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hotspur [he/him]

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  • I don’t really know at this point whether he was a good, or bad, or neutral guy in the s heme of things. But I found his post presidential twitter behavior very amusing, and as a result sorta liked him for no good reason. Also because after the bush years, I was finally able to properly pronouce his name.

    I suppose they’ll say they’re cleaning up potential regime backfillers…. But really reads more like revenge/vindictiness and lack of more consequential targets.

  • Ah ok that makes sense. Figured this had to be Mecca.

  • This is what happens a when you give the drunk tv grifter the keys to the army twitter acct.

  • Jesus that is horrible. Also what is that Ben-hur looking collegium thing in the foreground?

  • Thanks for posting that, so there has been some reporting. Some very strange items they were playing with off label… if I recall correctly from the original event, they found IDF guns in the LV house, which doesn’t mean anything per se, but is intriguing.

  • That is crazy how close the person filming the strike was… looked like they were only a couple stories below max. Guess they probably weren’t expecting their building to get hit.

  • Yup I had that feeling too—they were super weird and there’s been no follow up, very strange enterprise you’d think it be more investigated.

  • Yeah they’re all acting like this was some brilliant ruse—literally everyone knew they were full of shit, they e literally done this precise move multiple times before…

  • So weird, like did they turn the whole hall into a SKIF? Because random ass blue curtains with gaps above won’t stop audible communication, let alone anything else… mind you I’m basing my understanding of presidential comms protocol off the Netflix diplomat show.

  • The cost-kill ratio on that drone must be pretty insane: I saw elsewhere in here that dome is 1.1 billion.

    Edit: looks like I was thinking of the pyramid radar dome thing, not the spherical, in terms of the 1.1billion price tag.

  • Man they are really excited to fire that laser aren’t they—first a balloon and now a cpb drone. I guess the thing works!

  • Don’t have a good source to pass along, but I did query my Chinese AI friend earlier because I was also confused. and it sounds like this is a boil over the border conflicts the two countries have had for a while. Basically there’s a group of militants attacking Pakistan, apparently there were some attacks recently, and the Pakistani government maintains that they retreat back into Afghanistan to hide, and have demanded the Taliban do something about it. Apparently the Taliban have generally rejected this claim, and there is confusion about whether they’re turning a blind eye, or if it’s real, etc. in any case: existing argument, has been. Inflamed by recent terror attacks inside Pakistan, and Pakistan has chosen to attack Afghanistan in response.

    I also learned that both countries were majority Sunni, which surprised me because I had read something a couple days ago about the Taliban saying they would lend support to Iran if certain scales of attack occurred. Again, haven’t done the required fact checking here, so happy to be corrected on any of this.

    Edit: they are covering it while I was writing this on American Prestige. Sounds like Pakistan was attacking “militants” across the border. Apparently they did this last year as well.

  • Well it is a Friday, which trump prefers to space out the backlash in the market by a couple days…

  • Yeah that’s a good point—you missed your off duty 2 hour window when you could go to the bathroom, and now you’re trying to parse radar returns but can’t focus because you’re about to shit your coveralls….

    Maybe more hilarious dropping hornets overboard hijinx are coming our way.

  • Yeah no worries I was joking really. The screens look like pixel art with some mild 3d so am hoping it will also be pretty easy to run.

  • Seriously, they don’t need to strike it with munitions, they just need to get some norovirus onboard, that puppy would be done.

  • What kind of laptop are you using—I feel like the vamp games could be run on my 90s graphing calculator with some tweaks… 😉

  • I mean at this point, if you polled Americans, they should say the same thing. China and Russia never did anything to me, meanwhile…

  • Yeah others have posted good sources on it but basically they used a fancy vacuum system based on how cruise ships handle waste plumbing, and it has never worked particularly well. It clogs easily and the vacuum setup means that when a leak or clog occurs a huge part of the system ceases to function. Unlike the cruise ships, the carrier is a weird and complicated system so finding and repairing these issues is also hard and takes forever.

    The 400k acid flush is a total system treatment that they’ve had to do 10 times over its lifetime, and this can only be done when the carrier is docked and presumably at minimal crew levels since they have to take the whole system down to do it.

    In any case, they put in a more complicated and finicky system into a very complex ship environment and it’s basically been busted since it was launched. There are anecdotal reports of everyone having to wait in hour plus lines for access to the head, which in a ship with 4-6k people would be pretty awful I’d assume for morale.