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    That's a box of sewing supplies, Don.
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    College sports: where the nation celebrates southerners making money from black men who don't get paid (This is incredibly glib, I know).
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    Yes they do, it's got a well-rounded suite of armament perfect for comparing to other ships in order to damn them with faint praise. Exponential scaling is a hungry and cruel god.
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    Who the hell plays sports games? Or actually who the hell plays sports games but doesn't play the objective greatest of the genre, glorious NHL <year>?
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    Oh, they remind you who they are when they run for office.
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    Sorry but some of her stuff is actually not terrible. I mean I understand some people can only laugh about jokes making fun of how awkward and weird human sexuality can get in practice when it's coming from their side, but different strokes for different folks. It's a hell of a lot better than Tosh in my view, who made a career on somehow being more awkward than lukewarm America's Funniest Home Videos retreads for the web 2.0 crowd. But then again I despise awkward creepy guys so I might not notice if they came out with something funny once in their career.
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    Honestly I think a lot of it is that sprint speed requirement, and that goes to having to have some checkbox feature that people can point to when called on to defend it as survivable. In fairness I have heard an anecdote from an officer who thinks it would be fantastic to be able to go that fast so you could air dry your hair quickly, so the military utility is obvious (It's actually an argument about being able to sprint out of the radar horizon quickly that frankly seems pretty contrived and dependent on specific characteristics for the enemy systems).
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    I'd contend that empty tarmac is the preeminent VTOL aircraft for the US' needs once you factor in the cost savings.
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    In a pinch, wouldn't the all F-18 wing's supply of stores and mechanics be fungible in a way the mixed wing's wouldn't as well?
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    I didn't mean that as nearly the insult you took it as, and I'm sorry I got angry when you interpreted it as an insult that was a perfectly valid reading of what I said. That's on me for not thinking through what I wrote when I wrote it and again when called on it. It is pretty awesome. I don't compare things to the B-70 when I mean to insult them.
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    If you want your precursors to the return of fascism, you could just check out the seedier corners of Reddit or /pol/, because they are literally fascists. One of my coworkers is very angry about something not actually related to any facts regarding that, and most every right wing political cartoonist has been making disingenuous cartoons on the topic. So there is some outrage, it's just concentrated among the people who already felt that way.
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    If we're gonna play that game, fine. Yes, and there totally won't be regulations on near supersonic submarines because If we wanted travel of that speed that badly, we'd already have it. Need + tool = solution. If there's a tool that could be a solution, and there is no use, then there wasn't a great enough need, now was there?
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    We used to be thinking about nukes as well. That's what Spartan and Sprint used. As far as I can tell one of the biggest problems is figuring out which warheads have been successfully engaged. Nice thing is if you engage high enough, they can't debus and you can ruin a whole MIRV in a single shot. We were apparently able to get a bunch of successful interceptions with Nike Zeus by the criteria given by a nuke tipped ABM back in 1962 off Kwajalein (nine of thirteen tests successful, with a lethal radius estimated as north of 200m and south of 1000 feet, source). Honestly I rather doubt that hit to kill would be impossible or even necessarily particularly hard these days, unless the people making RVs can wring some performance out of the things for maneuvering.
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    Or we could just build XB-70 airliner derivatives like tool using hominids.
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    You will be assimilated.
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    Literally the worst ship in the game, it's actively bad by tier one standards. But it's in Great White Fleet colors, so it stays in my harbor.
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    No, I meant the mix was muddy as hell and the vocals were getting masked by the guitars.
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    Any proposal without Sprint is unfit to print.
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    You could make money with literally anything in New York as long as it's got a name the tourists recognize. When we went there for the once in twenty years to see if it was a tourist trap check for Sardi's, their cannelloni were practically cardboard compared to what was two blocks away from our house, but it was packed.
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    That strikes me as something of a misrepresentation of Clausewitz.
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    As recorded by guys who thought a mixer was for pansy drinks?
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    Jarritos sodas are never a bad decision.
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    You're supposed to care because it's supposed to be something you care about, because if you care it makes them money. The news isn't about informing you, it's about monetizing your attention span.
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    Yep, that's what I was thinking. Four failures is incredibly unlikely. Four failures secondary to one failure is well within the realm of possibility.
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    Betting on a fuel system failure, tbh.
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