that was one of the reasons I did it because I had changed to a 4k screen and unlike other things that actually does use the graphics card more. But I suspect the games Ive been playing would still be ok on my old card.

It’s hilarious—I spent a bucket of cash on a high end gfx card year and a half ago to upgrade and have proceeded to play almost exclusively games that I could have run on my early 2000s computer. Feel silly about it but basically just saying you’re correct, you mostly dont need the super cards for most stuff? You can certainly get by in most cases with a second / third tier card.

Not saying they dont have the capability—I just mentioned it because the commentator seemed confident that China had provided assistance (they have been on a starlight tear recently) as an example that China and Russia had stronger location/geopolitical interests in Iran compared to Venezuela.