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I mean, I don't know about you, but I didn't cover that much ancient history either.

I mean, I'm interested in military history, but I wouldn't have put it in a standard curriculum. It's not really a globally-significant event. You don't have a whole lot of time allocated for history, much less military history, and you gotta triage what you cover. We had a very small amount of time for World War II, which was much-more significant, and I don't think my classes even did the Korean War at all.

EDIT: It looks like The Operations Room did a video on YouTube on Operation Paul Bunyan. They kinda rely more on memoir stuff than would be my ideal, but they're usually at least decent. I don't think I've watched this one.

EDIT2: No memoir stuff in this one.

I don't know what the map behind the guy is showing, but if it's showing the distribution of federal (maybe just BLM?) land, he's got a point. Like, maybe the answer isn't "make public lands non-public", and should be "make non-public lands public", but some states contribute a great deal more than others do to the share of pool of public lands. Those states can't make full economic use of a lot of their land, when other states don't have that constraint.

Here's a list with percentages. Utah has the third-highest percentage of public land in the US, at 75.2% of their territory.

https://www.summitpost.org/public-and-private-land-percentages-by-us-states/186111

At the other end, you have states like Rhode Island (which I can sort of understand, as it was one of the first states and has a high population density) at 1.5% public land, and Kansas at 1.9% public land. Kansas doesn't have Rhode Island's excuse. If you're Utah, you're probably going to be pretty grouchy if you're looking at Kansas and comparing your own situation.

kagis

Yeah, sounds like that's what people are arguing about.

https://gardner.utah.edu/blog/economics-public-lands/

The authors, which include three researchers from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, found that (1) on average, federal lands are not likely to be as economically productive as private lands, (2) states are likely to have management costs equivalent to federal agencies, and (3) states can cover land management costs with land-based revenues if they have access to fossil fuels and timber resources, and prices for these commodities are relatively high.

Hmm.

Maybe they're trying to do LLM-generated articles and are screwing up?

Problem is, some of the text doesn't seem like something that an AI would come up with. I mean, I can get minor errors, but describing an entire nonexistent init system without some kind of directive in that direction?

"You don't spin up this kind of skyward muscle just to flex," said one observer.

While I'd be inclined to lean towards us bombing Iran in the near future being increasingly likely, there was Operation Paul Bunyan back in 1976.

In response to the incident, the UNC determined that instead of trimming the branches that obscured visibility, they would cut down the tree with the aid of overwhelming force.

Ford and his advisors were concerned about making a show of strength to chasten North Korea without causing further escalation.

Operation Paul Bunyan was carried out on August 21 at 07:00, three days after the killings. A convoy of 23 American and South Korean vehicles ("Task Force Vierra," named after Lieutenant Colonel Victor S. Vierra, commander of the United States Army Support Group) drove into the JSA without any warning to the North Koreans, who had one observation post staffed at that hour. In the vehicles were two eight-man teams of military engineers (from the 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division) equipped with chainsaws to cut down the tree.[citation needed]

The teams were accompanied by two 30-man security platoons from the Joint Security Force, who were armed with pistols and axe handles. The 1st Platoon secured the northern entrance to the JSA via the Bridge of No Return, while the 2nd Platoon secured the southern edge of the area.[citation needed]

Concurrently, a team from B Company, commanded by Captain Walter Seifried, had activated the detonation systems for the charges on Freedom Bridge and had the 165mm main gun of the M728 combat engineer vehicle aimed mid-span to ensure that the bridge would fall if the order was given for its destruction. Also, B Company, supporting E Company (bridge), were building M4T6 rafts on the Imjin River in case the situation required emergency evacuation by that route.[citation needed]

In addition, a 64-man task force of the ROK Army 1st Special Forces Brigade accompanied them, armed with clubs and trained in taekwondo, supposedly without firearms. However, once they parked their trucks near the Bridge of No Return, they started throwing out the sandbags that lined the truck bottoms and handing out M16 rifles and M79 grenade launchers that had been concealed below them.[4] Several of the commandos also had M18 Claymore mines strapped to their chests with the firing mechanism in their hands, and were shouting at the North Koreans to cross the bridge.[14][15]

A US infantry company in 20 utility helicopters and seven Cobra attack helicopters circled behind them. Behind these helicopters, B-52 Stratofortresses came from Guam escorted by US F-4 Phantom IIs from Kunsan Air Base and South Korean F-5 and F-86 fighters were visible flying across the sky at high altitude. F-4Es from Osan AB and Taegu Air Base, South Korea, F-111 bombers of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Mountain Home Air Force Base, were stationed, and F-4C and F-4D Phantoms from the 18th TFW Kadena Air Base and Clark Air Base were also deployed. The aircraft carrier USS Midway task force had also been moved to a station just offshore.[7]

Near the edges of the DMZ, many more heavily armed US and South Korean infantry, artillery including the Second Battalion, 71st Air Defense Regiment armed with Improved Hawk missiles, and armor were waiting to back up the special operations team. Bases near the DMZ were prepared for demolition in the case of a military response. The defence condition (DEFCON) was elevated on order of General Stilwell, as was later recounted in Colonel De LaTeur's research paper. In addition, 12,000 additional troops were ordered to Korea, including 1,800 Marines from Okinawa.[7] During the operation, nuclear-capable strategic bombers circled over the JSA.[citation needed]

Altogether, Task Force Vierra consisted of 813 men: almost all of the men of the United States Army Support Group of which the Joint Security Force was a part, a South Korean reconnaissance company, a South Korean Special Forces company that had infiltrated the river area by the bridge the night before, and members of a reinforced composite rifle company from the 9th Infantry Regiment. In addition to this force, every UNC force in the rest of South Korea was on battle alert.[citation needed]

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It's dated June 17, so it's not an April Fool's Day article.

EDIT: I was gonna say that Linux Journal has been around for a while, and I've seen material from them over the years, so they should be reputable. It does look like they were purchased a couple years ago...but by Slashdot, of all places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Journal

Linux Journal (LJ) is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994.[1] In December 2006 the publisher changed to Belltown Media, Inc. in Houston, Texas. Since 2017, the publisher was Linux Journal, LLC. located in Denver, Colorado. The magazine focused specifically on Linux, allowing the content to be a highly specialized source of information for open source enthusiasts.[2] The magazine was published from March 1994 to August 2019, over 25 years,[3][4] before being bought by Slashdot Media in 2020.[5]

I wouldn't expect Slashdot to be putting out incorrect material either.

shrugs

Maybe the site was compromised and someone decided to put up a joke article?

Cannon Fodder - a UK classic, very arcadey but very fun and lighter than all these other “serious” games

It has that iconic theme music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASTLGt_9vbU

Yeah, I really liked JA2. The UI is pretty elderly today, though.

I haven't been very impressed with some of the subsequent attempts to revive the series, though I still haven't gotten around to playing Jagged Alliance 3 yet, and that has much better scores than some of the intervening releases, like Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. If you haven't tried JA3 yet either, you might consider taking a look.

EDIT: Oh, wait, yes I did play it, because I remember the intro mission that they have screenshots of.

https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1084160/ss_0edc29526ad201a59357234cd77a34a5ba507208.1920x1080.jpg

I don't recall finishing the game, though. I should go back and see what my status in that game is. Thanks for making me think of it.

Well, unless someone makes an alternative, people are going to use it.

They do need to provide a lot of bandwidth, which isn't free, though I wonder how viable it'd be for someone to create a Nexus-like Website using magnet URLs and BitTorrent as a backend.

Maybe too much of a technical bar to attract users.

I don't know if the coolant in fridges undergoes phase change between gas or liquid or just pressure change and stays a gas, but if it does a phase change, sure.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump

A gaseous refrigerant is compressed so its pressure and temperature rise. When operating as a heater in cold weather, the warmed gas flows to a heat exchanger in the indoor space where some of its thermal energy is transferred to that indoor space, causing the gas to condense into a liquid. The liquified refrigerant flows to a heat exchanger in the outdoor space where the pressure falls, the liquid evaporates and the temperature of the gas falls.

Yeah, sounds like it does do a phase change.

But it’s not like all the water just disappears after it enters the data centres.

It doesn't disappear as such, but it won't be in usable form.

The reason they want to make use of the water isn't as a heat transfer fluid to something else (well, they might use some water for that too, but that's not what's driving the consumption). They're evaporating it. The phase change from liquid water to water vapor consumes energy.

Evaporative coolers work on this principle.

So now you've got a bunch of water vapor blowing away in the wind, which you're not going to be drinking. It's not gone, as it'll turn into rain or some other form of precipitation somewhere else, but that'll be somewhere else.

Same thing some thermal power plants do --- you probably have seen images of those nuclear power plants with cooling towers, and other types of thermal power plants will do the same, coal, oil, gas.

That being said, they don't really need freshwater, as long as they can set up some sort of evaporation system that uses seawater for cooling, doesn't clog up from salt or other stuff building up. More of a hassle to deal with than freshwater, but it still evaporates. The UK being an archipelago, seawater is not in terribly short supply.

I get it for that balaclava stuff, which doesn't have a lot of functional use unless it's very cold.

But cops are gonna sometimes need to wear a gas mask, and that's gonna obscure features.

Heh. And the person you're responding to deleted their comments...

You can generally use archive.org's Wayback Machine to obtain said missing comment.

This Vance has spent the last decade trying to de-Trumpify the Republican Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Vance_(politician)

This guy is J.D. Vance's cousin and volunteered to fight in Ukraine, was really upset with J.D. about Ukraine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Vance

During his three years in Ukraine, Nate Vance fought in some of the war's fiercest battles. According to reports, he saw frontline combat in major engagements including the battles of Kupiansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Pokrovsk – hotspots in eastern Ukraine that experienced intense and sustained fighting.[16][17]

Vance remained in Ukraine until early 2025. He was formally discharged from Ukrainian service in January 2025.[18]

The article says that it's most-likely just rhetoric from Iran.

Strait Of Hormuz: High Stakes, Low Odds

Hard-line media and several officials have again raised the possibility of closing the Strait of Hormuz -- a move that would threaten nearly a fifth of the world’s oil supply. But Gregory Brew, a senior Iran and oil analyst at the New York-based Eurasia Group, says it’s a threat Tehran is unlikely to carry out.

“Closing the strait is Iran's last big card to play,” Brew told RFE/RL. “It has the means of essentially blockading the waterway…by deploying short-range ballistic missiles, naval vessels, and mines.”

But attempting to blockade the strategic strait would have major ramifications, such as “immediately” triggering a response from the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

“If war with Israel is proving very damaging, war with the US (and the GCC) would be much worse,” Brew said.

29% of adults must not be very big on sleeping.

As President, Trump can only pardon people for federal crimes, not state.

If he wants to pardon people for Minnesota state crimes, he has to run to be governor of Minnesota, win, and he still can't do pardons single-handedly then:

https://mn.gov/crc/about-us/board-pardons.jsp

The Minnesota Board of Pardons (Board), which consists of the Governor, the Minnesota Attorney General, and the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, may grant a pardon or commutation to individuals who meet basic eligibility requirements set forth in state law. To receive a pardon or commutation, the Governor and at least one other Board member must vote in favor of clemency.

People were buying houses that were smaller despite having larger household sizes then.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-square-feet-larger-than-in-1973-and-living-space-per-person-has-nearly-doubled/

More housing is where most of our increases in wealth have gone for the past century.

EDIT:

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/05/25/the-size-of-a-home-the-year-you-were-born/

This has size increase by decade.

In 1920, the average size of a new house in the US was 1,048 square feet, 248 square feet per person.

By 2015, the average size was 2,657 square feet. 1,046 square feet per person.

In the US, we have some of the largest houses in the world.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/house-size-by-country

The Europeans manage to get by with considerably smaller houses. You could fit nearly three average British homes --- the British tend to be on the small side on housing --- inside one average American home.

EDIT2: Elon Musk got on the whole "small house" fad thing a few years back. He lives in a $50k, 400 square foot box, and he's the richest guy in the world. So we definitely could get by with considerably smaller houses.

I can understand someone complaining that it wasn't Fallout 5, but I definitely think it deserved a higher Steam rating.