I’m confused, OBS works well. What is missing you are desiring?

• Bring lots of audio entertainment pre-loaded on your phone or burnt to a CD (don’t rely on internet). Podcast, audiobook, w/e. Boredom is the mind killer.
• Bring snacks that don’t leave your hands dirty.
• Bring a sandwich, it’s much cheaper than buying one.
• Bring a refrigerated and a frozen water bottle. The latter will still be cold for the second half of the trip.
• When you stop to pee/get gas, make sure you walk around for a few minutes. Your legs get tired just sitting.
• Both Google and Apple maps supports pre-downloading maps. This is very helpful if you need to set a route and you don’t have service where you happen to be.

Mostly through turning others into parts. Their F-14 fleet shrinks every time they put a flight-hour on one.

That’s a totally different situation from a totally different time…a singular, mostly unrelated action

Both situations are about Iran closing the Straight of Hormuz and the US response to such. It’s hard to draw up a more similar event. Second up would be the ongoing operations against the Houthis who are attempting to close a different straight.

Do they want to lose half their navy in a day, again?

For those who want to watch a great animated video on the event: Operation Praying Mantis

The NCD leaks have gotten out of hand!

Ukraine regularly reports Russian casualties and destroyed equipment. The Russian casualty number ticked over 1M a few days ago. I’m guessing ‘casualty’ got lost in translation at some point and turned into ‘killed’. I do see people making this mistake a lot with casualties, which is both killed and wounded.

Iran has multiple enrichment sites, with a reported 83.7% pure U-235. Such purity is only needed for one thing, and it isn’t nuclear power plants which typically only need 3%-5% U-235.

The international response would be much stronger if Iran did something like that. Much like chemical weapons, actually employing such tools brings on unwanted responses.

Lots of updates, videos, and pictures in the article.

No. But much like an erratic hobo with an unfolded knife, I have zero desire to allow them the ability to attack anybody.

The Baltics are part of NATO because they didn’t want to be part of the failed Soviet Union or the modern Russian Federation. And with Russia invading Ukraine, twice now, it isn’t very hard to see why.

Get fucked Russia.

The ship floating is not the surprising part. It’s the fact seawater was into everything.

Dip your computer into the sea for a few weeks, it isn’t going to be happy about it.

lots of shit behind paywalls :|

TWZ has some excellent coverage of the event with nary a paywall.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/what-we-know-about-ukraines-mass-drone-assault-on-russian-bombers

Damn that is weird.

Any place which believes it can legitimize itself by becoming an American military base is fake and objectively worse.

What are you talking about? Somaliland doesn’t have any US military bases. Somalia certainly does though at Baledogle Airfield.

Should we recognize Somaliland and not Somalia since Somalia has a US military base, unlike Somaliland?

Somalia failed due to a number of factors: Starting with a coup that created the socialist Somali Democratic Republic which then launched a failed invasion of Ethiopia. Ethiopian resistance, mass migration caused by the invasion, poorly distributed food aid, and harsh government crackdowns led to a civil war the country has yet to recover from. UN and US interventions in the civil war unfortunately didn’t solve the problem either.

Eventually, out of this civil war emerged two countries: Somaliland and Somalia. One of these is half-way functioning democracy today and is an obvious choice to recognize and stabilize the region. The alternative is to force Somaliland to fail and have that region fall back into civil war too.

I’ll take Somaliland over Somalia any day. At least one of those governments is halfway functional.

I would take the radio out of my car before I pay $92/year for a radio to exist in my car.

Exactly, that information isn’t coming from inside the black hole. In fact it is the lack of information that tells us such things. We know the ratio between the lack of information (the event horizon) and the mass of everything inside.