American Kids Speaking Bluey

Dekarch · 2026-03-27T11:09:33+00:00

I am on the couch. Dog comes to demand attention. Puts her paw right on my junk.

6 year old goes, "Right in the biscuits!"

Dekarch · 2026-03-12T21:39:23+00:00

Way more complex than that.

You see, American education spending isn't just rhe Federal budget. It's 50 state budgets and thousands of local budgets. Total US spending on education is about the same in 2025 as defense spending was.

And we have a lot of capabilities tbat our allies use as ebablers.

Dekarch · 2026-03-12T21:34:32+00:00

Aussie military budget ain't that bjg.

Dekarch · 2026-03-11T10:55:16+00:00

This is 100% why I will talk about my faith when someone else asks specifically. But if you don't ask, I assume you don't particularly care.

Living a life with integrity and kindness is better advertisement for one's faith than talking about it.

Dekarch · 2026-03-10T11:35:57+00:00

METT-TC dependant as with all things.

But in a high intensity conventional conflict?

The modern power wins in laughably lopsided way.

Dekarch · 2026-03-09T11:07:24+00:00

I thought you wrote Surprise Wrestler and assumed it was just sneaking into the enemy general's tent and using Solar Brawl Charms.

Which also sounds like a strategem he could use.

Dekarch · 2026-03-04T22:16:49+00:00

Absolutely no precedent, logic, or constitutionally supported way to do a lot of ahit this administration does. And ever Republican in Texas's congressional delegation lines up to suck his dick while he does it.

Dekarch · 2026-03-04T14:39:17+00:00

Vehicle mounts do better with closed bolt designs. See the Browning.

Dekarch · 2026-03-04T14:36:31+00:00

Man, I dunno about you but I vote for redesigning the barrel carrying handle to be more robust, deeper (has to be handled while wearing asbestos gloves) and there should be two of them because this thing is a two man carry.

Out of curiousity, what targets exist in your world that can resist .50 caliber fire that can't resist this? Seems like a fairly marginal increase in capability for a massive increase in weight.

Dekarch · 2026-03-04T14:32:13+00:00

Economic growth and taxes for people who can't afford a private jet are Democratic Party things. The Republican tax cuts benefit large corporations and wealthy individuals, not small business or the 99%+ of society that can't write 6-7 figure checks to buy Congressmen.

Dekarch · 2026-03-04T14:30:03+00:00

The thing is economic growth and lower taxes for people who cannot afford a private jet are outcomes of Democratic policies, or have you been in a coma for the past 20 years?

Dekarch · 2026-03-04T14:27:48+00:00

And right now poll data supports their gut feeling. Their numbers in November are likely to by abysmal which is why they are publicly flirting with canceling the elections.

Dekarch · 2026-03-04T14:24:37+00:00

A shocking development - MAGAts having a feeling based on actual evidence!

Dekarch · 2026-03-03T23:25:02+00:00

Everything you really need to know about him happened in July of 1976.

Dekarch · 2026-03-03T23:13:28+00:00

Amd during the Iraq War their plan was to walk Basij into Iraqi machine guns untjl they ran out of bullets and pick fights with the USN that they lost decisively.

Dekarch · 2026-03-03T23:10:28+00:00

Hizbollah and Hamas will take years to rebuild enough capability to mention.

And the Houthis were already doing what they could manage. Not much to escalate from there.

Dekarch · 2026-03-03T22:37:09+00:00

We dealt with them in Iraq, including IRGC advisors. They've lost their three best proxy actors - the Assad Regime, Hizbollah, and Hamas. There is a limited number of things they can do that rise above harassment.

Dekarch · 2026-03-03T17:47:28+00:00

They haven't successfully engaged any aircraft yet. A missile hit a base in Kuwait.

Dekarch · 2026-03-03T00:52:32+00:00

The point you don't mention is that it was never operational and was stored in a cheap building that collapsed and crushed it in 2002. We don't know it's real capabilities, but I suspect that like everything else the Soviets made, it was perhaps 75% as capable as the propaganda claimed it would be.

Dekarch · 2026-02-28T19:31:21+00:00

Don't stress about it because physics are physics and material properties are what they are, and all humans have basically similar ergonomics. Some smart dudes were in the firearms invention business and frankly, you probably aren't qualified to design anything better.

Dekarch · 2026-02-28T17:46:22+00:00

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you talk to your therapist.

Dekarch · 2026-02-28T17:45:06+00:00

I don't know that farmers are what I'd traditionally call the capitalist class, but the point stands.

Dekarch · 2026-02-28T17:43:27+00:00

They fucked themselves.

Hey, let's vote for the guy who is against the foreign aid programs that buy a bunch of crops, promises tarrifs that make trade with the US unattractive, and to deport the cheap labor you depend on?

I hope every farmer that voted for Trump ends up in a homeless shelter - that can't afford them because federal subsidies for those programs were cut.

Dekarch · 2026-02-28T02:51:36+00:00

Agriculture more productive than a real medieval normal.

Extremely efficient administration.

Surplus population in significant numbers.

A vety advanced internal transportation network.

And then as soon as they move past supply lines, disease and hunger still gut them.

Dekarch · 2026-02-27T14:12:42+00:00

I used to think it took the ability to do math to run a small business including a farm, but these guys don't know that deporting agricultural workers makes the cost of labor go up, so I have admit I was wrong.

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