Ah, I see, new arrival.

Ah yes, we have a slot for you, way, way down near Kissinger.

… dear god.

… Effective?

How many ICE agents are in jail for their innumerable, constant violations of laws?

How many of them have quit, or been otherwise disabled as members of a violent paramilitary force?

How much has ICE’s capacity to inflict further lawless terror been actually, practically diminished?

The answer is None, to near none, basically not at all.

What you describe as effective resistance is just effective virtue signalling, not making any material difference against a hostile invading force, who is only growing in number and continuously gaining access to more funding and resources.

The elections are actively being rigged right now, MAGA bought the company that runs most of the voting machines.

They’ll either win the midterms via fuckery, or just cancel them, no matter how many people voice their concerns and displeasure.

Also, they’ll just do a false flag or massively trump up an actual event, to justify violence, if they are not met with actual violent resistance.

They have in fact already been doing this, in many, many different instances, but the news cycle moves so fast that apparently few are cognizant of this.

And the inescapable logic there means that unless people put their own credible threat of violence on the table, nothing will continue to ever change.

You don’t play a rigged poker game, you play the uh, meta-game, around and above it, otherwise, you always lose.

Capitalism does violence via complex bureaucracy, via obscuring and normalizing the system itself, by making it very complicated to try to draw some kind of moral line as to where responsibility for the acts of which actors in a system should lie.

The reality is that the system itself is violence, and that you are guilty to the degree that you partake in and profit from it.

This is why Luigi Mangione is pretty much seen as the modern day Robin Hood.

10ish years ago it was a conscious choice they made, the automakers.

Now?

They are trapped, they can only continue to exist if they have the margins from luxury car prices for basically standard cars.

The other thing that goes along with this is… horrendously shoddy construction and design, they’re literally built to break down, intentionally.

They’re not really automakers.

They’re managers of very troubled tranches of debt obligations who happen to be in charge of auto plants.

We should have let them all die back in 09, but instead we bailed them out and their management became a punch of sycophantic ‘dont rock the boat, we’re experts’ accountants, just like what happened Boeing after McDonnel Douglass bought them out, ousted their middle and upper managers, and wore the Boeing brand name like a skin suit.

They are completely incompetent, but even if they weren’t, nobody could solve the mess they are in now after decades of coddling and kickbacks from the government, collusion with regulators… rotted them from the inside out, smothered themselves, not really caring because C suite gets golden parachutes no matter what happens.

Hey, wanna know what happened in the US during the first Great Depression?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Executive Order 6102 is an executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt forbidding “the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States”.

Almost no one owns their own actual physical gold these days, its usually some kind of thing that is ultimately some kind of legal agreement, even easier to just revoke all of those.

I mean sure, yes, gold has an actual limited supply and has practical uses in engineering application, and yes, gold is a functional hedge against general economic/monetary uncertainty.

But a far more authoritirian government than FDR’s can literally do whatever the hell it wants.

Ah, ok, setting just the arming distance of the radar fuse… that makes a lot of sense, I had not thought of that bit.

But yeah haha, I was aware of the whole ‘carrots = good eyes’ thing ultimately being a propoganda ruse (i guess the modern term would be ‘psyop’)… I had not heard that it was specifically to mask the use of minaturized radar fuses for flak cannons.

I did know that those radar fuses were very, very important, though.

I would think that the problem with using magnetic fuses over land is that 1) a lot of your targets may not have a substantial magnetic signature 2) a lot of your targets may be surrounded by things with more of a magnetic signature than the actual target (buildings, various mountains, etc) 3) they could fly over something with a larger mag. signature than the intended target and detonate prematurely, at certain trajectories, 4) they’re thus just basically a waste of money, something simpler would work.

I… would imagine that the precise like, engineering specs of how these fuses actually work, in any shells, naval or land, are probably classified.

But again, thats all me spitball guessing, yeah, I have no real idea.

But yeah, what you are calling a ‘setback and spin’ type thing, I would think that would basically be how standard arty shells work, calc the trajectory, you know roughly how many spins its gonna take over that flight path, and the rough time of that, solve some equation and that gets programmed or dialed in, in some way, thats your method of timer setting.

Like uh, even m203 rounds have a very simplified version of this, they wont arm and will be inert, wont detonate, untill they spin so many times, travel some distance.

Presumably thats to prevent friendly fire/blowing yourself up from a negligent discharge.

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To the shores near San Ysid’

We will sate our leaders eeEEegos

In the air, on land, and sea~

…

First to fight for might and fieEEefdom

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Well, I’ve also not actually shot 155mm, I’m basically just a tryhard sweat at milsims, and have autistic levels of uh, engineering appreciation, so, I’m not gonna pretend I have any actual directly relevant experience.

According to wikipedia, 155mm shells use a ‘timed fuse’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M110_155_mm_projectile

Not very specific, not too helpful.

Originally, I imagine that would have been basically based on number of rotations during the ballistic arc, gyroscopic.

With naval arty, a magnetic fuse makes sense because you’re presumably often aiming at a big fucking other piece of metal in the water, but that … doesn’t strike me as being necesarry for ground to ground arty, which could just be… chewing up a landscape to provide cover / deny it logistically to the enemy, direct it at a large group of infantry, all the way up to maybe a large armored formation, but I wouldn’t think you’d be getting anywhere near the same… is it teslas of magnetic field flux? I dunno the relevant unit of measurement.

I have absolutely zero idea as to how… more precisely the fuses mechanicall or digitally work nowadays, how exactly they are programmed or set for ranges… but I would presume/assume that… there is some kind of mechanism for those functions, as… controlling time to detonation is a pretty big deal for shooting big, indirect fire cannons, whether based on land or sea or… whatever the hell they bolt into the ‘spooky’ ac 130s.

We’re now in an age of artillery rounds that have deployable fins and basically GPS smart guide themselves more precisely… to hit a t-64 with a metal bird cage built around it.

???

I also presume it is possible that… an older timed fuse could just go bad with age… or, maybe the mechanism in the cannon that ‘does’ the timing setting/programming was somehoe malfunctioning, or, maybe somebody fat fingered the timing set/program, or, maybe they did it intentionally… no clue how you would figure out which of those is what actually happened.

As to what could possibly be any kind of logic or reasoning used to justify firing over I5?

Uh, basically, ‘owning the libs’, that is legitimately where the US Military is right now, with Hegseth heading the DoD, sorry, I mean DoW.

The top of the chain basically could not possibly be more careless, unprofessional, utterly incompetent, irresponsible.

Oh, also in case it wasn’t clear, I meant ‘splash’ as the artilleryman callout meant to indicate 5 seconds before detonation on target, not as a reference to where the shots were aimed.

I dunno if I missed it in the article but… presumably they are firing from Pendleton, over I5… out to sea?

I really have no idea what the firing lane actually was.

… splash … ?

Huh, that’s weird… uh …

Yep, federal funding to food banks has already been significantly diminished, they were already struggling, SNAP turning off will make it much worse.

“Fluoride disconnects one from God,” a listener with the username “Peter & Melissa BioHacking Stem Cells” wrote during one call. As part of his agenda, Kennedy has directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the use of fluoride supplementation in water supplies.

Ok, yep, this is the kind of insane, nutjob “Christianity” I grew up in and around.

These actual lunatic people just make up their minds that… something they don’t like, for reasons that they know are nonsense, it just gives them an ‘ick’ for some reason… yep, its just haram now, its demons, because God told me personally when I prayed about it one day.

This is American Christianity, a gigantic ego trip for mentally ill people, and you’re an anti-religious bigot if you criticize their anti-logic, their fever dreams.

Oh how I wish that all 100 million Americans who believe Trump is part of God’s plan just actually had been raptured, I am so beyond tired of dealing with these people’s aggressive and hateful delusions.

EDIT:

it is very funny to me that a year ago, on lemmy, i had liberal boomers tut-tuting at me when I would say things like “no, you don’t get it, roughly one third of America fundamentally thinks democracy is stupid and would prefer a theocracy with American state propoganda characteristics”, and then back that up with statistics.

Pshaw! What a ludicrous notion! The idea that you could suggest-

shhhhh its time to retire now, liberal boomer, retire from having agressively delusional opinions, shhhhh no you don’t get to actually retire, no, your house isn’t worth what you think it is, no, your investments aren’t going to be enough, shhhh its ok, your mindless self indulgence didn’t work out so well, just like we all told you it wouldn’t, shhhhh, its time for bed.

Hah wow ok then.

Hope you get hit by a car!

I just love how everyone forgets disabled people exist.

Or, is I guess just fine with them all dying.

You don’t have to be a boomer to be disabled.

Cool, I’m crippled, disabled, guess I’ll die!

Holy cow.

I am insanely impressed by your level of knowledge here.

I am going to have to star this and attempt to digest this in chunks, thank you very much for all this info!

I’m not saying that there’s no world-level significance, but it’s on internal politics, without clear direct global implications. If the Trump administration announced that they were blockading Russia, say, that would very clearly rise to global news status, nobody knows about it till the ships show up offshore.

Because of these new press restrictions… the Trump admin can blockade Russia, and you’ll never hear about this plan from US news outlets, if the Trump admin decides to just not tell anyone, do a total traditional media blackout and also scrub US based/owned social media which they can now very easily do.

Thus, the step that enables that to be possible, is relevant to everyone, everywhere.

Further, the fact that an ongoing facsist coup in one of the most economic and militarily important countries in the world is facing an actual, near totally unified resistance front, across the political spectrum of journalists… I would say that that is indeed relevant at the world stage.

Would -insert violent authoritarian who took over a large nation in the 1900s here- 's rise to power suddenly facing a massive defection from his own ranks, at an institutional level, would that not be ‘world news’?

Pete Hegseth is literally an ex Fox News host!

And they turned on him!

Sorry, I am heated about this all for many reasons, but I do appreciate your well reasoned take here, and am trying to argue my point respectfully.

I think this is something happening, yes, in the US, but is relevant on the world stage, and I’ve seen many commenters from other places I’ve posted this in world/global news comms say as much.

Also worth noting, no other lemmy instance’s world/global news comm removed it, and many of them also have a world news / us news split setup going on.

Basically, Newsmax is more extremely right wing than Fox News, but OAN is even more extremely right wing than Newsmax.

… As stupid as this is:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-america-news-declares-war-on-newsmax-for-censoring-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell/

Yeah.

Yeah, the literal self professed crack addict MyPillow guy Mike Lindell who went around claiming he had proof of voting fraud in the 2020 election, ended up sued into oblivion by voting machine manufacturers?

Newsmax wouldn’t let him on, OAN would, US right wingers had a fight over this.

That… really is a huge part of how OAN defined itself as basically the totally batshit crazy QAnon / Evangelical MAGA news network, vs Newsmax’s… “still pretty darn right wing but not completely angry drunk racist uncle at thanksgiving” level of right wing.

Yeah, absurdly, uh, bleck, but, to their credit, as best I can tell, they were the first to just flat out refuse to comply.