Kit looks more she/her than the OG icon.

NBs don’t have to be androgynous.

Pretty much. She presented as a guy and typically gendered as a guy, both in-person and over the phone, and I’ve never seen her ever correct someone on that.

I’d guess they use ~100 per day? But it can scale up to 10+ per missiles depending on the target being defended. And they sometimes might just fire randomly for seemingly no reason due to using old radar systems. Given they likely will be spread throughout a pretty large region, so the increase in the area of any given target could easily be exhausted in a day without having to increase the rate of attacks.

If its past the statute of limitation, it doesn’t matter. Especially if paired with good opsec. Would just waste anyone’s time trying to look into this to try to prosecute this and prevent them from doing anything worse/better with their time. Unless they are looking for evidence of that crime and accidentally come across actual evidence of a prosecutable crime.

Yep look at dated brent

WTI midland physical deliveries even more highly priced (at least in europe). Is WTI vs Brent premium related to sour/sweet/heavy/light differences of other logistics that mean they could get the WTI slight faster?

U.S. WTI Midland crude delivered to Europe traded at a $20.70 premium to dated Brent on Wednesday, also the highest ever.

The most absurd I’ve heard someone else say IRL is things like “I’d transition the other way” and “I want to take T” from someone who essentially socially transitioned as a teen and still hasn’t realized it in their 60’s.

Well, the market will efficiently handle that too. We’ll use grain that was going to feed cows and just feed people instead just let people starve.

Not sure how bad the sulfur shocks will be, but that’s also used for making a lot of metals like copper. There’s also the aluminum that was disrupted and most smelting still uses fossil fuels AFAIK.

10-15% drop in prices after 2 ships go through based on a flimsy ceasefire is impressive. I supposed the “rational market” explanation would be people didn’t think USrael/Iran would even be willing go to a negotiation table for a while, so them taking steps in that direction mean they were overestimating the constraint this war would have? As far as shortages, price go up until some people are priced out of it and that’s efficient markets! Surely it’ll be just wasteful processes, like luxury products and AI, and not things like people’s heating to get through Winter that the S. hemisphere is about to enter…

I guess my bigger issue is I wouldn’t believe the US would give serious orders: if they said anything, it would just be part of the political theater to get the most out of the supposed ceasefire.

Unless he tells them with JASSMs, I don’t think it would mean much other than pretending to try to rein them in to keep Iran waiting. Given what is already rumored, even just telling them to back down is unlikely.

I regularly complain someone should turn it off or at least dim in.

Also, “the ceasefire is the US buying time to restock their interceptors” and “the US will perfidiously break the ceasefire” are at odds with one another

If Iranian leaders who were hiding in bunkers go out more publicly, there certainly could be perfidious decapitation strikes towards the end of the ceasefire. Agreed about 2-weeks being too short for the US to do much meaningful. Like, they could move stuff around within the region, I guess. If Iran doesn’t take the US looting their own evacuated bases as a breach of the ceasefire, maybe they have some things of some value there or just bomb what little remains to prevent it from being taken?

“Israel” trying to use the time to kill people in Lebanon is a legit, so hopefully they’re don’t have too much patience for that…

1 month ago the conflict already started and even before that a lot of people knew it was gonna happen, so part of the conflict was already partially baked in (albeit, likely with the expectations of another 12-day event). Mid-February though was when it hit 50k and we got the infamous “dow over 50k, so we can’t prosecute child rapists” line.

The empire uses these constantly to restock

Restock with what? They’re already burned through years of supplies. Some of the aircraft they’ve lost haven’t been produced in the last half century and have no ready replacement. The radars would take years to replace even if they had easy access to the raw materials needed.

Human bodies in bases close enough to easily strike? That seems like it would just be feeding Americans to Iranian missiles/drones.

I guess ‘Israelis’ get to restock on sleep.

Why is Iran even entertaining this?

Could be for internal political reasons. It could be for international political reasons. Could be to get resources and rebuild their own military supplies. It doesn’t seem like they expect the ceasefire to be upheld.

The couple of days extended war.

Isn’t that a problem with bombing the U235 stockpile regardless of whether conventional or nuclear arms are used to vaporize it?

I originally tried out Brave because UBO was breaking one website I regularly used and Brave’s adblock just worked without any configuring. This was over a decade ago and I’ve since switched back to firefox, but there’s certainly been use cases at times where other blockers have done better.

I could see the value in a browser like Edge having a basic adblocker without all the extra features integrated into the browser. Strange seeing a fork of firefox doing such given their users tend towards powerusers though unless there’s a significant performance hit for extensions for mobile.

But as someone else pointed out in the meeting. The contract doesn’t say they will guarantee hiring anyone local nor any specific number.

What I’ve seen is a lot of moving people from outside the area. Suddenly every apartment is full with wait lists since tiny rural areas can’t really handle the sudden flood of people. I’m sure the roads aren’t generally ready for it either and since its only short-term, any development based on the influx is unsustainable if those people move away once the project is done…

There’s 4. I think they’re supposed to be able to act as a mobile command center in the case that the capitol is destroyed or something. Which means they’re also equiped to initiate nuclear retaliation, but I think the naming isn’t technically because of that.

In caskets 6 ft under?