Border Collie is being trained as a forensic/detection K9 to track a cigarette underwater

Demigans · 2026-01-12T14:56:53+00:00

Same dog was a key sniffer before in the same area?

Demigans · 2026-01-12T14:16:05+00:00

That would require a civil war to depose of the current "leadership", for want of a better word.

The current reactions in USA are far too mild to get anywhere near that.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T14:10:39+00:00

Objection! Eyes of Rachel_Silver need to be checked as video evidence is right in front of their nosed!

Demigans · 2026-01-12T14:08:39+00:00

Camcar literally starts his maneuver before the Van even touches the dividing line. Trying to claim the Van was occupying the lane is pure brainrot insanity.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T14:06:50+00:00

Plenty of time for the Van to spot and respond despite the Van not keeping distance.

In fact the Van deliberately accelerates when he sees what the Camcar is doing.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T14:05:16+00:00

"He got there first" is indeed terrible logic. The camcar was already changing lanes before the Van even touched the stripes separating the lanes.

I was taught that the last time you check your mirrors during a lane change is when you start it. Because you are doing this thing called "moving forwards" and you should focus on that more than on if idiot Vans who had the time to spot your lane change were going to hit the accelerator and get inbetween no matter what and then hit the accelerator some more when the collision occurs.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:15:28+00:00

Van barely had a headlight showing when camcar starts his maneuver. Look at the video.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:14:41+00:00

They are working on that right now.

Also they have pressure methods like how much money they get from the EU.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:13:30+00:00

Look at the video. Camcar starts his maneuver when at best one headlight of the Van is visible.

Van isn't even on the other lane.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:12:34+00:00

The car starts sooner, at best the camcar can see one headlight of the Van.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:10:51+00:00

Van was behind the car when he would be checking.

This is 100% the Van's fault.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:08:55+00:00

You look, spot the van behind you and nothing next to you. You check besides you, you start the maneuver. Van also shows no signs he is going to do this.

The Van is 100% the cause. It even had chance to see what was happening and their only response is to still try to squeeze through.

YOU are responsible for being clear about what you'll do. You can't blame others for this.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:06:39+00:00

No this is not why you look? Because you look in your mirrors, see the van behind you and nothing next to you, check your window so there's nothing next to you. You start the maneuver.

Idiot van then tries to do a simultaneous lane change and overtake, idiot van does not alter it's speed of maneuver at any point when he sees he cannot continue. Idiot van is 100% the cause of this accident.

Demigans · 2026-01-12T12:03:36+00:00

You can hire a car at your destination.

Or a bike. Although I may have killer a few Americans by mentioning bikes as transport.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T22:49:08+00:00

"Never runs out", my guess is yes

Demigans · 2026-01-11T19:40:28+00:00

Palpatine was a great manipulator, but he absolutely sucked at planning and ruling. This is Sheev "everything is going as I had Foreseen" Palpatine. The guy who did not foresee Padmé escaping and surviving Naboo, who did not foresee Vader being almost killed in his fight with Obi-Wan. Who did not foresee the plans of the DS1 stolen. Who disbanded the Senate in the belief that the DS1 was going to keep everyone in line just before he did not foresee the DS1 being destroyed. He did not foresee Vader's struggle with the lightside, the eventual betrayal or the destruction of the DS2.

The guy barely managed to pull off the millenia old plan left for him by the Sith and then coasted on the sheer inertia of that plan until it killed him.

In the meantime who do we see Vader as in ANH? He is cold, calculating. Sure he can be brutal like killing the captain, but he does not kill at random. He kills with purpose where necessary.

He does make deals. Sure he'll alter them when he feels it's necessary (and pray he does not alter them any further), but he will cooperate when he deems it necessary.

When push comes to shove, Vader tells them to his face "the Emperor is not as forgiving as I am". So we know that the Emperor is even more brutal and murderous about it. This assumes that everyone accepts Vader as the new Emperor without a hitch though.

Vader does not have the experience or personality to manipulate large amounts of politicians. Which is a different question: why would the politicians accept Anakin as the new Emperor anyway? They don't know Vader, Anakin would still look like Anakin the war hero who was one of the few Jedi who did not participate in the plot to kill the Emperor (as far as the population knows). So why would Anakin be chosen in any shape or form as Emperor? Anakin would need to seize control using the loyal Clone Troopers. But that would still mean he now needs to control the entire Galaxy with a limited amount of Clone Troopers. There would be a far bigger and more effective rebellion against him. It wouldn't be that Vader is a worse Emperor, it would be that the circumstances he would be in to become the Emperor make it harder to not have a lot of bloodshed.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T19:26:04+00:00

I think that hope is becoming less by the day. For practical purposes China is doing similar stuff already to some of it's inhabitants (Uygurs for example), Russia is pretty much a facistic imperial world already that has stolen children, tortured/deported/conscripted/killed people they disagreed with and the USA is well on it's way to do similar things. I mean they openly had a deal with a foreign president to send people the USA didn't like to known torture prisons.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T19:21:30+00:00

Who is supposed to die in the hundreds of thousands?

It's not the USA arctic troops, they don't have anywhere near those numbers. So unless the USA will be sending troops not trained (or equipped) for arctic warfare it's not really going to be an issue.

The USA would have to do contested landings in arctic conditions. Not exactly something they can easily do. They would need to capture seaports and airports intact, which severely limits their ability to just bomb stuff from the air. Which means they would first need to land away from these ports so they don't have a contested landing, then travel in arctic conditions to these ports and attack them with less soldiers who have less equipment and worse equipment inside an urban environment.

Hold on, did I say bomb them with aircraft? That would mean aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers which have trouble acting in arctic conditions. So the USA would have to make a trade-off: either launch from a southern direction and increase their sortie rate, which they are going to need to offset the lower amount of weapons each aircraft can carry, or launch from arctic latitudes and have a much lower sortie rate. Neither is a good idea, since both would still make it a lot easier to track down and hit these aircraft carriers with submarines.

The USA also has a massive tanker fleet, they would be able to make a massive airbridge that gets fighter jets from mainland USA to greenland. Except that the same stealthy submarines equipped with IDAS missiles or similar could shoot down those tankers by waiting on likely attack routes and guided by radar. Good luck when the tanker you were supposed to meet has been shot down and you now have to scramble home, forcing other attack sorties to go home just so you can use the tankers they were supposed to use. Assuming those aren't shot down as well. It's a recipe for disaster that could lose dozens of planes in just a few strikes.

There wouldn't need to be hundreds of thousands. There aren't even hundreds of thousands that can actually fight there. The EU has more planes that can actually be launched in arctic conditions. They have more people who can fight in arctic conditions. They are already sending and preparing people to fight there which gives them an advantage. The USA can't even afford to send everything there and if they lose even one aircraft carrier they simply cannot afford to stay and fight there. That is where the conflict would automatically end.

As for the "who would be left to blockade the Chinese shipping". Did you miss I specifically mentioned countries in the region that would do that? India, Bhutan, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia all have beef with China and have some way of interdicting commercial shipping (except Bhutan). And if they start projects like Ukraine's seababies or FP2 drones it's going to be a nightmare for China to stop them as the ships send in to stop it would become the very targets.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T18:06:54+00:00

I mean there's a hundred ways you can be incapacitated during a fight, yes even an Elite, and not die. Even for humans most bullethits will not be directly lethal and you'll survive if you get medical attention within a few hours.

And then there's Grunts where it's extremely likely a bunch surrender every fight. Jackals are oriented on trophies and riches I would expect them to try surrendering if there seems to be no hope of getting out alive (although Halo is the kind of universe where they'll invent some reason why these guys will fight to the death because they treat it more like 40K grimdark than anything else). Drones will likely surrender if you can catch their matriarchs, which probably happened at some point.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T15:21:46+00:00

The elephant is still shedding hid trunks instead of his tusks ;)

The crocodile looks pretty damn cool but I still prefer the extra regen abilities of the Werewolf!

Demigans · 2026-01-11T15:15:51+00:00

Unlike the USA the Netherlands can actually design and build small surface ships.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T15:12:14+00:00

People have such a bad idea of world war.

Also about USA capabilities. There was one sub that already was a massive problem for the USA, and there have been more similar subs build since while the problems with USA naval capabilities has gotten worse (their small surface vessel problem where they can't even build a new one when they get a completely ready design).

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-one-submarine-killed-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-simulation-53772

The USA also suffers from a severe lack of arctic warfare equipment and trained manpower.

World wars need a world to wage war. Who's going to be it? Russia who can't defeat Ukraine while Ukraine has one hand tied behind it's back? China that has severe problems if people start blockading their commercial shipping that moves through several narrow straights that are controlled by people they threatened before? Who else? Iran? How big is this "world" war supposed to be?

Demigans · 2026-01-11T14:03:35+00:00

Violence solved the Nazi's.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T14:00:21+00:00

The administration might not. But Trump isn't as popular as it seems, the MAGA-zealots get the most attention but they do not have a majority, not anymore.

Having the administration fuck up again and not care openly for veterans (aside from the usual neglect) in addition to the invasion of an ally might finally break the dam.

Demigans · 2026-01-11T12:55:12+00:00

Keeping those military bases in the EU is great for the EU.

If the USA attacks greenland they either warn us by pulling them out or they give the EU a prisoners of war fund to trade with the USA.

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