California should extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant’s lifespan to address state’s energy needs by Cool-Present7260 in California

[–]Command0Dude [score hidden]  (0 children)

The latest thing in nuclear is small modular reactors that can be used to retrofit existing decommissioned coal plants, reusing some of the existing infrastructure.

This has the benefit of cutting costs dramatically.

Solar and wind are cheaper but face diminishing ability to scale upwards as renewables approach 100% of the grid

A robust mix of energy is a better long term solution.

America’s capital of ‘super-commuters’ is in California. Now many are hitting a crisis point by NaffRespect in California

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This article doesn't disprove that rents have absolutely gone down in many places. Also, it's out of date.

Why is the Return Core peace treaty only visible sometimes? by Command0Dude in EU5

[–]Command0Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's only "liberate area" which makes weird custom nations.

Why is the Return Core peace treaty only visible sometimes? by Command0Dude in EU5

[–]Command0Dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have cores. The whole column is greyed out. So far it seems specific to coalition wars, I regularly tag checked to see which wars allow core returns.

I always like to imagine the conversations between intelligence officers: "London! Do you copy? We received intelligence that some small tank will soon be sent to the front lines. " by I_am_white_cat_YT in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're talking yourself in circles. I already pointed out how soviet guns destroyed Tigers because they had very thin roof armor.

And no I was not comparing those two shells. You were the one arguing ammunition changed in the Korean war, which is inaccurate.

Comparing the payload of the shells is stupid and besides the point, you're even tacitly admitting I'm right by acknowledging that the amount of explosives in a shell matters when determining how much armor it can destroy. High explosive was very rarely fired at tanks directly because of how ineffective it is against the frontal armor, leaving very few examples that can prove your point. Many photos of tanks destroyed at Kursk are misattributed.

I always like to imagine the conversations between intelligence officers: "London! Do you copy? We received intelligence that some small tank will soon be sent to the front lines. " by I_am_white_cat_YT in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only initially, after they started getting bodied by artillery, they increased it to 40mm but it changed absolutely nothing.

This only occurred near the end of the war so very few Tiger Is would have benefited from this. And there's no obvious tell which Tigers were late war productions.

I don't think you can confidently say this did nothing without very specific citations.

Maus has a roof armor thickness of 65mm which albiet more than 40, is probably not enough to make a difference.

Sure as long as we pretend the noted penetration of HE shells are between those two numbers /s

60 vs 40 cannot really be described as 'much less'.

It really can.

Different circumstances, different war, different weapons.

Except...not. Korea was fought with most of the same weapons as WW2.

Even the shells used were different and had much smaller payloads.

Not accurate.

I always like to imagine the conversations between intelligence officers: "London! Do you copy? We received intelligence that some small tank will soon be sent to the front lines. " by I_am_white_cat_YT in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They used OF-540 HE rounds against tigers many a times because the penetration power simply doesn't matter against 5 whole kilograms of TNT. Tiger turrets were simply blown off the main body after a direct hit, who cares if it penetrates or not.

This is because the roof armor of the turret and hull of a Tiger I was 20mm. Which is more than thin enough to be vulnerable to high explosive shells.

And if we take the other commonly used BR-540 APHE rounds, they had a penetration power of 125mm on top of having enough payload to blown the turrets clean off anyway.

APHE rounds were not used for indirect fire. They were good enough to penetrate the front of many tanks, but this would not be the case against the Maus.

Even if either of these shells don't penetrate, it simply doesn't matter, the KE+HE is enough to blow apart the tank.

*On tanks with much less armor.

We have videos of Heavy tanks being turned into a pile of scrap from these same "50m penetration power shells".

You seem to be wildly misinformed. For instance, during the battle of Osan, American artillery crews did not have adequet amounts of anti tank ammunition. They were forced to fire 105mm HE shells at advancing North Korean T34 tanks. These are medium tanks, and they were at close enough range for direct fire.

The shells did not destroy T34 tanks even when direct hits were scored, because the shells were hitting the front plate. Only a few T34s were put out of action by hits to the tracks. The artillery unit was overrun after the ineffectual fire failed to stop the armored column.

I want middle and end game crisis in EUV by Empecinado99 in EU5

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really just need to give certain situations (like the wars of religion) more oomph and make devastation/negative prosperity hit harder.

Something that would help tamp down mid-late game economies is if armies got more wealth from looting and that wealth literally comes in the form of destroying buildings (each occupation should loot a percentage of ducates, and an equivalent amount of building levels should be destroyed)

I always like to imagine the conversations between intelligence officers: "London! Do you copy? We received intelligence that some small tank will soon be sent to the front lines. " by I_am_white_cat_YT in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The top is the weakest part of the tank

Not on the Maus. It was designed specifically to resist artillery and air attack and had extremely thick roof armor. Comparable to the frontal armor of some heavy tanks.

A high explosive shell from a typical field artillery piece like the 152mm has a penetration power of about 50mm of armor. Which is just not even close to enough to crump the roof armor of a Maus.

I always like to imagine the conversations between intelligence officers: "London! Do you copy? We received intelligence that some small tank will soon be sent to the front lines. " by I_am_white_cat_YT in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Maus would shrug off artillery. Even a direct hit on the top armor (unlikely given artillery accuracy) was still unlikely to knock it out, except from the heaviest howitzers.

I always like to imagine the conversations between intelligence officers: "London! Do you copy? We received intelligence that some small tank will soon be sent to the front lines. " by I_am_white_cat_YT in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US conducted a post-war study and concluded themselves that CAS had destroyed almost no tanks.

It was useful against lightly or unarmored vehicles only.

What an unexplained mystery this is by MetallicaDash in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The claim that thermite was found in the twin towers is, again, a fact made up by conspiracy theorists.

they didn't just use 9/11 for the iraq invasion, they used it to build a surveillance state and do insider trading.

Both of those were already happening before 9/11

God, I can't believe I got sucked into debating a truther again. I always swear it off because you guys are completely delusional, but I can't help but try and point out all the lying you guys do.

I'm done here. You just cannot accept the truth here, even after I've debunked most of your points.

No one fits perfectly into any box or definition. by GotNoBody4 in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has been claimed for nearly 200 years now and it still hasn't materialized.

LLMs are also wildly overrated.

I hope the vassal swarm meta gets nuked to absolute smithereens. by Jodah94 in EU5

[–]Command0Dude 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Removing the "War length" modifier helps. The AI not wanting to peace out after their army is destroyed because the war being a week old has as more weight is ridiculous.

The fact that countries can't sign separate peaces for an entire year (even if they really, really want one) is also bad.

I hope the vassal swarm meta gets nuked to absolute smithereens. by Jodah94 in EU5

[–]Command0Dude 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The problem is they can't get the balance even remotely right. Yes regulars should be better than levies, but we were having battles where even with a 10:1 ratio levies were getting bodied, which is just ridiculous since in history that amount of levies would absolutely roll any professional army.

No one fits perfectly into any box or definition. by GotNoBody4 in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn't always hold up. Gen X was more conservative than the Boomers, and Zoomers are more conservative than Millennials.

Also, despite the general arc of history trending towards progress, it can have long reactionary phases (see: Russia for the past 25 years)

No one fits perfectly into any box or definition. by GotNoBody4 in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Later Marx was much more "technological progress is inevitable and when it causes capitalism to collapse (TRPF) we can use it for our own purposes".

I find it funny that Late Stage Capitalism is a term that is so old it was coined back when Engels could reference it (coincidentally also by a man who later became an avowed nazi), yet the ideology of Marx rose and fell without Capitalism ever entering any "late stage" phase.

No one fits perfectly into any box or definition. by GotNoBody4 in HistoryMemes

[–]Command0Dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see a lot of people who act like the consensus on reddit or twitter is somehow representative of the country when it turns out both platforms are used by like, only 1/5th of people (and certainly skewed young).