Go on radio.garden and try to find non-english music. My point is it’s wild how much English has become a common language worldwide, even if it’s not the first language
If every state had a different language they’d be more like europeans that have second and third languages as a normal thing. But it’s almost all English, everywhere all the time unless you are near Mexico.
I would look at ESP32 boards and make something like this
Kazoo for the meme videos
War gaming, which is basically thought experiements with some rules and writing down results.
If red team had this stuff and blue team has that stuff what would you attack and how would you defend it. If you lost it what would you do to make up for it?
From what little I know of research projects data is never ever complete enough. Or recent enough. Or analysed enough.
OSM is nice because it’s open source but as a mapper I agree it’s far from complete.
just look at it’s widdle cheeks!
You get orders to do a thing (“Blow up that orphanage soldier!”)
You ask for clarification (“That looks like a civilian target, do you mean the outpost next to it?”)
Get claification that confirms unlawful order (“No the orphanage full of kids, level it before the enemy uses it for cover.”)
You are OBLIGATED BY YOUR DUTY TO INTERNATIONAL LAWS OF WAR to reject the order (“Negative, I cannot do that”) and to report others who obey unlawful orders, outside of your chain of command if neccesary (“Fine, I’ll get someone else to destroy it. You’re finished.”)
Then you’ll likely be pulled from your unit, and face court matial where the situation will be investigated like most other court cases. (“There was an outpost nearby but the orphanage was not a legal target”)
That’s how it’s supposed to work, but like most things we don’t live in a perfect world and things get messy when careers, commands, politics and reputations are on the line. (“The officer made a big mistake in the heat of combat, but we can’t have this make world news. Maybe we can just move him to a different unit and classify this whole ordeal…”)
Steam is cool and all but I think I’m going to go with GOG a lot more going forward.
And I’ll never stop buying discs for consoles
Civilian: Hike around in mil surplus and dry fire because it saves money. Never see combat. Get called out for larping
Military: Hike around in mil spec kit and dry fire because it saves government money. Never see combat. Get thanked for your service
(/s)
It sucks but I kinda get it. You can’t get radars yet and the more the planes sit around a production line the longer it takes for the units to do acceptance inspections, train technicians and get pilots seat time. A plane without a radar is still a plane, and maybe with all the data sharing abilities it can be worked around. Absolutely not combat capable though
It’s incredible how it came to this. And this is peacetime production and logistics!
Yeah old school navigation was map, compass, speed indication and a stopwatch.
GPS is really nice but not a guarantee in a war so you take that same process but with all the modern instruments (laser ring gyros are worth a google), onboard digital map data and it can be pretty self sufficient
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I want laws enforced. Not just immigration law, but search and siezure laws, due process laws. And laws pertaining to the right to bear arms and use of force by federal agents encountering people lawfully using them.
If the use of force continuum (day one police stuff all law enforcement is held to) was followed we wouldn’t have damning frame by frame video of agents shooting a disarmed man on his hands and knees.
Nope! If other nations can do it so can the US. They might be more localized and subtle or maybe they can track traffic on the internet well enough that they would prefer not to.
But it’s not the norm. Power goes out, internet goes out. It’s as likely that too many people using a network can overwhelm it if people protesting are trying to livestream and post a lot
Look at what is happening in the US. That is what a barely competent government is doing to it’s people. People swore up and down it would never happen, that there were failsafes and guardrails. And now look at us.
Be peaceful, be responsible, but keep your guns.
Ah yes, European diplomacy
Instead of mandatory military service have mandatory conservation service?
We do, but like anything else you learn the basics and a few classes won’t make you fluent. You need immersion to get good and if you don’t use it you lose it.
The people that use it are already in a multi language home and took the class because it’s super easy for them. Just about everyone else won’t really have a chance to use it outside of the classroom so everything we learn fades quickly