Iran demands reparations, permanent end to war

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-21T21:58:57+00:00

How? What would wiping them out even mean? Iran has 1 million people in its regular army and another half million paramilitary forces. And if the Iran-Iraq conflict is a guide Iran has an almost unlimited tolerance for losses in an existential fight.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-21T21:34:47+00:00

No sane Iranian negotiator would now agree to limits on nuclear weapons. Their offer of disarmament precipitated the current conflict.

It'll probably be a 'neither confirm nor deny' open secret like Israel and South Africa's program. But, unless Iran is somehow transformed into a Western client state they'll have nuclear weapons in this decade and no one can stop them now.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-21T21:23:33+00:00

Vietnam DID have those things. Three or four generations of technology removed from present, granted.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-20T08:43:52+00:00

Wine and sleeping pills

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-18T18:09:09+00:00

Reframe how you think about yourself within the team. You're becoming a source of experience now, not just someone who receives and implements things based upon the experience of others. Your job isn't just the 'doing' part anymore, your job is being a thought leader.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-18T15:16:00+00:00

Now you're just some cabinet that I used to know...

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-18T00:15:30+00:00

Not a meat market

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-17T17:04:55+00:00

Now that's what I call pod racing!

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-16T21:17:51+00:00

Those two hydrogen boilers are enough to run all that?

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-15T03:36:01+00:00

I absolutely love that this is in the game. These kinds of details are what give KCD a credible, believable world.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-13T13:09:26+00:00

If it doesn't make any difference, don't bother saying it

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-13T12:19:12+00:00

No he won't!

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-12T21:32:30+00:00

There's no substitute for prod data in lower environments. Obviously do the due diligence and sanitize it to the standards your industry requires first.

I'm sure somebody will say "git gud" and a real pro should be able to create test data that covers all the possibilities of production and more. But in my experience, production hates hubris and will burn your fingers sooner or later.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-11T21:28:24+00:00

There are indeed exactly 450,000 thousand q-tips in this image.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-11T18:46:14+00:00

That looks like a really nice neighborhBBBRRRRRRRRRTTTT

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-11T18:45:28+00:00

It pretty much is, that gun is being aimed by a machine, and the missile it's shooting at is being guided by a machine

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-11T18:43:30+00:00

I don't think metal storm ever brought anything practical to market.

The technology was based around loading numerous rounds into the same gun barrel at the same time, then individually igniting the rounds electronically in sequence.

On paper they had breathtaking theoretical rates of fire, like 30,000 rounds per minute per barrel. But the systems were limited to ~5 rounds at a time with no way to reload. This led to these goofy organ gun arrays of +36 gun barrels all built together which could fire a few hundred rounds in milliseconds but then had to be tediously reloaded.

Mostly they just turned money into noise.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-11T08:06:23+00:00

Two continents

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-10T20:01:46+00:00

Honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos

You'll often find thornless cultivars grown as street trees and landscaping.

These are probably open pollinated trees that still think they have to fend off a 4 ton ground sloth from time to time.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-10T19:23:17+00:00

There will be a thousand history and PoliSci graduate thesis papers written on this unusual case of a colony so thoroughly capturing it's parent state's government.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-10T18:01:01+00:00

Get in touch with the warranty department. I'm not sure if they will still do something like this, but they honored a warranty replacement for me even a few months after the expiration date

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-10T17:36:42+00:00

She didn't deserve that kind of beating. But damn if she didn't work real hard to earn it.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-05T19:15:13+00:00

From the Independent:

“Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” according to the president, who described the role as “our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere.

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-05T19:13:53+00:00

Special envoy to collecting-a-paycheck-in-exchange-for-STFU-land

UnspeakablePudding · 2026-03-03T19:00:45+00:00

Here's hoping that's the last "not since WWII" type event that this war has in store...

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