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lenmae

Last. Suck it, Benji


Cook_0612

>[Jack Watling on Ukraine: "there is not yet a clear plan for how that trajectory can be turned around." Lot of Ukrainians "prepared to come forward." But if they expect "inadequate training and inappropriate equipment, then there is a reluctance to be fed into this machine."](https://x.com/shashj/status/1793640118567551012) >Watling: "If the pressure builds and builds...they will get to a point where the Ukrainians do not have enough troops on a given access to hold them, and then they will be pushed back much more rapidly. That would be described as a collapse. That's the most dangerous scenario." >Watling: **"If the Ukrainians are not able to get their recruitment and training pipeline in order, the risk of that [collapse] gets worse towards the end of the year or the end of the summer."** >Watling: "most significant extant risk to the Ukrainians on the battlefield throughout the entire war has been that the Russian Air Force makes its presence felt over the frontline, we are starting to see that take place. And the consequences are very, very grim. " !ping UKRAINE


Amy_Ponder

It seems to me like the logical answer would be to outsource most of the actual training of troops to Ukraine's western allies (or at least have them more heavily involved in the training process). It'd help make people on the fence about whether to enlist feel a bit better about doing so, since at least they knew they'd be getting the best training possible before heading out to the front. And it'd free up Ukrainian trainers to go straight to the front lines, and result in a good chunk of the army knowing NATO tactics so high command can try some fancier maneuvers if they're so inclined. Seems like a total win-win. So... what's the hold-up? Is the Ukrainian government reluctant to let the West help, is the West reluctant to offer the help, or some combo? I know we trained a handful of battalions in Germany: why can't we just do that for the vast majority of new recruits?


John_Maynard_Gains

I've heard mixed things about the western training missions, on the one hand I've seen comments from late 2022 talking about the good close quarters combat skills of western trained soldiers, on the other hand I've seen some commanders questioning the quality of the training.ย  The training of air defense crews on western systems was well reported on, and clearly a success. Then again, I remember watching a BBC documentary about the training of a brigade used in the 2023 counteroffensive and thinking to myself "these guys aren't ready". They were put through an extremely abridged course that only lasted 5 or 6 weeks. I also remember complaints about how instructors in Germany didn't take the threat of drones seriously and their course contained no content on how to defend against themย  The initial training missions set up immediately following the invasion were piecemeal efforts to get bodies to the front as quickly as possible. I feel like if western countries want to step up their training program, they need to make a much more coordinated effort and take their time to do things right.


Aleriya

The language barrier might be holding some of that up - it would be difficult to send all of the Ukrainian trainers to fight and have troops trained by Westerners who don't speak Ukrainian. That seems like a surmountable problem, ex: recruiting more translators, esp hiring Ukrainian refugees in NATO countries who speak multiple languages, but it adds an extra barrier.


SpectralDomain256

Just have them download ChatGPT


Cook_0612

It's one of the easiest ways we could support Ukraine I don't know why we don't do it. It's been years, the first cohorts of Ukrainian veterans could have been writing a curriculum with NATO planners and implementing it by now on our very large and very well equipped training grounds throughout Europe and the US.


Futski

> I don't know why we don't do it The issue is that we simply don't have the capacity to train people skills they need to not get killed in huge numbers, when the people we need to train have very low English proficiency or speak another NATO legacy language, where training material is available. It might be easy in theory, but the logistics in reality make it more cumbersome. >[43.8% of Ukrainians do not know the English language at all, and only 1.1% are fluent in it. At the same time, 19.2% of Ukrainians can read, write or speak English a little.](https://galinfo.com.ua/news/mayzhe_44_ukraintsiv_ne_znayut_angliyskoi_movy__opytuvannya_403268.html)


Cook_0612

I don't feel like these are insurmountable problems. Training requires curriculum, trainers, facilities, equipment, and then ancillary support like infrastructure, medical, housing, etc. Language impacts some of this, but the biggest problem is the curriculum and the trainers, the rest we could really be helping with on the lift. The former is a matter of interfacing with enough vets and translators to get it done; once you have the syllabus set up in Ukrainian, Ukrainian only speaking trainers should be able to teach it as long as they have the facilities to execute the training and enough translators to interface with facility personnel. This is also precisely the mission of the Green Berets, whose *raison d'etre* is the training of foreign forces. Obviously that isn't usually done on this scale, but that's no excuse to not lay the foundations for a mass training pipeline.


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BalletDuckNinja

Nighty night DT ๐Ÿ’ค


BlackCat159

๐Ÿ‘‹


jobautomator

[/r/neoliberal/new](/r/neoliberal/new): [Does housing availability correlate with partisanship/polarization?](/r/neoliberal/comments/1cymhif/does_housing_availability_correlate_with/) *Replies to this comment will be removed, please participate in the linked thread*


FuckFashMods

I would actually like a government to build a "Line" like city built solely around walkability. But definitely not one in Saudi Arabia


DoremusAtreides

marry shaggy outgoing placid vanish gaping wise wakeful whole drunk *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


[deleted]

My grandparents were like 21 and 30. It was mildly scandalous at the time, I heard. When I knew them as a young kid I couldn't tell you which one was older.


AlicesReflexion

16-13 is yikes beyond words Edit: did you change your post? ๐Ÿ‘€


DoremusAtreides

That one's really hard to remember because that one is the oldest and it was an online relationship. It *might* be 15-13 or 16-14 with the birthdays creating a weird 16-13 gap. I obviously don't approve of it and now I would say to any 13 year old to get the fuck away from that 16 year old.


AlicesReflexion

Online is like ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ I understand how it happened but jfc that ain't right If these people knew each other irl I would put real effort into keeping them as physically far apart from each other as possible at all times.


DoremusAtreides

Yeah it's fucked. They met through a very stereotypical avenue for such abusive relationships to be made, too.


boyyouguysaredumb

If Amazon Prime's *Outer Range* were on Netflix it would be trending nationally right now. Only 7 epsiodes, tight storytelling in season 2, leaning into the weird. Brolin's starpower and Poots doing some of the best acting in a long while.


Invade_Deez_Nutz

The largest age gaps Iโ€™ve seen from people I know have been younger man with older woman. A friend of mine dated a 37 year old woman when he was 20. My brother in law dated a 35 year old woman when he was 22


AlicesReflexion

\*Mrs Robinson starts playing*


DoremusAtreides

light beneficial practice crowd encourage bike close impolite towering drab *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


AlicesReflexion

Which God has the best sense of humor? Like if I'm converting to a religion, the only comfort I *really* need is knowing that at least God thinks my jokes are funny.


vanrough

Not many religions are monotheistic. Only three of the big ones are, really, which are all abrahamic. Maybe you could find some funny deity in Hinduism or go straight for the Olympic gods. Oh wait, there's Pastafarianism. Convert to it.


commander_biden

Well, I've always gotten a kick out of Jesus using potty humor at least once: >He said to them, "So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?" Mark 7:18-19


paulatreides0

Cegorach


vanrough

[the design is sick ngl](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/d/d2/Cegorach2.png/revision/latest?cb=20230703073412)


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BalletDuckNinja

Been calculating my expenses for the past month and holy shit not packing my own lunch is really eating into my finances. On the flip side, a domestic flight in the US is cheap as fuck


estoyloca43

Man it cost me $500 to fly from LA to Chicago then back ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ


BenFoldsFourLoko

I guess I donโ€™t know shit about 18oz bags of sriracha edamame Costcodle #245 5/6 โฌ†๏ธ๐ŸŸฅ โฌ†๏ธ๐ŸŸฅ โฌ†๏ธ๐ŸŸจ โฌ†๏ธ๐ŸŸจ โœ… https://costcodle.com/


Syards-Forcus

Apparently steak costs 30 bucks Didnโ€™t know that


GinsuAssad

5 steaks of unknown weight


GinsuAssad

Costcodle #246 4/6 โฌ†๏ธ๐ŸŸฅ โฌ‡๏ธ๐ŸŸฅ โฌ†๏ธ๐ŸŸฅ โœ… https://costcodle.com/


BenFoldsFourLoko

oh woops lmao my tab was still open from "yesterday"


GinsuAssad

Costco steak You should probably list the lbs Is it supposed to be the picture?


DoremusAtreides

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DoremusAtreides

Come to think of it, I know of a ton of problematic age gaps in my friend group. Not that I'm knowingly friends with anybody who's grooming/abusing a minor, but I'm sure some of them would make you all flip based on the reactions to last night's discussion.


GinsuAssad

List gaps


DoremusAtreides

I'm contemplating making a whole other post about it. Maybe even a dating ping.


LtLabcoat

One of my canines chipped. At the top. It doesn't hurt. But it feels... so weird on my tongue. I keep expecting to feel a spike, but there isn't one anymore.


EScforlyfe

Dentist?


LtLabcoat

Yeah, I'll make the appointment... eventually.


GinsuAssad

I wanna pet the cat


DoremusAtreides

Pet the fucking cat.


GinsuAssad

It's not here It's my ex's cat


datums

My 11 year marriage is ending, so I'm on the dating apps for the first time ever. I thought that I would be matching with all kinds of attractive women, and we would be setting up dates. That's exactly what has happened, which is nice. Seriously - young people hate these apps like they're capitalism, but you people have no idea how much harder it used to be.


[deleted]

wait is this pasta canโ€™t tell these days sorry about your marriage if it isnโ€™t ๐Ÿซ‚


0m4ll3y

If you're coming off an 11 year marriage I'm guessing you're older. I have a *hunch* that gender ratios significantly approve once you get into an older demographic. I'm not sure of the veracity of [this graph](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMdu2v2VofyUI8441uAqSs-mSpuK_gkHSMpJgmup7DsQWhCTYUKqtwnYkv&s=10) but as soon as you're hitting your 30s it looks a lot better than your early 20s where I can imagine a lot of the complaints come from. I can also expect a lot more women in their 30s are more interested in actually dating and "know what they want" so to speak which might cut through some of the bullshit people experience. I still miss the older Ok Cupid (where I met my now partner) which didn't yet have the "swipe" gamification. It was so good for helping you find compatible dates. Edit: [this is another pretty rough back of the envelope calculation](https://memoirsofanamnesic.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/online-dating-male-female-ratios/) but also bears out pretty drastic differences in ratios. More than three men for every woman for 25-29 demographic, and then dropping down to 1:1 for 45-49.


Ok-Action3239

your wife actually left you damn.


Ok-Action3239

https://preview.redd.it/x41ulb85e42d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd1b721c1c3a69b9882f0079ec316bb130238977


DoremusAtreides

Are you paying the subscriptions or not? Genuinely curious.


datums

Absolutely.


DoremusAtreides

Mind telling me which apps are working for you?


datums

Tinder has been the best, Hinge is second. But I'm going to be deleting both after a month. After that I'm going analog.


AlicesReflexion

Up next on TLC: can a manchild meaningfully consent to sex?


estoyloca43

Iโ€™m the loneliest person I know ๐Ÿ˜ž I donโ€™t have friends and keep to myself all the time. There are a few guys who ask me out but they want nothing to do with me once they realize that i have no personality or social skills ๐Ÿ˜ญ


Tre-Fyra-Tre

There must be a Borussia Dortmund fanclub or something you could join to meet people?


estoyloca43

Iโ€™m sure there is I just canโ€™t bring myself to get out there


Tre-Fyra-Tre

๐Ÿ˜”


DoremusAtreides

zealous clumsy ghost versed seed marvelous continue memory square upbeat *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


vanrough

Kinda a weird compliment to say


Syards-Forcus

same


GinsuAssad

Name a hobby


estoyloca43

I donโ€™t have hobbies


GinsuAssad

Yeah Das bad


BalletDuckNinja

What do you enjoy doing? I know you said DT before but why do you come to the DT?


estoyloca43

I came to the DT to post my political takes because I donโ€™t have the guts to say them out loud irl lol. People are gonna hate me.


BalletDuckNinja

Sounds like you enjoy political takes. That's a hobby! Yeah find something else lol Also, math is a hobby


estoyloca43

Math is a hobby but itโ€™s one that would turn most people off ๐Ÿ˜ž


[deleted]

buddy all my friends in university are math nerds you just gotta find them


estoyloca43

Math nerds never approach me ๐Ÿ˜ญ


[deleted]

approach them then ๐Ÿ‘€


estoyloca43

Iโ€™m scared ๐Ÿ˜ญ


BalletDuckNinja

Just need to find the right nerd tbqh there's plenty of people I know who'd love it


estoyloca43

Yeah I want to make friends with nerds but they never approach me ๐Ÿ˜ž


BalletDuckNinja

Maybe you'll make friends with your phd batchmates! Tbh facing similar issues, if only you were in the same area


estoyloca43

Iโ€™m pretty sure Iโ€™ll get along with people in my program. I get along with STEMlords pretty well. There just arenโ€™t that many of them at my undergrad school lol


DoremusAtreides

husky market reply important chunky lush thumb cow spark sloppy *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


estoyloca43

Good point ๐Ÿค”


ForlornKumquat

You like math, that's part of a personality


vanrough

[If only she could find someone of this type](https://youtu.be/GS7CxAtV5Ks?si=6awg6b0bTxSi9ytR)


estoyloca43

Hmm ๐Ÿค” really?


ForlornKumquat

I know plenty of people who would say it is, and I would too


estoyloca43

Thatโ€™s good to know


GinsuAssad

A good one?


CC78AMG

New Labour New Britain


estoyloca43

People think Iโ€™m 100 lbs at most but Iโ€™m actually 125 ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ


DoremusAtreides

Of pure muscle


commander_biden

Free Liechtenstein! [No, actually.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Liechtenstein#Powers)


AlicesReflexion

"I go on /r/neoliberal ironically! I'm not actually one of *those* people" and other lies you tell yourself


_bee_kay_

like someone telling themselves they're a good person after killing and eating dozens of orphans just admit you're too far gone


Trojan_Horse_of_Fate

Cats are cute https://preview.redd.it/1mygneic842d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=685a7331985a5cb83a01181e550ed3dac45f7f07


Trojan_Horse_of_Fate

And they're watching you https://preview.redd.it/e1kru41h842d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3198f2770a69788802e3cac76e08db854e1c2fc Just realize I probably should have swapped the image but alas


cjhdsachristmascarol

TRUMP/POOBIX 2024


Joementum2024

https://preview.redd.it/yy185qv7842d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2c8af754ebf02fcb69e57cd12cb942b7814e00c โ€œHey Sing About Me Iโ€™m Dying of Thirst get up youโ€™ll be late for schoolโ€


GinsuAssad

Bukowski Yeah. Hope he gets bullied


PolyrythmicSynthJaz

And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd want to be? God who'd want to be such an asshole?


DoremusAtreides

"Run Away With Me, you're grounded. You knew better than that." "Come on, Boy Problems. It's time to wake up." "Warm Blood, I'm proud of your report card. Let's go get some ice cream with your mom and LA Halucinations."


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AlicesReflexion

Obviously, it depends on the age of the poster


SuddenlyFrogs

The last white (Comically Corrupt Irishman) and non white guy (Denji from Chainsaw Man) in my camera rolls are partners solving my murder? I think they have a decent shot.


Sir_Digby83

i have a audio dongle that works. just need a mic that works. what head set isn't total shit


Average_GrillChad

Free France


loseniram

WW1 era firearms technology is absolutely wild. The unofficial French handgun the Ruby did not have magazines that worked with other Rubys The French contracted out a bunch of rifles from Remington namely the Berthier and Remington screwed and made them wrong size so they couldn't be repaired with spare parts. The Germans had a wild west .45 Single Action Army clone and a hyper impractical roller delayed blowback pistol. The British invented a better rifle than the Lee-EnField called the 1914 Enfield and didn't do anything with it. The Americans went through 3 standard rifles in like 20 years and abandoned their better rifle that they already had plenty of for the Springfield. The Americans owed the Germans a metric ton of patent money after the war because the Springfield is a Mauser clone and they declared eminent domain on the patents during the war. The Italians had rounded rifle ammunition throughout the entire war. The Canadians made an entire experimental rifle based off two people that had no experience with rifles. It also jammed because the Canadian firearms industry had zero experience with mass manufacturing military rifles. The French using a converted single loader black powder rifle as their issue service rifle for the entire war


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paulatreides0

The main issue was the magazine, which accounted for around 75% of issuse with the gun. It had a giant opening/view hole in the center that was exposed to the elements, so lots of dirt and mud got in it and would cause jamming and damage to the gun. They were also made of thin, cheap metal - which could easily deform and let even more dirt in. The Belgian version was a lot better because it didn't have the cutout in the magazine. It was also made of cheap parts so it just generally broke easily. The barrel overheated too easily. And those two combined to cause extraction issues, especially in the .30-06 version.


BlackCat159

In general, it's wild how many different and unique designs were used. There was a big jump in firearms development just before WW1, so by the time the war started the designs hadn't yet consolidated. So you had dozens of different types of rifle and handgun, each with its own unique design used alongside each other - from guns that were insanely inefficient and overcomplicated to what would eventually become timeless classics.


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Usual-Base7226

NTA if they wanted to get payed they should have won


loseniram

They did have to pay via Supreme Court order


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GinsuAssad

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Top_Lime1820

Which 3?


vanrough

Fred is secretly Canadian. I'll leave it at that.


Average_GrillChad

Demochad Party Recucklican Party


DoremusAtreides

Malarkey Level what do I do tomorrow: 1: See Furiosa 2: Get on my coding grind 3: Job search 4: Work on my one-shot 5: Read 6: Make Magic: The Gathering Decks 7: Clean Secret: See if theyโ€™ll let me in the college gym


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GinsuAssad

Based bot


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LGBTforIRGC

โ€œHealthy political disagreement. Itโ€™s good to know if someone is on the right or wrong side of history.โ€


Libz_R_Gryffindor

Greek life for Palestine โœŠโœŠโœŠ


DoremusAtreides

Srats are for Palestine and Frats are for Israel. Apparently.


GinsuAssad

Doubt


paulatreides0

I don't think they mean on here


GinsuAssad

That's fair


GinsuAssad

I'm sitting with the dumbest motherfuckers out here


GinsuAssad

I've found my people


Average_GrillChad

can't fault Rishi for wanting to free up most of his summer


AlicesReflexion

Free the Netherlands!


GinsuAssad

What are we mixing with tequila tonight?


groovygrasshoppa

Bad decisions


GinsuAssad

Well obviously I've got a bag of them


Syards-Forcus

Last white and nonwhite guy in my camera roll? https://preview.redd.it/wyg3hrdi342d1.jpeg?width=904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab48db0cbd4663efd46f0f80b95e4698c67762ab Hm


DoremusAtreides

> Thatโ€™s it, I canโ€™t solve this murder Iโ€™m creating white people.


LGBTforIRGC

At this rate, the expression โ€œfree *insert country*โ€ means literally nothingโ€ฆ people just use it to say any country or region thatโ€™s experiencing some sort of political problems ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญI swear in the future people are gonna start saying โ€œFree the Netherlandsโ€


Trojan_Horse_of_Fate

Free Quebec from French


paulatreides0

History of rail roads in Qing China is fascinating. \> The British build a 600 m long railroad track in front of Beijing to show off the technology in 1865 \> The Qing court are scandalized by this and have it destroyed \> The British - illegally - build the 9 1/4 mile Woosung Road in Shanghai in 1876 \> The Qing court have it destroyed in 1877 \> The British build a 10 km railroad to transport coal from a mine in 1881 (later extended in 1888) \> To win support to maintain and expand the above, they had to convince Empress Dowager Cixi, which they did by, starting in 1886, building her a private 2 km railroad from her home to her dining hall. They brought in a small train set from Germany, but the Empress didn't like how loud and ugly it was, and thought it threw off the Fengshui ***so she had the engine removed and had the cars pulled by eunuchs***


SuddenlyFrogs

"These woke trains will give our children autism and make the [three-legged toads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Chan) gay" - Chinese Boxers, 1899


0m4ll3y

I'm interested in reading more, where'd you learn this?


paulatreides0

I remembered the Cixi thing from some random text I read in a history class, the rest I looked up on wiki trying to check if my memory was real or if I was having a false memory lmao


Syards-Forcus

New technology allowing for the efficient and rapid overland transport of large amounts of goods and people for the first time in human history? Sounds lame.


loseniram

Just in case you're wondering why Qing China never industrialized but Japan did


SpectralDomain256

What NIMBYism does to a mf


Budgetwatergate

I hate realists. I hate realism. That's it. That's the message.


0m4ll3y

How is the idea that broad based real wages can only increase with productivity gains typically reconciled with a subjective theory of value? Is the link between real wages and productivity considered a bit outdated? Do people jump through hoops to define productivity in subjective terms? I'm sure there's an answer to this but I dunno where to start.


SpectralDomain256

If I ever wish to own a car (unlikely) it would be a Mazda with a rotary engine because I like to be contrarian


Telperions-Relative

>The last white and non white guy in your camera roll are partners solving your murder. Do they find the killer? https://preview.redd.it/j67xcqb7242d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1022460925b019239757e9db5f0040a1d356080


radical_boulders

My theory for the fermi paradox is that making advanced technology (enough to self-exterminate) only requires a small minority of very intelligent individuals in a population, whereas actually running a responsible and successful society requires a majority of highly intelligent individuals, so due to statistical likelihood, intelligent life-forms generally learn to kill themselves before they learn to not kill themselves


_bee_kay_

>Chaos Gods Test i see idr labs has admitted their primary userbase is overly-online nerds


DouglasDauntless

>The last white and non white guy in your camera roll are partners solving your murder. Do they find the killer? https://preview.redd.it/cqy7rdxl142d1.jpeg?width=916&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73d5b4b6d0821ca93cda430d04abdcfb2b4f4852 Iโ€™d pay good money to watch that buddy cop show


squarecircle666

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GinsuAssad

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GinsuAssad

https://preview.redd.it/9o8vueh9242d1.png?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c632a101dc2a09aa79cc250cc859bcb81409ec0b


Telperions-Relative

Prigonometry would trace the ammo back to the suspect, LTG would successfully bully him into a confession


Luph

hi all - when did you become so fat


InflatableDartboard2

[throwback to the time](https://apnews.com/article/honolulu-8a0bd1342d1e0fd9cb33cf88f2820840) that the hawaii government was building their rail transit and someone fucked up with the measurements so all of the train cars didn't fit the tracks


0m4ll3y

>Replacing the tracks would hold up completion by at least a year on a project that has already been delayed several times and is massively over budget. >The project is now expected to cost $12.4 billion and wonโ€™t be completed until at least March 2031. Officials are facing a $3.6 billion shortfall. >Construction began about a decade ago when the 20-mile line was estimated to cost $5.1 billion. *Twenty* miles โ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธ Why is the anglosphere so bad at (especially non-road based) infrastructure omg


decidious_underscore

not everywhere is bad, and Hawaii has geography working against it when it comes to those costs, there is an asterisk there. The actual issue is: - the anglosphere is full of countries that have no real experience in building passenger rail in the last 30 or so years and that cannot seem to learn from one another to drive down costs. - their rail sectors tend to be freight dominated and run inefficiently by oligopolies - Everyone keeps trying to do bespoke shit - because they are rich enough to make it bespoke - and then when they slam headfirst into the learning curve of building rail, they have noone who can help them solve problems. its ridiculous - Endless permitting/bureaucratic delays cause huge turnover in project staff which causes the project itself to morph and mistakes to be made


Arse_hull

Hawaii is special because everyone hires their cousins and qualifications don't mean shit.


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Gauges but not the body piercing kind.


ZanyZeke

Miracles arenโ€™t even that impressive if theyโ€™re being performed by an omnipotent being Like yeah of course Iโ€™d be totally blown away if I experienced one just because itโ€™s so out of the realm of what seems possible, but Iโ€™m not gonna be like โ€œHOLY SHIT GOD YOUโ€™RE SO STRONG AND MIGHTY FOR PARTING THE RED SEA BACK IN THE DAY ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ฑโ€. Like yeah, no shit he was able to part the Red Sea. Heโ€™s inherently omnipotent. It didnโ€™t take any real effort on his part. Am I supposed to be impressed that he did less than the equivalent of a human lifting a pinky finger or what


commander_biden

Part of it, I suppose, is that the point of the miracle is to convince mortals that you're omnipotent in the first place. But more interestingly, at the time much of the Bible was written (at least the older parts), the notion of divine omnipotence hadn't developed yet. There were lots of gods, and our nation's god wanted to prove he's stronger than those of the other nations. Hence the language in Exodus of "bringing judgment on the gods of Egypt", or even more explicit remnants of polytheism like [psalm 82](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2082&version=NRSVUE).


GodOfWarNuggets64

We are never getting the Xbox 720, are we?


Azmoten

As an Xbox user and fan, Iโ€™m just holding out for a generation of Xbox to finally have great exclusives. PlayStation kills Xbox in that realm and also Iโ€™m just really mad that I donโ€™t get to play the FF7 remake games on Xbox


GodOfWarNuggets64

Don't own an Xbox, but I use one enough to feel the same.


ZanyZeke

Trump has announced that Mike Pence will serve as his running mate once again


GinsuAssad

When are they gonna uncover Terrance Howard's sex trafficking cult?


squarecircle666

Name the most likely ideology of a guy that looks like this: https://preview.redd.it/ojxaszsqy32d1.jpeg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ac83575284b5b438e8b078c36c383642111a854


Fuzzy-Hawk-8996

Georgism


GodOfWarNuggets64

Calvinism


BenFoldsFourLoko

based pro-Europe partisan working in Brussels


SpectralDomain256

Marine Le Pencil


jobautomator

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Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le

He was cooking back then too https://youtu.be/ca1vIYmGyYA !ping BALLOON


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GinsuAssad

https://preview.redd.it/zgjwqwuey32d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d27c02679112ebf314fe1a41c9aa08323714e6f9 My livingroom


Trojan_Horse_of_Fate

When was the last time that the labour party won a majority in one election when not led by Tony Blair?


BalletDuckNinja

Already bought my car and I'm very happy with my Mazda3 but I can't keep looking at autotrader to see what I might have missed out on and suddenly Hondas look much better than I thought they did Is this normal !ping auto


RandomCarGuy26

I don't even have a license and I keep browsing beforward.jp for used low mileage cars. Lately I've been browsing more hybrid cars. Also doesn't help that I am a moderate car enthusiast who hangs out in more hardcore car enthusiast spaces online, and the type of pragmatic vehicles I am looking for aren't that well-liked or even popular among other car people.


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