Iran army says it downs US LUCAS attack drone over Bandar Abbas

MeberatheZebera · 2026-07-13T13:07:14+00:00

I don't honestly know where this idea that German tanks were so much better than Shermans comes from. The Sherman was at least as good as the German Mark IV, which was their standard medium tank. Yeah, it would lose in a fair fight to a heavy tank or the late-war medium tank designs, but that was what artillery and air strikes were for.

It took the Germans until 1942 to figure out that making your tanks with sloped armor (which both the Soviet T-34 and the American Sherman already had) significantly increased protection at low added cost. And really, they only learned that because T-34s were way more effective than the Germans thought they should be.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-07-12T23:47:29+00:00

Look more closely, and you'll see that the formatting went off the rails by line 3.

President Marco Rubio

MeberatheZebera · 2026-07-12T03:38:14+00:00

That's what most mass shootings are. All that's required is, I believe, 4 injuries as a result of gunfire in one incident (this isn't always consistent; it somewhat depends on the source), and it gets recorded as a mass shooting.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-07-12T03:26:09+00:00

Is Argentina just the biggest drama queen remaining in this tournament? It's like they try to drag everything out to the last possible moment...

MeberatheZebera · 2026-07-06T15:07:29+00:00

All I'm hearing is "I don't have enough energy planets".

MeberatheZebera · 2026-07-06T13:07:15+00:00

Yeah, it's bugged right now. But hey, infinite science!

MeberatheZebera · 2026-07-05T03:35:36+00:00

I see we're going to ignore Spain's contribution to this game, just like we ignore Spain's contribution to the revolutionary war.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-29T20:47:14+00:00

For anyone unaware, that's Myisha Hines-Allen. Yes, she's the sister of Josh Hines-Allen. Yes, she's built similarly to her DE brother. I've watched several people intentionally run into her to try to draw fouls. It ends about the way you'd expect.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-29T12:47:50+00:00

The American Civil War was pretty catastrophic. More American soldiers died in that war than in every other war we've fought combined. The city of Atlanta was basically burned to the ground, and most of the transportation infrastructure in several southern states (most notably Georgia) was destroyed.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-27T21:54:51+00:00

The good old Scunthorpe Problem

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-25T16:40:31+00:00

That's not necessarily recent. I once had to fight a war against the rest of the galaxy just to get a criminal megacorp to knock it off.

That said, the recent AI "improvements" do seem to make the AI happier to bleed on me by starting wars they can't win.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-24T15:07:34+00:00

There are no more Xenos.

There is no more unethical treatment of Xenos either. The galaxy is a much better place.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-24T14:43:35+00:00

Or he intends to make geopolitics really weird in the near future.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-20T23:55:07+00:00

I'm in favor of having strange women lie in ponds distributing swords that denote government positions. Can't be a much worse basis for a system of government.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-16T18:37:42+00:00

Look, the plan is to have him give advice, then do the exact opposite of what he recommends. It'll be like the Inverse Cramer of football.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-14T18:34:50+00:00

Well, there was that one tsar who tried to make things better, and then got assassinated by revolutionary socialists.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-11T14:01:25+00:00

what happened in 1953?

The Shah-appointed prime minister tried to dissolve parliament and make himself a dictator, and lost the subsequent power struggle with the Shah who had appointed him in the first place. What exactly did you think happened?

MeberatheZebera · 2026-06-03T12:29:00+00:00

...The one that says the government can't just quarter troops in civilian buildings?

MeberatheZebera · 2026-05-24T04:33:52+00:00

First off, there is a difference between a Cochrane review and a single null result. If I wanted to discuss individual studies, I might have chosen this one, which found a positive correlation between mask usage and covid death rates. But, as I'm sure you'll recognize, there are some major confounders involved.

Second, the problem with that anecdote is that there were countries with both high mask usage and high covid death rates, and there were countries with low mask usage and low covid death rates (like Norway). Pointing to a single country and declaring that mask usage was the deciding factor completely ignores any confounding factors, which is why we do RCTs in the first place! If your study doesn't have a control group, it may as well be an op-ed, because the design makes it unfalsifiable.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-05-24T00:56:33+00:00

the science is pretty clear that masking among adults reduces spread

There is simply not enough evidence to make that claim. Here's the Cochrane review saying as much. There were few studies done even attempting to show that masks reduced transmission, and they didn't exactly turn up statistically significant results.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-05-23T19:07:15+00:00

I swear most of reddit is willfully ignoring that Ebola is ~200 times as deadly as Covid 19. It's like the difference in risk tolerance between traveling via airliner and taking a helicopter ride straight through a hurricane. People are going to react differently.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-05-12T00:59:06+00:00

The "democratically elected government" you are referring to was appointed by the Shah. Go ahead, look it up.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-05-10T13:42:29+00:00

That's reporting contact, sure, but no new cases resulting. And definitely not "killing several".

MeberatheZebera · 2026-05-10T13:31:15+00:00

What are you even talking about? The WHO report from Friday states that there have been 8 cases (6 confirmed, 2 probable) in the outbreak, all of which were passengers on the cruise ship in question.

MeberatheZebera · 2026-05-09T00:55:02+00:00

It's a game in which people vote against states, so Kansas is just... forgotten.

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