saze

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[–] saze 2 points 11 months ago

Imagine begging off the mightiest military in the world, by virtue of being their puppet state and still not being able to decisively defeat a ragtag bunch of resistance fighters in their sandals with homemade weapons, after imposing a crushing blockade on their lands for the best part of a decade and blowing 1% of their population to smithereens from air.

Give it up Zionists, you aren't built for this.

[–] saze 2 points 11 months ago

Doesn't matter what is easier or the numbers involved. Fact is power lies in the money spent by millions funneled to a dozen, making them so potent. Millions don't even need to change their ways, even a significant minority can start making bottom lines bleed like a mf.

[–] saze 3 points 11 months ago

Fantastic! Thanks for putting in the legwork with the correction.

[–] saze 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Great question! It sent me into a Google frenzy and here is what I found.

Q3 to me means three month period from 1st July to 30th September. During this time, there were 20 Starlink 'V2 mini' and 2 'V1.5' launches. Each 'V2 mini' mission contained 21-23 satellites, which I averaged to 22, and ~50 in each 'V1.5' mission. Further, each 'V1.5' satellite weighs in at 306kg and each 'V2 mini' weighs in at 800kg.

Phew! With all that out of the way, putting all that together ((20×800×22)+(2×306×50)), we arrive at a figure of 382,600kg. Uncannily, this is almost exactly the same as the figure reported in the graphic, ~~and of course there were a lot more Falcon 9 launches in the intervening period, leading me to believe the reported tonnage figure excludes Starlink satellites~~. See edit below.

This is all napkin maths done in the middle of the night, please feel free to (gently!) correct me if needed.

Inevitable correction: Q3 (as defined above) saw only one non-Starlink related Falcon 9 launch (source), therefore ~99.6% of reported tonnage was Starlink related!

[–] saze 3 points 11 months ago

These projectiles get more advanced and deadly by the day.

[–] saze 39 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Hot take but I blame gamers stuffing the pockets of these sort of publishers by lapping up early access and pre orders. It gives publishers no incentive whatsoever to change their ways because they still have the only thing they truly care about: money.

[–] saze 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Elaborate please. (the part about what Yemen is doing)

[–] saze 0 points 11 months ago
[–] saze 0 points 11 months ago

I was wondering when the braindead momo crowd would show up.

[–] saze 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] saze -3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

OK snowflake 😁

[–] saze 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

History began on October 7th and not one day before.

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