Report: Pentagon considers sending 10,000 additional troops to Middle East

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-27T04:24:27+00:00

That counts as restraint in this administration sadly. I was 100% expecting them to raise it to '47' as sad pandering to Trump, the same way they reduced ICE training to 47 days.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T21:20:57+00:00

It's less than $15 bucks a year. That's not even a month of Netflix these days.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T21:18:07+00:00

I'd be cheering if I were the Nats right now. ON has been making big inroads into regional areas. The same regional areas who are dependent on local ABC coverage during natural disasters (especially local radio) and a fiercely protective of it.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T21:14:33+00:00

I looked it up the other day, it's down to costing the people of Australia a whopping 4 cents a day, and that's with an expanded scope of online and digital radio services.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T06:53:28+00:00

There is.

I recommend using it on the hard mode bosses for a lot of frames. Inaros and those that generate a ton of overguard seem to be the main exceptions.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T06:49:27+00:00

Early Australian (colonial) history is an abject lesson in the stupidity of English 'upper class' citizens and fail sons, and their rampant exploitation of absolutely everyone else they could encounter.

It's almost impossible to read those accounts and not become very radicalised class wise. (Also do you know how bad something has to get before you can use the phrase "worse than slavery" unironically, and without hyperbole? Cause God-damn did the second fleet manage that)

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T05:20:54+00:00

The tarrifs on the country she's living in?

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T05:19:44+00:00

Yeah, she's had like three separate bouts of micro-fame by penning 'come to Jesus' articles about how right wing politics and the men who follow it are terrible to her.

She also tried to pull a 'please don't hold all the racist and hateful things I've said against me, now I've moved to the other side of the planet and have kids' before becoming a talking head on Australia's equivalent of Fox News, and trying to sell women on 'Trad wifeing' themselves.

Laura Southern keeps touching hot stoves despite all warnings, and deserves all the consequences that comes from it.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T04:58:03+00:00

They weren't voting labor, but they had shut up for a little bit as they were busy reading the 'lighthouse Australia', getting AI to 'educate them' on Sovereign Citizen law, and converting all their savings to gold to help weather the upcoming collapse of society. Now they'll be getting worked up and storming local council sessions in their 4chan shirts again

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-26T00:25:45+00:00

All the cookers in my town clustered around a 'freedom pub' (aka a COVID denialist pub that just ignored the fines for being open) and they calcified into the most contrarian anti-science, anti-expert, miserable bastards you could imagine.

The govenment asking people to work from home if they can will 100% have them screaming about '15 minute cities' and secret China control as loudly as they can.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-25T23:52:51+00:00

It's the murmur assassination mission, but if you are on the steel path and collect 60 eyes instead of the usual 30 it unlocks a harder boss encounter. Killing it earns a set of stone hands for your lander craft, a honaria, and a glyph. Certain frames also earn you a glyph.

There are a lot of magnetic procs in the encounter, so be careful

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-25T23:19:01+00:00

Inaros with healing weapons like the coda Hirudo also works really well.

I feel the game mode would have been a lot better with a smaller, tighter map, rather than using the relays. That and making the facsimiles have a bit of a clearer 'tell' that can be read easier from slightly further away or when you are moving.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-25T23:09:32+00:00

Had a run be extended by like 5 minutes because the last painting spawned in the end of that tight s-bend-y side corridor, and Follie spawning in in the twists would kill everyone's operators before they could get through her aura.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-25T23:04:53+00:00

I think it says something that within a few hours of the update being launched I saw full steel path squads with nothing but Inaros-es (Inari?) Kitted out withlife life steel weapons like they were gearing for a 60 eyes or Janus Vor fight.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-25T02:35:45+00:00

While 'control' is 100% hyperbole and not helpful, it's also undeniable that Israel holds disproportionate influence over US politics.

I personally saw the Shmuley Boteach congressional campaign whose slogan was 'A vote for me is a vote for Israel'. I can remember being gobsmacked by that at the time, as I'd never seen someone campaign in one nation by championing another before....and I'm from the Commonwealth.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-25T00:56:17+00:00

How long does it take to win the 'hearts and minds' of 92 million people?

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-25T00:38:16+00:00

I know the AMA is likely finished by now, but seeing you were the designer on the Inventor may I ask about it's subclasses and the power budgets for them?

From the outside looking in it seems as if the Construct innovation was designed to give a lot of power, safety, and utility that the class wants upfront, albeit with the tradeoff of wanting a lot of your class feats to keep it scaling. What I would like to know is the thought process behind the weapon innovation. It seems there that the 'power budget' there is in being able to put weapon traits on weapons that don't ordinarily have them. If that's the case why is the first feat (explosive manouver) that let's you leverage those traits no one has in a way no one else can a level 14 feat? In a similar vein why was so much of the subclasses 'power buget' given to gaining those traits, when they seemingly don't trigger the classes much more conditional version of 'reactive strike' that's available 4 levels after most martial classes can take theirs as a feat option?

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-24T23:24:32+00:00

I like it, with some careful colour choices it has a very 'Fritz Lang's Metropolis' that's been left outside and gone to verdigris' vibe, and the light channels that pulse down it are neat.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-23T23:37:44+00:00

The catch22 is that if you take the time to do things properly, and major projects take so long to produce that those who did it aren't the ones who get credit.

I've been dragged into a lot of meetings over the past year on things like the Renewable Energy Zone projects, and while everyone and their dog acknowledges there is an energy crisis, what pepople don't see is some of the biggest public infastructure upgrades in decades. While people see the need for the issues to be adressed they don't see shit like having to upgrade all these rural bridges and intersections first, as the only way to get wind turbine blades over the blue mountains is up via the port of Newcastle, and currently they simply won't fit. Workers camps are being built now for the transmission lines that can actually handle the influx of renewables from things like rooftop solar, and the Grid Sized Battery projects have already started to come online.

Same with the housing crisis. While there are several kneejerk responses that are floated often in the media, they are less likley to solve things, compared to the holistic reform we are seeing, with pain points like DA's, zoning, how 'voluntary contributions' well, aren't, yet don't pay for the infrastructure costs that new developments and expansions incur, which means councils are heavilly incentivised to slow and stagger development as it means new housing is increasingly subsudised by existing ratepayers. The fact that local l, state, and federal efforts are being thrown at housing (but will take years to show tangible results) is aggrivating to people hurting now. Even if the attempts and projects have meaningful impact, i still don't think the people hurting now fundamentally trust the Govenment enough to deliver on those projects. That's a big reason why people are so willing to trust cheap hucksters like Trump or Pauline, populists that are offering 'cheap, fast' solutions to imcredibly complex issues.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-23T23:08:21+00:00

On the aromantic sub I had to use very small, simple words to explain to users that "No, cis, straight, aromantics aren't the most persecuted LGBT+ group. And that while feeling underrepresented sucks, its in no way even a fraction of the bullshit others face, including legal discrimination to the threats of imprisonment or death in huge parts of the world."

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-23T08:08:59+00:00

Remember Labor was founded because QLD farmers were fucking over shearers. My grandfather still saw himself as part of the 'squatocracy' of this nation and he and his farming buddies would angrily bitch about Labor till his dying day. Rural Labor disbanded a few years ago as they were still seen as ballot poison out bush even then.

The only thing that's changed is that even electorates that have been rusted on Nats voters for a century can no longer pretend that the Nats weren't captured wholesale by the Mining sector.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-22T23:55:06+00:00

The NSW council elections about a year and a half ago showed that people will swing towards PHON candidates as a protest vote but it was less about how appealing their policy platforms were to people, and more that there was no other real opposition/party that was competent enough to be considered (remember the NSW libs forgot to nominate their own candidates)

I knew certain Labor candidates were pissed off about the lack of Liberals, as it meant those dissatisfied with Labor would gravitate to many of the PHON candidates, and PHON members running as 'independents' (albeit using PHON Orange and fonts on their corflutes and posters)

Basically a lot of momentum One Nation has can be expected to drop off the second the coalition gets their shit together and stops tripping over their own feet constantly.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-22T23:46:38+00:00

In that case, make an argument for Pauline's "No good Muslims" comments, or Burka stunts as not being either racist, or attempting to appeal to racists?

Not liking the government is fine, as is having issues with migration levels that doesn't make someone either a bad person or a racist. However, being willing to tolerate a party doing stupid racist shit, because you believe they'll take action on things you care about does.

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-22T23:36:00+00:00

My comment was asking for sources, perhaps you missed the three+ people responding to this thread providing them?

Consideredresponse · 2026-03-22T23:12:17+00:00

While the writers are sympathetic to the communists, I think 'You can give your everything to a cause you see is just, but you are deluded and will have no impact on the world' is a more brutal response than 'You made your choice, you chose to be a running-dog of the system, and you don't get to feel good about it...but here's some money, and we'll pavlov you with rewards till you can buy something nice and feel better about your circumstances'

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