FuglyDuck

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2h ago

Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem
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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2h ago
Drunk Nazis Spin Doctors, even.

5h ago

Netanyahu's son 'highly vulnerable target' while living in Miami as he dodges IDF reserve

I’d suggest it’d be hilarious if an alligator ate bum, but really, that indigestion would be no joke… and the aftertaste is animal abuse!

5h ago

Survivorship bias 2000BC

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 5h ago

Men like boobies?

(You’d think that would mean we want to protect them, but naw.)

5h ago

Survivorship bias 2000BC

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 5h ago

At first I thought this was gonna be about something that caused spots.

Pox, maybe?

6h ago

The Top Sci-Fi Weapons In The Universe

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 6h ago

so, here's an incredible cross sections scan of the v-150 cannon on hoth:

The cannons are absolute beasts. Don't get me wrong.

We don't actually know how big the thing is, at least not directly. We do have a scene with a golan df.9 turret (the stubby tower ones, not the dish turrets,) is next to it. those are 4 meters in height In the screen grab of the ion cannon. guestimating the height behind the snow drift, I make the ball 6 df.9's in diameter. 8, if I ignore the base and go with whats seen, and ignoring the actual barrel thingies. (that's another df.9.)

So for surface installation (Ball turret plus the reactor core that's under the ball,) I'd make it needing something between 48 to 64 meters in over all length, and 24 to 36 meters in cylindrical space.

this wouldn't be that hard to bolt on to something like a GR-75, which is 90 meters long, and mostly just cargo racks. Keep in mind they had to get all that equipment there in the first place, and these aren't the kind of things you're building in place, it might be broken down into some submodules, but you're not breaking them down into component parts.

if a GR-75 isn't large enough, (maybe because the reactor core isn't... a reactor core? and needs "base" power.) Then the Imperial Container Ship certainly is (and incredibly easy to steal.) You can actually build that thing out to something that resembles a mobile operations base, to be honest. (the internals of the cargo stack are all shirt-sleeve habitation, apparently,)

Both ships have an advantage here in that they would be rather easy to modify into hauling something other than containers, and including possibly something outsized like the ion cannon. basically becoming a system defense monitor (slow, big guns, and mobile only the sense that, sure, it technically can shuffle off.)

You could do a few things with it. use it concert in lightling raids- it doesn't come deep into the envelope, but it hits the biggies from range. Probably after a recon flight pops in and gives targets, it can jump in and start blasting with lighter things coming in to do whatever. fighters, bombers, etc.

alternatively, drop it in orbit and let it hang out where it can cover an escape and shuffle off on it's own. (bonus points for everything else being space-based and not planet-side.)

11h ago

White House helps MAGA influencers including famous dog walker flee Middle East war zone on private jet

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 11h ago

War tourism is a new booming industry.

A better question is why were they there in the first, and why Trump only got his peeps out.

13h ago

Senate Rejects War Powers Resolution That Would Force Trump to End Iran Strikes

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 13h ago

a scam. It's a scam.

a mastodon server mod wouldn't be able to do anything on lemmy world, anyways.

13h ago

The Top Sci-Fi Weapons In The Universe

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 13h ago

It absolutely is fantasy

But the physics as far as that goes are still on point compared to, idunno, Star Trek.

The sound in space, the swooping, all of that were story telling tools used to convey a sense of what was happening. Realistic space battles aren’t really all that exciting.

Not even the expanse got that right. They just replaced particle beams with Gatling guns and condescending but inaccurate explanations of why things don’t swoop.

Fun fact, the reason planes and stuff seem to swoop is because they’re under constant accelerations and observed from the perspective outside the plane. One source of that constant acceleration is the atmosphere (drag and lift,) but you can just as easily replace that with fusion maneuvering thrusters or something.

15h ago

Legal challenges lead to election turmoil in Dallas County — and questions about some votes

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 15h ago

The Texas Supreme Court's decision to separate votes in Dallas County cast after 7 p.m. Tuesday has raised questions about when, or perhaps even if, those those votes ultimately will be counted.
The Supreme Court's decision followed widespread confusion among Dallas County voters who apparently showed up a polling locations where they weren't eligible to vote — and an order by a judge in Dallas County to extend voting hours. County elections officials notified potential voters online that "Democratic Party polling locations...would remain open until 9:00PM" and that Republican locations would close at 7 p.m. "as scheduled."

That could have been a sentence: “Texas is trying to suppress votes by cutting off votes that happened after the polling queues closed.”

What’s happening is that people are getting into the queue before the polls close, and because Texas is fucked like that, a large number of voters physically hand in their ballets past.

So they’re saying those votes don’t count.

And let’s be clear, the “staffing challenges” or whatever, are intentional.

22h ago

Legal challenges lead to election turmoil in Dallas County — and questions about some votes

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 22h ago

Oh. I thought this was about the Shamwow guy suing because they didn’t put “shamwow” on the ballet.

Yep. Your read that right, and yes. He’s serious.

22h ago

install_packages("ayatollah")

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 22h ago

“Release the Epstein Files you Rancid shitsack!”

22h ago

Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 22h ago

What do you enjoy doing that’s not work and not “adulting”?

Find a hobby. Then find a group that shares that hobby. Clean up a park day, maybe.

Or find a charity or nonprofit that needs volunteers.

The local library probably has things going on, too.

Find a third space whether it’s the magic the gsthering shop and shop tournies or church or a knitting circle ran by the local yarn shop.

23h ago

Competing Dem War Powers Resolution Would Give Trump a Monthlong Free Pass in Iran

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 23h ago

Some traitors are more traitor than others.

23h ago

The Top Sci-Fi Weapons In The Universe

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 23h ago

aural synthesis of sensrionics to enhance situational awareness.

(For a non bullshit answer it was for creating engagement with the audience. The utter silence of 2001 space odyssey kinda bothered a lot of people.)

(Same with the swooping.)

(Though from a certain point of view, swooping happens.)

1d ago

Cops who went to snowball fight launch manhunt for people who threw snowballs at them

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

Turns out you can’t actually indict a ham sandwich.

1d ago

Cops who went to snowball fight launch manhunt for people who threw snowballs at them

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

“When you compress a bunch of snow flakes, into like, a weapon, and you toss it at cops…. That can hurt our pride! And it’s practically lethal force!”

-that douche.

1d ago

Competing Dem War Powers Resolution Would Give Trump a Monthlong Free Pass in Iran

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

If you’re wanting to be hawkish on national security, maybe stop creating new fucking terrorists who hate us.

And release the fucking Epstein files and get the fucking traitor out of fucking office!

1d ago

Cops who went to snowball fight launch manhunt for people who threw snowballs at them

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

Just a quick question....

what's with all the hate for lemon-flavored snow cones?!

1d ago

Cops who went to snowball fight launch manhunt for people who threw snowballs at them

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

.... shit like this is why ACAB is a thing.

You go to an organized snowball fight, you should expect to have snowballs tossed at you. especially if you engage in a way that makes it seem like you're part of the festivity.