Rural Anarchy

As a prepubescent kid expecting that I would die in a nuclear exchange or be raptured to Heaven at any moment (grew up VERY Evangelical)... Probably not great for my development, and I might still be unpacking that shit in my mid 40s. 😭

Only a few replies and they are all more clever or witty than anything I can come up with.

So I'll just say "good luck" in your attempt to discern strategic (or even tactical) goals from this.

Oh, absolutely. I just think Putin is a lot smarter than Trump and can think about second and third order consequences in a much more rational manner. Trump can't even think about direct consequences of his actions.

I mean, that's totally fair. If we had a full Cold War nuclear exchange, folks in Australia weren't making it out alive either! I just got the benefit of knowing that being close to a US SAC base with nukes on it that my end would be very instant. It wasn't the fallout I worried about! 😂

I'm mostly just joking, but but like half the companies on earth were started by a half joke and an idea.

I might possibly see a scenario where Putin decided on a tactical nuke if a push further than Ukraine went poorly, but even that stretches the imagination. Trump using a tactical nuke? I wish we lived in a world where that was unthinkable like it was a few years ago.

Yup. China isn't really a threat unless they get a nuke hitting their soil. And then it's just strikes to cripple military ability. They don't have the nukes or the desire to kill civilians in Houston or Minneapolis or even LA. We're now the loose cannon.

Know any supply chain research folks that can help us get in contact with the plant in China that makes those? We might get rich! 😂

We all know what some kiloton bombs did in Japan in 1945. The level of death and destruction.

Knowing what bombs at many megatons are capable of still messes with me. And yeah, glad bombs like the Mk17 and B-41 don't exist any more!!!

My granddad had no idea that I was autistically hyperfocused on his descriptions of nuclear weapon function and effects. And what it would do to my brain even after he died. But even before, I grew up as a little kid knowing that living close to Carswell was death if nukes launched in the 80s.

LOL, fair, the "vaporizing" isn't the best word choice. Small comfort to those that aren't in the few hundred meters from impact that die of a 5psi blast wave and the hellfire that spreads even further.

Oh god yeah. That's how the scary Muslim terrorists that couldn't get actual nukes were going to attack us AT ANY MOMENT!!!!!

At least according to our fearmongering politicians.

But that acute threat of nuclear holocaust wasn't as sharp after the Cold War. Because it felt like a "Capitalist" Russia and the US were less likely to start throwing nukes. And that was probably true to some degree. And even China isn't a threat that the USSR/Russia is for ending it all.

Absolutely agree there. The fall of the USSR didn't just erase a thousand missiles pointed at us, and we still have ours pointed at them (and China and probably a lot of other places). I think just the need for demonizing the USSR went away and the "fear them" shifted to Islam with the public.

But yeah, I didn't do the math, and it's a lot more 500lb conventional bombs than I suggested.

Not vaporizing cities, but definitely small parts of a large city. And shit like fallout and radiation poisoning.

Yeah, "small" is very scale dependent. And nukes are a hell of a scale.

And agree on thanking dog. I'm a child of the Cold War and my granddad was a nuclear weapons tech for the USAF from 59-76. So I know ALL about what we used to have ready to go. Horrifying shit.

$80

An 80 knock-off of Pelican cases for guns or equipment that would fit instruments? They wouldn't be able to keep them in stock.

Maybe we need to find their Chinese supplier for those cases and see what it would take to start up a new product line ourselves!

Congrats on the gigs!!! And my god, a cheap Harbor Freight Apache guitar or bass case would be a BRILLIANT addition to that line of products. They would make SO MUCH MONEY!!

Evangelicals (with minor exceptions) don't expect the rapture to happen in nuclear hellfire because that's not really how the eschatology works. And Folks like Musk and Theil are smart enough to know that nuclear exchange wouldn't advance their space or feudalism dreams.

I'm not quite at the point where I think any of the folks mentioned in that article are at the point where they think dropping nukes gets them closer to their goals yet. Trump is stupid enough to want to use them maybe, but even the Evangelicals and TechBros would know better.

There kinda are, but it's a matter of scale. A "small nuke" is a few hundred conventional 500lb bombs. But it's very small compared to the other megaton nukes in the arsenal.

This is far beyond superglue. This is even beyond huffing spray paint. This is huffing Freon stolen from the AC unit behind a run down apartment complex.

Yes. Or try to find a used hardshell for a little cheaper. But if you love your guitar and you gig, you want a hardshell case.

Agreed. Like, add some spices or sauce to that and it's a solid ass meal!

Move from "kibble" to "Alpo" by adding a bit of water and a packet of brown gravy mix and you have a cheap great tasting dish for cheap.

There are still a few WWII veterans alive in their late 90s, but really only the ones that lied about their age to enlist and served late in the war. But very few still alive.

Yeah, not the kind of thing you want to find out you were wrong about.

You called him a liar because you were completely ignorant of the context of the thread you only read ONE post of.

An apology is fully appropriate, not doubling down on being ignorant. Your sense of entitlement is amazing, in a bad way.

As someone that said similar when I got it last summer, I'm right there with you.

If you listen, you have to listen to the end. He names every man that died on the Edmund Fitzgerald at the end as a church bell chimes. It will make you cry.