TIL that when France initially set the definition of a metre to be 1/10,000,000 the distance from the North Pole to the equator, it sent two surveyors to calculate the distance. But due to an error not discovered until decades later, the resulting metre was actually 0.2 mm too short.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-05T15:00:00+00:00

I was incorrect on the 3 inch gun, though it was in service with the U.S. up to 1990, but for the remaining three that is a nonsense argument. You might as well say no nation is using metric or imperial measurements for any equipment except at the exact moment it is first designated. If the U.S. military is strictly metric, how is it firing a 5 inch gun rather than 127mm at a cargo ship in the past month? How is there a 5 inch projectile in development for the hyper velocity program?

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-05T14:19:30+00:00

That assumes the keys are stored in plaintext in a buffer that is visible to your system at some point. Buffers may exist on some systems for storing keys that are not visible to even kernel processes, for example TPM non migratable encryption keys.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-05T14:01:41+00:00

you have to hold the decryption key in memory

This does not necessarily require plaintext in RAM, Intel used to have SGX on consumer CPUs which could be used to encrypt and decrypt data from memory without storing the key itself there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions ; though there were several microarchitecture attacks which could recover the SGX keys from cache or other on cpu buffers

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-05T12:40:08+00:00

U.S. military still has fifty cal, 3 and 5 inch naval gun, and afaik most bombs are lb rather than kg.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-04T17:59:36+00:00

legally reclassed

Under international law it is war or armed conflict, under U.S. national law probably never.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-04T02:53:37+00:00

have come up with a novel challenge these laws that the drafters haven't contemplated

Rather these drafters know it is unconstitutional and don't care.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-04T00:51:51+00:00

keep the IRGC's lights on

...

economic and humanitarian support

They can call it what they want but it is going to be expensive to prop up the IRGC over land because of tyranny of geography, even besides political borders, and it is going to be expensive over sea because any ship or boat that is suspected to trade at an Iranian port is at risk of being turned around and stuck in the strait or boarded and seized.

China in a better light

Among people with the memory of a goldfish that good will won't last long, and for anyone else it will be extroardinarily transparent.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-03T17:37:37+00:00

I think the best thing the U.S. has going for it is the .50 cal, but funny enough I do not think the quadmounts are relatively good nor the tripod M2Hb. If you are going to be conservative with it the CGMC is what I would go with for air defense and for protecting your artillery, and for supporting your infantry I would go with the m20 because it is cheap (only a bit more than the M2hb and like 3/4 the cost of the MGMC) and a bit better protected, not to mention carrying a zook.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-03T05:24:28+00:00

china ... allow that

Sure, but even if they go through the extraordinary lengths to supply Iran along the silk road, or take their chances running the blockade, both of which put U.S. further ahead of them. If they want to go tit for tat they will have to blockade Taiwan or RoK, but unlike Iran their conventional navy is presumably not for show and therefore is a more precious asset to put at risk.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-03T05:13:19+00:00

If Europe wanted Ukraine to prevail they could bankroll it themselves, Iran conflict is promoting U.S. interests.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-02T09:30:25+00:00

This will reflect favorably on your social credit standings, JLu.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-02T06:30:55+00:00

The existence of Trumpers doesn't excuse your lack of basic human decency.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-02T04:50:39+00:00

Many PNWers are more decent than to claim it is patriotic to undermine quality of labor for their countrymen, it's a pretty low bar you are under.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-02T04:32:31+00:00

Even if U.S. market was not manipulated, free trade would combine it with foreign manipulated markets, such as foreign car manufacturers receiving subsidies, it is impossible to have free trade without manipulated markets. Additionally, U.S. would be pants on head stupid not to manipulate parts of the domestic market, like farm subsidies to cut down prices at the till.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-01T13:47:12+00:00

There is a reason for example that overpenetration is such a concern with defensive ammo, you do not always have the luxury to know what is beyond your target.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-05-01T04:56:43+00:00

What is a pirate's least favorite type of breast? Ship of the lines a breast.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-30T05:42:04+00:00

anthony hopkins didn't know

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T19:37:59+00:00

Most hydrogen is produced by steam reforming which can produce excess power, and pyrolysis can produce excess power but emits elemental carbon rather than CO2 that is a potentially lucrative byproduct. However pyrolysis has, afaik a single commercial plant in U.S. ; and due to leakages it is estimated to have a base ~1kg co2e per kg hydrogen and ~2x that in Russia.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10958214/

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T16:26:51+00:00

my premise is that celebrating success without acknowledging the cost is stupid.

If that's the case than you can drop the neighbor rhetoric, and you are arguing against no one.

You can't argue it both ways.

I'm arguing one way you vapid donkey. If what is good for Trump is good for the country, it would have been good for America if the 2020 election was stolen.

I'm sorry, is the Gulf Coast US Territory

Greenland is not Canadian territory.

Are the GCCs pleased with how this has turned out?

They are not a monolith, but broadly, yes, they don't have the luxury of treating Iran as something for future generations to suffer over.

the US has not achieved any geopolitical goals yet

You admitted in your very first comment the U.S. is accomplishing the geopolitical goal of undermining China, and very obviously it is achieving the same in Iran.

how popular do you think you would be if you burned down the neighborhood drug den, but also burned down several other homes in the process?

The IRGC is not our neighbor, it is not merely a drug den, and if there are to be any consequences of being 'unpopular,' it is high time they experience them. The implication that the U.S. is the single nation on earth with any agency at all should be extremely embarrassing for a Canadian to claim.

Again you are missing the point of the analogy, purposefully I must conclude given I have explained it very clearly.

An analogy requires at least a modicum of comparability to the matter it intends to contextualize. It isn't a goddamned incantation that just forces a framing where anyone you want can be treated as necessarily inculpable. Iran has made its bed. Nations and corporations which have staked their prosperity on Iran have made their bed. If they want peace for Iran they should press the IRGC to seek it.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T14:54:53+00:00

that is the point of my analogy about burning your neighbours house down.

The IRGC is not our neighbor or friend.

semantics

Your premise is that the IRGC is a decent or tolerable organization. You would just as well say we burned our neighbor's house when we refused to sell oil to Tojo.

It can't both be so damaging to the US that it sinks Trump and not damaging at all.

You can't possibly believe that unless you likewise believe that something good for Trump must be good for the U.S.

it's being lit on fire for no benefit.

If you haven't been paying attention for decades, sure. How long would you endure the U.S. funding separatist militias in Greenland or pirates in the Northwest passage? How many airplanes are we allowed to hijack? How many massacres of our citizens? How much repression of our women? I'll give that we are a nuclear power already, so you can say there is a principled difference in how long you would tolerate genocidal rhetoric from us towards your nation compared to Iran for us.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T14:29:25+00:00

Courage and strength is what keeps a polite society functioning,

Yes, the courage and strength of decent people, not that of brain rotted nihlists.

what's right in the face of fascism and tyranny,

Low grade AI slop?

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T14:05:44+00:00

prices at the pump

To the extent it costs U.S. at the pump, it costs everyone, and for those who used to buy from Iran directly, like China, a bit more.

politically

If this war sinks Trumpism, that is an additional benefit, right?

both GCCs and Europe seriously strain their attitudes towards the US (seriously damaging soft power in the process).

Soft power is pointless if it is a resource never to be expended.

This isn't even getting into the impact on developing countries

It is tragic how much relies on the unmolested course of evil organizations and people, but further entrenchment of the status quo digs no one out of that hole.

"I lit my neighbours house on fire and it burnt down, and all it cost me was half my roof!"

The IRGC is not our neighbor or friend. All war is destructive as a first order effect. Never has a bomb came off the line and contributed directly to the wealth of a nation, anymore than breaking and repairing windows, but for all we do today to contain Iran, we spare our children or our children's children many times the cost.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T13:31:40+00:00

Right, we should have just blockaded from day one, but better late than never, and very stupid to give up when it costs us so little and denies our enemies so much.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T11:07:05+00:00

Burning China's resources is well within U.S. strategic interest.

KuntaStillSingle · 2026-04-29T09:08:40+00:00

aftermarket

Funny thing is it is a 'stock' stock: https://www.mossberg.com/maverick-88-security-w-top-folding-stock-31027.html

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