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  • Man these guys keeping their shit together while ICE cower behind masks, guns and armor is down right impressive.

    They want violence so fucking bad. Blocking their vehicles, overwhelming their arrests, preventing their ability to shelter comfortably? They will either snap and massacre or gradually just get unmotivated to keep trying it.

    I couldn’t do this. In the one video, when I heard one of the agents arm their weapon my own fight or flight activated, and that adrenaline pumped hard. Logically, it sort of makes sense. If they’re going to start shooting, I’m not going to make it to a safe spot. If I can’t run then it’s fight.




  • I believe it was canonized that Vader made improvements when it was required. Vader was still a technical genius and a pilot that no one rivaled.

    Take his right hand for instance - he was given the first prosthetic, that he replaced during the clone wars. One of his legs in a comic gets beat to all hell, and he rips off a jedi training droid leg to replace it, which works better and is far sturdier.

    But originally it was intended to be a hinderance. Anikin was a walking vergence in the force, simply by existing he made his connection to the force stronger. By sticking him in a much less technically advanced cyborg suit than what Grievous got, he could also just blast him with some lightning to weaken him physically again.












  • Back at the beginning of the arms race, the US believed Russian propaganda that they had significantly more nukes than the US was capable of producing.

    By the time the US had around 4000 nukes, later intelligence revealed Russia had 4. The US decided to maintain the policy of the arms race as it was very beneficial to the defense industry and research.

    The cost to develop and maintain a working thermonuclear weapon is enormous, let alone fission bombs. Russia never had the resources to maintain an arsenal the West isn’t capable of intercepting. You may recall the “Iron Dome” missile defence system that was removed from Europe.

    The rocket platforms are expensive enough. The nuclear material requires time, maintenance, and a fuck load of power to produce.

    I get the fear. China can do it, they have all the resources and knowledge to. Same with India.

    Facts of nukes help: Tritium has a halflife of 12.3 years. Meaning after 12.3 years, the amount of tritium in a nuke is half. the 500lbs of tritium in the 60s is now 35lbs today. Obviously I dont know how much is needed to make a nuke, but it’s not easy to concentrate tritium well. The most effective way is replacing control rods in nuclear reactors with lithium rods. But that’s not the real issue. That’s relatively minor.

    The problem is weapons grade uranium or plutonium. You need to enrich those to very high % of U-235 to get a big enough blast to trigger the fusion reaction. To do that, enormous, power intensive centrifuge facilities are required. And it takes a long time to produce enough for a fission bomb.

    Given that Putin operates on wealth, and the shit state of the Russian military? They didn’t maintain any operational nukes after the Soviet Union fell.