StringJunky

Salty mouth is a sign as well.

If a monkey types Hamlet verbatim without knowledge of English, it is a random event, isn't it? Just because we can get it to fit ex post facto something we know exists, doesn't make it a thoughtful effort; deterministic.

Apparently, Trump went so emotional and off his rocker during the rescue mission to get those f15 pilots back, he was ejected from the situation room as it happened. He was fed bits and bobs in chunks later on in his office. He was fretting over what it would do to his image if they were captured. It seems he feared what happened to Carter was going to happen to him.

Iran's decision structure accommodates potential assassinations and commanders can act autonomously, if necessary. It seems they have thought of the long game.

I can't. It's from memory and it was in a newspaper. It was one detail in an article, a passing remark by him.

Not correct. In the Iraq war Netanyahu threatened to nuke Saddam's Iraq if they put one missile on Israeli soil. I remember him saying that because he was basically admitting they had them. And yet, he still maintains nuclear ambiguity.

I remember my grandad telling me that, to get around the scarcity of engineering skills needed for the war effort, everything was jigged where possible. This cut out a lot of the learning time needed to manufacture parts from the ground up, which was the norm then. He joined the RAF in 1936 as an airframe and engine apprentice.

I think Iran needs a nuclear capability, or for one of its nuclear-armed allies to say "Nuke Iran or threaten it with them, we'll do the same to you". That would be simplest, I think. The Islamic countries need a mutual pact, like NATO's Article 5. I think all this geopolitical bullying and resource stealing by the west is down to the glaring asymmetry in WMD's. There's no mutually assured destruction capability in the Islamic Middle East. There needs to be some degree of a nuclear capability there to restore some level of mutual military respect.

I hope so too. It seems to me it is coming to a point where the Chiefs of Staff have to say to all the ranks "You must disobey illegal orders from the President" - and take what comes. The worst thing they can do, I think, is just resign, to be replaced by sycophants.

Got this in my Bluesky feed today: "The US joint Chiefs of staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine stormed out of an emergency meeting with Trump. Insiders indicate that Trump wanted to invoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran but Caine refused and invoked the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice." Trump obviously wants to wave the nuclear stick at Iran. I suppose invoking the Uniform Code is as far as a top military person can go. The implication seems to be, is this the point where the president goes full dictator and finds out if he has the internal support to ignore the law?

Didn't some Mercedes of the era have similar?

Pe-1971 had hand cranks. My grandad was an airframe and engine fitter/mechanic, so he would have likely been knowledgeable to the means of turning engines over safely.

I remember my grandad, sometime in the 60's, cranking the engine of his Morris Minor one day.

Dunning-Kruger thinking is running riot through the trump administration all the way to the top.

I have a long time friend whose dad had a couple of small shops repairing and selling domestic electric goods like these. He told me back in the 90's that these rarely came compared to other makes. They would suck up a brick if the pipe was wide enough. They have a good spares system as well.