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#51
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Iran
Last post by Doktor Howl - August 10, 2026, 06:07:24 PMIran's advantages are:
1. Geography.
2. A shit pot of missiles and drones.
3. A total disregard for the opinions of both their citizens and the world in general.
4. They are sitting on 20% of the world's oil shipping. The Houthi may dramatically raise that number if they can close the entrance to the Red Sea.
The USA's advantages are:
1. We don't have any advantages.
What we DO have is a senile, evil old man with decision paralysis, and a drunk who thinks this is a round of Call of Duty. Hegseth didn't bother with logistics and instead fired all the planners because they were "desk jockeys" and not LETHAL WARRIOR ETHOS SPARTANBOOS WIFF LOTS OF TESTOSTERONE.
So our forces are just about out of ballistic missiles and interceptors, and our navy has been eating spam and canned beets 3 meals a day since early March. I'm pretty sure the fire on the Gerald Ford was lit by the crew to get the ship out of theater, but it's back now.
There is no way to win this with conventional weapons. The geography of the area favors ballistic missiles and drones and makes it very difficult for interceptors to engage. I can expand on this if anyone wants.
The only way to "win" at this point is the use of about 20 standard nuclear warheads used in particular areas at the same time (what you do NOT do is "sort of" nuke Persians). However, even the old fool in the white house understands that the political cost of that is permanent and worse than the stalemate we're in by a couple of orders of magnitude. We can recover from this embarrassment; we could not recover from using nuclear weapons.
1. Geography.
2. A shit pot of missiles and drones.
3. A total disregard for the opinions of both their citizens and the world in general.
4. They are sitting on 20% of the world's oil shipping. The Houthi may dramatically raise that number if they can close the entrance to the Red Sea.
The USA's advantages are:
1. We don't have any advantages.
What we DO have is a senile, evil old man with decision paralysis, and a drunk who thinks this is a round of Call of Duty. Hegseth didn't bother with logistics and instead fired all the planners because they were "desk jockeys" and not LETHAL WARRIOR ETHOS SPARTANBOOS WIFF LOTS OF TESTOSTERONE.
So our forces are just about out of ballistic missiles and interceptors, and our navy has been eating spam and canned beets 3 meals a day since early March. I'm pretty sure the fire on the Gerald Ford was lit by the crew to get the ship out of theater, but it's back now.
There is no way to win this with conventional weapons. The geography of the area favors ballistic missiles and drones and makes it very difficult for interceptors to engage. I can expand on this if anyone wants.
The only way to "win" at this point is the use of about 20 standard nuclear warheads used in particular areas at the same time (what you do NOT do is "sort of" nuke Persians). However, even the old fool in the white house understands that the political cost of that is permanent and worse than the stalemate we're in by a couple of orders of magnitude. We can recover from this embarrassment; we could not recover from using nuclear weapons.
#52
Apple Talk / Dispatches from the Bone Yard
Last post by Doktor Howl - August 10, 2026, 05:35:24 PMNew job. Turns out that helping crazy people who treat other crazy people isn't really my thing.
So I am now employed by a drone start up similar to the one that produces Hornet drones for Ukraine, except that it is run by absolute basket cases who are hundreds of miles away from me. I have the facility.
The facility is one of the military bone yards right off of Davis Monthan AFB. So there's a building and 150 acres of old military aircraft.
I have named the actual bone yard employees Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, because they roam around in a maze and are always hungry.
On the design side, there's me, Billy, Rodrigo, Jessica, and a couple of grad students who don't yet have names, because they haven't proven themselves as yet to be actual bipeds. Then there's a couple of facility nerds, a receptionist, and a janitor.
The fun parts:
1. We are off the city grid except for electricity. We operate off of a septic system and a well. The well is downhill from the septic system AND the washdown yards on the AFB. So our water is full of poop and cadmium. It is used only for flushing toilets. Otherwise, water bottles.
2. On the subject of water bottles, one of the bosses bought a bunch of semi trailers at auction to store environment-sensitive parts in. When the trailers got here, they were completely full with 50 1,100 kilogram pallets of Niagara bottled water. The boss thought this was great, and canceled our water bottle resupply.
However, these bottles had a use-by date of 5/24 and were stored in trailers in Texas. As a result, the plastic bottles have degraded and now the water has a ton of phosphorus in it. This makes it taste horrible and has the added fun of giving you a rather extreme case of the shits, which is the opposite of hydration. Obviously, nobody will drink it.
The boss doesn't give up that easily. He got free water and he'll be damned if he'll throw it away. So he wants it stored on the racking, instead of putting parts there. Each pallet, as I said, weighs 1100 KG, and they'd be two pallets per shelf. The racking is rated for 625 KG/shelf (total). The engineering factor would bring that up to a maximum possible load of 900 KG. 2200 KG is, last I heard, more than 900 KG.
We aren't doing that because I hate interviewing new hires, and the janitor dislikes cleaning squashed people off of the floor.
This particular saga is ongoing and promises great hilarity.
3. The well is haunted. More about that later.
4. I have now been here a month, and the spec for the drone we're supposed to design is locked in engineer hell. By which I mean the engineers in California were hired on the cheap and were process engineers in their previous lives. They don't know what they're doing. So we got started without them, using the power of sick minds and boundless initiative.
I have named our first project "Lola Montez," which, given the nature of the drone, gave everyone the heebee jeebees. Including me.
Stories to follow.
So I am now employed by a drone start up similar to the one that produces Hornet drones for Ukraine, except that it is run by absolute basket cases who are hundreds of miles away from me. I have the facility.
The facility is one of the military bone yards right off of Davis Monthan AFB. So there's a building and 150 acres of old military aircraft.
I have named the actual bone yard employees Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, because they roam around in a maze and are always hungry.
On the design side, there's me, Billy, Rodrigo, Jessica, and a couple of grad students who don't yet have names, because they haven't proven themselves as yet to be actual bipeds. Then there's a couple of facility nerds, a receptionist, and a janitor.
The fun parts:
1. We are off the city grid except for electricity. We operate off of a septic system and a well. The well is downhill from the septic system AND the washdown yards on the AFB. So our water is full of poop and cadmium. It is used only for flushing toilets. Otherwise, water bottles.
2. On the subject of water bottles, one of the bosses bought a bunch of semi trailers at auction to store environment-sensitive parts in. When the trailers got here, they were completely full with 50 1,100 kilogram pallets of Niagara bottled water. The boss thought this was great, and canceled our water bottle resupply.
However, these bottles had a use-by date of 5/24 and were stored in trailers in Texas. As a result, the plastic bottles have degraded and now the water has a ton of phosphorus in it. This makes it taste horrible and has the added fun of giving you a rather extreme case of the shits, which is the opposite of hydration. Obviously, nobody will drink it.
The boss doesn't give up that easily. He got free water and he'll be damned if he'll throw it away. So he wants it stored on the racking, instead of putting parts there. Each pallet, as I said, weighs 1100 KG, and they'd be two pallets per shelf. The racking is rated for 625 KG/shelf (total). The engineering factor would bring that up to a maximum possible load of 900 KG. 2200 KG is, last I heard, more than 900 KG.
We aren't doing that because I hate interviewing new hires, and the janitor dislikes cleaning squashed people off of the floor.
This particular saga is ongoing and promises great hilarity.
3. The well is haunted. More about that later.
4. I have now been here a month, and the spec for the drone we're supposed to design is locked in engineer hell. By which I mean the engineers in California were hired on the cheap and were process engineers in their previous lives. They don't know what they're doing. So we got started without them, using the power of sick minds and boundless initiative.
I have named our first project "Lola Montez," which, given the nature of the drone, gave everyone the heebee jeebees. Including me.
Stories to follow.
#53
Or Kill Me / Re: Fuck you.
Last post by Doktor Howl - August 10, 2026, 04:07:46 PMQuote from: trix on August 08, 2026, 10:19:57 PMThough the death penalty isn't enough. I want to do it myself. I want him to see my face and know I am the one hurting and killing him. I want him to know that it is me, who considered him a brother, who protected and carried him for 30 fucking years through his endless stupidity and irresponsibility, who always had his back no matter what it cost me and what I had to sacrifice for him. I want him to fully understand that the only person in this life that was always on his side, that did more for him than I've ever even HEARD of one person doing for another, is the person ending him.
Jesus, what happened? A murder?
QuoteI have learned that nobody, literally fucking nobody, can truly be trusted.
I feel that. My reasons for agreeing with that are trivial in comparison, but I stand by my motto: "A friend is someone who is not yet sufficiently motivated to fuck you over."
However, for the sake of your stomach lining, I'd advise finding something to keep you busy with other people. I say this having myself been unable to do so when I got dumped on. That happened only with time. Lots of time. I also do not say you should not be thinking about what you'd do, given the chance, because that's not going to happen and I don't really think it should. I'm just saying diversify your available attention.
Nowadays, I don't care if the people involved live or die, but that took a few years. And again, what happened to me is not even in the same ballpark as what I'm guessing happened to you.
#54
Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Co...
Last post by Doktor Howl - August 10, 2026, 03:55:52 PMQuote from: Faust on August 09, 2026, 02:04:16 PMPoliticians were able to adapt, and are courted by that loathsome group that say
"We will take care of you" like the human trafficking tate brothers and multiple others who get "cancelled" then become part of the a-team of the far rright. Conor Mcgregor in Ireland is the most blatant example we have here. Loses a civil case on rape, immediately runs for president on anti immigration policies
Its such a nasty insidious pipeline and rendered movements for social change vulnerable.
I hate using this comparison with Ellis. His behavior was scummy but nothing compared to these guys
Well, yeah. He was a convention creeper, which is pathetic, but the Tate brothers were kidnappers, pimps, and possibly murderers.
McGregor is no different that Tate, except that he occasionally wins in a sport that appeals to degenerates.
So, remind me, did Ellis do anything improper, as opposed to just being icky?
#55
Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Co...
Last post by Doktor Howl - August 10, 2026, 03:51:06 PMQuote from: Faust on August 08, 2026, 09:25:44 AMYep, people have voted with their wallets.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him"
The problem is I dont agree with the court of public opinion on this, and think the end result is stupid, and shit.
Quote from: MMIX on August 09, 2026, 08:39:00 AMYep. I love how we have become societies where we demand higher standards of personal behaviour from people who write comic books than from politicians and presidents or attorneys general . . .
Is anyone surprised?
The obscenely wealthy own the ball and the ballpark. You will not worry about billionaire pedophiles, you will follow the thundering herd of tumblristas against George Takei and Warren Ellis.
Never mind that Takei was exonerated when the person who complained basically admitted he was trying to make money off of the notoriety.
I don't see a problem with believing the victim first. But eventually, I have to see some evidence. If that evidence isn't forthcoming, then I start questioning the narrative.
I am told this makes me part of the problem, etc, etc, and why can't I wear a safety pin in my lapel to show my commitment to Sparkle Motion™?
#56
Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Co...
Last post by Faust - August 09, 2026, 02:04:16 PMPoliticians were able to adapt, and are courted by that loathsome group that say
"We will take care of you" like the human trafficking tate brothers and multiple others who get "cancelled" then become part of the a-team of the far rright. Conor Mcgregor in Ireland is the most blatant example we have here. Loses a civil case on rape, immediately runs for president on anti immigration policies
Its such a nasty insidious pipeline and rendered movements for social change vulnerable.
I hate using this comparison with Ellis. His behavior was scummy but nothing compared to these guys
"We will take care of you" like the human trafficking tate brothers and multiple others who get "cancelled" then become part of the a-team of the far rright. Conor Mcgregor in Ireland is the most blatant example we have here. Loses a civil case on rape, immediately runs for president on anti immigration policies
Its such a nasty insidious pipeline and rendered movements for social change vulnerable.
I hate using this comparison with Ellis. His behavior was scummy but nothing compared to these guys
#57
Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Co...
Last post by MMIX - August 09, 2026, 11:35:52 AMIf you bitch about politicos they use it to generate "sound and fury" and then get their "friends" to look the other way while they bank the profits that accrue. If you are a writer . . . well, ask Gaiman how good his "brand" is atm, and in your own words " from what I can see [Ellis's] comic career has dried up. "
My point is that for whatever reason there no longer seems to be any comeback on politicians. Maybe there never was and I'm just hankering for the good old days when actions and missteps had consequences . . .
My point is that for whatever reason there no longer seems to be any comeback on politicians. Maybe there never was and I'm just hankering for the good old days when actions and missteps had consequences . . .
#58
Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Co...
Last post by Faust - August 09, 2026, 10:32:22 AMWe dont, but writers are easier targets. They do it to deserving billionairs who just laugh and spit in their face
#59
Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Co...
Last post by MMIX - August 09, 2026, 08:39:00 AMYep. I love how we have become societies where we demand higher standards of personal behaviour from people who write comic books than from politicians and presidents or attorneys general . . .
#60
Or Kill Me / Re: Fuck you.
Last post by trix - August 08, 2026, 10:19:57 PMThough the death penalty isn't enough. I want to do it myself. I want him to see my face and know I am the one hurting and killing him. I want him to know that it is me, who considered him a brother, who protected and carried him for 30 fucking years through his endless stupidity and irresponsibility, who always had his back no matter what it cost me and what I had to sacrifice for him. I want him to fully understand that the only person in this life that was always on his side, that did more for him than I've ever even HEARD of one person doing for another, is the person ending him.
I have learned that nobody, literally fucking nobody, can truly be trusted. That the person you are the most absolutely sure of can, for no fucking reason at all, do the most utterly evil fucked up heinous shit to the ones you love. I have learned that karma is a bullshit concept invented by idealistic fuckwits that lack perspective. I have learned a lot from that fucking worm, and I desperately want to show him what I've learned.
I have learned that nobody, literally fucking nobody, can truly be trusted. That the person you are the most absolutely sure of can, for no fucking reason at all, do the most utterly evil fucked up heinous shit to the ones you love. I have learned that karma is a bullshit concept invented by idealistic fuckwits that lack perspective. I have learned a lot from that fucking worm, and I desperately want to show him what I've learned.