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6 months agoVolundam enters the chat
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Book vending machines are so cool.Contrast that with the reddit vending machines elsewhere.
Never heard of it, but I’ll have to check it out and pull a Jaina to get my account name back /humor
It’s from Derrida. It’s basically a past vision of the future that never came to pass which we now can look backwards at with familiarity for yet it continues to haunt the culture.
I’ve been playing quasimorph, mtg arena, and dragons dogma dark arisen (late to the party there).
My favorite Ludo-hauntology is if Dragon Age had more than one good game in the series, origins alone is my favorite series. I also have discovered the Like A Dragon series and appreciate the compassionate way it portrays working class, un-housed peoples, and everyone else on the periphery of society.
The last game I finished I was BG3, it was awesome how reactive it is.
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Much like Obomba taught us, that part in the middle of the meme that looks like says 12 year old is pronounced “Military age male”.
2·1 year ago“Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque” is a really fun shooter made by a Palestinian dev. It’s worth checking out if you’re ever tired of playing as the bad guys in such games.
I would agree wholeheartedly that current practices are industrialized torture.
I would also agree that in a better future it can be done humanely.
I even used to be vegan, so I’m not unsympathetic. They just weren’t sending their best to hexbear. literally a circlejerk subreddit 🤷
It’s not ironic, the admins invited a vegan circlejerk subreddit and started enforcing the party line that “animal liberation is a crucial component of revolutionary praxis” or something like that.
It still causes struggle sessions.
Biden admits ukraine is running out of ammo in order to defend sending cluster munitions.
I find this important because, if we accept this as true, it implies that nato can’t for whatever reason send non-cluster ammunition.
The hollowing out of industry and the rampant corruption within the MIC rendering the west unable to ramp up production means that it’s very possible that Soviet stockpiles could be the deciding factor in the war.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-sending-ukraine-cluster-bombs-running-out-ammo-2023-7
Edit: here is a comment stolen from the MoA Ukraine thread that poses a convincing alternative take:
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My take on the cluster munitions:
The Obama Admin stopped ALL testing of the many variants early in his first term. Due to international treaties was the claim.
No test range was allowed to authorize their use, and no one in charge of munitions storage was allowed to ship them anywhere.
Even the training rounds (flash-bang, not real explosives with shrapnel) were restricted for a time, then handed out in very small supplies.
The upshot of all this?
No one knows how reliable the stockpile really is.
Stockpile reliability requires using a small percentage each year from various production lots to validate that aging munitions still work. And that is done with items stored in munitions bunkers, not ones that have been lugged around in the real world.
Missing 8 years or more of testing means the required functionality can’t be guaranteed. Not just of the submunition, but of the fuze and the main charge itself.
In essence, the Ukraine will be using a very questionable stock of risky munitions. The worst case scenario for a fuze failure is an immediate function, meaning while inside the launch tube. A very traumatic experience for the user. The other non-function case means the projectile simply splatters against the ground without the air burst. More likely would be an incorrect altitude, too high or too low. Too high means a very large spread, too low means a small spread, and very low would cause most submunitions to not have enough airflow to active their rip cord and hence fuze set.
With the past supplying of outdated Stingers and Javelins, my guess is that “passing the trash” for avoiding more de-milling problems is as much a reason for the supply as them really making an difference in the Ukraine.
On a side note, the headlines this week are that the last of the US chemical weapons stockpiles destruction is nearing the end. I don’t think any have been made since the 50’s.
That’s awesome. I just wanted to take a swipe at the creep machines tbh.