History, Politics And Current Affairs

Should have just given the bear the ice cream: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article311765294.html

It is sad. I saw the news and was very much hoping it was a fake. However, we are also more fortunate than our forebearers, especially when it comes to the men and women who have brought life to people who never were and desperately deserve to be. One of the amazing parts of life in the twenty-first...

Marinette is building uparmed versions of the Freedom-class LCS for the Saudis. If I were Hegseth, I'd be ordering more of those for the USN. We do NOT need any more Little Crappy Ships for the USN!! We need some actual frigates yesterday In order to get there, we’ll need to fire NAVSEA first It de...

He was excellent on ST, but absolutely f-terrifying on B5. Played latter straight as a laser, over-qualified for my Convention's Sanku 'Prayer for Fanatics': "May the next die harmlessly, also." He played Chekov straight too. That’s why the jokes written to make Chekov into comic relief w...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2026 6:58 pm I think could spend a week in there. It even has a bar upstairs in the conference facility! Plus, it’s great that a decent hotel and pub are within walking distance.

There are conference facilities that don’t have bars?

That’s a whole host of other reasons to be concerned.

There’s no real modern equivalent to the Victorian strict instructions. A lot depends on the culture and the person in question - and, of course, the circumstances of both the loss and meeting the new person. Some people never are over it, some people are over it very quickly, and some are in the mi...

Lordroel wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2026 3:52 pm Its getting worse than improving, any admin here that is on the case.

Agreed. Lots of load failures, especially when using cell data instead of wifi.

For the first time i had to selecht cars in i am not a robot, also i was not able to get on the site while on my mobile. I’m getting these a lot on my cell phone. I also keep getting the re-sign in prompt a couple times per visit. I'm having the same re-sign in prompt issues when on the phone. Not ...

Lordroel wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2026 2:18 pm For the first time i had to selecht cars in i am not a robot, also i was not able to get on the site while on my mobile.

I’m getting these a lot on my cell phone. I also keep getting the re-sign in prompt a couple times per visit.

kdahm wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2026 6:08 pm

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2026 5:09 pm

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2026 4:22 pm

If only

I don’t think we could produce a rowboat without NAVSEA screwing it up

Without going full Poohbah, what would it take to unscrew NAVSEA?

Or is full Poohbah needed?

Full Poohbah is insufficient to patch over NAVSEA. It's well past time to go Full Rickover.

No. Ernie King.

kdahm wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2026 4:40 pm It's just a good thing that the house from whence Gnomy was absconded didn't belong to Old Man Henderson.

“Shit, that damned gnome is back”

A more modern example is how the only universally accepted coin currency in Ethiopia in 1868 were Austrian Maria Theresa thalers. We should absolutely be surprised if we don’t see objects and knowledge being traded back and forth across cultures with transportation interconnections, even if the inte...

There are a couple of issues I can see. First, it presupposes that the Royal Navy operational model is best. That is, long voyages in all weather which prioritizes endurance, seamanship, and durability. The Channel Fleet, the distant blockade of the US shores, and the various worldwide presence fle...

It's a nice read. It'd be better if the tables were actually tables instead of rows of numbers. There are a couple of issues I can see. First, it presupposes that the Royal Navy operational model is best. That is, long voyages in all weather which prioritizes endurance, seamanship, and durability. ...

That’s why I suggest some test cases, especially where we know one design was favored over the other by the navy in question. A good example is the standard RN ships of the line: 1706 Establishment 1719 Establishment 1733 revision of 1719 1741 revision of 1719 1745 Establishment The Slade Era The He...

You have the factor that RN Captains and commanders often displayed 'Honey Badger' degrees of near-suicidal aggression. Yes, RN famously court-martialled then hung a senior commander who'd failed at an utterly impossible task, as the French guy wryly observed, 'To Encourage The Others', but knowing...

I have questions on the spread of sail power. VICTORY has more than twice SANTISSIMA TRINIDAD and four times that of BUCENTAURE. Something looks off. Try running some of the post 1815 USN or RN big two deckers, or the older three decker 80s or the notoriously crank 2nd rates and see how things pan o...

I’m currently in a bar watching people watch football, bitch about work, talk about planned vacations, drink, and live life like we did in the 90s - happy and absorbed in their own worries, not a dark clouded world. At enormous cost, the world the 9/11 pieces of shit tried to bring into being died s...

From the NYT: Breaking News: Anthropic said it halted potential plots by scientists who used its A.I. models to do research that could have helped develop biological weapons. Is that supposed to make us feel better? Better than not identifying it. Though a lot of these AI checks are a pain in the a...