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Tankiedesantski [he/him]

@ Tankiedesantski @hexbear.net

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  • That's not how employment NDAs work. They never forbid a candidate from disclosing that they worked for a company and the general nature of their work. They just forbid the candidate from talking about specific knowledge gained at the company.

    Do not use this excuse because it's an instant red flag for anyone who knows even a little about the hiring process.

  • Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog

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  • Please America. Please scuttle NAFTA over your dinosaur pickup truck industry. Nothing would be funnier.

  • ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML?

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  • I'm doing my part

  • A government report from Ottawa warns it's time for Canada to prepare for the possibility of civil war in the US.

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  • Just because they won't personally fight doesn't mean they won't support the conscription of a bunch of young men to fight for them. It's not as if most confederate soldiers in the US civil war were slave owners.

  • U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts

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  • No Todd plz, I already bought the Nokia nGage version!

  • U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts

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  • ICBMs are notoriously difficult to intercept. Nobody realistically has an interception system able to take down enough of them to matter. The problem with old ICBMs is that they're less survivable if the enemy strikes you first so you need even more warheads and delivery systems to compensate.

  • U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts

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  • Nuclear war planning isn't as simple as applying a rate of interception or failure to your stock of warheads. You have to plan for eventualities like what happens if you're subject to a first strike - can you ensure that enough of your own warheads will survive to retaliate? If not, or if your opponent thinks not then your opponent is much more likely to try a first strike.

    Modern missiles aren't just faster or harder to shoot down, they're also more survivable. Have you noticed that while the Russians and Chinese parade their missiles on big ass trucks, the US doesn't seem to have any? That's because there isn't a road or rail mobile variant of the Minuteman 3. So those MM3s have been sitting in silos only for decades, more than enough time for opponent satellites to pinpoint exactly where they are. On the other hand, a Russian or Chinese missile can drive around their own road or rail systems and be untraceable unless you have real time satellite footage that just happens to catch them moving.

    So if your missiles can't move, you can only protect them by hardening their emplacements and silos. Unfortunately, most American silos are about as old as the missiles in them and were designed to withstand much lesser yields of warheads. Maybe some could be brought up to a newer standard, but building of that scale would also paradoxically tip your opponent off to which missile sites to target first.

    Therefore, if you're in a position where you aren't convinced your own missiles will survive a first strike, your only move to maintain deterence is new missiles or more missiles (or both). Contracts were passed out for new missile designs around 2017 but it seems like nothing has come to fruition. Therefore the only other option is to build more warheads so that they can be fired from planes and other systems instead.

    This leads on to the next point which is that warheads are not all necessarily sitting on missiles read to go at all times. Most of the time they're in central stockpiles that are easier to guard and maintain and are only parcelled out to units in times of heightened nuclear tension. A modern nuclear power has more platforms that can deliver nukes than actual nukes themselves - the whole point of a nuclear triad (ICBMs, planes, subs) is to ensure maximal redundancy so that no one type of attack can destroy all delivery systems.

    Hence, a nuclear war planner has to figure out how many ICBMs and warheads are likely to survive a first strike, then figure out how many warheads are needed to put on planes and ships and subs for a counter strike. If the US military is thimking it needs more warheads, then one major reason could be that it's realized it's delivery platforms are not as survivable as predicted.

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  • America has a lot of warheads but its delivery systems are relatively behind Russian and Chinese systems. For instance, the current US land/silo based missiles are Minuteman 3s, which were first built in the 1970s. Even with upgrades, they are generally understood to be inferior to much more recent Russian Yars and Chinese Dong Feng missiles.

    That said, increasing the number of warheads doesn't really help in terms of that deficiency so the between the lines conclusion is that the new American missile systems have hit such snags that the military is considering making up the deficiency with numbers of warheads.

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  • Maybe Todd Howard?

  • noooooo they killed the heckin murderdoggo

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  • The only thing you ever need to give Hitler credit for is shooting himself.

  • noooooo they killed the heckin murderdoggo

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  • It can trace its geneology back to Hitler's dog. A crack Mossad team was on hand at the Fuhrerbunker to retrieve Blondi's sperm.

  • U.S. lawmakers vote to sanction ICC after prosecutor seeks warrant for Israel's Netanyahu

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  • The rules based order actually just means "we rule with an iron fist"

  • New gender neutral toilet just dropped.

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  • If you go down the Twitter thread you can see a video of him saying "here's your 10 million yen, come and get it".

    High level troll shit.

  • rare dub for clarKKKSSon

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  • "Hello, Richard NiKKKSSon."

  • China is burning all its bridges with Israel

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  • Author definitely isn't mad that China mediated the Saudi-Iranian normalization while the US has been pushing for Saudi-Israeli normalization without success.

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    In the South China Sea and Taiwan, Xi has begun to invade

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  • The active tense of Xi personally invading an entire sea vs the passive tense of a Palestinian hospital exploding after bombs dropped.

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    In the South China Sea and Taiwan, Xi has begun to invade

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  • Anglo Charlie Kirk

  • A new trolley era

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  • That rumor is so stupid it doesn't even begin to stack up. Paying medical bills sucks, but killing someone even unintentionally puts you at risk of jail time. Vanishingly few people are going to choose a decade or more of hard labor in jail over paying a debt.

    The only thing this whole rumor proves is that people will believe the most irrational things about China as long as it makes Chinese people look bad.

  • US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law

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  • This is like Hitler telling someone to tone down the racism.