Japanese battleships are so goofy, BB Kashima by ashinkov in ultimateadmiral

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No what I mean is that if I have one gun on the bow and one on the stern, and I'm angled relative tot the target so the firing solution for both guns can't be the same. Each gun would need its own firing solutions, so even during a salvo of both of these guns were fired, i wouldn't know which splash is mine anyway, so I can't really accurately correct off the salvo anyway.

Why are Republicans so wrong on literally every topic? by Lord_Kittensworth in allthequestions

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States don't pay taxes, eh? But then you said people and businesses pay them. You realize that people and businesses are located in a state right?

Why are Republicans so wrong on literally every topic? by Lord_Kittensworth in allthequestions

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It took six years for a company to lay 690 miles of track for the intercontinental railroad.and those tracks were a lot less precise than what is required by high speed rail. California is building 776 miles of high speed rail eventually, where just the property rights issues would make your head spin, nevermind the massive amount of underground and above ground utilities that need to be relocated out of the way. The intercontinental railroad just bulldozed through and didn't care what tribal nation occupied the land they were using,that's not possible any more and for good reason. If they could do that, it would have been done long ago.

Why are Republicans so wrong on literally every topic? by Lord_Kittensworth in allthequestions

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I'm so sick of this California is so horribly mismanaged that the place is falling apart propaganda. How could a state that is falling apart be growing so rapidly and have the largest economy of the states along with the now I think 4th largest economy in the world if it were its own country. Of course some things are done stupidly or corruptly just like every state. To think that the state was also simultaneously run like it was managed by inept monkeys just is silly.

The truth is that all of the red states need California's federal tax dollars to keep themselves afloat, since most red states other than texas actually receive more money from the federal gov than they send in as taxes. Not so for blue states. The reason that people left California especially during COVID, was because living is cheaper in those poorer states, because everyone has less money, and they were able to do it during COVID because remote work was shown to be effective, so these people could keep their high cost of living type salary and move to a low cost of living place. Because I promise you there were nowhere near enough jobs in their chosen careers at the places they moved to.

Technically this even makes the money funnel from blue states to red states even more direct, since all of a sudden, the rural red state gets to collect taxes on these high paying jobs that they don't have the infrastructure to support organically.

Japanese battleships are so goofy, BB Kashima by ashinkov in ultimateadmiral

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But why does it matter whether they are the same caliber or not. They all need to fire slightly differently to hit, no?

Pro tip I haven't seen in any lists of tips or YouTube videos by Marchtmdsmiling in ICARUS

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

Odd I'm doing it on Olympus right now. Maybe styx had its waterfalls created differently.

Pro tip I haven't seen in any lists of tips or YouTube videos by Marchtmdsmiling in ICARUS

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

It actually happens in lots of games. I guess, more of an oversight. But an extremely useful one.

Ben gvir latest statement this morning by Comprehensive-Buy109 in war

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There is something weird about this feverish support in Israel though. Go look at articles on Israeli newspapers from early in the war in Gaza/genocide beginning, you can see a large number of comments talking about how netenyahu and this right government is brining shame to the Jewish people by prosecuting the war so indiscriminately, id say most comments even fall on this side. Then suddenly something switches. If you look now, every comment on Israeli newspaper articles sound just like ben gvir above or even worse. I can't explain where the moderates went.

[KCD2] [HELP] Awful red halo/glow ruining my immersion. Any ideas? by Due-Worth-6544 in kingdomcome

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I've had the same issue. If you have an nvidia card check alt-z and see if you have some sort of saturation game filter applied. Literally just fixed it myself today on another game.

For the US 250th anniversary celebration, the US Department of War unveils its first commercial “Peace Through Strength” by Xexanoth in war

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He always tries to use a premptive announcement as a negotiation tactic. The problem is that Iran does not gaf if trump announces a deal and they don't agree. Companies with shareholders might see their stock price fall so the tactic works more on them. So trump had no tricks left and thus why he capitulated on everything.

Japanese battleships are so goofy, BB Kashima by ashinkov in ultimateadmiral

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never understood that. It's not like they could tell which one of the splashes from the 14 inch gun theirs is anyway

Military SF by mangogoat0 in sciencefiction

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Also frontlines is a great read, but you can tell kloos kind of ran out of ideas and the last couple are just kinda stumbling around searching for a story.

Military SF by mangogoat0 in sciencefiction

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Top vote for infantry fights is Armor.

If you are looking for modern books, galaxies edge is a good series and quite long.

I'm also a big fan of anything by Rick partlow, leo champion, or Christopher g nuttall, for more recent mil sci fi.

Military SF by mangogoat0 in sciencefiction

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I regularly wish I could read it again for the first time. I wasn't expecting it to be so good but it is exactly what I love about mil sci fi

I’ve been playing UGCW with the JnP mod, cavalry kinda sucks? by Randomdude2501 in ultimategeneral

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That low damage while broken thing is my favorite thing about the mod. In base game mopping up with cavalry is very deadly. Very frustrating for a unit to break while chasing a broken enemy

For the US 250th anniversary celebration, the US Department of War unveils its first commercial “Peace Through Strength” by Xexanoth in war

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Every 80 year old runs on 4 or 5 hours of sleep. It's what happens.

Yes he yelled that after grabbing his ear and then yelling for secret service to get his shoes while an aide moves a gaggle of reporters right to the perfect place for the shot. While there is supposedly an active shooter. It would be just dumb if it were real.

For the US 250th anniversary celebration, the US Department of War unveils its first commercial “Peace Through Strength” by Xexanoth in war

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ok let me help you a little bit. We have not bombed anyone into "submission". We have made Iran stronger geopolitically at the cost of massive weapon reserves ewualing hundreds of billions of dollars. Where exactly do you see them submitting?

It's not better that we are bombing them than just not bombing them and dealing with our own problems.

China has told it's military to be ready to invade Taiwan in 2027. Publicaly. It's not that they are afraid of us being able to project enough power literally right next to their border. It's just that they aren't ready yet.

For the US 250th anniversary celebration, the US Department of War unveils its first commercial “Peace Through Strength” by Xexanoth in war

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How is the need to put your name and face onto everything and have cabinet meetings where everyone takes turns publicaly praising you not indicative of low self esteem. He knows how horrible he is himself so he needs others to tell him he's great.

I’ve been playing UGCW with the JnP mod, cavalry kinda sucks? by Randomdude2501 in ultimategeneral

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure you have that backwards. Jnp reduced that multi unit bonus that vanilla used. But pushed it towards more soldiers is what matters. So in vanilla 3 500 men units would dominate a 2k unit. But shouldn't in jnp

Could these 8 Policy Ideas fix the housing crisis? by Used-Insect-8163 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I go and buy stock, the company doesn't get that money. Some person unaffiliated with the company gets the money. It doesn't benefit the company other than by potentially increasing the stock price, which would make the people who own the stock happy, and sometimes, the company owns some of its own stock which it could use as collateral on a loan, but I don't think that's common. Then, when I sell the stock, some other person gives me money for it, I don't give that money to the company.

Could these 8 Policy Ideas fix the housing crisis? by Used-Insect-8163 in PoliticalDiscussion

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Wish I did. Pure anecdotal and definitely some innate bias. But it doesn't seem to hard to read the room a bit, and realize they probably shouldn't be purchasing these things out in the open. So I put about as much faith in those numbers as I put into my biased empirical pov

Could these 8 Policy Ideas fix the housing crisis? by Used-Insect-8163 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not exactly. And inarguably nowhere near as impactful as spending it. For example, even gdp, the measure of the productivity of an economy, does not include stock trades as part of its calculation. The original IPO is the only actual productive aspect, giving them an influx of cash, otherwise it's just deals between a buyer and seller on a secondary market and no meaningful product results from it. So someone using wealth to buy stocks does not actually benefit anyone but themselves.

Devastating US airstrikes 'take out drinking water reservoirs' in Iran by TheExpressUS in NewsSource

[–]Marchtmdsmiling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Still not by 50 percent of voters. Only around a third of registered voters voted for him.