whenyellowstonehasitsday

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Cake day: August 14th, 2024
  • whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.iotoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Expectation vs reality
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    3 months ago

    The Houthis wouldn’t be firing Iranian anti-ship missiles if Iranian munitions factories were bombed, but the USA chooses not to do that.

    big “the us didn’t really lose vietnam” cope energy

    exploiting political reality is a valid military strategy

    IMO treating any attack by Iranian-made missiles as if it were launched by Iran would be a reasonable policy

    this stance would be an insane own-goal given what’s going on in ukraine

  • whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.iotoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Expectation vs reality
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    3 months ago

    I read the article and that headline is clickbait as fuck.

    it’s clickbait in the same way that vietnam defeated the us in that war they had that one time

    probably the purpose of the us navy above all else is to protect shipping. like yes they’re set up to fight other navies and project power, but at the end of the day, that’s all so that nobody can fuck with the country’s logistics.

    and even given how much money gets shoveled into it, it completely failed to do so against a group of fighters with a shoestring budget.

    all it takes is a handful of persistent mosquitoes to ruin the whole thing and have the entire party pick up their gear

    when i go to a picnic i don’t normally bring my billion-dollar mosquito killing machine, and when i do, i expect it to protect me

  • whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.iotoTechnology@lemmy.world•Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
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    3 months ago

    with the amount of money they apparently had available to spend on this little jolly, it’s absolutely incredible how much they fumbled things by trying to force their way in instead of asking nicely

    if they just hadn’t done exclusives, and had instead relied on their decreased split to offer lower prices, while chucking in the odd free game, they’d probably be a lot closer to the 50% of revenue they were hoping for when they started

    valve is actively abusing their monopoly by preventing epic from offering the same product(s) at lower prices in their storefront, and their customer base are happy about it because of thoroughly epic pissed everybody off with their opening move

    what chumps