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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 7h

I think it's funny that you think building more of the highest-upfront-cost form of energy to sustain a fundamentally unprofitable product will make it viable

Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 7h

Comfy up in this bitch tbh. There seems to be something to this "high speed rail" thing.

Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 8h

Train good (this train unfortunately named in current context but unrelated to its namesake)

An ICE train (which stands for Intercity Express not Secret State Police) barreling through a regional station without stopping, shot in the early morning with a poor-quality phone camera. It is slightly blurry due to its velocity and the platform lighting reveals the early morning haze. The platform appears deserted, but only because the rest of the people are out of frame.

Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 7h

That's not solving the consumption, it's just adding production.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 8h

Literally the one thing we're doing right tbh

Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 8h

Oi. I didn't say that. My fixation with late-oughts to mid-teens games is unrelated to this sentiment.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 8h

Train good (this train unfortunately named in current context but unrelated to its namesake)

Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 18h

Very carefully

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

Implausible. Even assuming total alignment with Russia, 71M in small arms - an area Russia remains well-supplied in - is not going to salvage a Russian war effort which is currently dying of strategic incentives, in exchange for leaving a fascist's militia under-armed.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

Conclusion to draw: if Turkey is allowed to develop anti-satellite capability, its officers will attempt to disestablish the human presence in space

quokkafella.nafofellas.com @quokkafella.nafofellas.com · 1d

Everyone’s favourite PowerPoint presenter Perun attended a #NATO wargame.
#NAFO

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFP0...

I Wargamed with NATO - Inside the Cross-Domain Command Wargame (2025)

YouTube video by Perun

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

Notably all of the above also faces a degree of supply constraint due to large expenditures for Ukraine, so any ICE purchases have a decent chance of actively preventing Army resupply. Assuming a framework of "coup preparation" that itself may make the expense worth it.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

It is. 71M, of which we know 9-odd million were spent with Geissele (don't make missiles) would buy ~700 rounds of Javelin. That's not a sensible use of that money, though. The same money would buy ~1000 rounds of TOW or ~1500 of Pike. Mortar shells I have no idea.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

That again requires lase, but it seems broadly more plausible to me.
I doubt it's anything UAV-related. The American forces have been very slow on the uptake there - pissed away an early lead with the Switchblades for no good reason.

Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

I don't *think* it's anything anti-air. That doesn't pass the sniff test - intercepting gen-av would fall to the air force in any reasonable force design, not MANPADS troops.
Last option is guided mortar rounds. Equip with chemical payload, have them on tap for protests? That seems plausible.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

Could be TOW, I suppose - cheaper at least - but less mobile, and they seem to favor a light infantry structure with very little armor or staying power.
Could also be something like the Pike missile for UBGL, but that requires a forward observer to lase the target.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

Well, let's consider this. There's nothing guided in US inventory that has a warhead interchangeable with something else, so logically this comes with the rest of the missile. If it's specifically guided, my money is on Javelin, aka anti-tank/structure.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

Also, in any context *other* than flags the word is not 'Totenkopf', but rather 'Schädel'. Doctors do no say you've got a fracture of the Totenkopf.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

And maybe that's so, but it gets us no closer to implementing that kinder world, which still sits behind the obstacle of those who do not want it being willing to employ the very effective tool of practical power that is cruelty.

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Amelia @ladyamelia.bsky.social · 1d

I find that difficult to reconcile with what I see as the inescapable fact that there are those in the world who reject it so entirely they cannot even conceive it - that this kindness will always be challenged by those willing to do violence, and will definitionally lose.