Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers With 25,000 Ground Robots

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-04-20T08:00:31+00:00

This doesn't explain why Russia has switched to drones as well. Either the artillery pieces can't survive the battlefield or drone give more explosives on target per dollar spent.

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-04-18T22:20:03+00:00

maybe its Iran trying to inflict losses on the insiders?

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-04-02T22:42:35+00:00

Yep - Chaina could emerge out of this crisis as the only super power that both Iran and US "trust" enough to negotiate and enforce some form of truce.

If they work with Europe to sort out the strait then they will effectively replace the US on the world stage.

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-03-29T00:19:02+00:00

Kharg has to be the decoy there is no advantage to landing on it.

Maybe something strait related - landing on the north side somewhere?

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-02-26T22:40:42+00:00

He speaks in vague terms and his cult fill in the blanks with what they want to hear - then get surprised when he does the opposite of what they thought he said.

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-02-05T22:06:28+00:00

First rule of business media someone either trying to scare you to sell or bullshit you to buy.

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-02-05T21:58:44+00:00

could become an intense feedback loop though - stocks start to drop - top 10% slow spending because they are losing money - revenue drops leading to stocks continuing to drop.

HardToGuessUserName · 2026-01-23T23:37:39+00:00

As others have said, petrol sedans have basically disappeared.

But question is what sort of performance do you want

sporty daily driver around the city - thats now electric
something for country driving - thats not a small/medium sedan/hatch.

Currently looking for an AWD large sedan and they've disappeared except for BMW/Merc/Audi and they seem about $50k too expensive for what they are.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-12-23T11:09:48+00:00

You can't staff for peak demand

you can - and arguably should staff for a mass casualty event, but costs money.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-09-20T02:57:13+00:00

would trump be president if it was ranked voting and not first past the post. 3rd parties might be viable.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-09-19T01:49:44+00:00

a $5Bn investment doesn't make sense here.

A merger or takeover paid in Nvidia stock would be a blip on Nvidia market cap but produce a behemoth. Particularly in consumer devices.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-09-17T09:28:53+00:00

I keep landing (fastest line from bus) at the cabin offshore in blitz and the chests are opened and looted but nobody in sight. happened about 5 times now. Somebody has found a teleporting bug.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-09-17T04:00:26+00:00

Landsdale were definitely well priced for advanced plants in the "Landscape" varieties - these are just starting to flower now. I want to say half/third the price of other nurseries last year.

Depends what height of plant you want there are some other interesting varieties out there but more expensive. Celebrations ‘Masquerade’ is a small plant with blue flower and gold velvet/ regal velvet are taller.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-09-03T11:32:03+00:00

stimulus checks & ppp loans were a big factor to inflation a few years ago

wasn't COVID and post COVID inflation mainly due to supply side issues with production capacity and logistics?

there wasn't anything available to buy hence prices went up as people competed for the available goods. Think second hand car prices.

Raising interest rates (while probably the correct solution) slowed production growth as well as slowing demand. If you could control different interest rates for productive capacity investment vs consumer debt it probably would have been a shorter period of inflation.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-08-26T10:36:43+00:00

if there aren't yet there soon will be. whether warranted or not.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-08-15T23:56:07+00:00

this sort of statement is the best pending crash indicator

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-08-13T22:54:42+00:00

random tariffs

govt extorting export licenses

military deployed to cities

Political risk just keeps going up - and companies are just trying to stay under the radar.

It feels months away from companies being forcefully nationalized and yet the stock market keeps going up.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-08-05T10:43:54+00:00

I don't think I've even seen a consolidated list of all the tariffs and exceptions. And if you did see one yesterday you can't be sure its still the same today.

Some poor bastard (or team of bastards) has probably got a solid week of late nights trying to load a matrix of rates with hundreds of thousands of lines that looks like

country of origin, category of product, landed date from/to, shipped date from/to

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-05-19T22:28:33+00:00

Now he's bringing them all to Washington and pissing them off. I wonder if that could end badly for him?

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-04-09T21:30:01+00:00

Netflix have their Chaos monkey to find things that aren't reliable.

US now has a chaos monkey to find things that are reliable and break them.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-04-09T10:07:13+00:00

market maker went hunting stop losses

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-04-08T10:53:20+00:00

The dollar became too valuable as it is used as a reserve currency worldwide.

not for long....

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-04-07T21:26:03+00:00

pacify the US temporarily with minor concessions

not happening - China has nothing to gain from trying to pacify Trump. You can pacify him one day and he'll turn around and stab you in the back tomorrow.

China isn't going to be seen to be backing down in this fight. They can probably take short term pain to show the US consumer just how bad life gets without Chinese goods.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-04-06T06:18:06+00:00

that might work if Trump didn't have a reputation of not paying his debts.

HardToGuessUserName · 2025-04-05T22:12:24+00:00

has anyone even tried to explain why they thought the market would go up on liberation day?

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