by xleb2
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APDSmith 2 points ago +2 / -0

Well, it's one way to get buckets of funding from WEF-affiliated companies.

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APDSmith 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's a lot of damage. The gun calibre on mine does vary a little depending on what's good. The CA's for instance, keep switching around from 9-10-8-9 depending on the best mark of gun I have available - I get the impression that a Mk.III 9" is generally more useful than a Mk.II 10", especially as at these ranges there's no incentive not to make the barrels as long as the tech supports, switch to heavy shells and get the heaviest, fastest shell you can... (Seeing as I don't have an economy financed by other people wanting me to build ships for them, I'm going for a lot more refits this time around, but the tech's advancing so fast I'm finding that after, for instance, the CA10k programme, those self-same CA10ks were back in the yard for refits to get them up to date with the tech invented while they were building...)

Must be honest, though, my classes are just called "CA 11k" or "BB 22k5" by this point - I lose track otherwise...

For the sake of logistics I'm done maintaining what amounts to an old cruiser museum, too, two classes, current and one older than current, across the board, current largely East Coast because everybody who wants to take a shot at me seems to want to do so outside New York (seriously, NY harbour must be a menace to navigation by this point) and the somewhat more expendable expeditionary forces operating out of San Francisco for a half-hearted expansion into the Pacific, mostly at the expense of Spain and China

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APDSmith 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ohh, yes, I remember that.

Funnily enough, this playthrough, nobody wants my ships, even though, as the US, I'm the single most advanced Navy in the game, as both Spain and China have just learned, losing entire fleets to a 4-CA battlegroup plus escorts (seriously, the weapons range advances you can get from the 1890s-1910s are just unfair...)

As of last night's save, Spain no longer has any battleships or armoured cruisers - they're all decorative reefs dotting the waters of New York - and China has one single BB afloat that I couldn't intercept in time.

Oh, and the best thing. This is still on the older battleships. My first dreadnoughts, armed with six 13-inch guns, are still under construction. If Spain and China don't get those peace treaties signed fast I'll get a good chance to see how they perform, too!

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APDSmith 4 points ago +4 / -0

Eh, there are those who just quietly get on with what they're doing, but trans actvists have quite deliberately made sure that they and they alone, with all of their deficiencies, are the sole face of the demographic.

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APDSmith 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm not sure logic features heavily in their decision tree at this point, but I'd guess the rationale is a desire to burn the world before they die, or at least as much of it as they can reach.

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APDSmith 14 points ago +14 / -0

Never had the balls to break up or even ... try and fix it

Nope, putting work into something to turn it into something of value was apparently too much for these people. Just shag some other dude instead, and then lie about it.

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APDSmith 16 points ago +16 / -0

... so a Kang dindu nuffin ... ?

Were they trying to fill out a meme bingo card here?

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APDSmith 8 points ago +8 / -0

Sanctions, and printing literally billions of the little bastards only a couple of years ago...

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APDSmith 3 points ago +3 / -0

That, honestly, is just the way the Met rolls.

After the Met killed Ian Tomlinson, their friends in the media made a big thing about how the brave policemen were beating back feral crowds of rioters to try and save Tomlinson from the baying pack of savages.

Total bollocks, all of it. Tomlinson got smacked around by the Met on an otherwise-empty street and died from an internal bleed shortly after.

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APDSmith 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ahh, but if the world is going to end in 10 years, what use is money?

See, sinner, REPENT AND BE SAVED!

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APDSmith 10 points ago +10 / -0

I'd suggest that if they don't permit you to do so, insist that they do and make the recordings available.

Process-as-punishment types do generally love being able to reinterpret things to taste; it would be foolish to assume anything but relentless hostility from the university.

by folx
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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

The thing is, communism actually works. For villages of, what, 100 people?

Every implementation that does not start this way seems to work towards "village of 100 people" either by killing the population suffering under it in job lots or by the simple expedient of treating most of the population as cattle rather than people.

by folx
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APDSmith 3 points ago +3 / -0

Remember, there is no problem a progressive cannot solve by killing people until the problem goes away!

by folx
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APDSmith 39 points ago +39 / -0

Conservative comedy is based off the world as it is, so it can be short and pithy. You already know most of what the joke is about, your own life experience does most of the heavy lifting.

Progressive comedy is based off the world as it "should" be so they've got to lead with three essays of progressive indoctrination before the joke could possibly become funny.

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APDSmith 24 points ago +24 / -0

... what's she after? The Swedish invasion and conquest of China ... ?

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APDSmith 2 points ago +2 / -0

Or when the guy's product hits one of the AI's ideological tripwires and it refuses to produce code for him - and all of the other devs went out of business, so how fucked are you now, sunshine ... ?

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APDSmith 11 points ago +11 / -0

It makes any kind of detective show pretty pointless when you can identify the villain by skin tone within 30 seconds of them showing up...

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APDSmith 2 points ago +2 / -0

The point of this is to prevent themselves getting Alinsky'd: If woke zealots and their friends can lie and dissemble enough to prevent themselves being identified their own work becomes much easier. (specifically, rule 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." - they're desperately trying to stop becoming a named thing, because like all previous leftie experiments, leftie practice is so contemptible that they burn through euphemisms faster than they can spin them up)

This also shows that they know they're not "the resistance" or anything like it. If they're in a position to get Alinsky'd, they are the establishment, but that's merely one fact among many that they hate.

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APDSmith 10 points ago +10 / -0

Don't worry, I think the British nuclear arsenal hasn't got to CAPTCHAs yet and still uses mother's maiden name...

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APDSmith 12 points ago +12 / -0

... and yet, weirdly, the Biden administration is completely impotent to prevent this even after a whole two years in power?

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APDSmith 41 points ago +42 / -1

US representative going to bat for a bank's depositors, good to see.

Oh, wait, it's because they're all woke corporates. What a shocker.

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APDSmith 8 points ago +8 / -0

For reference, the article seems to take issue with the lack of uncritical acceptance of the endlessly-debunked gender pay gap myth.

I gather the idea is that feminists have decided this is the truth; can't us horrible men just leave them be to get their legislation passed?

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