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(Having now mumbled this it will need to be rush piece by Wednesday.)

06.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Its going to be next Fridays installment of Far West of Centcom's focus piece.

06.03.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

YES! and we are succeeding!

06.03.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I specifically remember many posts on this topic. Also your neighbor needs to get their brickwork fixed.

06.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Created or designed? The other one I could see but I think gets a bit more sticky is maybe supervised?

06.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not really a RETVRN guy, the present is better, but we did have more direct names back in the day. Defense Threat Reduction Agency is just goofy vs Defense Nuclear Agency. Same with Global Strike Command vs Strategic Air Command, or Air Combat Command vs Tactical Air Command.

06.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If we could hit it faster in Tucson. (I would move to that most accursed place for that job.)

06.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about words is, you can never definitively prove you do care with what you say: maybe it's hollow, meaningless, a lie.

But you can absolutely prove you don't care with words.

And this is one of those times.

Some high level portion of our PAO structure does not care about this man.

06.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s the cool thing you don’t actually!

06.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will be more than happy to after I go to a meeting. It is super interesting!

06.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you have it your carrying wire basically to the FLOT.

06.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For. If you’re wondering about things like resiliency of the systems, all of the talks, I’ve had with folks out of NPS and from my place largely speaking, you can’t beat the resiliency of wire they are hard to take down and even harder to take down for a while.

06.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, the reality is you have to run ground earth return wire which is stupidly cheap if you have power engineers to tell you to do it and have power generating capabilities. Semi secure, rare area nuclear reactors are here we got them plus the shipping efficiency solar panel is straight up to die

06.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyways, the singularly most important research happening in this country to enable combat power projection is the work at Sandia on power electronics made out of gallium nitride, and silicon carbide they just don’t know it yet.

06.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If anything, we need way more pipeline troops.

And you know what happens we even easier to lay then pipeline? conductors.

06.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Sup I’m subjected to reading a lot of articles a month on petroleum and petroleum in combat, and why electronics are shit and they all boil down too β€œcan’t stick stuff in a truck.” Yet no author ever acknowledges our preferred course of action is pipelines.

06.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also that ships fucking suck in comparison to the glory of throughput that is a pipeline.

06.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The answer is even in the land of Saudi Arabia buying a decent percentage of every construction vehicle manufactured a year it is trivial in the face of trying to do it for the Hajar Mountains.

That's why we have built a bunch of pipelines across the peninsula and region.

06.03.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The 120 essays I had to grade + the one I wrote on the topic of canal building tells me mountains are in fact not a problem if your name is not Ferdinand de Lesseps.

06.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Under pricing the probability that this conflict marks a massive shift away from fossil fuels globally. Like the writing was on the wall post Ukraine, just what would cause it was uncertain.

06.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's a TBI.

06.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh the PRC Russia playbook.

06.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Discipline Korg Volca FM Novation Circuit Rhythm Zoom MS-70CDR Behringer Edge EHX Hot Wax Leoz Guitar

in pursuit of bag

06.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Massive W for the Lebanese government's legitimacy.

06.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lebanon at β€˜Tipping Point’ as It Seeks to Curb Hezbollah’s Influence

Previously unimaginable: β€œThe government announced on Thursday that it would crack down on any Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps members in Lebanon and deport them.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/w...

06.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

this is the most spine the Lebanese state has shown since the Cedar Revolution

06.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Going to be a man in a silly hat is all I know.

06.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit

TerraPower had received a construction permit to build their Natrium reactor in WY! While they aren't the first advanced reactor to begin construction, they are first to get the green light on building a commercial reactor, not a demo or test facility.
#nukesky
www.ans.org/news/article...

06.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

A warship with no principle munitions is still capable of raiding, and more importantly was sailing back to port to rearm and continue the fight is not hour's de combat. The captain could have either placed his vessel into internment at a neutral port, or he could have been ordered to.

06.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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These are the color pallets I am using for stuff if you want to take a look.

06.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0