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the people (dozens of us) plead for a miniseries of Spearhead by Adam Makos

A hand reaches for a 76mm round marked SHOT HVAP-T M93 in a wet-stowage ammunition rack of a late war Sherman tank.

funny detail I noticed recently: when the TC asks for a smoke round, the loader literally grabs a round of 76mm HVAP. That projectile would’ve hardly even slowed down after going through 104mm of late-war German armor at 800 yards.

YouTube video by The Chieftain Myths of American Armor. TankFest Northwest 2015

The sad part is that the filmmakers had Nick Moran as one of their advisors.

They… ignored him once or twice. In one case, he was like “ok, the Tiger would actually be scary if they were in a 75 Sherman.” Filmmaker: “but the 76 looks cooler”

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beamNG makes it look so easy…

Just got flashbacks to the owners at a company I worked for giving us a presentation about how much money we could save by using a healthcare ministry and negotiating prices

Like, good for you, negotiating is literally your job. How’s that supposed to work for an animator, JEFFREY

it sucks that it's the case, but a large part of what makes a person conservative is an inability to recognize problems that aren't affecting them or someone they know/like

so this is a good thing. more facing-eating, and enough of them might finally start to get it

feels like they cut that clip right before they both got a face full of glass shards

don’t film mysterious big fires from behind windows, kids

Rocket Lab delays first Neutron launch to 2026 Rocket Lab has delayed the first launch of its reusable Neutron rocket to 2026, saying it wants to maximize the chances that the flight will be a success.

It’s definitely better than no competition though.

And hey, here’s a non-oligarch effort to cheer for, launching fairly soon spacenews.com/rocket-lab-d...

A brown and black striped tuxedo tabby sits on my wrist while I try to work in my home office

she did this for like half an hour yesterday. in fairness, it did keep me from checking my phone a few times

I picked up a used M1 Max last week and got a little startled yesterday when I heard it spin up its fan for the first time

Fighter plane contrails mark the sky over Task Force 58, during the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" phase of the battle, 19 June 1944. Photographed from on board USS Birmingham (CL-62). (Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944)

go get em, hellcats

Cat Proximity

Same. I blame xkcd.com/231/

optical compromises are for cowards.

now where’d i put that rocket blower… gotta clean my sensor again cause all i have is primes

how gauche of them

A lineup of four camera lenses. Sony 50-100mm f2, Sigma 28-45 f1.8, Canon 28-70 f2, and Sony 28-70 f2. All let in an absurd amount of light and give lovely shallow depth of field.

they could fix me

See a tuxedo - post a tuxedo

‘why do you always touch that long tappy white rectangle thing instead of my soft white belly’

(her nictitating membranes have been like ever since when we adopted her from the shelter)

me showing my wife the butt pictures I’m drawing for work while she programs her own motion-capture data processing software for her human biomechanics PhD, circa 2019

No!! Damn, dude

Or even just a “hey, can you go back to when that character was introduced, and then come back and keep reading?”

Yeah, another point in favor of the Sherman. Replacing a Panther’s transmission in wartime conditions sounds like one of the deepest circles of hell

oops, Sherman periscope was 1x and 1.44x, telescope was 3x in 1944. Panther was selectable between 2.5 and 5x on its telescopic sight

YouTube video by The Chieftain Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: Panther. Part 2

Two of my favorite tank videos ever, where an Abrams tanker reviews the turrets of the Sherman and Panther: youtu.be/vB-Rt0GRipo?...

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And if the Sherman crew knew how to use their gyro gun stabilizer, they could actually hit stuff on the move. The Panther was better at range and if it saw you first, but that obviously wasn’t going to be the norm in Western Europe

Turns out the things that might not show up on a stat card can make a difference. M4s had better visibility for the gunner (a nice wide x1 and x5 mag periscope, and a x6 down low next to the gun), where Panther gunners just had their narrow fov telescopic sight

yeeup. if they lose the excuse of "the democrats are holding us up," they have to actually govern, pass the legislation they campaigned on, and bear the electoral consequences. they're not gonna sign themselves up for that

at the very least, the Tom Clancy of MS Paint

that sure doesn't sound like they're going to be subtle with the algorithm. I'll bet their core user base is gonna love that

It's worse this time. The first term didn't have Vance, Hegseth, Patel, RFK Jr, etc etc being just as abrasive as the POTUS, and I think that that makes a difference.

Which yeah, sounds like small potatoes, but it’s not a talk I probably would have heard in the Bush era

One woman’s talk over the pulpit last Sunday at my local ward quoted past leaders (one of whom was in the Reagan admin and whose quotes on govt usually make me cringe) emphasizing that we are loyal to the constitution, not an individual, and that it’s okay to vote for whatever party