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I mean yeah, that is exactly what I said in the initial comment at least twice, and then again.

I don't understand how we're somehow arguing and saying the same thing.

Oh man, you all are still thinking these guys have a navy at the same level as some of the top 10, none of the countries here are big enough to worry about a real aircraft carrier. Spain kind of has a singular one with a flight deck that can hold a few harriers, but they classify it as an amphibious assault ship or use it for helicopters. It's definitely the big ship to worry about in the fleet and Spain has a pretty significant complement of larger ships, but we're talking frigates, this is not that kind of Navy.

Beyond some big ships from Spain, think mostly patrol boats and a few submarines.

I mean, no one said they were? What did you think we were talking about in like at least half the comment you're replying to. I mentioned that other countries would step in several times, what did you think that meant? Like, are you just restating my comment for me? I don't get it.

Really, the only scenario where this is more than interesting world building is kind of what you mentioned though. I.e., if NATO falls apart and the US also fucks up relations with Israel leading to them ending up on Russia's side with others in some kind of World War 3 situation.

I guess it is relative, but that should be over 2000 miles, it's hard to call that short. I don't know the exact speeds of the Spanish Navy, but assuming perfect conditions and let's give them 25 knots, that's still going to run you ~4 days at top speed for the big ships.

I can't think of a better method for Spain, but it's a long enough voyage that no one's going to surprise anyone.

Here's your source my friend. Sorry, original post only showed up on twitter:

Original Post: https://x.com/tehmondspartan/status/1787508561087693204

Does have a few other socials though:

https://bsky.app/profile/mondyspartan.bsky.social

https://www.deviantart.com/mondyspartan/gallery

We all did, so much so that there was a petition to make it happen: https://www.change.org/p/pornhub-com-make-an-actual-porn-of-the-milk-girls

400 signatures before it ended.

Not quite the focus of this article, but I've personally 'worked from home' while on kind of a soft vacation.

During Covid, found a great trail which had alright cell reception at the summit. I had a few days where I'd go hiking in the morning and work on my hotspot for near the top. Had a few weeks off and on working on a balcony in Florida overlooking the beach. There's definitely some out there taking full days off and doing nothing, but I feel like a lot of the mentioned 'time off without telling your boss' is probably closer to situations like that.

Efficiency is a thing and Norway might have an advantage there, but for example... the Skjold, there's 6 of them in existence and the complement for them is listed as 15 people.

The Norwegian Navy as a whole is 25 boats of various sizes, Israel is not a lot better with 67 and skews towards smaller boats and neither side is equipped to fight anywhere they both could reach. The entire Norwegian Navy is about 4,000 personnel compared to 9,500 for the Israeli Navy. It would be the weirdest Naval battle with two sides that have no business at all having a naval battle, but if they were determined to fight and could figure out where, the advantage is on Israel.

It is definitely an unlikely hypothetical due to both sides having allies/etc and yeah, the logistics. It would kind of be like Russia declaring war on something like... Paraguay. The problems with logistics are mostly the same on both sides though, it's just a matter of figuring out how they would fight. From there, and yes, there's a lot to think about to get to that point... but, if they were determined to fight and everyone else was determined not to intervene, Israel has a pretty clear advantage in terms of military might whichever metrics you look at.

The real interesting piece is the Spanish Navy... as in Spain does have a legitimately impressive navy and even though it's a long cruise, they could probably get to Israel with it whereas Israel does have a navy, but to my knowledge, the only area where they really excel there is with submarines. Israel would be completely outmatched in the Mediterranean if they could figure out how to fight in it.

Not wrong from a historical perspective, but Norway would be outnumbered around 10:1 in manpower in modern times. Kind of hard to measure the... 'level of military technology', but Israel keeps it up to date and Norway hasn't had to make that a real priority beyond posturing for awhile. Obviously not the likeliest scenario, but if everyone else stayed out of the way and they could figure out how to fight each other, that's a really hard fight for Norway.

In terms of sheer military might, the size of Israel's military is very substantial compared to the listed countries. Other countries would likely come to their defense if it happened, but if it came to a fight between Israel and just Norway/Ireland/Spain, it would be very hard to call Israel a small dog. Spain might be a bit of a challenge but Norway and Ireland would likely barely even register.

Obviously, all those countries have friends and are probably pretty safe because of that, but also not entirely idle threats.

Lol, I did mean the former, but yes, I was imagining automation/etc taking over the role of most jobs.

I do feel like the former or something close to it should be our goal as a society.

I feel like they're going to try their best to do it in a profoundly stupid way, but I think games can be one of the places where AI really works.

AI as a means for building out conversations with NPCs and strengthening other world building makes a lot of sense, but like here... They're talking about using it to guide players away from one of the key things that make Minecraft a compelling game. Asking AI 'How do I make a sword' is not as compelling as figuring it out yourself with the context you have available... The beauty of Minecraft is that you can figure out the basics on your own and can extrapolate to... maybe not everything, but most things from figuring out those basic concepts.

I'd hope so and square enix has been... improving, but their track record of ports even working properly on an average windows PC is not super great. I'm still hoping I'm wrong, but betting against it launching in verified status and kinda 50/50 on it working at all on my steam deck.

I don't know that we're bitching per se, just kind of a weird choice. It's like they went to Popeye's and tried to order a salad, it's just like yeah, the ingredients are technically there, but why?

This does bring up kind of an interesting question for me at least.

I would expect that a significant contributor to the surge prices is from HVAC units and similar needing to work harder/etc. My brain also feels like solar panels are likely to work better when it's warmer, but I realize that I don't have any proof of that or know how that would work beyond 'when hot, feels like more sun rays, more sun rays good for solar?'.

On to the question, do solar panels work better in warmer temperatures and does output of solar panels scale anywhere close to comparatively with ambient temperature and/or need for HVAC and similar systems?