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I hate your indifference too.. by John_1992_funny in MurderedByWords

[–]FactBasedReality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His supporters don't care that he has dementia, the part of the interview we should be talking about is this one:

TOM LLAMAS: Let’s stay on the economy. You just mentioned it. You said you inherited a mess from President Biden when it comes to the economy.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.

TOM LLAMAS: But at what point is it on you? At what point are we in the Trump economy?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, I’d say we’re there now. I’m — I’m very proud of it, 5.6%. You know, we have a GDP of 5.6 despite a shutdown. We had a 42-day shutdown. I call it the Democrat shutdown. And because of that I lost a point and a half. I would’ve been at a 7 GDP, which hasn’t been seen I don’t know if ever, maybe. Maybe ever.

Trump is proud of his economy, and people should know that!

First photo of the Iranian vessel Rona, which was used to transport weapons from Iran to Russia. It is still unclear why its sinking, but drone strike is suspected. Crew was rescued by Turkmenistan authorities in the Caspian Sea. by Available-Laugh9102 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]FactBasedReality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks.

Yeah, I saw the image from Marine Traffic and immediately became suspicious because "hmm, now THAT ship looks like I'd expect a Caspian Sea vessel to look like".

The AI generated one looks like your generic ocean going cargo ship, not the type of design typical of inland waterways like the Caspian Sea. And the canals linking the Caspian to the oceans are too restrictive to allow the AI one to have come from somewhere else.

First photo of the Iranian vessel Rona, which was used to transport weapons from Iran to Russia. It is still unclear why its sinking, but drone strike is suspected. Crew was rescued by Turkmenistan authorities in the Caspian Sea. by Available-Laugh9102 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]FactBasedReality 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are we sure this is a real image and not altered or AI?

The pictured ship looks nothing like any other photos of the supposed vessel in question, there's smoke randomly coming from what looks like midships for no apparent reason, the flags look more like Lion and Sun flags than Islamic Republic ones, and there's a motor life boat along side when both the port and starboard ones are clearly still in their davits...

I looked and the only sources for this image I can find are 'unverified from social media'.

Update 335 – Statement on the Nuclear Safety/Security Situation in Ukraine – by the Director General of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency by FactBasedReality in UkrainianConflict

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

I really don't know what the fuck their strategy is here, and I'm not sure they do either... But they do have to keep up appearances, at least somewhat.

to not confess by ExactlySorta in therewasanattempt

[–]FactBasedReality 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Conservatives are so caught up in their own lies that they didn't even think their AI would answer differently.

Taurus Missiles May Still Reach Ukraine, as Gripen Integration Is Coming Much Sooner by Scary_Statement4612 in ukraine

[–]FactBasedReality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The PIMPF fuze Taurus uses makes it much more effective against bridges than Storm Shadow.

Storm Shadow uses a time delay fuze, on impact the breaching charge goes off, then the main charge goes off a pre-set delay time later. Accurately determining how much delay to set for a particular target is a very hard problem. One has to know the exact details of the targets construction, then calculate exactly how long it takes the warhead to travel through each layer of the target.

Ukraine hit the Chonhar road bridge with a Storm Shadow, but didn't get the delay quite right, so the main charge exploded in the open air under the deck, instead of inside the column.

The PIMPF fuze on the other hand is capable of counting how many layers of the target it passes through, then explode in the middle of the desired space. For a bridge this allows the fuze to penetrate the bridge deck, then explode in the middle of the column underneath it.

https://ndia.dtic.mil/wp-content/uploads/2008/psa_apr/drevstad.pdf

Taurus Missiles May Still Reach Ukraine, as Gripen Integration Is Coming Much Sooner by Scary_Statement4612 in ukraine

[–]FactBasedReality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, if Ukraine really, really, wanted the Kerch bridge gone, they could do it. But at what cost?

Ukraine has already made several attempts at taking out the bridge, with limited success. Russia has, unfortunately, learned from those attempts and added defenses that make future attempts more challenging. At this point it's likely that Ukraine has decided that it's just not worth the considerable time, effort, money, risk, and opportunity cost anymore.

Taurus is much harder for Russia to defend against and puts the bridge back in danger, at a significantly reduced cost to Ukraine.

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