AaronInAlaska

Touch grass.

[lifofifo ◉ @lifofifo]

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[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

The idea was brilliant. The execution was catastrophic.

Allied planners knew that the men hitting the beaches of Normandy would be cut apart without armor support in those first critical minutes. The solution was the DD tank. The Duplex Drive Sherman. A standard 33-ton Sherman tank fitted with a collapsible canvas flotation screen and two small propellers bolted to the rear. Raise the screen, drop into the water, swim to shore, lower the screen, start shooting. Tanks arriving with the first wave, ahead of the infantry, suppressing German positions before the ramps even dropped.

The concept worked perfectly in testing. The designers had one requirement: waves no higher than one foot.

On the morning of June 6th, 1944, the waves off Omaha Beach were six feet high.

Nobody stopped the launch.

At 5:40 AM, the 741st Tank Battalion began dropping their DD tanks into the English Channel, six thousand yards from shore. More than three miles of open water, in seas that were six times rougher than the tanks were designed to handle. The first tank hit the water. The canvas screen, designed to hold the weight of a Sherman afloat, was immediately overwhelmed. Waves crashed over the top. Water flooded in. The tank went down.

Then another. Then another.

The canvas screens collapsed like paper bags in the swell. Tanks that had been designed to float became 33-ton anchors the moment they hit the water. Crews inside had seconds. Some got out through the hatches. Many did not. The tanks took them straight to the bottom of the English Channel.

Some crews managed to get a radio signal out as their tank went under, warning the following units not to launch. The warnings either did not get through or came too late.

29 DD tanks were launched by the 741st Tank Battalion that morning. 27 sank before reaching the beach. The entire left flank of Omaha Beach, where the 1st Infantry Division was assaulting, had five tanks to support it. Five. Against fortified German positions housing hundreds of machine guns, 88mm guns, and mortars zeroed on every inch of that sand.

The infantry arrived first. Alone.

What happened next at Omaha Beach, the 2,400 casualties, the slaughter in the first ten minutes, the near-total destruction of Company A, is inseparable from the loss of those tanks. They were supposed to be there. They were supposed to be firing at German positions while the ramps were still closed. Instead they were on the bottom of the Channel with their crews.

The story of the 743rd Tank Battalion makes it worse.

The 743rd was assigned to the western sector of Omaha Beach. Their LCT flotilla commander looked at the sea conditions that morning, looked at the waves, and made a different decision. He refused to launch his tanks into the water. Instead he drove his LCTs directly onto the beach and dropped the ramps in the shallows. The tanks rolled off onto sand.

Nine tanks were knocked out by German fire during the assault. But they were there. They were fighting. The infantry had armor.

At Utah Beach, the sea was calmer, protected from the prevailing winds. 28 of 32 DD tanks launched there made it ashore. The infantry had support. Utah Beach cost 197 casualties. Omaha cost 2,400.

The sunken tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion still lie on the bottom of the English Channel off Omaha Beach. They have never been raised. Divers have visited them. Inside some of the wrecks, they found what they expected.

They are still there today, 82 years later, three miles off the coast of Normandy, on the bottom of the sea.

Today is June 6th.

Remember them.

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@WhiteHouse Fack right off with this bullspit

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@ParakletosSteve @workhostage @elonmusk @brivael But it takes the AC to DC first still right?

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@ParakletosSteve @workhostage @elonmusk @brivael Sure, but if i want to run 3phase AC motor at variable speed, a VFD and square wave are what i get right? So no need to start with a nice AC sin wave, DC feeding VFD seems more efficient.
I can see single speed motors being happier and more efficient with real sine wave AC.

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@workhostage @ParakletosSteve @elonmusk @brivael Do motors care if the wave is square?
Isn't that all that matters.

[Jack O'Neill @Jack2LOneill]

It's Day 4 of post canceled Stargate

And Stargate fans are more united than ever

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@Joe_drozd Perhaps to keep Congress from stupidly enmeshing our military supply chains and technology with Israel’s using section 224 of the NDAA.

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@ParakletosSteve @workhostage @elonmusk @brivael Yes, they do so by converting the line AC to DC then back to AC at the desired frequency.
So if you run a VFD off DC, it would seemingly just have one less energy conversion.

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@rickyberwick @luinalaska @Ilerioluwakiye_ Nice scoot scoot ricky

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@ParallelColony GDI, what if we didn't register last week, asking for a friend 😅

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Your "representatives" just represented someone else.

84% of you don't want us to continue to transfer weapons to Israel without new restrictions.

Congress just voted to do it anyway.

Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee voted on whether to strip Section 224 from the 2027 NDAA. Section 224 would formally merge U.S. and Israeli military technology, weapons development, AI, and defense supply chains. That is more integration than we have with any NATO ally. In case you didn't know, Israel is not part of NATO. This makes it federal law. No more congressional oversight. No more debate. Forever. Regardless of what they do.

Every member of the committee voted to keep it. Every member except two.

Ro Khanna. Sara Jacobs. Both from California. Both Democrats.

Every other Democrat voted with the Republicans to advance this.

This is what empires look like while they are dying. A voice vote. In the open. In front of everyone. In your face.

They don't think you're watching, and they think you won't do anything about it. And you probably won't.

One last thing: if you vote to keep your current representative in the House or Senate, who just voted against your wishes and locked you and your children into a forever conflict in the Middle East, You are the problem, not them.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Republicans are passing a temporary rule change that will force us to vote on legislation the same day it’s introduced.

This shell game allows the Senate to jam the House with a spending bill that’s not even settled.

I support border security, but not this bastardized process.

[rose 🥀 @islarose]

>be me
>little brother passes away in 2024
>create @daremarket, built in his honor
>make a short film for it. nothing crypto has ever seen. not even close.
>launch the product
>lose friends, get kicked from group chats
>everyone tells you someone is going to die
>no one dies. people are making money
>huh. guess the idea was good after all
>alon cohen hits you up out of nowhere asking how it's going
>give pumpfun team the full update
>get ghosted
>wake up to pumpfun launching your concept. copy + paste
>word for word, just without "dare"
>no culture. zero aura. none of what made it mine. or my brother's
>everything else, identical

oh alon. you have no idea the war you just started.

bring it on.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Doom and Age of Empires creator Sandy Petersen blasts Amazon over their handling of Stargate:

"1) get handed a massively popular IP that spans 17 years of successful shows."

"2) realize it has millions of loyal fans, desperate for more. They are now in their 40s and 50s, flush with money. Eager to teach their kids & grandkids about Stargate."

"3) you could start with this. You are already three steps up the ladder to huge success. The fans will evangelize it, if you don't wreck the IP. Don't believe it? Look how the fans evangelized Battlestar Galactica after its 30 year hiatus. And the initial Dr Who reboot after 15 years."

"4) cancel the project because you want a "new take" that will eliminate all the loyal fans and turn them into bitter enemies."

"It's like an ancient Greek play about hubris."

Why are corporate execs like this?

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

🚨 Section 8 of Flock Safety’s contract caps liability at just $100.

100,000+ cameras. 49 states. 20B license plates scanned every month. $8.4B valuation. If your data is leaked, lost, or misused: max payout is $100.

Billions for them. $100 for you.

Y'all okay with this?

[Lord Spaghetti Crayon 🪔 @moroni_memer]

You may or may not care about Stargate.

But you should know that a new show was in development and Amazon canceled it because it would appeal to Stargate Fans.

This is how all the big studios feel about your favorite franchise, btw.

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

"​To this day, a convicted former police chief banned from law enforcement still holds a seat on that school board."

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

Corrupt Robins Chief of police caught on camera that he forgot was recording not only violating rights but also in jaw dropping fashion breaking the law.

​This started when an independent transparency auditor/ journalist named James walked into a public clinic in Robbins, Illinois to exercise his first amendment rights to film in a public space and to legally file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

​Instead of accepting the paperwork, Acting Police Chief Carl Scott Sr. claimed FOIA requests couldn't be filed in person. When James refused to stop filming his public interaction, Chief Scott slapped him in cuffs and arrested him for disorderly conduct.

Once the judge saw the clip he threw out the case. Upon the end of the court case, James went to the Robins PD to file a formal complaint against the chief. The Chief came out saying his officer need James ID because they were going to cite him with a nuisance citation.

​When James stood on his FourthAmendment rights to not give his ID because he broke no laws, things turned ugly. James was dragged into the back interrogation room where the video even though it had no sound speaks for itself.

After the event in the interrogation room ​an investigation quickly opened up, the details got significantly worse. During the arrest, James's cell phone suddenly vanished. It was later revealed in court that Chief Scott had actually swiped the phone, walked outside the station, and dropped it straight down a city street sewer to destroy the footage. Investigators literally had to fish it out of the muck.

​Knowing the writing was on the wall, Mayor Darren Bryant moved to terminate the chief, but Scott resigned just before he could be officially fired.

​The legal hammer eventually dropped hard:

​Scott pleaded guilty to criminal misdemeanor battery.

​He was sentenced to two years of probation.

​The state officially revoked his law enforcement certificate, permanently banning him from ever working as a police officer again.

​You’d think a violent misconduct conviction and a permanent ban from policing would be the end of a public career. Instead, Scott pivoted to local politics and was elected to a 4-year term on the school board for Matteson Elementary School District 159, eventually rising to become the board's Vice President.

​When local news outlets finally obtained and aired the bodycam footage of Scott putting hands on a citizen, local parents were utterly furious. Packed, emotional school board meetings followed, with parents demanding his immediate resignation from a board tasked with protecting young children.

​Despite the intense community backlash, Scott dug his heels in. He openly refused to resign, claiming he had already "accepted accountability" via his probation and that his law enforcement background made him an asset.

​Because school boards have incredibly narrow legal avenues under Illinois law to forcibly remove an elected public official, their hands were tied. In a tense, split 4–3 vote, the board took the maximum legal action they could: they stripped him of his title as Vice President, but they could not kick him off the board entirely.

​To this day, a convicted former police chief banned from law enforcement still holds a seat on that school board.

​What do you think? Should elected officials automatically lose their seats if hit with a violent misdemeanor conviction, or should the voters have to wait out their term?

Is situation like this that destroy the faith in law enforcement in communities. One bad apple destroying the bunch.

[AaronInAlaska @AaronInAlaska]

@x_VelvetDark_x @IGN A-tier rage bait, well done.

[Rage Crusader @RageCrusader]

@IGN This idiotic business model should be in textbooks:

Take an established IP, remake it for people who were never interested in it, and alienate the fans who made it successful in the first place