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The Old Hack

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  1. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    The way the war is going, Putin will soon be issuing his commanders K-troikas.
  2. Technology that works or doesn't

    Good riddance to bad rubbish.
  3. Technology that works or doesn't

    Being a forum admin is hard. https://geeko-sapiens.tumblr.com/post/679715096546656256/throwback-to-the-time-where-i-tried-to-filter
  4. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    For some reason it hit me that a good shortened form of a cop pickup would be a cockup.
  5. Deep Thoughts

    I was wondering how they became virginal in the first place. Then I decided they were probably baptized in extra virgin olive oil, which presumably has virginity to spare.
  6. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    Maybe they'll send a SWAT bicycle cop.
  7. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    I live in one of these. There are pros and cons. The biggest con in my opinion is the present day 'tactical elections' where a PM decides the polls are so good that an election would improve their position significantly and thus declare a surprise election, with his own party obviously ready for it and the other parties hopefully (in the PM's mind) caught wrong-footed. Another con was that we for quite a while back in the 70s and 80s had elections every two years because Parliament kept getting deadlocked and the disgusted PM (of whichever party) was like, "Fuck it, let's throw this to the voters." The pro is of course that our system is Danish and therefore in all ways flawless and a model to the world. Please ignore the whole beginning of this paragraph which seems to indicate otherwise. Incidentally, Governor Adolf Santis recently decided that the First Amendment is obsolete nonsense and threatened to sue several TV stations for running pro-choice ads. Now it seems that a federal judge for some incomprehensible reason disagrees with this highly avant-garde point of view and has told Santis that his suits are illegal. What a spoilsport.
  8. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    You don't need to resort to anything as primitive as a pile of dirt. There is a Swiss company that creates vehicular decoys to order. Ukraine bought dozens of them made to look like a HIMARS. So the Russians ended up expending a lot of very expensive missiles on some quite cheap decoys, which is optimal only in a universe where you can convince Putin that they were actual HIMARS. And might help explain the Russian claim that they had destroyed more HIMARS systems than Ukraine had actually received.
  9. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    Um okay. So how does the loitering munition decide whether or not a tank looks like an AI?
  10. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    So you get bonus points for going medieval on your opponents' asses?
  11. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    Only barely qualifying for this thread, but... I was playing a game of Civilization 2 out of sheer nostalgia. Late in the game I suddenly discover that I still have a trireme from the early game sitting around in a harbour. I was about to disband it when I realized something odd. It had one more movement point than it was supposed to have. I couldn't understand why until I realized that I had developed nuclear power, which as one effect grants all ships an extra movement point. Somehow the Navy had retrofitted this ancient and utterly obsolete oar-propelled vessel with a fusion power plant. I am utterly baffled. And I admit, also impressed.
  12. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    ROFL, Trump claims that Kamala is lying about having worked at McDonalds. Your stable genius, ladies and gentlemen. We'll be here all week. Try the veal XD
  13. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    And it's been the GOP doing it every time. At this point even if the Democrats eventually do cause a shutdown, people will just blame the Republicans anyway out of sheer habit.
  14. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    I am less certain. So far the GOP has forced through a government shutdown something like four or five times, each time for the pettiest of reasons. And every time they have folded like a bad hand of cards when the resulting opinion swing turned more and more against them. This time their idea was to attach riders the Senate wouldn't approve so it would look like the Senate's fault. And then they couldn't even agree on that within their own ranks. I doubt it will go well for them. It is really simple. They have a majority in the House. And they couldn't even employ that majority to agree ON THEIR OWN BILL. This will make them look completely ineffective, possibly because that is what they are.
  15. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    Yes. Everything going wrong in the world today is George III's fault. He should never have listened to that dodgy advisor he got from Thebes. All those bandages the guy wore ought to have made George more suspicious.
  16. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    The House GOP just shot down their own resolution for a budget. They never cease to amaze.
  17. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    Honestly? I think the chemical contents of his breakfast cereal are mostly sugar.
  18. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    Trump has now manifested his plan to fight antisemitism. It consists of warning American Jews that if he loses the election, it will be their fault for not supporting him. https://wapo.st/4ev3owi
  19. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    That is innocent and heartwarming. Trump is the exact opposite.
  20. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    Trump is apparently going to pledge to fight antisemitism. This is a bit like Al Capone pledging to fight gun violence.
  21. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    I would say that at least it sounds reasonable that the penalty for couch fucking might cost him his seat.
  22. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    And worst of all. COUCH FUCKING. It appears that months ago they had around two and a half thousand pagers sent there each containing 20 grams of explosives. It is being speculated that Israel set them all off because they worried the scheme had been discovered.
  23. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    ...this gives me a very bad feeling. In the Danish Army they hate doing that because it is tantamount to admitting that the selection of NCOs and officers is less than perfect. (Is it the same way in the US?) That they also threw him in the brig... makes this look really ugly. Well Trump has figured out how to remotely shut down brains so why not?
  24. Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)

    Fortunately Xitter is there to take up the slack.
  25. Discussion of Military, real or fictional

    If the British and Ukrainian estimates are even nearly correct, this suggests that Russia has sustained somewhere around 150% losses since the invasion commenced. I am having some trouble seeing this as a historical triumph.