Genuinely stunning how good KSP looks with proper mods and shaders despite being over a decade old. Even boring relay/satellite work is just so pretty to watch.

Buying a refurbed Thinkpad Carbon X1 as a lightweight field laptop has possibly been the best 500 bucks I've ever spent, it's a tank and continues to run well despite it mostly living in backpacks, tool bags, and charging off of dubious convenience receptacles in power stations and substations.

Personally, as an introvert, I consider being asked to contact old supervisors to reference to my new employer an act of psychological terrorism.

I put this together as kind of a fun representation of what all of the procurements going through successfully, combined with a the rumoured programs getting funded, would look like, and boy, even if we get 3/4s of this stuff...

Navalbros are EATING right now, Vigilance showing off a domestic corvette (honestly a mini frigate with 16 fucking mk 41s and NSM) and Seaspan saying they've got capacity to do an LPD support ship or two.

I feel like basically the moment I left the CAF all the cool shit started happening, like what do you mean there's rumours of the RCN looking into getting a polar rated LPD/Helicarrier

So like we're buying Aster right because I'm pretty sure the Patriot order book for both units and missiles has got to be longer than the estimated heat death of the universe

Separatists set up a signing in my local neighborhood plaza, it was two old ladies and they had literally no one lined up in a very open and visible place with lots of traffic, which is nice because I live in Stephen Harper's old riding.

Genuinely kind of nice that there's literally no way to introduce AI into most of my work, and the bits that could are so tightly regulated they'd never let a model touch it.

One drug test and background check away from the job

In the CAF, I think I'm most up on the RCN at the moment, even if we don't end up with the full order totals for everything, it's going to be a very capable force that can play in the same ballpark as the big European fleets: 15x River-class Destroyers 8-16x Multi-Mission Corvettes 12x Submarines

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 At least two Labour MPs (one UK, one Aus) and three Democratic Congresspeople in talks to cross the floor to the Liberal Party, as per leaked internal memos

We love to see it, I am biased of course as it's my industry, but we got a lotta electrical infrastructure to put up, and the work is only beginning.

The acronym is clearly hacked together but honestly goes hard enough that I'll allow it considering no one is ever going to actually say the full name

Reminder that northern canada is extremely desolate but also filled with genuinely absurd fantasy terrain

No one wants this, not Turkey, not Greece, not Europe. The alliance has been somewhat neglectful of Turkey (blame shared, Turkey isn't exactly the greatest partner either) but no one's thrown that relationship away for the very real plight of the kurds, much less neuroses from the US/ISR brain trust

sorry gang I let myself fight people on the internet, I will be more disciplined in the future in other news, we are probably not spitting the sub contract, thank god

Anyone got a medal check, or at least what medals the machine tried to generate on our AI generated foot fetish chudslop lady, was she a pipe hitter before settling down for a life of pixelated objectification?

I'm hearing this isn't true, but even if it was, that's a brigade, a single brigade, a fully equipped one of which is capable of stretching itself to take an eye watering 15km of frontage to a depth of 10km on a linear fight, or like one medium sized town.

I have a fact-based feeling this is instantly going to enter my lexicon

The CF-188 HEP II is definitely up there for NATO's most slammed out multirole. Original early serial A frames rocking rebuilt engines with C series parts and legacy hornet adapted super hornet sensors. It's like a scuffed ass Mitsubishi Lancer Evo rocking a new Porsche's worth of aftermarket shit.

RCAF now guaranteed to go down like lions with a 10-1 kill ratio when we get invaded early next year as a distraction from the midterm crisis.

Spur of the moment business trip stop at an Indo-Chinese fusion gastro pub has me weirdly patriotic enjoying street food and observing a group of girls out on the town after their citizen ship ceremony with Canadian flag headbands

Third round interview, just finished the evals, seems like I did about average, they're gonna hire 16/36 of us, so now I get to spend the next month stressing because I didn't fuck it up too bad to not care, or ace it enough to be guaranteed.

I feel like economy seats get smaller relative to me even as I lose weight from my weightlifting and army days.

Oh yeah it's sitting at the airport gate time folks, ooh, should I buy a pack of m&ms for 10 dollars at 6 am?

re: taiwan using artillery against invading ships I wonder how useful having batteries of mobile coastal guns equipped with guided RAP rounds that have some sort of QUICKSINK-like guidance as a somewhat cheaper supplement to anti-ship missiles. Rounds already exist that can cover the 180km strait.

I am relatively open on here and I suppose a sufficiently determined sleuth could work backwards and figure out who I am from context, but holy shit its wild what people on here post with accounts bearing their full face + name + job!

Pulling up this gem from last year as it's topica, total banger from the CBC

The skipper of the IRIS Shahid Bagheri being ordered to sea to throw down against multiple CBGs and the US/ISR air forces in the region.

remembering solemnly

If something in the USA and/or Israel explodes, before you rush to the Mossad false flag explanation, consider that in Iranian culture, it is considered traditional to bomb countries you are at war with.

0900: Begin run 1200: Finish run (taking it very slow so I don't fuck myself up) 2359: Two beers + Two tacos every hour for twelve hours. I'd still have time to get a good (no lol) nights rest. Pretty sure I've personally witnessed worse at the JRs on any given base with an infantry regiment.

The dynamics of this are fairly unique to the region and diaspora but the filibustero is back and for Canada that is capital B BAD

I'll be in the Vancouver region for a few days next week on business, anyone have any recommendations for restaurants or museums?

Just had amaretto in coffee for the first time and I'm gonna be honest, Baileys, you've got competition.

I published a new Missile Matters post earlier today, discussing Ukraine's recent deep strike against the Votkinsk missile plant and its implications for the missile supply chain. You can access the post here: missilematters.substack.com/p/flamingo-f... Short summary below 1/7

Insanely depressing that the guy who on track to primary this dude is a wannabe aryan hispanic guntuber and will likely be ultimately even worse

Won it.

This is the surface level stuff, this game, which is ostensibly about near-future-ish platoon/company level tactical combat already has written fanfiction and has only been our for barely two weeks.

My god I just realized I still have a full 3000pt 40k Onslaught game in less than two hours from now on top of this.

Night of the Long Skates at Team Canada Hockey

I never really cared about hockey anyways

The collective blood pressure of 41 million people just shot up

People on bsky will really be like "you use a rice cooker? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, using a seven step aromatic and soaked rice in a pot recipe" and then not make their seven step automatic and soaked rice in a pot recipe.

1) Be down a goal all game until <10 minutes in the third 2) ??? 3) Win (again)

Should we not win men's hockey gold, Team Canada will issue a declaration of holy war and the bombing of Washington begins 30 minutes after the players get off the ice.