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@rippinkitten18 @przidnt254593 Iran can detect US stealth planes. US had difficulty in overflying Iranian territory due to Iran hitting US planes or coming very close. US had to use standoff weapons. Reserves of such weapons are depleted.

@przidnt254593 I thought it was friendly fires. 🔥 WTF happened ??!!!!

So no fucking shit the f-35 was actually hit. Well I'll be damned.

@BuySellStopcom @Microinteracti1 So why did US navy stayed far away from Iran? 🤔

@Microinteracti1 Hey Clueless - US ships have microwave arrays, lasers and many other ways that take out drones by the dozens. The problem is, ther Gulf nations do not have that tech. Did you do the cost analysis on a $10,000 bomb vs. an oil refinery? Maybe the US should shift that all back?

America’s $4 Million Solution to a $35,000 Problem There is a particular kind of madness that only governments can achieve, and the United States military has just delivered a masterclass in it. Robert Gates, when he was running the Pentagon, stood up and said something rather obvious: stop building weapons that cost a fortune, take forever, and do slightly more than anyone will ever need. He wanted 75 percent solutions built quickly and cheaply, rather than gold-plated 99 percent solutions that arrived approximately never. That was nearly twenty years ago. Everyone nodded, went back to their offices, and carried on exactly as before. So here we are. The Patriot interceptor missile costs $4 million and takes up to three years to manufacture. Iran’s Shahed drone costs $35,000 and can be knocked out in an afternoon by a man with moderate enthusiasm and access to a parts catalogue. The United States has now fired more than 1,200 Patriots in this war. Iran is building Shaheds at 200 a month and presumably finding the whole thing quite amusing. This is the military-industrial equivalent of using a Rolls-Royce to squash a wasp. It works, technically. But at some point, someone should ask whether the wasp deserved quite that much attention. Gates tried. Congress listened politely. The defence contractors kept building their $4 million missiles, and nobody in Washington had the nerve to tell them to stop. They still don’t. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@robrabbo @Microinteracti1 What? You’re contradicting Ukrainian claims. Patriot system even shot down hypersonic cruise missiles!

@Microinteracti1 I gt it,but the wasp destroyed a $300 million E3 AWACS. The real issue is Patriot doesn't really work. Despite claims Patriot shot down NO creaky old Iraqi Scuds.

@YAkifuyu Singapore is in tropics. It’s easy to grow a huge variety of tropical fruits and tropical veg in tropics, which Singapore gets from its near neighbours.

日本和新加坡同样是资源缺乏的国家，新加坡的饮食可比日本丰富多了、价格也比日本便宜，水果更不用说了，比日本丰富多彩，日本的农业都被垄断了，虽说是发达国家，可老百姓的日子可不是发达国家的水平

@olinad_zebborb @DevLinky_ @thekonyjen English English is most definitely a tonal language in many of its words. For example “yes” can mean 5 different things depending on tone.

@DevLinky_ @thekonyjen I speak Akan and English. Akan is a tonal language so I know about tonal languages. I don't see how English is not a tonal language when tone can change a word from noun to verb. When the words are not monotone and every word has a correct tone. English meets the criteria

it’s not even that your voice is deeper but english is language that requires you to switch up the tone of your voice constantly to show different emotions so it makes it seems like in french you sound deeper but it’s simply a monotone language that does not require extra shit

@Dextranose @prestonstew_ Friendly Fire has less of a psychological impact than Shot Down by Iran.

@prestonstew_ Non-story. This was known already. The F-15s were friendly fire. The KC-135s & MC-130 were lost mostly in rescuing the downed pilot, as was the A-10 & the HH-60W I think. The rest are just damaged or lost drones.

The Congressional Research Service just listed the 42 US aircraft lost or damaged so far during the war with Iran. 4 x F-15E Strike Eagles destroyed 1 x F-35A damaged by Iranian ground fire 1 x A-10 destroyed 7 x KC-135 Stratotankers (2 destroyed, 5 damaged) 1 x E-3 Sentry AWACS damaged 2 x MC-130J destroyed 1 x HH-60W helicopter damaged by small arms fire 24 x MQ-9 Reapers destroyed 1 x MQ-4C Triton destroyed

@FabulousFredNYC @Freddie37204 @prestonstew_ Naval aircraft? They were too far away to be used. However, they were used against houthis a while back and had a tendency of “falling” into sea from carrier decks.

@Freddie37204 @prestonstew_ True, but no naval aircraft were impacted, no Marine Corps aircraft impacted, no Israeli aircraft impacted, & with deconfliction with the allies, there won’t be friendly fire…

@bammnick @GabrielDeledda Just reminding you where your love of yellow hair stems from.

@PaganTech @GabrielDeledda I just said that rosamund pike looks beautiful with golden tones. Idk what ur talking abt.

Andromeda, princesa de Etiopía según la mitología griega, siempre ha sido representada en el cine de Hollywood como una mujer blanca. Y a nadie le importó nunca.

@samvega @realmrsthatcher She definitely believed it and so many other people at the time and until recently. Propaganda was very severe in those days on this matter.

@realmrsthatcher Serious question: Did Thatcher know she spread lies, or did she really believe this rot, or...? Maybe she had a diary, or private correspondence with cronies, or something else to settle that. Granted, harms done either way.

Private property is vital to freedom. The more industries you have in the hands of government, the more the bureaucrats run things...Bureaucrats on the whole are not good at business, they're not good at industry. They shouldn't have the running of it. The more powers you put into the hands of government, the less the powers of the people. The more in the hands of the bureaucrats, the less in the hands of the electors. So of course we reduced that. It not only puts the industries back to people who know how to run them but it extends share ownership. We've extended capital ownership far wider than ever before. Capital ownership should be something that every single person feels that as they begin to prosper, they can put money aside and build up capital; build their own security. It makes them much more powerful against a government.

Did you know that ancient Greeks described Indian society as a land with no slaves, no written laws, and a king guarded by elite women warriors? When the Greek ambassador Megasthenes lived in India around 300 BC, what he saw completely amazed him. One of his most shocking observations was how safely farmers lived. Megasthenes wrote that even during the bloodiest wars, farmers were treated as sacred. While armies fought nearby, soldiers would leave farmers completely alone to work their fields in peace. Equally mind-blowing was the king’s security team. Emperor Chandragupta did not trust regular male soldiers to protect him. Instead, his inner palace corridors were guarded by a highly trained troop of armed women warriors. Even the smartest people faced strict rules. The highest social class belonged to the Philosophers, whose job was to predict the weather and monsoons for the government. But there was a catch: if a philosopher’s predictions failed three times, they were legally banned from speaking for the rest of their life. Furthermore, Megasthenes was stunned by how much Indians valued freedom. Coming from Greece and Rome, where slavery was brutal and widespread, he wrote in awe that all Indians were free and no one was treated as a slave. Finally, the honesty of the people surprised him. He noted that in a massive military camp of 400,000 men, thefts almost never happened. Because people trusted each other so deeply, society ran smoothly without written contracts or law books, relying entirely on custom and word of mouth. #archaeohistories

@Joe__Bassey Yep. You’re on the right path. Colonial Masters didn’t want Africans to be self sufficient. They spread so much misinformation which is still being regurgitated. It’s very easy to grow tropical foods in tropics. Spread the word.

Africans need to get rid of the mentality forced on us by Western education that many foods and fruits cannot be grown in specific regions. We should try it out. We have the most arable land and the best weather on this continent, and everything can be grown here.

Have a look at maps of Ethiopian Sea.

@okaythenfuture America allows unmedicated severely mentally ill people to roam its public spaces.

The Greater Bay Area and Yunnan exist. Next.

Ok time for school. “Barbarian” just meant non-Greek-speaking foreigner. Could be Africans, Persians, Thracians (European), Scythians (European/steppe), Germanic tribes (Northern European), everyone. It was not a modern racial term. Understand that first. Now if you’re trying to imply Greeks viewed Africans as “uncivilized”, history says the COMPLETE opposite. Greeks saw Egypt as a land of ancient wisdom and learning. Herodotus traveled to Egypt to learn (didn’t travel to Belgium lol) while Homer described Ethiopians as the “blameless Ethiopians” favored by the gods. Ironically, the foreign groups Greek and later Greco-Roman writers most commonly portrayed as wild, tribal, drunken, or uncivilized, were the northern European peoples like Scythians, Celts, and Germanic tribes…..NOT Africans.

@mistressdivy COUGH!

What is the dumbest pronounced word in the world, judging solely by its spelling? Like the one that just makes you fucking scream every single time. I'll go first. Colonel

@Vandeervecken @largo35839158 @mistressdivy It works much better then other methods like look & say.

@largo35839158 @mistressdivy Phonics is also a common elementary school method of teaching English. A ridiculous one as English is not a phonetic language.

@bammnick @GabrielDeledda That’s an olive skinned Mediterranean looking in a mirror but in his mind seeing a Nordic!

@PaganTech @GabrielDeledda ah?

@kjh1138 @estvoxpopuli @GabrielDeledda It’s not my argument it’s a scientific fact and an archaeological fact. Sahara was green and contained African tropical flora & fauna.

@PaganTech @estvoxpopuli @GabrielDeledda I believe your arguments about population before and after ~3000 B.C. are wish-casting.

@exile_nz @nikstankovic_ Why are you posting Talos?

@nikstankovic_ 🤣

They blew her cover!

@kjh1138 @estvoxpopuli @GabrielDeledda You don’t believe Sahara was green?

@PaganTech @estvoxpopuli @GabrielDeledda No. You are mistaken.