It’s officially called the A-10 Thunderbolt. “Warthog” is a nickname service members gave it. Similar to the F-16 Fighting Falcon getting nicknamed the “Viper”.

Does this mean that Iran haven’t mined the straight? Or did the ship just get lucky?

Stealth just means the plane can get closer before a sensor can detect it or get a firing solution. It doesn’t mean it’s invisible. The IR video looks pretty close to the plane considering you can make out what plane it is just by the shape. Probably US intelligence didn’t know about this sensor and would have flown around it/attempted to destroy it if they had known.

I miss being able to play Rivals of Aether 2 with a GameCube controller. My to my knowledge there’s no good way to connect one on Linux.

Fun fact, in Japan, they drive on the left. As a result, they also walk on the left on the sidewalk. However in Osaka, they walk up stairs and use escalators “international style” on the right. They still walk on sidewalks on the left side. The rest of the country is not like this.

Yeah the game runs ok from what I can tell. I’m used to the Xbox controller now but I wish I could use the GameCube. It’s super odd to me that this hasn’t been addressed. Surely a driver is not that complicated to make for such old hardware.

Yes exactly. That’s my point. Why would the US (or any country exporting complex defense products) need a Killswitch when they can just cut off support and make your equipment quickly useless.

I could be wrong, but I think the US agreement with Denmark gives the US the ability to just build a new base if it wants to. He could have just done it.

I think there are 2 reasons why he didn’t go this route:

1. Bringing in a new state would be a big political win for him.
2. Greenland is rich in mineral deposits that the US can’t have without making Greenland part of its territory.

The USA does not have secret remote kill switches in its military exports. This is a crazy myth that doesn’t make any sense. For the F35, the US controls all spare parts distribution (for a maintenance intensive aircraft). They could just cut a country off from spares and ground their plane. They don’t need a massive built in vulnerability.

I can’t connect a GameCube controller. There’s some ancient thing on GitHub that claims to do something but I feel over my head trying to do it and it hasn’t been updated since like 2016. On Windows, you download Zadig and run it and you’re good to go. I’ve had to switch to an Xbox controller for Rivals of Aether 2 online.

Yeah it’s a really well rounded hatred.

I see it as a gateway. A lot of people will go to the protest, talk to other people, and maybe get involved with something more meaningful.

I’m from the US southeast so I’ve seen plenty of these people. IMO, they should be avoided. There are plenty of devout Christians that are quiet about it and they’re fine. They’re often good people actually. The ones that are extremely forward about it are performing for their in-group. The in-group is all that matters. Since you aren’t in it, you don’t matter to them. At best, they’ll hang out in order to proselytize to you. I find them condescending and intentionally disconnected from the outside world. Effectively, they’re in a cult.

No US losses, not a single soldier?

7 soldiers were injured by shrapnel or gunshot wounds. There hasn’t been any announcement of US deaths.

Not a wall of bodyguards around Maduro?

The Cuban government provided elite guards for Maduro. They announced that 32 of them were killed in the raid.

yet they didn’t have any radars set up to detect air infiltration?

They certainly did. Detecting aircraft doesn’t mean you can do anything about it. This was a big operation with explosions all over the city. Many of those were knocking out air defenses and targeting air bases. Some of the aircraft used were stealthy and might have evaded detection before striking air defenses. 150 aircraft from the Navy, Air Force, and Marines were used.

All of the equipment shipped in from Russia and China leading up to this moment, no missiles that could’ve taken out those low flying helicopters?

I’m not familiar with China’s military aid. But IIRC, Russia flew one transport plane with “air defenses” which is more of a symbolic gesture than a solution. Let’s not forget that using advanced aircraft to strike deep within contested airspace is kind of the US military’s whole thing. By the time the helicopters showed up, any air defenses that could have brought them down were already dealt with.

They capture Maduro AND his wife? Why his wife, it just seems an unnecessary liability to add to the equation.

Yeah idk. That is weird.

but what they haven’t taken over Venezuela?

…yet. My guess is that they learned from Iraq. In Iraq, they did the same kind of thing to Saddam and then took over and tried to run the country. That turned out to be a huge political problem for the US for decades. They want Venezuela to essentially be a vassal of the US, which they can do without directly running the country. Likely they are using the threat of doing this again to push Venezuelan politics toward giving concessions to the US.

Feels like a psychological operation to make us believe the US hegemony is alive and just as invincible as it’s always been

At this point you are purely reaching for conspiracy to fit things within your preferred narrative. The rest of your post is very conspiratorial. A lot of parties are kind of shocked at the moment and waiting for some of the dust to settle before taking concrete action.

They’ll charge him with littering, give him the death penalty, and use that as precedent that any crime is punishable by death.

I mostly don’t. Maybe this isn’t the kind of answer you were interested in. I think memorable experiences are transient and are more beautiful the more fleeting they are. The more I try to immortalize some moment, the less I feel I’m able to enjoy it in the moment. There are some exceptions. I keep recipes in Google keep. Most of them I just know how to make but I might need my memory jogged for a measurement or temp setting. I also have a small notebook I use as a gym journal. “Journalling” seems like a stretch for the chicken-scratch numbers, though. It’s mostly so I know how much weight to use next time I go.

It doesn’t matter. Nobody is going to be convinced by anything you say. The protesters won’t be especially hurt by a really good burn. You could yell gibberish into the megaphone. The important thing is that you are there, loudly showing your support for the drag queens.

Is this trolling? I’ve never heard any of these fake quotes.

I’ve never been a big fragrance guy. When I found out about people like you, I decided to just go fragrance free. If it’s not a big deal to me and it gives a few people headaches to be near me, might as well just not do it. There are some tangential benefits. My deodorant irritates my armpits less now. My hair oil used to irritate my skin if it got on my forehead. Now it doesn’t.

Yep. The worst part of winter isn’t all the clothing. It’s getting undressed every time you arrive at your destination.