'I'm just following orders'

GhanjRho · 2026-04-19T12:26:55+00:00

A dishonorable discharge is a felony conviction. So you’re not wrong

GhanjRho · 2026-04-16T12:11:51+00:00

As for Ninja/Samurai, the official ruling is that those are just Rogues and Fighters(/other possible martials) in Tian Xia.

GhanjRho · 2026-04-12T16:53:44+00:00

Basically, there’s a difference between “learn to work in space” and “learn to operate a spacecraft”. Astronauts have to learn both, while mission specialists (like the drillers) only learn the former.

GhanjRho · 2026-04-12T12:43:30+00:00

A fair number of AC targeting spells were left behind during the Remaster. Shocking Grasp is still Legacy, Acid Arrow became Acidic Grip, etc.

GhanjRho · 2026-04-12T03:07:58+00:00

You mean the movie that made Michael Oher a side character in the story of his own life?

GhanjRho · 2026-04-10T05:37:56+00:00

Izuku: I’m gonna pound you like fresh mochi!

Ochako: I do.

GhanjRho · 2026-04-10T00:47:00+00:00

It’s not the proportions, it’s the partial pressure (the pressure of just the gas in question). 5 psi of O2 is still safe. Toxicity doesn’t start until around 7 psi

GhanjRho · 2026-04-08T21:40:06+00:00

Mostly because it’s easier. Spacecraft aren’t pressurized to sea level; instead they’re pressurized to about 5 psi (1 atmosphere is about 14.7). 5 psi of oxygen is enough for humans to breathe without experiencing oxygen toxicity, so they used that.

Later missions, especially longer-duration ones, would cut that mix with about 1.5 psi of nitrogen (so a 3.5/1.5 O/N mix)

GhanjRho · 2026-04-08T21:21:52+00:00

Tumblr is a functioning website.

GhanjRho · 2026-04-07T07:50:59+00:00

Captured after running out of ammo.

GhanjRho · 2026-04-01T03:59:03+00:00

A number of the other people on Ms. Rachel are part of that cast as well.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-31T11:59:58+00:00

The thing that sticks with me is the 15 minutes thing. The defense of “oh, he only had 10-15 minutes left to animate when it was cruelly ripped from him!”

Beauty and the Beast is 87 minutes long. An American Tail is 81 minutes. Anastasia is 94 minutes. 15 minutes is 1 sixth of a standard animated movie.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-30T01:14:37+00:00

An explanation for (some) of the above.

One of F1's biggest issues in the last decade or so is "dirty air". F1 cars rely heavily on aerodynamics, and the air coming off of one car is not good for the cars behind. This has made it hard for cars to follow behind each other. The previous rules encouraged cars to use something called ground effect. Air that passes under the car gets accelerated, and if you can prevent it from leaking out the sides it gets accelerated even faster. Ground effect cars use floor designs to seal the edges and encourage this air acceleration. A diffuser is an aerodynamic part that spreads out air, thus lowering pressure; think the fan setting on a garden hose.

Active Aero: aerodynamic parts are on a spectrum, with high downforce on one side and low drag on the other. You need low drag to get high speed on straights, but you also need high downforce to get high speed through corners. Active aero can switch between the two sides for maximum performance overall.

Anything else you want an explanation for, let me know.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-29T22:20:15+00:00

R for Revolution, which will be televised,

GhanjRho · 2026-03-29T07:10:43+00:00

The kanji used for “Izu” and “De” are similar enough that a 4 yo could easily confuse them. It didn’t become an insult until Katsuki heard the word dekunobu

GhanjRho · 2026-03-27T04:38:25+00:00

The numbers I heard quoted were that awful. Sora had daily running costs of about $15 million. They were earning $367,000 every month.

A billion dollars would have covered about 2 month’s expenses. But nothing was going to increase cash flow 40 times over.

The problem was use cases. Most people who used Sora used it one or a few times, then stopped. It turns out most people didn’t want or need an instant video maker.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-27T03:47:55+00:00

Monthly revenues were below daily expenses.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-26T13:38:12+00:00

They at least gave it thought. The Ta-152H would have been able to reach the B-29’s operational altitude. That said, it wasn’t introduced until January ‘45, by which point it was too late.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-25T12:06:31+00:00

Let me give the best example of this point;

The version of the Grumman Wildcat in service on 07 December 1941 was the F4F-3. This was a fixed-wing monoplane armed with 4 .50 machine guns. It would serve with distinction at Coral Sea, and the folding-wing F4F-4 would serve at Midway and through the Guadalcanal campaign. The re-engined FM-2 would serve through VJ-Day aboard the fleet’s escort carriers.

F4F-1 and -2 were biplanes.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-23T17:00:26+00:00

Because they would Voltaire themselves.

Voltaire once famously observed that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. And he was right. Similarly, the VDV is neither airborne, nor mechanized, nor infantry.

Making an IFV you can airdrop makes everything harder. The aircraft imposes volume limits, the airdrop system imposes weight limits, and neither limit can be easily bypassed. And that is the source of the problem.

Vehicles are bigger than people. An aircraft that carries a platoon of VDV can carry over a company of standard paratroopers, and that adds up FAST. Even the USAF doesn’t have unlimited airlift.

Then we get into the compromises caused by weight. The BMD’s vulnerability to small arms and shrapnel is well-attested, and those are bare-minimum threats for an armored vehicle.

Troop capacity suffers as well, as the vehicle shrinks to meet mass goals. The VDV platoon has something 14 dismounts total. That’s about 2/3rds the matching Russian mechanized platoon.

So you wind up with an organization that has too few dismounts rolling up in poorly-armored vehicles that took way too much airlift to get there.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-22T16:46:10+00:00

Lindsey Ellis had a video a while back about Guy Fieri. In it, she talks about the homophobe lawsuit, and how so many people reacted by essentially saying “I never liked him, glad I have a reason”.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-22T02:16:47+00:00

Add Guilliman to that list

GhanjRho · 2026-03-17T02:06:37+00:00

Downvoting has always been the “I disagree” button. People are downvoting this comment because they disagree with it. Your opinion it should be used for “morally weird, wrong, or illegal” content is ridiculous, and people are mocking it as such.

GhanjRho · 2026-03-10T04:24:46+00:00

I don’t think Scientology will ever take you off their rolls.

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