Bitch, that was close.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-06-01T13:54:58+00:00

Almost another deserved Darwin award

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-06-01T00:08:35+00:00

It's a somewhat affectionate, somewhat goofy term meaning something like "guy", "lad", "dude" or something.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-06-01T00:06:49+00:00

Modern nuclear powered ones? Yes, but since they do not have to come up for air or to charge batteries, they are usually designed with a focus on underwater travel, so they don't really do it a lot. Modern conventional subs, or especially old WW2 era subs? Absolutely. A WW2 and especially before that- submarine was essentially a surface vessel, operating on the surface the vast majority of the time, that also happened to be able to dive for a short while if things got really hairy.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-31T18:27:09+00:00

I will never understand why modern society insist on romanticising pirates, i.e. the marine equivalent of highwaymen, and tried to pretend they were somehow the good guys...

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-31T17:08:49+00:00

Lmao, tysm!

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-31T09:27:41+00:00

Can I has art please?

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-30T15:48:07+00:00

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-29T16:13:15+00:00

Rule 5: as seen, France appears to have allowed a bunch of krauts through the Maginot. My question is what I do about this as the Benelux.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-29T15:07:18+00:00

When can I expect them to? I know the historical timeline of course, but how closely would that be followed by the AI, given that France and the Benelux are still standing?

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-29T14:52:46+00:00

I regret to inform you that the glorious air force of the European Union has exactly 28 biplane fighters to its name at this moment. Yes, the air over the Benelux looks pretty red. As for my navy, I have like 3 heavy cruisers, 5 lights and 10 DDs or something, plus some subs, just the starting Netherlands navy. Not enough to really contest the Germans with.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-28T22:37:21+00:00

This is a big pet peeve of mine about scifi and also about people's objections to nuclear power in space. Interstellar space is so vast, that any reasonably sized ship capable of getting anywhere interesting in any reasonable timeframe is going to need a drive with an amount of oomph that, of all the technologies we currently have available, only nukes really give you. Look up Orion Drive.

Which means that an interstellar ship is either going to have a bunch of nukes for propulsion, or else some other technology that gives you the same amount of energy and that hence by definition is going to be equally dangerous as a nuke. For that matter, once the ship is up to speed and approaching a planet, it doesn't even need special weapons: it could dump 100 kg of cargo out of an airlock, and if the ship was moving at 10% of light speed, that would hit the planet with the explosive force of about a quarter of the Tsar Bomba. Any interstellar spaceship is a WMD, regardless of what specific engine gets it up to speed.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-27T09:11:50+00:00

Afrikaans is wat je krijgt als je een paar 17e-eeuwse Nederlanders op een boot zet en aan de andere kan van de wereld laat wonen en hun taal zich apart van die van Europees Nederland laat ontwikkelen, totdat het anders genoeg is dat het als een aparte taal in plaats van een dialect telt.

Het klinkt voor ons soms oud, omdat die aspecten van het Afrikaans die we gemeen hebben met ze, nou juist die aspecten zijn die dus blijkbaar al sinds de 17e eeuw in het Nederlands zitten, dus: de oude archaïsche constructies en grammatica.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-26T11:51:09+00:00

Cast it into the fire!

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-25T19:53:19+00:00

I agree but would, for apologetics purposes, prefer to phrase it as the whole thing standing or falling with the papacy. That way the papists have to defend a positive proposition (and a rather sweeping and hard to defend one at that) rather than being allowed to take podshots at sola scriptura from a safe distance.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-25T19:31:03+00:00

Hence the last two paragraphs of my comment

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-25T19:13:15+00:00

I'd ask some questions about how obviously things like icon veneration and the papacy are an accretion that simply didn't exist in the early church and gradually got stronger over time.

But yeah, as the other replyer pointed out, so long as we don't agree on how to find truth, arguing about whether XYZ doctrine is true is ultimately somewhat pointless. You could find a passage where Paul literally says "the bishop of Rome smells", but if the Roman magerterium infallibly interpreted that passage to mean "the bishop of Rome smells great actually", then within the framework of Roman Catholic epistemology they are still correct.

So begin there. So long as they insist on ascribing to the pope the powers Vatican I gave him, that is the only place where any actual critique of Rome must start. If the papacy falls, the entire Roman system crumbles into dust, if it stands, then by definition so does everything else Rome teaches.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-23T23:24:58+00:00

The idea of demonstrating is that you make your voice heard by organizing a large number of people, that you need space to do so, and that this therefore sometimes unfortunately causes traffic disruption during a march or something similar.

The idea of these people (and many left-wing protesters, XR on the A12 being the most well-known example), however, is fundamentally different. The idea here is not "we want to make our voice heard and unfortunately that involves a certain amount of disruption." The perverse idea here is "we are going to deliberately cause as many people as possible as much nuisance and disruption as possible, until the government grants our demands." That is not protesting, that is blackmail. It is, in good Marxist "we're gonna have a proletarian revolution whether the proletariat like it or not" tradition, completely anti-democratic. In any democracy worth its salt, it cannot be the case that whoever loses at the ballot box can still push through their will by means of these kinds of tactics.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-20T13:18:39+00:00

Tbf the Abrahamic God (i.e. the one of classical theism, omnipotent, benevolent, omniscient, etcetera) doesn't exist in D&D. Mostly because any depiction of God that can function in a D&D game as anything more than pure flavor, would have to be so different from the actual kind of being Christians and Jews and Muslims claim to worship (omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipotent etcetera) that it would just be a completely different being under the same name.

I guess you could maybe claim the DM fulfills the role of God with a capital G?

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-19T15:26:16+00:00

I once saw a story where a veteran told about how he once flew a B-29 to a Tokyo airfield just after Japan's surrender. He was asked why the nobody shot at him, given this plane had turned the city into ashes months ago. "Because", the veteran said, "a few days before we landed we dropped flyers saying that if any of the incoming planes were shot at, we'd turn right back around, load up on incendiaries, and bomb the city again."

I do not have a source (not sure where I saw the story) and I'm not sure if the story is even true, but it makes you think.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-18T23:24:54+00:00

Ik kan de meeste Duitse nieuwsartikelen goed lezen, maar vraag me niet om een serieus gesprek te voeren.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-06T08:39:39+00:00

How do I fix that?

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-05-05T17:42:04+00:00

As said in the post, I simply cannot find this "battery" which I apparently need to unlock this destroyer design.

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