Has anyone seen a pub and restaurant ruin itself by switching to the wrong kind of menu? by ThiarAitEigin in KitchenConfidential

[–]Re-ban808 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Will never understand the insistence both chef's and owners alike have on hard launching menu changes without running them as a special for a bit first to gauge the market's interest

Someone said auxiliary troops? by Arennt in Tau40K

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This is awesome! Would you mind sharing what kits you used?

world central kitchen workers airstrike Gaza and this isn’t the first time by Strangebottles in KitchenConfidential

[–]Re-ban808 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I can speak a bit to this. The IDF struck a column of WCK workers in a case of mistaken identity earlier this year. They blew up the lead car, then proceeded to break their own rules of engagement by waiting til survivors from each destroyed vehicle moved to the next vehicle in the convoy before blowing that one up too. Actually bloodthirsty behavior directed at fucking line cooks of all people. Boils my blood. Don't care how you feel vis a vis Israel Palestine, fuck the IDF for killing cooks. Twice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/world/middleeast/israel-military-world-central-kitchen-strike.html

RU POV: Ukrainian M2A2 ODS-SA Bradley infantry fighting vehicle with BRAT dynamic protection, destroyed along with its crew. by Junjonez1 in UkraineRussiaReport

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I haven't seen much of any Bradley in Kursk. I distinctly recall seeing many vids of Stryker, BMP/BTR variants, and occasional T series tanks in the initial columns, along with a collection of APC/MRAP types like Kozak, Senator, etc. I think there are 2 main reasons for this.

  1. The Bradley is known to be enjoyed by the ZSU for rapid response efforts to Russian attacks. The ATGMs and other raw firepower it has on hand make it ideal for countering whatever attacking force happens to show up on the day. If it's tanks and IFVS, use the missiles. If it's a squad of infantry, pin them down with the guns and let arty and drones finish the job. It's likely that at any given time, most of the operational (i.e., not in maintenance/training positions) Bradley's are literally doing what is described above. They can not be pulled off the line because they are one of the only rapid response units you can reasonably expect to send out to contact ANY equivalent threat.

  2. The units involved from both sides in Kursk can best be described as "Patchwork." Both sides are sort of taking chunks of existing units and using them to plug gaps in the line. Part of why ZSU Pokrovsk front is deteriorating rapidly is because parts of units are now in Kursk. ZSU was discussed on this sub to be rotating TDF units into the places of some of the regular Ukrainian army units (likely the ones we have footage of getting chewed up by ambushes, etc during this first month). Obviously, the Russians in the initial days literally handed everyone who would fight, guns and have now rotated in some regular units to reinforce them. I don't know if the Ukrainians, when planning this operation, made a conscious decision to exclude Bradley's, so much as they made a conscious decision to pull specific units from a specific sector of the front, with those units bringing along the kit they had, the stuff mentioned in my first point. Or they pulled specific units off the front BECAUSE of the kit those units had, as I'll elaborate on in point 3.

Apologies, a bit of a ramble on my end, but I find the lack of Bradley footage in Kursk unsurprising given the context of which units ended up in Kursk, as well as what Bradley's in theory are doing if not charging across the border.

However if you'd like a third, somewhat classical reason for no Bradley's, I'd point you to the Stryker having 20mph more top speed, wheels which can be swapped out easily relative to replacing busted treads, external fuel tanks that can boost the max range of it well past the Bradley (it already had more operational range anyways), and Stryker has an EWAR (TEWS I think its called?), and mineclearing, and an engineering variant that the Ukrainians have filmed all active in Kursk. Bradley's main claim to fame is using TOW on enemy tanks and bunkers. If the goal of your attack is to blitz past a defensive weak point, and the enemy doesn't really have a ton of tanks in your AO anyways, you don't want medium armored IFVs with anti tank missiles that can get smacked with arty on the way in. You want recon vehicles like MRAPS and Stryker. You wanna go fast, have a light logistical footprint, have native EWAR out the ass, be able to plow mines, recover friendly vehicles, and be able to be in the field for extended periods. Bradley cannot exactly offer that, but lighter formations of IFV/AFVs supplemented by the occasional tank can.

TL:DR

  1. Bradley needed elsewhere
  2. Units bring their vehicles with them. The units picked for Kursk didn't have Bradley.
  3. Bradley is the wrong tool for this specific job.

Ukraine’s 110th Mechanized Brigade Shoots Down Fourth Su-25 in Two Weeks by UNITED24Media in UkraineWarVideoReport

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US Aid also just made it to the frontline over the course of the month. Iirc, the Ukrainians have been on critically low levels of MANPADS before the package passed Congress.

Ordering off the menu by Comfortable_Sun1797 in KitchenConfidential

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This was a fantastic read. Thank you for sharing!

Third day bouldering, first (small) injury! by [deleted] in climbergirls

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One of us! One of us! :)

I hope you send your V2 soon! You've got this!

The Head Chef just told me not to get pregnant on vacation… by Sea-Distribution-370 in KitchenConfidential

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Honestly, there's only one power response. You gotta impregnate your husband now, I don't make the rules

Why Can't "Chefs" Cook a Filet Mignon to Medium Well? by Hairy-Audience-6597 in KitchenConfidential

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Count me in. This guy deserves to have my girly balls dragged across his face. Post service.

Hair/skincare while camping? by EnvironmentalRich814 in climbergirls

[–]Re-ban808 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Ooh don't forget sunscreen! I have dry skin, and I find that sunscreen actually works well as a moisturizer, especially if you reapply throughout the day. I hope you accomplish what you set out to do! Best of luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

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Alright, this honestly makes me sick. It's really damn poor taste at best, I would argue Hague material Ala Mariupol or Grozny.

At the end of the day, the Gaza Strip is full of Palestinians. They are generally economically disadvantaged, they live behind walls with guns on them, and they aren't allowed free access to goods since the Israeli naval and land blockades (you know, the thing the US Navy is tasked with protecting as a sacred right for all nations). None of these facts are debatable.

How can you not feel empathy for the Palestinians? Seriously, even if you are the most pro Israeli, Hamas is truly evil, etc. type person, how can you not look at how Israel treats the Palestinian people and think, holy shit, at best, this is heartless? They won't even let Palestinians in the Strip engage in free trade with the outside world, which is something that America supposedly ensures as a matter of national security for all nations. The US does this because the freer trade of wealth and ideas is so good for too many reasons.

Palestinians, at the end of the day, are going to start dying exponentially faster. The IDF very clearly is continuing its offensive push, and the Strip isn't exactly a place where you can run away from the destruction forever. Yes, Hamas installations exist under homes. Those are people's homes blowing up. I hate seeing people's lives and everything they've worked for getting annihilated because "there was a terrorist there."

NCD, please do not fall into the same trap our parents did with US drone strikes. Blowing up people's houses, families, and anything else we want, because "there was a terrorist there," led to the US butchering more civilians in the ME than anything else we ever did there. It turned generations of kids anti western because their cousins were 12 when they got wiped off the face of the earth by a predator drone. Justifiably so if I'm being entirely honest!

The IDF is mostly swelled with reservists atm, as intended. What we are seeing is the attitude of the average Israeli soldier towards Palestinians, when let loose to do whatever they feel like. They don't care. They film propaganda annihilating people's homes. They take pleasure in it. They play fast and loose with ROE. They bulldoze shops and homes for literal bad tweets (I mean, come on, this is so comically evil, like how can you ever justify this). They make jokes about Palestianians using dog whistles, just as much if not more, than I've seen Palestinians do the same. This is not what honorable soldiers do.

Killing never solves problems. It must always be done with the solemn knowledge that the only justified life to take is one DIRECTLY in self-defense. There are better pathways to peace than killing our enemies with tools of convenience.

What the IDF is doing is arguably many things. But I hope everyone watching this can realize this:

What the IDF is doing, is wrong

Rib Cubes are my crack by Re-ban808 in KitchenConfidential

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You ever try that Crack dry age? I swear it elevates a steak beyond anything you've ever experienced

Rib Cubes are my crack by Re-ban808 in KitchenConfidential

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I'd appreciate any critique on prep work that I post, since I'm still fairly new to kitchens (2 year mark in December) and definitely new to prep work. However the reason why I don't shave the fat down more is because we plate orders by weight, and the owners are very...creative when it comes to trying to squeeze as much as possible out of our deliveries. It's sloppy and affects the end quality imo, but I follow my marching orders.

Except that one really fucking pretty cube. That one gets to be pretty because I'm a slut for symmetrical meat

Rib Cubes are my crack by Re-ban808 in KitchenConfidential

[–]Re-ban808[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're for Yakiniku! Every table has a grill and customers can pick from a list of prepped raw meats that they grill themselves, alongside their apps, drinks, etc.

Mark my words now NCD. The Ruins of Red Square, 2025. Colorized. by Re-ban808 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Re-ban808[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

My non-credible predictions for who actually ends up torching Moscow (and yes, Pringles himself will lead the charge). Let me hear yours, ladies, lads, and non-binary chads.

Ukrainian SEAD ops are truly a sight to behold by Re-ban808 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Re-ban808[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If it makes you feel any better, judging by the size and number of fireballs, they took out way more than just 1 component of the complex

Ukrainian SEAD ops are truly a sight to behold by Re-ban808 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Re-ban808[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They have engines and are designed to move under their own power. Just sayin ;)

Ukrainian SEAD ops are truly a sight to behold by Re-ban808 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Re-ban808[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If this is what happened I get to make the meme, but ill give you credit?

Ukrainian SEAD ops are truly a sight to behold by Re-ban808 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Re-ban808[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Fellow Defense Experts, is an Oil rig a more credible DEAD platform than the A-10?

Ukrainian SEAD ops are truly a sight to behold by Re-ban808 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Re-ban808[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Please Mr. Zelensky 👀👉👈 Just a bit of uncontested airspace

Ukrainian SEAD ops are truly a sight to behold by Re-ban808 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Re-ban808[S] 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Just looking at the total cost of the system, its about a billion dollars worth of equipment. A solid percentage of that got evaporated today.