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19 minutes ago, sheeeit said:
I missed the part about the US withdrawal, but it really isn't even worth discussing. You are hypothesizing that the US would pull all of its military out of Germany and the rest of the EU. That would seriously harm our own defense interests. Not even Trump would consider that. Something like that would actually be a reason for impeachment. Â
But even if that impossible scenario came about, it would still take more than that. The UK would have to abandon Germany. The EU would have to dissolve and abandon Germany. NATO would have to abandon Germany. France has what around 300 nukes? 300 isn't enough of a deterrent?
And who does Germany think they need to protect themselves from that could attack them without the US and the EU and other NATO countries getting involved? Russia? China? Pakistan? Even if the US got out of NATO, they are still getting involved in any scenario where Germany gets attacked. Â
There is no scenario that exists where some country is considering attacking Germany but would then change their mind if Germany has a nuke. If someone attacked Germany it is full on WWIII and the attacking country is getting obliterated. And maybe the rest of the world too.
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I mean, Trump has literally floated that exact thing. But it wasn't my hypo. I was just answering the question, so I'll stop the thread derail.Â
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2 minutes ago, sheeeit said:
Germany is a non starter. They are a NATO and EU member and both entities have nukes already. It is not even on their radar. No one is fucking with Germany whether they have nukes or not. They do not need them. Their people do not want them.  They are costly.
Ukraine may want them but play it out. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, Ukraine is going to be extremely dependent on the US and EU for survival. They lose all of that support if they try and get nukes. Of course we support Ukraine against Russia but it is still a fact that Ukraine is a terribly corrupt nation and has many rogue entities. We will not let it happen. Russia will go even more scorched earth on Ukraine if they try and get nukes and the rest of the world would likely "allow" Russia to destroy Ukraines sites if the try. Â
If anything, this past few weeks has shown that the world is not tolerant of new nukes. Â
Well, the hypothetical was US withdrawal. Germany only has nukes because the US does. Without NATO, the EU only has nukes because France does. So if the US nuclear umbrella weren't reliable, I absolutely believe Germany and other EU powers would scramble to develop and deploy their own.Â
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38 minutes ago, sheeeit said:
Like who? Not necessarily disagreeing but what countries, realistically, could start a program for nukes that don't already have them? It is very expensive. It requires illegal coordination with another country that has them already. Add in the fact that really no other country on the planet has condemned the strikes against Iran suggests that if a country did try to get a nuke now that they would likely be bombed/sanctioned etc. What could possibly be the upside?
Ukraine is an obvious example. And I don't really see why it would require coordination with another country. You could also see countries like Germany in the EU wanting to add a nuclear arsenal if US protection weren't guaranteed.Â
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17 hours ago, Hate said:
I would think that since they went with first degree murder that it would indicate they feel fairly confident this was not self defense of any kind…but I’m not a lawyer so I could be completely wrong.Â
Not really. If they are going to charge, this is how you charge it. Manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide don't fit the facts. "First Degree Murder" isn't really a thing in Texas. You have Murder, which is a first degree felony. But at the punishment phase it can be reduced to a second degree felony if the defendant can prove the murder caused by "sudden passion arising from an adequate cause" (basically, was provoked in a way that prevented rational thought).Â
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1 hour ago, ChickenSandwich said:
Were they?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/middleeast/un-iaea-iran-nuclear-program.html
ÂIran Is Breaking Rules on Nuclear Activity, U.N. Watchdog Says
The decision comes as officials say they believe that Israel is preparing to launch a military attack on Iran. Tehran condemned the vote.
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*could be bullshit as wellÂ
I don't think there is much dispute that Iran was in non-compliance with the torn up agreement shortly before Israel attacked. All sources indicate Iran accelerated its accumulation of highly enriched material relatively recently But people keep conflating having highly enriched material with having bomb grade enrichment or actively developing a bomb. Iran had certainly positioned itself to fairly quickly create a weapon if it needed to. There hasn't been any specific evidence that they actually made in moves toward taking those final steps.Â
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37 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
What the fuck are you talking about? Just clowning.Â
I get it. You ignore anything and everything that points to obvious anti-science approach of our current administration. You're a pathetic hypocrite and I'll continue to point that out.Â
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43 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Interesting novel therapeutic, pan-flu antiviral, one dose last 28 weeks, covers N5H1, not dependent on strain selection, very high effectiveness in phase 2.Â
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Obviously we should rush to deploy a novel treatment rather than utilize proven, safe, and effective vaccines!Â
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I figured it would be good to plug one of the really good youtube channels that started up with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The end of this particular video discusses the most recent strike.Â
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6 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:
You have to know that communications are being monitored at all times in the region, most likely everywhere actually, and some higher up asked about the condition of the facility after the strike and the reply was “Everything is perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you?”
Between satellite imagery of the activity around the sites and recovered conversations about the work to be done they’ll know in short order how effective the strikes were. I doubt the Iranians are sophisticated enough or have the organizational discipline to keep it quiet for long.Â
Vast portions of this thread are dedicated to the idea that Iranians hid information on their nuclear program from inspectors with the IAEA under the previous agreement despite all audited and reported findings suggesting compliance with the agreement. No substantive proof of their non-compliance as ever been publicly disclosed. Assuming all of this was correct, it would be foolish to believe that Iran isn't sophisticated enough to continue to hide the true state of their nuclear program.Â
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4 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:
The MOP is designed to penetrate 200 feet of reinforced concrete. It doesn’t explode until it comes to a stop. No mean feat of engineering imoho. So 6 in a row isn’t nothing. I am curious as to how much those holes filling back in after the blast mitigated the penetration of the next bomb.Â
12 in a row. 6 holes, 2 MOPS each plus one or two more at Natanz. Again, very impressive execution. But, to be clear, the public penetration rating for them is 200 feet of earth or 60 feet of reinforced concrete. Being able to penetrate 200 feet of reinforced concrete would be absolutely bonkers. And the MOP definitely can't do that.Â
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3 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:
What if they bombed them with less than reported MOPs and then sprinkled in more of the smaller ordinance. Now they are awaiting them to dig some shit up before unleashing more MOPs? Nono I am regarded. They absolutely telegraphed their move and then failed. Fuck me, we used to be great. Before the adults were in charge.
/giving waaayyy too much credit to their mental capacity
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I don't think it is fair to call it a failure even if it didn't result in complete destruction of the facility. I also don't know what the purpose of randomly dropping smaller bombs are dirt would be. By all accounts, this was an extraordinary tactical success and a well coordinated strike. I doubt any of the military planners seriously expected there to be a high chance of complete destruction of the facility.Â
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16 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:
That suggests that it’s just dirt that needs to be moved. They’re probably going to have to make an in depth assessment of the structural integrity of the buildings underneath even it all looks 5 foot good on the first pass. And it also suggests that none of the equipment inside suffered damage from blast/pressure waves. I recall that the centrifuges, for example, are supposed to be very delicate. Again, if it’s just dirt work then it will be evident based on activity once the tunnels are cleared. Â
Attacking the ventilation shafts would seem to make a lot of sense. I guess it gives you an extra few feet of penetration, but I’m sure the first thing any bunker designer worth his salt would do would be to put multiple kinks in the routing of those air shafts to deter just such an attack.Â
Oh, I don't think we were necessarily aiming for a vent shaft or anything like that. But we were definitely aiming to have each pair of bombs follow the other to maximize the overall penetration.Â
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35 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:
I think even the laymen can look at the picture of the facilities bombed by the US and understand that none of them are going to be up and humming in 30-60 days even if it’s just a matter of digging out the tunnels leading to allegedly unharmed delicate nuclear facilities.Â
ÂIf that assessment is true then Iran already has the fuel on hand, is working to create the nuclear device itself and the suggestion that they are/were very close to having a working weapon is valid.
ÂTrump claims total destruction. Unnamed sources alleged to be familiar with the damage assessment say 30 days to the status quo. It would be wise to split the difference and suggest that total destruction did not occur, but that their program has been knocked on it’s ass for some time to come. Â
ÂAgain, activity around those sites in the comes days and weeks will be very revealing about the destruction involved, and first blush leaked battle assessments for the purpose of grabbing headlines won’t be needed.Â
Dirt is still a very good protector. And when the facilities are buried under hundreds of feet of dirt and rock, even the very best bunker buster is going to have difficulty. There is a reason we used a dozen of these things on the facility Top Gun Maverick style (aiming for the same hole). I recall the initial Israeli assessment was similar to the recent reporting: entrances to the facilities were buried, but the critical material was likely not destroyed. Digging can happen quickly. With modern equipment, it doesn't necessarily take that long to move a lot of dirt. That said, I think the delay caused by this strike is on the order of months. Significant, but not a real long-term impediment. Â
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1 hour ago, burnt beanz said:This story was broken by someone with a history of breaking high profiles stories that turn out to be disinfo.Â
You get this information from the same source that told you the Trump voting, rabid anti-abortionist, radical evangelical church attending assassin of a democratic law maker and her husband, who also attempted to kill another democratic lawmaker, and who had a hit list of dozens of democrats and abortion providers was leftwing radical?
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5 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:
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Marihuana was the primary spelling until a concerted effort in the early 20th century to change the spelling to make it seem more "ethnic" and undesirable within God-fearing 'Murican culture.
Was that poster supposed to be a promotional for drug use?Â
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38 minutes ago, idigTexas said:
I assume you meant Fractal Era 2? Â
All this SFF talk makes me wonder if I should have gone in that direction. My highest priority other than an acceptable level of performance is near silent operation, and I've always assumed SFF would run hotter, and thus louder. Â
Yes, that is what I meant. Brain fart. SFF can definitely run louder, but thermals aren't usually that bad with well designed cases. Everything is ventilated and components are closer to the edge, so you end up with everything actually having easier access to cool to air from outside the case. Many are also specifically designed with AIO in mind, which can help keep noise down as well. Basically, you can get fairly quiet operation, but you'll likely have to get more expensive cooling components to make it happen.Â
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"Meanwhile, Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda appears to be moving forward undeterred. On Tuesday, the CDC released the final agenda for tomorrow's ACIP meeting. Kennedy had already altered the agenda to add discussions of two long-standing vaccines: certain flu vaccines that use the mercury-based preservative thimerosal and certain measles vaccines. There is no controversy over these vaccines among experts, but they have long been the target of misinformation and fearmongering by anti-vaccine advocates, including Kennedy.
According to the final ACIP agenda, the meeting will also now include a presentation and recommendations on flu vaccines from Lyn Redwood. She is a nurse with no expertise in vaccinations, infectious diseases, or any other relevant field for the ACIP. Rather, she was the president of Kennedy's rabid anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense and promotes the debunked falsehood that thimerosal-containing vaccines cause autism."
@Anastasis is filled with glee.Â
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CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting
After anti-vaccine advocate and US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 experts who sat on a revered federal vaccine panel and restocked it with eight dubious members, a growing chorus of lawmakers, health experts, and public advocates are calling for a pivotal meeting scheduled for Wednesday to be scrapped and for the panel to be "dissolved" and remade with qualified members.
On June 9, Kennedy unilaterally cleaned out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). Though vetting for the committee has historically taken up to two years, Kenney announced the eight new members two days later. Some of the members are clear anti-vaccine activists, others have espoused contrarian or anti-public health perspectives, and some also have little to no relevant expertise for being on ACIP.
"[T]he reconstituted ACIP is a farce," Robert Steinbrook, a director at consumer rights watchdog Public Citizen, said in a statement. "Rather than further sullying the ACIP and undermining public confidence in vaccines, this week’s meeting should be rescheduled after the Senate has confirmed a new CDC Director who can both appoint an authoritative and representative committee and be able to approve the panel’s recommendations."
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)—a medical doctor who champions vaccines yet provided critical support for Kennedy's confirmation as health secretary despite personal concerns—was among the notable figures calling for ACIP's meeting to be canceled for now.
In one of his most critical statements against Kennedy since his confirmation, Cassidy wrote on social media late Monday that many of the new ACIP members "do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology. In particular, some lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them."
"The meeting should be delayed until the panel is fully staffed with more robust and balanced representation—as required by law—including those with more direct relevant expertise," Cassidy wrote.
“Corrupted”
Vaccine and infectious disease expert Peter Hotez, a dean at Baylor College of Medicine, responded to Cassidy, adding, "Honestly in its current form, the ACIP is mostly devoid of any meaningful expertise in vaccines or infectious diseases. It is organized to pursue a pseudoscience agenda. It’s a waste of taxpayer dollars and should be dissolved. Perhaps down the line it could be resurrected."
One of the CDC's leading vaccine experts, Fiona Havers—who recently resigned from the agency in protest—went further to say the CDC's vaccine processes have been "corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before."
"If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases," she told The New York Times.
Meanwhile, Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda appears to be moving forward undeterred. On Tuesday, the CDC released the final agenda for tomorrow's ACIP meeting. Kennedy had already altered the agenda to add discussions of two long-standing vaccines: certain flu vaccines that use the mercury-based preservative thimerosal and certain measles vaccines. There is no controversy over these vaccines among experts, but they have long been the target of misinformation and fearmongering by anti-vaccine advocates, including Kennedy.
According to the final ACIP agenda, the meeting will also now include a presentation and recommendations on flu vaccines from Lyn Redwood. She is a nurse with no expertise in vaccinations, infectious diseases, or any other relevant field for the ACIP. Rather, she was the president of Kennedy's rabid anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense and promotes the debunked falsehood that thimerosal-containing vaccines cause autism.
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14 minutes ago, Captainant said:
I've got a 3 slot 3080 crammed into a Lian Li A3, along with a microATX B650M mobo running a 7600X CPU. 32 gigs of memory plus a nice right-angle 750W 80+ gold PSU is a nice SFF home theatre PC. My wife has been enjoying playing Oblivion on it, and we've been playing through Split Fiction together on it.Â
The 3 slot card took some creative cable management and case bracket repositioning to make fit, but by golly it all fits in there just fine. If you buy a few case fans it even has pretty good airflow and I haven't had any temp or performance issues
Nice. The A3 is nice design with plenty of room to work in. It lacks cable management, but otherwise works well. Mine has a 8700, RTX 2070, 650W PSU (ATX), with Peerless Assassin 120 SE for CPU cooling (complete overkill, but cheap and quiet for the 8700). I just put in 3 120 fans for exhaust at the top and one 120 fan for intake at the bottom in a negative pressure setup. CPU draws cool air from the back of the case and GPU draws cool air from the bottom. Both exhaust to towards the center. The exhaust fans are positioned forward in the case so as to focus the exhaust there where warm air accumulates. I have it setup as a streaming gaming setup with Sunshine/Moonlight. We stream it to the big screens in the house for family gaming nights (things like Overcooked that can do 4+ players). My son and I have also been playing Space Marine 2 and No Man's Sky. And we use it for streaming PC VR games. Â
I do want the next build to be a true SFF at 20L or under. I just saw the Lian Li Era 2 and I'm adding to my list of potentials. Bit more expensive than the others, but a very nice looking case with good thermals apparently.Â
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4 minutes ago, Disco Strangler said:
NPR reporter commented that this was the first time in memory that an American president intentionally used "fuck" in a press conference. The dismal tide, or just a salty sailor?
"Intentionally" suggests a level of consciousness that I don't believe applies to Trump.Â
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17 minutes ago, Chopper said:
He should really go after the ones that assassinate politicians. There is massive one that is incredibly violent and even tried to take the capitol!
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7 hours ago, gsoda3 said:
That's looking for something that isn't there. The stock market, including SPY and every other ETF, is still open for after-hours trading til 8pm central. Starting from Sunday afternoon at 5pm to Friday night at 8pm you can trade either futures or ETFs.
Yes, but the heaviest volume tends to occur right before close. There could definitely be an element of market manipulation here.Â
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So I just finished my old system (coffee lake i7) to a Lian Li A3 case. I've also put together a budget Ryzen build for a friend. And that has gotten me in the building mood. I've decided I want my next build to be SFF. Cases I have my eye on are the Ncase M2, Lian Li A4 H2O, and the Fractal Design Terra. While I'm tempted by a top of line AM5 build, the prices on the Intel 265K are getting hard to ignore (even if the gaming performance isn't the absolute best). $225 for a very strong multi tasking chip with still plenty of a gaming muscle is very intriguing. I'm never upgrading often enough to actual be on the same platform by the time I upgrade, so I'm not worried about that. I'm thinking maybe a 4080? Just have to make sure the card fits. Oh the fun!
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3 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:
Aren’t you the scumbag that posts pictures of you fucking your wife on this website?
Posts like this are how we know the terrorists have won.Â
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1 hour ago, rpspeed said:
"suck on my red white and blue d!ck" 🤣
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I counted about 20 missiles used for intercept. Definitely more than 15. Hard to get an accurate count with the shaky camera work. Pretty good hit percentage for Patriot with those numbers.Â
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Good stuff. I've decided I'm going AIO this time for more flexibility in these smaller builds.Â