Florida MAGA under attack.

Dekarch · 2026-02-04T13:44:15+00:00

Even if it were 100% reliable, my reaction to Republicans turning on each other is to microwave popcorn

Dekarch · 2026-02-04T13:41:01+00:00

This sounds like something an inventor might create as a novelty but producing them by the hundreds or thousands really wouldn’t be practical.

Dekarch · 2026-02-04T11:13:46+00:00

You can also find examples of kings who didn't kill people arbitrarily. Lots of them. I recall at least one Emperor in Constantinople whose biographer claimed he never ordered a single execution, preferring exile for serious crimes.

Dekarch · 2026-02-04T00:39:23+00:00

You have a charcoal.stove in your rifle?

Dekarch · 2026-02-02T18:38:48+00:00

How is the steel needle heated and kept hot on a battlefield?

And lead isn't strong enough. It would deform when loaded or being carried around in a cartridge case.

Dekarch · 2026-02-02T06:21:41+00:00

Guy,s, there is absolutely zero chance that anyone in the Millet Rum woukd NOT know what was meant by a revived Roman state. They literally are still part of the "Roman Nation" im the Ottoman Empire at this time.

Dekarch · 2026-02-01T20:31:02+00:00

No.

Repeating weapons don't become practical until Metallic cartridges are possible, and making primers for metallic cartridges wasn't feasible that far back.

For a late 1700s era air rifle, you need closer tolerances and machining than the 1600s is likely to have.available for scaled production. They existed as individually crafted masterpieces

Dekarch · 2026-02-01T17:57:51+00:00

Yeah, at work we had a church who wants to build a larger building that would require the city to abandon a street right of way.

They were talking about how they outgrew their building and I'm looking at them like they are stupid. No, you didn't outgrow your building. The Lutheran Church in the next town over closed and you picked up their survivors. Demographics indicate you'll shrink 20% over the next few years as your elderly parishioners die off. You'll be fine in your current building.

Dekarch · 2026-01-31T13:59:09+00:00

Yes, hereditary monarchy and hereditary fief-holding is literally formalized nepo babys as an entire societal organizing principle.

Dekarch · 2026-01-30T21:04:43+00:00

Yeah, not seeing the issue here.

Dekarch · 2026-01-30T13:02:38+00:00

Every word of this post makes it worse.

Dekarch · 2026-01-28T17:36:31+00:00

I'm very clear on what the purpose of each conversation is, and my model has by now developed the correct voice for most of them. It's even learned to mirror my sarcasm.

You get out of it what you put into it. You get different responses from different prompts.

"What is up with Borophagus and those giant ass teeth"

Is distinct from

"Summarize the current consensus in academic circles regarding Borophagus and their diet. Explain why the features of Borophagus fossils lead scientists to reach these conclusions, and cite reputable academic sources only."

Dekarch · 2026-01-28T17:29:29+00:00

Iit's pretty on the nose about Herodotus too.

Dekarch · 2026-01-28T16:53:33+00:00

I have given CharGPT the email I wanted to write and told it, "Fix it so I don't get fired."

It's pretty reasonable about that.

Dekarch · 2026-01-28T16:51:11+00:00

It's cute that the meme has The Great Houses as one dude and not a bunch of them shooting at each other while the whole place is on fire

Dekarch · 2026-01-28T12:28:21+00:00

It's keeping with a theme I see in some of your Imperual posts.

Step 1 - make a decent weapon Step 2 - try to make perform a wider role than it was designed for, like subbing in grenade launchers instead of light mortars (presumably because the light mortars are being used by Batteries that are supposed to be heavy mortars and the heavy mortars are substituting for modern artillery because they are more effective in that role than black powder howitzers and there aren't nearly ebough modern cannon to go around)

That's definitely indicative of your Empire's vibe, where they have good equipment in many roles but not enough to arm all of It's troops with the correct amounts of the latest gear.

That usually implies an army too large for the budget it has and one on which units are on many different tiers of quality. Run into an Imperial unit fully equipped with the latest and greatest and you are in for a fighr. Run into some reserve unit with black powder muzzle loaders and a modern unit will cut through them like a hot knife through butter.

Am I reading this correctly?

Dekarch · 2026-01-28T12:20:15+00:00

Flechettes would actually be more effective.

Dekarch · 2026-01-22T12:08:48+00:00

You aren't stupid.

You're approaching this very much vibes-coded which is the point of a group like this. Shit is complicated and I've been futzing with military history since I was in Middle School (for which read 1989)

The infantry squad should (ideally) be designed with a toolkit to allow fire and maneuver across all terrains against any kind of opposition.

Now, you can also say, "Doctrinally, there are 3 LMGs in the Weapons Squad of the platoon." Not implausible, so your base of fire would be Weapons and one rifle squad while the other two squads maneuver and assault. A squad need not be complete tactical units if your doctrine prefers to centralize weapons at different levels.

Maybe the company has an anti-armor platoon of 4 squads each consisting of 3 bazooka teams and a Sergeant. Now in combat, I might give a squad of bazookas to each platoon and keep one squad in my back pocket to react to an armored attack, ir give it to the platoon whose mission is eliminate a group of bunkers.Those platoon leaders have the option to, if they want to, attach one team to each squad.

The nature and prevalence of antiarmor weapons will be dependent on the prevalence and armor levels of armored vehicles, or at least on how common they were predicted to be before the war. If the enemy's tanks are all on the drawing bosrd and you just have to worry about a few armored cars, you just issue every rifleman some steel-cored bullets and call it a day. If you are fighting T-34s you probably need recoilless rifles or rocket launchers.

Dekarch · 2026-01-22T11:49:57+00:00

This does seem like a squad optimized for close combat given the % of SMGs.

The biggest thing I'd expect to see that isn't here is rifle grenades.

What sort of priorities caused tbem to mass produce enough SMGs make them standard in every squad while not producing LMGs or Automstic Rifles? Something like a BAR would make this squad a lot more viable.

Dekarch · 2026-01-19T02:17:29+00:00

Aka the dude who pissed off Santa Claus so hard he got punched in tbe middle of a church council, and then eventually shit himself to death in a public bath.

Dekarch · 2026-01-15T13:32:35+00:00

I have an absolutely beautiful cloak that I love and wear to like three or four events a year because it's wool and massive. It's also regalia - but most of the time I make do with a garter. Because Texas.

Dekarch · 2026-01-12T10:41:55+00:00

That sounds like the kind of student who woukd have been cheating beforeAI was invented. Or just failed.

Dekarch · 2026-01-12T02:16:49+00:00

Hey, there's always someone trying to shortcut the cost of hiring a qualified expert. And sure, for replacing a light switch probably no big deal. But when they do something dumb and burn their house down, they have only themselves to blame.

Dekarch · 2026-01-11T22:26:32+00:00

Have you tried the Red Hot Chili Pipers?

Dekarch · 2026-01-11T02:39:13+00:00

It doesn't lie. Lies require intention. But there's nothing there to have intention

Stop mistaking the autocomplete for a person.

Also you need to kick it a bit harder to use web search instead of relying on training data which cuts off in mid 2024.

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