@aristophon
Socialist, here for the cats, working towards "fully automated, luxury gay space communism." "Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me -- then show me the place where he was hanged!" -- The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
"Iran vows to fight until it achieves 3 aims. US withdrawal from all Middle East military bases. Arab OPEC countries end close US economic ties, e.g. data centers. End pricing their oil & gas pricing in U.S. dollars, & disinvest in existing petrodollar holdings"
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Expensively over-engineered as much as poorly thought out engineering. Not to worry! AI assisted engineering is going to make everything waaaay better!
Civilian sailors don't need to worry. Commercial insurance won't insure such risky voyages. As with everything else lack of insurance means dropped anchors.
Any way, if one's doing classic minesweeping that's a suicide mission. Remotely operated ROVs are the only safe way to do it.
I meant 1972.
The magic of ping pong ball filled merchant ship hulls moving at top speed to create a pressure wave. But, modern mines have counters to not necessarily go off the first pass or two or three. And sensors to detect ship type.
It's Raytheon. A billion dollars and an army of civilian tech reps aboard to get 'em working should do the trick. I mean it works because in 1073 it was super easy to keep F-4's and F-14s operating on the carrier John F. Kennedy. 90 civilian tech reps aboard ship all the time worked back then.
They're still not working as well as decades old, civilian industry underwater ROV's. That newish class of "do every possible mission at once" U.S. minesweepers still bash the ROVs to death everytime they try to do the most basic salior's task of lowering them into the water or lifting them back. :)
A tattoo? In this economy? And what billionaire is going to answer my GoFundMe for that?
It's still necessary all these years later. Great for the Ping Pong ball manufacturer industrial complex as that's what the hulls will be filled with.
Source: me. Graduate of Minewarfare course at Naval War College.
Iran engaging in pernicious propaganda by accurately describing our society and government.
Pretty much, yes. And all our comprador allies, such as Australia and UK. I was one of only two U.S. officers at a Naval War College course on "Mine Warfare Staff Planning" in 1983. Everyone else was NATO.
When (if ever) I can afford dentures to replace the rotting stumps of what used to be my teeth, your advice is sure to be useful to me. Thanks!
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.
It's true. They had rational ground for invoking the U.N. Charter to stop a massive ethnic cleansing operation the U.S. ordered it's proxy to begin over a week earlier.
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It’s Christopher Lee, proving he truly did have a vampiric life span!
In today’s game of Make Millions With Market Manipulation:
1. Energy Secretary posts that a tanker has been safely escorted through Hormuz.
2. Oil price falls 10%, friends buy.
3. Energy Secretary deletes post.
4. Oil price rises 12%, friends richer.
Thank you for playing, see you all tomorrow.
By 1977 the U.S. had two active duty minesweepers, both built in 1953, with about five others in the Naval Reserve. I was a regular then aboard one as mine countermeasures officer.
Porn addiction is a Christian occult belief with no basis in science and no one is ever gonna be able to say that loud enough. Study after study finds that these guys watch less porn than average and are just traumatized about even having sexual arousal.
“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.”
@washingtonpost.com
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This post is flaming lit!
Every day I see cool artwork on here and think, I would repost that if it had alt text.
We're in trouble. He'll be able to fully read our heretofore blurry shitposts and go on a massive blocking spree.
She was also a club freak and once had to abandon a trunk of her party dresses in order to cross a border. Truly a woman for all seasons.
She advanced lots of great social realignments, like giving women the means of living independently. She hoped this would improve relationships which under capital are contingent on the means of survival or what she called "property-love," but could blossom under socialism as "red love."
She was involved in teaching, leafleting factories, organizing strikes strikes, aid for political prisoners (one of the earliest forms of “red aid”) and organizing women against capitalist oppression
In exile in Germany she became an agitator for the German SPD
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Alexandra Kollontai died on this day 74 years ago. She was a major player in the socialist movement in Russia and even wrote a lot of Soviet legislation. Take a moment to read about her and read some of her work today!
Luigi Mangione statue depicting Luigi as an angel pulling against the shackles he wore in court that attached to a chain around his waist, prior to his terrorism charges being dropped.
We should in fact erect a Luigi Mangione statue and I have designed one here you go