I’ve always thought the sysadmin of our simulation must be really pissed that we keep inventing better and better telescopes.

The JWST probably cost him a weekend adding more nodes to the cluster.

Helium is not toxic and it sure as fuck isn’t going in the ocean after it escapes a quantum computer.

So dumb. How many hobbyists will pay that? A tiny fraction. Then in 4-5 years these guys will be sitting around wondering why their new business customer numbers fell off a cliff.

Don’t bite the hand that proselytizes for you at the office.

Your mommas so fat when she steps on the scale it says “one truck at a time please”.

I’ve always thought all mom disses were dumb af.

Just like your mom.

I don’t know if it’s fair to say obsessed when it’s a major part of our programming and one of the big reasons we’re the apex predators on Earth.

You can immobilize an M1 by pouring shit into the exhaust grills over the turbine. You can also blind the driver and TC with a can of paint. You don’t have to kill it to take it out of the fight. That’s my point. If they don’t have counter-infantry to keep you off them, they are fucked. Tanks really really suck against infantry in situations that aren’t endless flat desert like the Gulf War.

Thank you for explaining to this former 11-H / 11-M the difficulties in fighting tanks. :D

You’re not wrong but infantry against tanks that have no infantry support will win every time. Tanks are fuckin blind when buttoned up and will get absolutely wrecked by close in infantry, even without anti-armor weapons. It’s almost trivial to immobilize them from up close.

I didn’t say it was a LOT of solace. 😁

But yeah I lean more towards “we are well and truly fucked” every year.

National guard gets involved, at the governor’s request, but they don’t have missiles or drones.

The fuck they don’t.

After my active duty service I was in the NG for a while until I figured out it was a fuckin joke, but my NG unit was a Bradley unit which means 30mm cannon and TOW missiles. And that was almost 30 years ago.

The Air NG also flies just about every fighter out there and they sure as hell have missile racks on them.

The hope is that the Americans behind those war machines will be hesitant to fire on their countrymen but Kent State puts a shadow over that hope.

The only solace to be had is that the pendulum eventually swings back. But there’s going to be a lot of fuckin misery before that happens.

Ask the Russians how well it goes when the tanks fight alone.

I think dish soap is a great start. It’s mild and doesn’t have abrasives or harsh chemicals that may stain the watch. I have a Mk2i and that’s how I’ve cleaned mine when it needed it.

You may also have developed a mild allergy to whatever the back of your watch is made of, in which case cleaning won’t help.

Not nearly as cringe as the MAGA idiots that have posters of Donald “Diaper” Trump looking like Rambo.

In that case it might not hurt to reach out to some NASA email addresses. The people who write that stuff are, after all, nerds like us, and would probably be happy to share whatever they are allowed to share.

It’s funded by taxes so, security issues aside, there shouldn’t be a lot of trade secrets.

I was kidding. 😁 There’s nothing real time about C&C with space probes. And the ISS is close enough I doubt it’s an issue.

Ask NASA

They’ve been calling us meatbags since at least 2003.

Because most people, including those implementing this shit, have no idea how LLMs work, or their limitations. I see it every day at my job. I have given up trying to patiently explain why they are having issues.

I played through it at least 3 times back in the day to 100% the achievements. Don’t know if I have another run in me. But for anyone who hasn’t played, go for it. It’s a blast and has some unique game mechanics.