Notices by pat (thatcrazydude@noauthority.social)

Hey 'muricans! Got all the illicit radio equipment that you might need from China yet? The tariffs are about to kick in and when that happens you'll be paying the middleman's 40% cut on top of the price for the same stuff. Just a reminder ;)

@Forestofenchantment @Invictus same. But if I was forced to pick, I'd probably go with George. It's the beard, you know 🤣

@MummaBear

@mk yeah, and I suppose the unit cost of lancet is 500 bucks, hu? That's actually an awesome news to me. I'll take a dozen ;)

@mk ok fine. And now separate the propaganda bullshit and apply it to anything even close to trying to take out an Abrams with both reactive armor and ranged defenses that are good enough to render rocket propelled grenades obsolete.
The US military doesn't need to worry about defending Soviet era junk meant to stop firecrackers

@mk don't forget that I'm using ad hominem "arguments" ;)

But hey, since you're at that researching stuff thing, you might want to look up how much and how far a briefcase-size quadcopter can actually carry, instead of relying on the BBC bullcrap ;)

@mk no, a 300 bucks drone can't counter a million bucks tank. It's an utter nonsense. And I would know, because I can actually build a 300 bucks drone and I can tell with absolute certainty that something like that won't even be able to carry a warhead strong enough to make a dent in any serious armor. Let alone range, detectability, "jammability" and all the other issues.

@mk let me ask you this: how much time you're willing to spend on proving to me that two plus two equals four? ;)

@mk also, to clarify, when I say "old" I don't necessarily mean "junk". It's just that brand new is always better than old because everything has a shelf life and the older it gets the more you spend on maintenance, not to mention that the more production you have going, the better your economy looks

@mk man, you're confusing laziness with unwillingness to waste time on trying to prove the obvious

@mk no, I can't. Not without really looking it up. But it is quite obvious that the US didn't order new production runs specifically for the purpose of supplying Ukraine, ergo all the gear that the US has sent over came from storage, and it also stands to reason that the gear will be replaced with brand new gear, no?

@mk I'm kinda thinking that Trump being Trump wants to make a business deal that benefits his team.
As it is now, he can dump old military gear in Ukraine, replace it with new gear and effectively charge it to Ukraine because he gets mineral rights, so it's hardly in his interest to end it.
He sort of showed the plebs that he sort of wants peace, the simple folk bought it and here we are.
Either that or he's a retard, but I don't believe that is the case

@mk well, you clearly have no arguments to present, so I'll just toy with you, son. It's fun.

@mk that's not news tho, son. Those are opinions.

And FYI, i've posted this because just a few days ago there was a bunch of people here yapping how both Trump and Putin want peace and the only hindering factor there is Ukraine, while now, you have ceasefire agreement with Ukraine and the US on one end and no one on the other because Russia quite simply doesn't want to end the hostilities, and instead of reversal in opinions, all I see is silence and bullshit.
Just calling BS on "some people"

@mk yes, I'm sure you don't understand. It doesn't come as a surprise at all

@mk why? You're under the impression that BBC needs me to link to their article in order to be relevant, or something? It's hardly some obscure outlet, you know.
Also, what would you prefer? An outlet ripping at Putin, because the only ceasefire Putin's willing to agree on is one specific for energy infrastructure, since Russia refineries are on fire?

@mk I suppose there are better sources, but in this particular case it really doesn't matter. It was obvious that Russia won't go for ceasefire and that's what they're all reporting now. Except for the outlets hell bent on sucking to Trump, that is

<<Russia and Ukraine launch air attacks after Putin-Trump call>>

The art of the deal right there lol

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clynp1nldmxt

@mk there's no denying that it wasn't, but what the F is trump even yapping about? What "bluff" and when the F did the ruskies ever said they want a ceasefire? They literally keep saying that's not even on the table for fuck sakes

<<German military faces massive shortage of soldiers>>

Not with draft tho. And y'all know it's coming sooner rather than later, cus orange man bad and can't do deals with Nazi Russia.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-military-faces-massive-shortage-of-soldiers/a-71888740