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Good point actually. Though light as they are (for ships) you've still got a lot of momentum behind a proper ramming attack. 47 tonnes is a quite a bit of mass. But I suspect you are right that it would take at minimum an extremely solid hit to do heavy damage if that.

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Thats my thought. Just too much firepower to charge frontally into.

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This is a direct attack on Chicago. I'll allow it.

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While maneuver to assault seems to be slowly coming back i don't think anything is going to happen fast. The kind of follow on logistics you need to go from advance to breakthrough are even more heavily impacted by the transparent battlefield than assault elements.

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I've said it before but any and all news stories about me would include the phrase "this reclusive billionaire" and would be about the life size flyable replica of the millennium falcon I'm trying to build.

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So when do we send in the USAF? Not that I wasn't already radicalized but this shit is making me into a level of war hawk that would embarrass John Bolton.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Midwest is a dark and dangerous place, fair.

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back of the envelope math: a ship of the line was 100 times* more expensive than a trireme leading to the obvious question, could 100 triremes take a ship of the line?

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I have opinions, let me tell you.

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Wouldn't fit, triremes are smaller than a SotL but not that much smaller. You could fit maybe 3-4 a side at once, optimistically. Possibly less, gotta leave room for the oars and potential maneuver.

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Do we have any engagement data from Peter the Great's galley fleet in the baltic? I know the Russians toyed with this but the plan was mostly to take advantage of shoal water and not fight SotL at all if you could.

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On my train to work or I'd find the citation for that number from my copy of "Command of the Ocean"

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You can't fit that many of them in the physical space at once, they can't all attack simultaneously simply because there's not enough room. And if we're talking the royal navy the highest recorded rate of fire of a Napoleonic era RN ship (burst, not sustainable) is something like 3 rounds/min.

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If only because it can kite the triremes indefinitely and force them to close from one direction.

They'd probably want to ram to put a hole under the waterline rather than try to climb up the side of the much taller ship, but that requires giving the SotL a clear shot lengthwise down your rowing benches and ships of the line were durable. Would take more than one hit probably.

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Yeah, galleys are very fragile and ships of the line were provisioned to fire at least one round/gun every 5 minutes or so for the kind of multi hour slugging match big 18th century naval battles turned into. Maybe not a one hit kill, but 3-4 rounds would likely be enough.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 22h

Theres a small version of this at Lepanto, the Spanish Galleons they brought along were basically untouchable. Of course those valleys had gunpowder and there were fewer of them.

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I think on some level the solution is just going to be to wait it out. Vibes aren't permanent, even with social media pushing on the scale.

florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah it came up with my wife and i pre-kid in a "maybe we're both into this?" way and then she got pregnant and it rapidly got shelved because Jesus, who has the time.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Some people who agree with you are actually psychotic" is like *the* core lesson of politics on the internet and anyone who hasn't learned it yet is either new here or doesn't *want* to learn it.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hmm, my wife had something similar going on

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This has been tried to various degrees and hasn't worked, and Palestinians don't even want it.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No argument there, but I still think I prefer that version over naked brutish fascism. It's good when they feel like they need to pretend.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The degree to which conservatives are actively polarizing against all possible virtues is fascinating.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 06/10/2026

I think there are worse ways describe our immigration system than “in the 60s we managed to overcome the white supremacist goals of the old system, and the compromise we struck was ‘only let in ‘the deserving’ ones’, and this too has been under relentless attack from reactionaries since we did it”.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, pre-kid it was perfect, with the kid it's still great as long as we're not all trying to road trip together

florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The c version is a touch too small for a big carseat, it makes the passenger squish themselves to fit. But thats at the very small end

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Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

problematic human Gritty

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Stalin used to do it that way too.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's pretty clear that the party has a hard time winning without his group of habitual nonvoters and ability to appeal specifically to low info independents. He's literally the Obama of stupid people.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to fault the marketing folks unfortunately, clearly that's a rich cultural vein to tap.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Inertia and diffused responsibility, just an awful combo

florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On some level, yes, but the fact that zionism is arguably more justified than a number of others doesn't really resolve the core contradiction between liberalism and ethnic nationalism. Its also unclear to me that having a state is really a long term safeguard against annihilation.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gotta say the more I think about it the less certain I am that we can sever the link between 19th century nationalism and racism, but I'll admit I've been radicalized into being more strongly liberal than I used to be by *waves arms*

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mean, you can do that, but maybe unplug the ethernet and disable the wifi card if you're gonna. You know, basic internet safety.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If they lose it cements his power over them in his mind, because he won.

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florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not disagreeing, im just saying that using firing squads, as barbaric as that is, would be an actual improvement and would make it so we can't pretend it's not barbaric