Judge_Juche [she/her]

American weight creep. Like the newest Bradleys weight like 30 tons, slightly heavier than a WW2 medium tank and twice as heavy as a BMP (which the Bradley was suppose to be a copy of).

It’s really confusing when he draws Trump 50 years younger but keep everyone else the same age. Also I see that he tried to butch up Vance, which makes him completely unrecognizable, I literally thought it was Don Jr.

I literally only have Minthara left in my evil playthrough and we have cast aside all pretense of the old morality and are revealing in our new perverse freedom.

However as a consequence the game is now really difficult becuase everyone, good or evil, hate us and want to kill us and I don’t think I can acutally finish it.

Roscosmos atleast still have all the plans and drawings for the Soyuz family. NASA literally can’t build another Saturn 5 rocket becuase all the companies that originally built it either merged or folded and most of the technical documentation is lost. NASA of course didn’t try and archive any of it becuase it was the intellectual property of the five thousand subcontractors they used

I’m going to become the Alex Jones of Blue Maga.

It was a false flag folks. The “shooter” was a Groyper connected agent. The Secret Service ignored all warnings and proper protocol, confirmed by my FBI source (a guy that worked in the Hoover Building cafeteria). Trump wasn’t even hit, they smeared cranberry sauce on his ear.

I’m going to make so much money riling up the Biden diehards. But importantly I will not make any of the mistakes Alex did.

I usually try and solo bosses becuase I’m a Soulsborne pervert. But I was fighting Rellana last night and got her down to like 1% before dying. I wanted to go to bed, so I got the summon and used a Mimic Tear to just finish the fight.

The three-way curb stomping we did to her was … horrifying, like I was ashamed at how easily and completely we humiliated her. I felt so guilty that I betrayed the git gud lifestyle that I’m beelining to Elden Beast and NG++ today so I can do the fight properly.

God it’s so embarrassing how many online libs are suddenly bridge engineers now and trying to explain away this disaster. Like their only explanation for this is that sometimes massive ships will just hit and collapse bridges and that fine.

Like no reflection on why a 50 year old bridge didn’t have any modern protective measures, why massive Panamax ships are apparently seconds away from catastrophic impact every time it passes this thing, how they even let a ship on the verge of a double power failure into the harbor in the first place.

NASAs version of this is called StarTram, it’s feasible but there are some major technical hurdles.

In the prototype stage, the launch velocity at the end of the gun would not be anywhere near the 10 km/s you would need to achieve orbit. But you could reach a sizable fraction, say 3 km/s. Becuase the velocity gained during rocket flight is not linear with mass, having that 3 km/s inital boost would reduce your overall rocket mass by like 80%. The rocket would clear the atmosphere and then fire its motor to gain a stable orbit.

We can achieve 3 km/s with current technology, it would require like a 100 km long maglev in a very low pressure tube, likely built on the side of a mountain. It could probably reduce space flight costs by a factor of 10 if completed.

Building the proposed goal of a human rated version capable of reaching near 10 km/s at the end point would be much more difficult. The tube would have to span over 1,000 km and I don’t believe we have the technology yet to maintain the vacuum or supply enough power quickly enough to power it.

China is likely proposing to build a testbed system to start researching the concept. Probably on a larger scale than NASA has but nowhere near a complete system.

I still can’t belive how poorly optimized the game was, like I have a higher end rig and it was chugging to deliver worse graphics than Cyberpunk

This stuff always reminds me of China’s nuclear program in the 60s. Like once the Sino-Soviet Split happened the US literally just assumed that Chinese people were too stupid to produce an atomic bomb. Even after China’s first nuclear test in '64 the US would not recognize them as a nuclear power, and kept insisting they would be unable to develop nuclear armed ballistic missiles or thermonuclear weapons, both of which were then tested in the next two years and both times it was deeply shocking to the US foreign policy blob.

Also, the US went on to learning nothing from this becuase the exact same thing happened with North Korea which went from their first nuclear test to thermonuclear weapons in 10 years. Like in the early stages North Korea was very willing to surrender their nuclear weapons program for lifting of sanctions, but the US would never negotiate in good faith becuase they genuinely believed the North Koreans were to primitive to proceed to the next stage of development.

Spavor was kind of a go-between with North Korea and general information broker, Kovrig was involved an a shady NGO in China and was also doing information brokering for the Canadian government. Like what they were doing was probably not all that harmful to China (trading in public and semi-public information) and not even explicitly illegal, also China might have even been using Spavor for North Korea related stuff themselves. But they aren’t officially connected at all with Canada and doing spy-like activites which makes them very easy to round up whenever you need to, like retaliating for the Meng arrest.

We need to revturn to the pre-Republic Roman system of ten 28 day months and a liminal, unaccountable 90ish day period during the winter where dates don’t exist. We need to have a high priest pulling apart bird guts to tell us when in March we can start counting days again. We need a system so subjective and variable that you occasionally need a 500 day year to reset everything either becuase of compounding error or because the priest in charge got murdered and no one replaced him for two months.

It’s an open secret too that Israel is a conduit for Western technology, especially sensitive technologies, to get to China. It wasn’t too long ago (like mid 2000s) that Israel was just openly selling the weapons it gets from the US and Europe to China.

Unfortunately General Dumbass isn’t worth that much

That seems to be the goal of the operation. They want all Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for the captured Israelis.

These are the only good use of AI I have encountered, it’s acutally kind of cool you can use it to make custom magic eye posters.

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It’s literally the same stuff Yeonmi Park says, she got famous in the first place selling her story in SK. I’m fairly sure a lot of the stuff she tells people in the West come directly from tabloid stories. Like she told this story on Rogen, that during an earthquake people were running into collapsing buildings so they could eat the unguarded food. That basically gets repeated in SK tabloids everytime there is a significant earthquake in Korea.

Of all the bullshit North Korea stories that have gotten play in the West (NK has nuclear zombies, discovering a unicorn, executing their Olympic soccer team, executing all their nuclear scientists … I could go on), the haircut stories are honestly the funniest becuase it changes every time depending on how some white guy interprets the stuff on a Korean salon’s wall. Like depending on the Western source you either have to get Kim’s haircut or your forbidden from getting it, there might be 6, 10 or 20 allowable haircuts or those same haircuts are forbidden for being too Western, maybe ladies all have to get men’s haircuts or ladies aren’t allowed it salons at all becuase only men’s hairstyles are on the wall.

And this has all been published in supposedly reputable Western papers, the real batshit crazy stuff that right-wing tabloids in South Korea churns out or the recent claims Yeonmi Park has been putting out never makes it into the mainstream press.

The US is estimating at least 70,000 Ukranian battlefield deaths. And Russia has likely suffered similar casualties.

There do seem to be more and more Western sources that are at least acknowledging the massive death toll on the Ukranian side, and some talking heads are gently floating the idea of negotiations.