shalafi @ shalafi @lemmy.world

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"The enemy's gate is down."

The side with the seam is down.

A 99-1 vote to drop the anti AI regulation is hardly the government voting against. The Senate smashed that shit hard and fast.

We're sending war materiel, not so much (if any?) small arms.

I'd be shocked if we can't. Since WWII, our whole military mission has been predicated on simultaneously fighting two major fronts and one brush fire. We've only recently dropped the brush fire bit.

OTOH, maybe I'm wrong. Put my comment in ChatGPT:

• Obama-era Reassessment (2012): The strategy began shifting toward being able to fight one major war while deterring or denying another — a step down from the full two-war capability.
• Trump and Biden Administrations: Strategy documents further refined focus on peer or near-peer competition (e.g., China and Russia), moving away from the rigid 2-MRC structure. The “brush fire” idea has largely fallen away as the military now emphasizes great power competition and integrated deterrence rather than trying to be everywhere at once.

ChatGPT is astonishingly good at answering questions, but if you continue to drill into a given conversation, 3-4, sometimes only 2 levels deep, and it's off the rails.

'The girls are fighting, aren't they?' is an AOC quote.

It win-win for the US! Musk gets kicked out of the country, his stocks get kicked in the nuts, and he goes on the rampage funding Democrats.

And y'all wonder why I'm always armed in the woods.

That's what I was thinking. My wife would be benevolent but politically clueless, making me the real dictator.

That last question is the most interesting to me. I guess it doesn't take much intuition to realize that rubbing things together makes them hot. Rub your arm really fast.

Still, watching experienced woodsmen starting a fire from scratch is an education. Even the best struggle.

Pulled that shit on my daughter with an RC shark fin at our camp. LOL, she was tripping.

I don't get this at all. Are they hoping monkey pox kill most of the humans?

Are you seriously asking for a list of every economic downturn in history?

When prices drop, unemployment goes up, people can't buy shit, rinse and repeat.

That's a pre-exercise thing. I think OP's talking about stretching in your chair or bed.

Me moving to the South:

"Red bugs."

"Chiggers?"

"Yes. Red bugs."

"Are we talking about the same thing?!"

🎵 Only the good die young! 🎶🎷

And you could knock a motherfucker out with one! Like in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis beats a pimp to death.

Hadn't thought of that, but just checked and NYC is 42% of the state's population. I would think state politicians crossing a popular mayor a highly risky proposition.

You got me considering an unshielded, focused/directed microwave beam. And then my dumbass realized I had reinvented the MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation).

So, why aren't defenders using those?

OK, can we talk about that compass?! Never occurred to me to look for such a thing. Don't really have an excuse to buy one as it's basically impossible to get lost on the local waterways, but damn that is sweet!

Anyone finding that they need a compass might consider the Casio SGW100 series. Pretty cheap on eBay, has a few color options. Just got the army green version and it's a hoot. OTOH, not going into a possible survival situation without an analog compass. Made a couple of wrist compasses from Suuntos, but damn, just checked and the prices have spiked.