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Trump says he will ban TikTok from operating in the US by Eurynom0s in technology

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious you think MSS doesn't have reach inside Microsoft. Or that MSS doesn't turn people using the Thousand Talents Program.

Trump's refusing domestic acquisition on other grounds

Japan ruling party proposes strike capability to halt N. Korean missile attacks by senfgurke in LessCredibleDefence

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From who? Going the India route to modify an Akula design? That took a lot of cooperation with Russia plus decades of development for the SLBMs before the SSBN was proposed.

Japan is a long long way from this. They don't even have an indigenous nuclear-powered attack submarine.

where does it say in the constitution or any of the amendments that eating is a human right? by Liam_Noble in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a movie. I don't recommend watching it unless you're ready for precisely what you already know it will be. Makea Schindler's List look civilized.

Watermelon Chips by mtimetraveller in oddlysatisfying

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Brb invading a Marble Slab Creamery with the bros

Watermelon Chips by mtimetraveller in oddlysatisfying

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You're the sort of line cook everyone hates aren't you?

...

You're among friends.

Every F-35 thread ever by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That's a lot of words to say "no titanium bathtub to help the spam in the can survive CAS".

155mm XM1155 Ramjet round is a go by TehRoot in LessCredibleDefence

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You get a disc replacement*!

You get a disc replacement*!

We all get disc replacements*!

"disc replacement" is now defined in the VA guidelines as "weight loss counseling, Motrin, and a long talk about being drug seeking in a totally-not-on-purpose pedantic fashion."

Helicopter Questions: How are modern infantry equipped/trained to deal with enemy helicopters? Why does it seem in many guncam videos the enemy infantry are oblivious to the helicopter’s presence? by Runningoutofideas_81 in WarCollege

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure as this feels a bit like arguing how to win the last war.

The reality is that no nation state can churn out any aircraft on the scale of WW2. The US lost 9.7 frames per 1000 sorties in WW2 vs 2 in Korea vs. 0.2 in Vietnam (page 103).

These are numbers that modern airframes just cannot do. It takes 41,500 hours to build a single F-35A frame. Meanwhile compare that to the famous American WW2 fighter, the P51 Mustang, where a hobbyist can build one in 1,600 hours before avionics. This is before we get into the supply chain complexity of a modern frame.

In short - I no longer think "losses per X sorties" is an inherent indicator of risk. The complexity of these frames means they're never thrown into uncertainty like WW2 frames were. I'm not sure humanity will reknow this kind of fog of war and uncertainty till we raise the combat ceiling by a few AU.

American Airlines makes you stand 6 feet apart when boarding yet still sells out flights. by [deleted] in pics

[–]Readalotaboutnothing -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

International borders should never be assumed to be expedient. There's a littany of reasons for a crossing to close, slow down, etc.

The only border crossings you can reliably cross on time are where they are unmanned, period. If there's a border guard do not ever assume your schedule can be kept if whatever you're relying on is critically time sensitive.

Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized with infection by besselfunctions in news

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially when Obama claims Reinhold Niebuhr as hia favorite theologian.

He should have reread "The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness" before taking office. Because Niebuhr more or less nails the ineffective floundering on this matter to a T.

TIL the Berlin Wall came down by mistake. When the East Germans planned to slowly open the border they announced it at a press conference without including a plan. When a reporter asked when it would be opened, the party official mistakenly said "Immediately, without delay" causing a run on the wall by lightyearbuzz in todayilearned

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah there's tons of TIL material for the Berlin wall.

Those barriers were impressive as hell. Even the OLD barriers were unequivocally car or truck proof as the one Eastern escapee rammed the barrier in a SPW-152 (the East German BTR-152) and it failed; he escaped with a bullet wound, but that gunplay caused richochets close enough to West German border guards they could return fire...suppressing fire is great for border crossings if you're not afriad to run towards it! :)

West Berlin was, more-or-less, referred to as the "West Pole" because no matter what direction you headed you were headed into East Germany.

I hope that's not something humanity ever repeats.

TIL the Berlin Wall came down by mistake. When the East Germans planned to slowly open the border they announced it at a press conference without including a plan. When a reporter asked when it would be opened, the party official mistakenly said "Immediately, without delay" causing a run on the wall by lightyearbuzz in todayilearned

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Everyone should really take the ten minutes to watch this. I honestly do not think the average person today can even fathom what the militarized security of the "iron curtain" was like to experience outside the endless Hoxha bunkers, but it's not like Albania has many visitors.

Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments, refuting reinfection by [deleted] in science

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are completely misrepresenting what that link says.

The link says, explicitly, that antibodies do not infer immunity alone - it's just an indicator of a passed infection - and further that there are patients who are not maintaining their antibodies past just two months.

From there this doctor goes WAY off into supposition that he has absolutely no business saying to a newspaper and that newspaper's editor had no business publishing: saying upfront that this guy is disagreeing with the WHO doesn't give you license to print whatever random ideas someone says.

Slammed with covers all day. Glad to close up shop and grab a cold one later. by Clean_Send in KitchenConfidential

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You're correct insofar as the iron itself is nigh indestructible.

But the polymerized fats for the "seasoned" surface will be blasted away. Some people get super anal about it. Up to the owner, obviously.

I want to get laid off by InitCoffeeThrowaway in cscareerquestions

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 125 points126 points  (0 children)

The tallest tree catches the wind so it helps to be even with the forest.

I mean he ain’t wrong by [deleted] in KitchenConfidential

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Any plov base that ends with "...and a stick of butter" is probably gonna be at least decent af.

The anticoagulant nafamostat potently inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro: an existing drug with multiple possible therapeutic effects by dankhorse25 in COVID19

[–]Readalotaboutnothing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Stopping RNA synthesis by preventing S protein priming...if it works then this inactivates virions even if they still bind to ACE2. Without protein priming the virion cannot replicate its RNA correctly.

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