NaibofTabr

And speaking of that erroneous apostrophe… why is it in a different font from the apostrophe in “cow’s”?

Weird All is not on your side

How the fuck is this country even still standing at this point with this chicanery and buffoonery at the reigns?

Basically because various parts of the government were pitted against each other, by design. Various organizations and levels of government have their own objectives, interests and resources and operate with varying amounts of independence and interdependence. It’s frankly messy and creates some inefficiency, but it’s sort of like biodiversity - a problem that impacts part of the government doesn’t impact all of it in the same way or at the same time, so it doesn’t completely collapse or grind to a halt.

I’m playing the remake on PS5. I think they did a pretty nice job with the graphics upgrade, and with the new tracks.

Crash Team Racing is the pinnacle of kart racing games. The driving is more skill-based than the leading brand name, and it doesn’t have shitty rubber-band AI.

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is still great fun, easy to learn but hard to be good at.

Nothing compares to F-Zero GX. The abandonment of the franchise is a travesty, and should be considered abuse of the gaming community.

Bomber of Theseus

another arm

Hmm… how does one anonymously pay an internet service provider with cash? Mail it in an unmarked envelope, with just your account name? Roll up to the front door and hand it to the receptionist?

Someone else has mentioned M-Disc and I want to second that. The benefit of using a storage format like this is that the actual storage media is designed to last a long time, and it is separate from the drive mechanism. This is a very important feature - the data is safe from mechanical or electrical failure because the storage is independent of the drive. If your drive dies, you can replace it with no risk to the data. Every serious form of archival data storage is the same - the storage media is separate from the reading device.

An M-Disc drive is required to write data, but any DVD or BD drive can read the data. It should be possible to acquire a replacement DVD drive to recover the data from secondary markets (eBay) for a very long time if necessary, even after they’re no longer manufactured.

Don’t be afraid to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

anything useful

Are you “into conspiracy theories” if you’re the one starting them?

Until you realize that interference with the “timeline” means many of the battles never happen

Sure, but that would be the point actually. If you had the kind of complete information about the Axis military deployment and resources in 1941 that this scenario would provide, you wouldn’t apply that information willy-nilly, one battle at a time. You would plan a complete campaign to disable the military systems of Germany and Japan all at once, and bide your time until you could implement it.

You would know where every major resource storage is, every production facility, every training facility, every unit deployment, every command headquarters - and the enemy wouldn’t know that you know that yet. You would just fully decapitate the command and logistics of the Axis all at once. Any remaining battles would just be a cleanup operation - they can’t run tanks, airplanes or ships if we wipe out all of their fuel storage and production because we know where all of it is (or was) in 1941. And because you have the Pentagon staff, you have capable people who could actually plan and organize such an operation.

new tactics can be countered

Eventually, maybe, but if you planned your operations right there simply wouldn’t be time. The point isn’t to win battles, it’s to take away the enemy’s ability to start a battle.

modern logistics require strong communications

This is true, and the communication options are limited by the time, but we’re not talking about trying to replace the Allies’ existing logistics infrastructure. We’re talking about using what the Allies already have, with perfect knowledge of what the Axis has when and where, and then picking the right moment to disable their military infrastructure across the board.

I keep getting this feeling that Trump is a symptom of self-loathing, on a large scale.

The people who vote for him don’t actually care to make the world a better place, they don’t care about the destructive policies that will come from his administration, they don’t even really care what Trump actually does. It’s more that they feel an unconscious emotional kinship with a man who hates himself so much that he has to spend every waking moment getting other people to tell him how great he is.

Oh shit, you’re right, I forgot where I was.

The engine in the Abrams is actually a “multi-fuel” engine. It’s probably cleanest and most efficient on jet fuel, but it can run on marine diesel which is basically trash fuel.

They could, for a little while. You’d have a very hard time refining petroleum fuel in 1942 to the quality necessary for the jets, so you’d be limited by however much was stored on the base.

I’m also not sure how you’d deploy those aircraft across the Pacific or Atlantic other than disassembling, shipping and then reassembling them.

None of the above, all would require infrastructure to support their equipment - infrastructure that is decades beyond the capabilities of the time. 1941 wouldn’t even have the electricity generation capacity to turn the lights on.

Instead I would bring the Pentagon. Forget the equipment, that building is full of people who study and operate large-scale logistics, operational security, information collection and analysis, battle tactics and broad strategy. Plus, I guarantee you there’s a copy in there of all the records ever collected about the Axis military, and hundreds of postwar analyses of those records - deployments, resources, communications, technology, officer profiles, command structure. That information could probably end the war in a year.

Intelligence, logistics and planning win wars.

Ask Patton.

California contributes the most to federal tax revenue but also receives the most federal funding (in total). California receives one of the lowest amounts of federal funding per capita ($5,155, ranking 42 of 50). California’s ratio of federal funding to income taxes paid is 0.43, which means that California received $0.43 in funding from the federal government for every $1 in tax revenue that it provided.

Overall, California is a donor state to the union.

In fact, of the 18 states which received more federal funding than they paid in federal taxes in 2021, 5 were Democrat-leaning while the other 13 were Republican (How Red or Blue is Your State?) - which is to say that welfare states are more likely to vote Republican. Four of the top 5 most Republican states take more than they give (Wyoming, North Dakota, Oklahoma and West Virginia), while 4 of the top 5 most Democratic states give more than they take (Massachusetts, Hawaii, Maryland, and California).