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I wouldn’t say immediately, I feel it’s going to be like chemo, it will get worse before it gets better.

Wikipedia seems to disagree:

The Persians army employed volleys of arrows, slingshots, and javelins against the Greeks in Gaugalema[21] and Thermopylae.[22][23] Ancient Greeks and Romans used arrow volleys.[24][20][19] The goddess Artemis was called “‘of the showering arrows”.[25][26]

In medieval Europe, after the initial volley, archers would fire single shots at individual enemies.[27] Examples include the Battle of Hastings in 1066,[28] Battle of Crécy in 1346[19] and the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.[29]

I’d imagine it’s possible that a volley meant that they started drawing at the same time rather than drawing and waiting.

I actually spend quite a lot of time in Leuven these days, and looking at some of those houses and the general state of Belgium today … I can’t say that’s not likely to be true.

It’s just that the place kinda struck me as safe. I guess it’s not.

Glad he’s fighting the real enemy.

Yet, the word “lie” has still not graced the pages of the NYT.

What the actual fuck.

Yeah, I find it discriminative that the HR intake form was asking for a fursona

TBH my take on it is that they pretend fighters are still doing the same thing as in WWII or maybe Korea, just with missiles. No BVR or anything. There is this Indian short that was more tense for me than the whole of Top Gun and it feels so much closer to the real thing.

That said, I don’t like Tom Cruise because of his slavery side gig and IDK jack about Indian-Pakistani relations, so take it with that in mind.

It would be nice if one salary, no matter the gender of the breadwinner, could sustain a family.

As a fellow aviation nerd, what do you think about Top Gun? Or the sequel?

Good old brewdogging

They might still cum from the top left one

It’s one whale statue away from becoming a boat

turnkey /tûrn′kē″/ noun

1. The keeper of the keys in a prison; a jailer.

2. A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.

3. An instrument with a hinged claw, – used for extracting teeth with a twist.

Sounds about right.

Not the person you’re answering but usually these are not a root problem but only a symptom. The answer will range from being told that you are the problem to “let’s schedule a meeting to discuss that”.

The mentality usually stems from higher up, and you don’t really get to speak to people originating policy.

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I’m pretty sure we’ll have a separate corpo-English by 2100 that is not intelligible by normal people.

Yeah my wife is scary enough

Which end to which end?

So on the one hand, the CIA did some wicked awful shit all over the world, together with the rest of the US government apparatus. MK Ultra, the crack epidemic, all that shit.

That said, while I can imagine the CIA had some eyes on what was happening in Hungary, because both them and the Soviets had eyes everywhere, I don’t see the point that is trying to be made here. That the CIA was funding the revolution? With what? It lasted like two weeks and the fighting was done with captured Soviet and older Hungarian and I guess some German equipment.

The revolution was not against communism, it was specifically against the fucked up economic policy of Rákosi, and not because he was a communist, but because he wanted to transition a country that was basically one contiguous agrarian farmland into heavy industry and steel manufacturing, which led to poverty as it was braindead. We didn’t have the resources, the know-how or the demand. We did have it for agriculture. The revolution was aimed at installing Imre Nagy, the previous communist leader into power, who was originally a farmer, and had a strong agrarian policy.

The guy in question, Dr. Béla Király was indeed a high-ranking Hungarian military officer at the time. He was indeed appointed the commander of the revolutionary forces, and fled to the US after the defence collapsed.

That said, when would have he been enlisted by the CIA? He served in the armed forces on the Axis side as a captain - he earned recognition for disobeying orders and treating the Jewish prisoners assigned to him humanely. He fought until the USSR conquered Hungary, and surrendered to them. He was then absorbed into the People’s Army and was not really trusted since his wife was the niece of Gyula Gömbös, a late fascist-aligned prime minister of Hungary. That said, he was promoted to general because there weren’t a ton of capable and experienced officers back then in the army. Afterwards, when Stalin called off the invasion of Yugoslavia, he got purged with 350,000 other people in Hungary, and spent the rest of the time until the revolution in prison.

So was he enlisted by the CIA:

• as an unremarkable captain of an unremarkable country on the fascist side of WWII (why him?)
• as the commander of Hungary’s contribution to the planned Yugoslavian invasion (the KGB and the ÁVO would have caught that)
• or as a prisoner in the ÁVO’s dungeon (lol)

Even if he was enlisted by the CIA, how would have he planned or contributed to the revolution from the basement of Andrássy 62? He was released a month before as part of an attempt at appeasement to the masses and spent it in hospital because of undernourishment issues from the 5 years he spent there.

Or, as a much likelier explanation, after the revolution, as he escaped to the US as many others did as the US was open to dissidents at the time, he was employed as someone who actually fought the Soviets in guerrilla warfare, and was helping train anti-Castro forces?