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@idyllicmusing It helps that experts can easily hold the position of the board in their head.
I can absolutely look at empty square where it'd be checkmate to put my queen, but it's game over for ME if I forget they've got a bishop watching that square a board over.

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@EveKeneinan Like, how does this bias affect political leanings? Does this affect how women and men make or break friends or just socially interact? Does it affect willingness to accept fault or blame?

Idk.

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@EveKeneinan Hurm, interesting.

Looking it up, it sounds a bit like "nobody ever should have violence directed at them", vs "violence is bad but it can also solve things so it's sometimes good".

Kinda makes sense, somehow hard to mentally process though.

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@CiaKids The Soviet examples aren't as nice though - instead of working with the building's shape, they go "BLAM I put a picture on a blank wall"

Something that emphasizes and beautifies the building's lines and edges would be so much better.

We frame paintings because it looks better

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@JJtheestallion1 A hellfire or a griffin missile is going to be a better bet for low collateral - it can be precisely targeted and planned. Still not perfect, but better than a scattershot from an A-10 gun run.

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@JJtheestallion1 Yeah it's got crap accuracy with the gun. It's OK if you're hitting a large target (like a tank) in an open field from any angle.
Generally though A-10s are now missile / bomb trucks.

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@YotamGazit @LinkofSunshine I thought it was Jacobin until I saw your comment and checked the post

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@Amirthelion_ @4xyht6SM @shahrak_ekbatan Modern sensors are good, but it can still be easy to miss things and having places to start looking does help.
Coordinates are more militarily useful than an address though.

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@chr1sa I do think in a long drawn out conflict the PLA would start generating lots of effective combat power.

I do think that the first stages of a major conflict would be messy with a lot of mistakes though, as they try a bunch of not really tested theories

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@camp_terrence @Osint613 Naw we don't chuck a bunch of dumb bombs out the back of b-52 anymore.
More likely to be 500/1000/2000 lb guided bombs imo

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@Noahpinion Honestly yeah, good point. The US used to go through the UN, get shot down by the security council, and then sit on hands.

The US going through and listening to the UN gave the UN (and US) legitimacy but also handcuffed it. I guess the trade-off was no longer with it

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@AnalyticaCamil1 There is definitely a some competence in the PLA, with them experimenting and testing different ideas - for example they don't stick to by-the-script exercises like Russia does (did).

There's also some corruption, and it can be hard to know how deep competence or corruption go

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@JamesRaxz Honestly SoH almost doesn't matter atm.

The concern was a months-long hostage taking of the SoH for leverage that'd squeeze the global oil market.

The Iranian regime doesn't have months. SoH isn't militarily relevant in this fight either.

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@TheMindScourge Clearly Germany needs to set up a bureau of productivity to set new rules and regulations to ensure Germans are in compliance for efficiency metrics

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@TheMindScourge Targeting officers and Command and Control is not new - what is new is the legal and precision lethality allowing the higher ups to be targeted.

The US and allies would have bombed Hitler into vapor if they could in WW2.

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@TheMindScourge US follows Clausewitz's theory of "centers of gravity" - e.g. understanding (and targeting) the parts and nodes that enable the rest of their war machine to function.

An example would be a RADAR directing multiple SAM launchers - if you take out the RADAR the SAMs are helpless

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@Tarikh_Eran I'm kinda surprised he didn't make a pre recorded "I am still alive and fighting" video.
He really did believe he'd make it through with divine providence or something huh

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@Rebel44CZ @aquilaqua Maybe maybe not. What Iran THINKS Americans will do is the relevant things here though.
And they've seen in Vietnam and Afghanistan that the USA doesn't get militarily defeated, but can be domestically pressured to leave.

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@Rebel44CZ @aquilaqua Iran's and goal likely is A) to survive B) to make the conflict, once it starts, unpopular with domestic US audience so they pressure it to stop.

Preemptive strike helps with A) but makes B) impossible as they could no longer pay themselves as the victim.

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@Kpaxs Problem is when you have a coworker that absolutely loves to tinker with frameworks and abstractions but finds the whole "building something reliable and useful" to be a vague business abstraction.