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Tankiedesantski ,

I’m doing my part im-doing-my-part

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Maybe Todd Howard?

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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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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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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.

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

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The rules based order actually just means “we rule with an iron fist”

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Damn, Mars rovers suffer from incremental SUV bloat too?

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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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Anglo Charlie Kirk https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d662ba78-357b-402d-b36f-c8d3da79b976.jpeg

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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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Magic Carpet pointing to the first word of its name emphatically

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

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I think it’s much more likely this is an attempt to balance France’s own ties with China to protect its substantial business interests inside China. As much as I would like to think China supports the Palestinians cause to this degree, I think it would take a lot more than this to get China to flip on two decades of its core Russia policy.

Anyone with eyes can see that the US definitely intends to come after China after Russia is “dealt with”. It would take a lot of concessions to get China to throw aside its only major ally.

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That bear is mood

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Locally made, ethically sourced, guilt-free, low carb, organic, passenger aircraft.a

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Laughs in Harmony OS

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In evil totalitarian China, you can be banned from buying high speed rail tickets if you default on your loans.

In good democratic freedom America, you can be denied all forms of air travel because your name happens to resemble one that’s on a secret list.

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why we don’t have free healthcare!

Turns out the real reason is a structural system of waste and incompetence at all levels of American government and society.

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US negotiators in shambles after learning about the existence of “principles”.

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An art major’s half asleep doodles can receive copyright protection whereas an image created by a million dollar supercomputer running the most sophisticated AI model possible cannot.

Extremely rare artist x lawyer crossover to dunk on the AI bros.

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If porky owns all the houses he can raise rent to much higher than “market” rates due to having a monopoly on an inelastic good.

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Hahaha I get it. It’s funny because the people you don’t like are implied to be women.

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“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

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Crows are self-aware just like humans

“Oh no, is my plumage too dark? Were the other crows laughing with me or at me? Is my crowing too high pitched? Was that raven offended when I mistook him for a crow?”

Tankiedesantski ,

Catholics and Christians

The Orthodox: refuse-the-question

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I have been job hunting for a while and I have felt a great disadvantage in my job search due to my lack of access to high-quality LLMs. Writing cover letters is honestly so bullshit.

Has job hunting gotten so bad that it’s just LLMs reading the output of other LLMs?

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Damn bro, good point. You should go tell the ROC marine corps that they have a map of a foreign country on their official emblem. What a wacky oversight nobody has noticed for half a century!

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/aa90b009-98d5-4b29-afab-2db5c7808b17.png

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I doubt China will intervene militarily in a direct way. Pakistan is a close Chinese ally and it makes more sense to pull on diplomatic and economic levers to get Pakistan to act. Maybe training and joint counter terror ops are on the table, but certainly not a full Iraq scale invasion.

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Well yeah, why wouldn’t China block a site full of libs?

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Italy kind of tried to join One Belt One Road and pulled out when the Fash got elected. Macron made some noise about BRICS at one point but Macron makes a lot of noise about bullshit.

I think there’s also some merit behind the idea that letting G7 states into BRICS is a bad idea because there’s nothing stopping them from being obstructive.

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Source: Trust me bro [1]

[1] I don’t like people who look different from me.

Tankiedesantski ,

If it’s really about the military as you suggest then the extremely easy solution is to order service members not to use Tik Tok.

Passing a specific law to compell the sale of one specific company is arguably some sort of Bill of Attainder, which I’m sure ByteDance’s lawyers will be argueing as soon as Biden’s pen touches paper.

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Is there some way to trick the chatgpt training bots by intentionally mislabeling data? Like can I upload some furry pornography tasteful erotica and label it “AP US history assignment - Civil War”?

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TikTok is not the only company that uses its pixels throughout the internet. The report found Google, Meta and Microsoft, among others, use these trackers.

Your first link has a sentence expressly disproving your own thesis, so in addition to concluding you are a racist, I can also now conclude that you didn’t read your own sources.

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From the very first link:

TikTok is not the only company that uses its pixels throughout the internet. The report found Google, Meta and Microsoft, among others, use these trackers.

Rigorous scholarship there, champ.

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TikTok, regardless of the country of origin, is known to be spyware on a much greater level than everything else on this list.

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Goalpost shifting, your original post said that TikTok is known to be spyware on a much greater level than anything else on this list.

Your statement isn’t true even if you prove that Tiktok is the worst offender on the list. You need to prove that Tiktok is worse to a much higher degree than anything else on that list. Your own source straight out says that at least 3 of the other companies on the list engage in similar practices.

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Most of those bans are organizations saying that employees can’t install TikTok on organization issued phones and computers, which is not at all comparable to an overall ban? My work doesn’t allow me to play video games on work computers or drink on work property, but that’s not at all the same as a law banning all video games and alcohol.

Look at the Russian propaganda war in e.g. Germany, that shit can have a negative effect on the defensive abilities of a nation.

Yeah one problem with human and civil rights is that they tend to have negative effects on the defensive abilities of a nation. War would be so much easier if you could just arrest all the peace protestors, or hold suspected enemy agents without trial, or force people to work without pay in defence industries, or force women to give birth to more people so you can conscript more soldiers.

So let’s just do away with free speech and habeus corpus, reinstitute slave labor and force women to pop out lots of kids. Then Germany can defend itself again, just like the last two times.

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If they were really “good people” they would have done something against the Nazis in the decade leading up to 1944 when the war was already conclusively lost.

The real good people died in their thousands in concentration camps long before 1944. Only a few, like Schindler and Rabe were fortunate enough to survive the war.

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Bit of both. I’m aggressively agreeing with him.

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The commies can’t keep getting away with … checks notes … running a free market!

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Western equipment is considered less efficient than Soviet due to maintenance issues and degraded mode capabilities.

“How often do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?”

Russians practice “Maskirovka,” appearing weak to hide their true strength.

Fair enough. You could only know this if you studied an obscure conflict called “World War 2”. Very esoteric knowledge.

The Ukrainian failure at Avdiivka demonstrates that Kiev is not capable of re-establishing the collapsing front with an “elite” brigade’s dispatch.

Throwing an “elite” (read: more well equipped than usual) formation to stop an advance is what the Nazis resorted to doing after the war had decisively turned against them. Didn’t work for them then, doesn’t seem to work for Ukraine now. Almost as if it’s a bad strategy only employed by losers.

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Lol it’s like how the average Westerner probably pictures St Basil’s Cathedral when you ask them if they know what the Kremlin looks like.

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we just pick one based on our twisted worldview where some gender must be better than other because reasons.

The only one doing this here is you.

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All the Xinjiang Genocide proponents who waved and pointed to UN reports are suddenly very quiet about this UN statement. Weird.

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The Switch runs even first party Nintendo games like dogshit on top of all that. People will say it’s the developer’s fault, to which I say Nintendo owns the fucking developer so it’s still their fault.

Also, Nintendo is the only console company that doesn’t port to PC. The fuck are all the annoying anti-Epic Store bros when it comes time to yell at Nintendo?

Tankiedesantski ,

This is what happens when you drink your own racist Kool aid about how Chinese/Asian people aren’t creative or innovative.

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