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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 11h

correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the speed of sound on the moon is ~0

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky is a place where you can post "I like pancakes" and someone will respond "WHY AREN'T DEMOCRATS DOING ANYTHING AND WHY AREN'T YOU PERSONALLY FREEING GAZA, AMERICA IS DOOMED AND THE TIDE OF BLOOD RISES" and then maybe, if you are lucky, in four hours, they will add "also why you hate waffles"

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 11h

they produce vibes

very important for making sci-fi tech work

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 12h

commieboo version of "one touch of the iron gauntlet" I guess

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 12h

without Lend-Lease, the timeframe for "Soviets get their supply lines & logistics sorted out" is ~5 years longer than the timeframe for "Germany reduces the USSR to a Siberian rump state"

which would simplify the logistics significantly, but not in a helpful way

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 15h

This is for the same underlying reasons why Elon couldn't make Grok stop being woke without breaking it: liberalism is simply the correct position.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 15h

Other leftists in the discord server / Twitter feed / Facebook group / etc., is my guess. Social proof, amplified to the point that it overwhelms everything else.

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 15h

values might get in the way of their desired conclusions

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 16h

1,911 steam and 66 diesel, if you want to be precise.

(Source: Russia's Life-Saver, by Albert Weeks.)

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 16h

Other historical trivia you might appreciate: ~200 Ye's were left stranded in the USA after the Russian Revolution, and ended up re-fitted for US tracks. I can't find proof that they got de-refitted and sent over in WWII, but I can't find proof that they didn't, either.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 16h

Where are you getting 440 from? The figures I can find are closer to 2,000.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 16h

They were the Soviet gauge, because they were made specifically to be sent to the USSR under Lend-Lease – in fact, the class Ye design was originally designed for export to Russia during WW1. We also sent a bunch of modified S160s, which was the standard LL export locomotive.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 1d

just go to Powell's repeatedly

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

In theory, it just comes from the colors matching the Jorda– I mean Palestinian flag. In practice, it's harder to separate the two, because western activists decided it was a great symbol to use while harassing Hakeem Jeffries specifically.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

It's from Hamas propaganda videos, where they film themselves shooting at e.g. an IDF tank (and then the video ends before the tank fires back). Because the target audience for these videos are blind morons who might otherwise not see the tank, they add a red triangle pointing to it.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 2d

IME they just pretend those are something other than full citizens with equal rights. Or conflate them with the West Bank situation.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

excuse you, r/thedonald is a peaceful haven of donglovers that never hurt anyone

(r/the_donald is the Trump place, r/thedonald is a parody run by Donald Glover fans)

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

Sherman isn't an assassin, but is in on the secret conspiracy anyway because he's too useful to leave on the table, too competent to keep in the dark, doesn't care enough about the "shadow war for history" thing to bother selling them out, and Grant will tell him anything important anyway

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

even if you think Yasuke was kind of a dumb choice, how the fuck does that translate to vetoing a game where it makes perfect sense to have a black protagonist

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

...FUCK. How did I miss that

actually given that this is the first time I've seen this idea despite spending an irresponsible amount of time reading people who spend irresponsible amounts of time overanalyzing comics, maybe it's just one of those things that's actually only obvious in hindsight

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

and not pre-1850s steel either, 21st century steel, which would kinda be comic-book phlebotinum in that context

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 3d

I bet it has fewer swords, though.

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 4d

Bob's commute is noted to be on foot. AIUI that would have been the default, at least inside a city – the primary extant alternative at the time was outsourcing the footwork to horses, which are expensive.

And now I kinda want to see Bret do a cost comparison of 1850 horses vs. 2020 cars...

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daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 4d

yeah, SSC/ACX has a bunch of all-time greats

daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 4d

"...but it might work for us!"