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  1. In Topic: Israel and Iran

    06 March 2025 - 04:15 PM

    View PostHoosierDaddy, on 06 March 2025 - 02:02 PM, said:

    I see this stuff and just think about the people who voted for him because they were upset with Biden/Harris.

    I get the protest vote in theory. But, when the repercussions of the protest vote are THIS. And we ALL TOLD THEM THIS WOULD BE THE RESULT, I don't feel bad for those assholes and hope they feel like shit. I feel bad for the Gazans who are going to get even further fucked by American stupidity.


    Its pretty crazy...a vote for Trump might be one of very few time we can pretty much 100% say people have voted for and gotten policies that directly kill people. Of course most of those people live far away.

  2. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    06 March 2025 - 04:09 PM

    Might just as well add it to the to read list :)

  3. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    05 March 2025 - 03:15 PM

    Yep that was a great moment and with some actual weight and consequence to it. Someone who didn't enjoy it would probably nitpick and say that well she gained super powers later from that sacrifice but I can certainly ignore that. There are other great moments usually not in the action sequences but more personal interactions between characters.

    View PostQuickTidal, on 05 March 2025 - 02:23 PM, said:

    View PostMacros, on 05 March 2025 - 02:18 PM, said:

    Half way with QT here.
    Spoilered part was probably the only real fuck yeah moment of six/crooked, I did find them a bit YA in places, but the folkow up duology is much more solid and a lot of that is due to aforementioned characters Arc


    Indeed. In fact you can actually feel Bardugo move from fully YA in the Grishaverse trilogy, to partially YA in the SOC duology, to fully adult in the KoS duology.


    That might actually make me buy the KoS duology I like the world and Bardugo can write no question about it, but how connected to the first series is it. Not sure I can get through three all out YA books in the original trilogy to read the KoS duology.

  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    05 March 2025 - 01:13 PM

    Finished up Six of Crows and Crocked Kingdom, more of one book in two parts. Entertaining but also in some ways Lies of Locke Lamora for adolescents. It would have made more sense adding a decade or two to the main characters age if the author wanted to make it more believable it was still fun and occasionally clever but the amount of tough situations the characters get out of gets a bit implausible at time.

    Starting Never Send Roses the latest of Craig Schaefers sprawling universe of urban fantasy where I'm behind by a book or two.

  5. In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread

    02 March 2025 - 08:00 PM

     Werthead, on 02 March 2025 - 07:56 PM, said:

    Perun's analysis of NATO's capabilities without the United States.

    European military capabilities are still pretty massive. Having the United States on hand is obviously massively preferrable, but in a pinch the non-US component of NATO could still defeat Russia without too much trouble, at least in a conventional war.


    Perun is a legend, some good levelheaded and knowledgeable analysis good for anyone who wants a clue. A must watch each sunday :)

     Azath Vitr (D, on 02 March 2025 - 02:31 PM, said:


    However, humanoid robots only use about 10% the materials of a car, so it's plausible they could eventually become another 10x cheaper, or $1000 each.



    I'd agree for civilian robots, those will eventually move into homes. Probably fairly soon as novelty items and not in the too distant future helping with simple tasks and taking over unskilled work on mass.

    But a military robot needs hardened electronics, rugged computers, stronger actuators and motors to handle recoil and other stresses, they are probably not built in cheap plastic, limited protection equal to a bullet proof vest at a minimum, dust, liquid and dirt proofing, redundant sensors so that the robot isn't disabled by one iced up or malfunctioning camera, bigger batteries for longer operations, secure data connections that are at least somewhat jamming proof and the software development will be insane. Gods these things will be expensive so damned expensive that tech firm boards are orgasmic at the thought of selling them in the future.

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    Tsundoku 

    24 Dec 2021 - 14:48
    Hey dude
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