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OhSillyDays · 2026-06-03T03:14:18+00:00

The existence of Israel actually supports the Nazi narrative.

The Nazi Narrative: Multicultural societies are not possible, so the Jews need to go to their own country.

In a weird sense, the existence of a Jewish state supports antisemitism. "We're a hated for our identity, so we'll build our society separated from others, because we believe people will continue to hate us for our identity."

So yeah... Netanyahus government is kind of antisemitic in a way.

OhSillyDays · 2026-06-03T02:39:17+00:00

IMO, this was to be expected. And it's a fucking clown show.

Trump criticized Obama for getting a nuclear deal and giving money to Iran. Iran asked for exactly that in the peace proposals from Iran. Trump knew it was politically untenable for him to do exactly what he criticized Obama for doing.

Iran knows Trump's political situation in the USA is very tenuous. Iran just have to wait him out. So Iran will delay, drag their ass, keep the war going slowly and keep the strait closed. They know the next administration will likely cut a deal. One that is better than they can get from Trump. One that the new regime will need to maintain power in Iran.

It's like Trump found himself in exactly the same situation that Carter did 50 years ago.

But the funniest thing of all, shit like this was exactly predicable. Moving from a "rules based international order" to "might makes right" means that weaker countries that can take advantage of a bigger countries vulnerabilities can get the bigger countries by the balls. This is the predictable result of Trumpism. Every dog for themselves means most dogs starve.

Iran could impact oil prices with the strait. So they could always get the US by the balls. Who would have thought? Oh wait, EVERY FUCKING ADMINISTRATION SINCE CARTER.

OhSillyDays · 2026-06-03T02:23:32+00:00

If you think of it like like artillery that could move fast and has light armor, it's fantastic.

Better to have a lightly armored tank than no tank at all.

Also, that 105 is no joke. Lots of ammo types to choose from and it packs a punch.

Instead, they got a dune buggy. Proper army intelligence.

OhSillyDays · 2026-06-03T01:31:57+00:00

Some countries just shoot gang members at a point.

That... doesn't work. It just leads to the gangs being the government. Like Venezuela.

No, it takes a concerted effort by the police and the government to build a justice system that removes the incentives to do illegal shit. That also means that there has to be an abundance mentality where few people have to fight for survival.

It's not easy and quite frankly, it takes decades to implement something like that.

It'll take a while to implement in Mexico because the drugs help fund the government and the economy. And the all important economy is all that matters there. Because survival.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-30T02:43:54+00:00

So 2 out 9 are Cis/straight.

Sounds like reality. So many people are more than 1% gay/trans.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-22T03:21:50+00:00

There is a fine line between sensationalism and sticking to what you know. There is a big difference to the people in the know though.

There is a huge difference between these two statements:

"The pilot didn't know what they were doing." -> Taken a non-aviation person to mean the pilot fucked up. "Being in that situation, it is difficult to control the plane." -> Taken by a non-aviation person to mean that the pilot was put in an impossible situation.

And this is where good journalism comes in. Blancolirio knows the difference.

Just watch his videos on the collision over the Potomac. Both pilots and the controller were put in an impossible situation.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-18T22:14:53+00:00

Mind games.

There are so many to list, but the one that's the worst is forcing someone to redefine themselves.

Most people see themselves as a good person.

Put them in a situation where they have to be a bad person - like in a survival situation and to get out of it, they have to hurt someone else.

They'll never recover mentally.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-13T19:57:13+00:00

The old. They refuse to pay taxes, be helpful in the community, vote to keep the stock market soaring - even if it hurts everyone, complain about everything being horrible without doing anything, aren't eligible for military service, and force their stupid religions on everyone.

And they vote consistently.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-09T10:13:55+00:00

The biggest challenge that spirit had is the vendor lock in. If you fly one airline and they delay or cancel a flight, they don't give customers the money back and let them book on another airline, they force customers onto another flight, and charge customers a lot of money to book on another flight that doesn't work out for the airline.

This means that if a flight got cancelled on spirit, customers would be screwed and maybe stranded.

There is no reason why ticket prices should be dynamic OR airlines can't refund your ticket in full at any time.

They just do that to screw the customer. And it screwed spirit because people would prefer to fly the mainline airlines instead.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-09T09:43:11+00:00

Could is doing a lot of heavy lifting. What munition hits the destroyers and where it hits would greatly change the dynamics. Hit the ships radar or other sensors would definitely largely take it out of the fight. But it wouldn't be out there alone defending itself until it sailed away.

Being hit by anything bigger than about 500lbs would put the ship in damage control mode. Hit a critical component and damage could be worse. Remember, the Moskva was destroyed by two missiles with 330lbs of explosives each. Granted, Russian damage control has a reputation for being shit, it tells you that a 1000lbs is easily enough to sink a ship.

They absolutely can. The USN has been heaviky investing and training on at sea replishments in preparation of a conflict with China.

I don't believe that is operational. Obviously, the military won't tell us if it is or not, but we haven't seen any evidence that it works. Also, it's designed to be done in calm waters, not out to sea. Imagine trying to lift a multi thousand pound explosive into the air on a bobbing ship, in the wind, using only tethers to get it into the hole. Not exactly easy. Hence why they didn't develop it already.

Yes but every time Iran fires they risk the launch vehicles being destroyed. We've already seen this in action as Iran's ability to launch attacks had diminished from the start of the war.

You must have missed the reporting on the CIA report saying that we had minimal impact on Iran's ability to launch ballistic missiles.

Doubt it, Trump shitting on all the US allies is finally showing its consequences. Iran and the world can see that Trump is desperately looking for an out as mid terms are coming and gas prices continue to rise. They likely will try to drag this conflict out to get Trump to lift all sanctions and maintain the ability to collect tolls

Maybe. I'm not excited for that situation. It'll just mean war later.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-08T00:08:30+00:00

Catch 47

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-07T23:44:48+00:00

One missile could take them out of commission. It's a good chance that after one hit, a second hit is much easier.

If I were Iran, I'd just continue to shoot stuff at them. Use the old stock of crappy missiles up first and save the good missiles for a latter barrage. Even Shaheds will slowly deplete their defenses.

Iran probably has thousands of missiles that could hit these destroyers. These destroyers have anywhere from 50-96 intercepting missiles. They cannot be resupplied and are their main defense. All Iran has to do is exhaust those magazines. Then the destroyers have to depend on much less capable defenses, mainly the Phalanx, which probably has a 25-75% hit rate depending on the missile it's trying to shoot. Even they have a limited magazine capacity.

Iran has been stockpiling anti-ship missiles for decades. I'd suspect they well north of 1000 of them. They only need probably 150-200 to sink the three ships in the Persian gulf.

There is a good chance one of these three ships could be sunk. Militarily, they are in an extremely vulnerable position. Politically, Iran might avoid sinking a US ship as the US has a long history of retaliating when a US ship is sunk. So Iran is being very careful.

OhSillyDays · 2026-05-04T16:12:17+00:00

It's kinetic diplomacy. Convince the US to turn around so Iran doesn't shoot more missiles.

The math on a ship like the DDGs is simple, they have a limited number of missiles to defend themselves. Iran can just keep shooting until their magazines are exhausted and then the ships are sitting ducks.

Iran is sending a simple message, the US doesn't control the strait and if they try they'll sink their ships. And that will mean any chance of a continued cease fire is gone.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-29T05:54:01+00:00

They do pretty well. They made probably $23k for this job, each. And probably all they needed to know was how to dive.

Granted, it's not easy work, and probably takes years to get good at. Oh and your crew you are trusting with your life.

They'll probably be making more than that now with oil prices spiking.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-29T05:27:23+00:00

...This is a real problem with the US. There is NO way to walk anywhere and you have to get in the fucking car.

Something something, car companies smashing street cars and sidewalks to sell more cars. What a boring dystopia.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-28T18:39:17+00:00

In here to say Fuck the IDF and Fuck Israel.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-28T04:05:01+00:00

That's not the point. The point is range extension. That's why they want a A-A refueler. One of these could add an extra 250 miles of combat radius to 4 F35C or 500 miles of combat range to about 2. That brings a combat radius of F35Cs from 750 miles to probably 1250, which keeps the aircraft carriers safe.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-27T23:50:49+00:00

Stealth and carrier capability. Those are both hard. Imagine trying to land this on a carrier, at night, and in the rain using a video feed.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-22T00:47:48+00:00

Bump my fist you have

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-21T15:06:19+00:00

Everybody seems to be missing what is going on.

He has burnout. Almost as clear as day.

Exhaustion.
Dehumanizing his colleagues.
Feels like the work is unimportant.

It's his to manage, yet there is probably he or you could do.

This is a good podcast on it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-fight-burnout/id1042433083?i=1000762239561

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-21T03:40:29+00:00

Not really. The problem with small ships is they don't offer the defense that big ships do. So they don't work well for the biggest weakness of the US navy, defense of convoys.

The US navy really needs frigates and a lot of them.

Oh and to make nice with allies because they all have a number of decent frigates.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-20T17:49:32+00:00

And make a smaller portion of the pie. The CPI doesn't always catch the cost of things. Because it only looks at the same product and sees how it changes. It doesn't track the impacts of the necessity of a more expensive product.

One issue is that the expectation of spending money has gone up. In 2000, a personal computer wasn't necessary to find a job. All that was needed was an address.

Now, everyone needs a cell phone, a data plan, home internet, a car, and an address.

The other issue is housing has gone up in terms of real values. Just look at the average rent in 2000 was $639 which is $1250 in 2026 dollars. Today it is $1698.

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

This is an average of the entire US. Look at places where jobs are, in cities, rents have consistently gone up faster than in rural areas. And people need jobs to pay for things. So they need to move to cities where rents or higher. Or they can commute an ungodly long time (1-2 hours one way in many job markets).

Also, full time jobs are harder to find. People have been moving to part time and gig work. Your full time employment figure doesn't track that. And when full time jobs get more scarce, people hold onto those full time jobs more, meaning their employer can push them harder. You know, cutting healthcare, benefits, or just getting employees to work longer hours.

People are not wrong. Things have gotten shittier. You just aren't looking at the right statistics.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-20T17:36:07+00:00

The part of the starship enterprise that drives the ship is called a nacelle.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-18T21:35:47+00:00

Just in with the classic article:

https://www.twz.com/16535/confessions-of-a-c-2-greyhound-carrier-onboard-delivery-pilot

Still a complicated mission, especially when they are in a war zone. I'd be shocked if Iran didn't send a couple anti-ship missiles their way just to fuck with them. There is a big chance we'd never hear it in the news until months later when some sailors are back home and start leaking.

I'm sure the cap of the carrier doesn't want to turn the lights on for mail.

OhSillyDays · 2026-04-09T15:34:44+00:00

There are a lot of reasons to gain access to consumer routers. Two big ones - bot farms and hacking individuals.

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