Don't be rediculous. How could the Dakotas possibly put aside their differences and merge into one big Dakota? Because some kid wished for it on a couple fairies or something?
people don't understand that the DOD has had decades to create op plans for damned near every potential situation. so fuck yeah idaho, but also, florida or oklahoma rebelling, vermont being taken over by genetically modified bears, or even people in Nevada waking up and suddenly realizing they live in a godforsaken hell hole. There's a plan for them all.
They literally were at some point hiring non fiction writers to come up with scenarios. The DOD has 'legitimate' 'playbooks' for alien invasions, wakanda's and even super people. There is surely mostly grounded in reality scenarios but the out there ones are the most fun to consider is being taken seriously. I like the genetically engineered bears one haha
Do they also have a plan in case a portal opens in Ohio and fantasy invaders come from within and start killing civilians and pillaging before we counterattack and spread freedom and democracy across the magical empire?
sounds like a chapter from Dungeon Crawler Carl. And no, we're not prepared for that at all, like Clarke said, the technological disparity is so great, it may as well be magic.
In the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, there is a nexus of demonic activity massed around a Hellmouth. A Hellmouth is a literal opening in the Earth to Hell. There is the primary one in Sunnyvale, California. That's where the show takes place. Later on in the seasons that a second one exists in Cleveland, Ohio. This is factually accurate to Cleveland and I will take no questions lol.
They make the plan as a training exercise, not something they actually think will happen, but if they ask a new planner to plan a war with China he's probably thought a lot about it and you learn more about what plans he's read than what unique and out of the box thinking he has, if you ask him to make plans for zombie outbreak or idaho rebelling or an alien invasion in Montana you get unique answers, so they have thousands of plans that no one ever reads again but it's less competence and more " 1999 q4 training exercise"
Are you saying competent military planners are concerned with the sudden disappearance of Idaho, and also think the biggest problem that would cause is that the flag wouldn't correctly represent the country anymore? It's plans for the things that actually do happen (or almost happen) that are few and far between.
vastly overestimating the competence of the people
oh homey. tsk. you've mistaken 'doing some planning' for 'competent planning' and (critically) PREPARING for idaho to evaporate suddenly. Trust me, books of PLANS we have. Plans we have prepared for, prepositioning potato supplies, figuring out where we can outsource our hyperchristian conservative militia types - you know, idaho things - no, we haven't done that. There's planning, and there's preparation. One requires a few flag grade officers to pontificate and argue, and some field grade officers to type for them.
The other requires logistical competence, funding, training, and careful analysis. We don't do a lot of the other.
Idaho is like that one planet from Star Trek that is out of phase with the rest of the universe and is only physically there for a few hundred years before it shifts back out. We are close to a phase shift.
the planet in tng, basically advanced cloaked from the rest of the galaxy or the delta quadrant planet that is out of sync of time with the rest of the galaxy.
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ceenote@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 288d
What if North and South Dakota finally resolve their differences and unite into a single Megadakota? Do they have a flag for that?
Speculater@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 288d
They'd just finally give DC representation to correct the balance.
Hikermick@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 287d
Way simpler than having to replace a lot of flags
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
They can take west Dakota with them as MT becomes only mountains.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 10 pts · 288d
Grandakota
espentan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 288d
The less temperate Grand Canaria
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 287d
Don't be rediculous. How could the Dakotas possibly put aside their differences and merge into one big Dakota? Because some kid wished for it on a couple fairies or something?
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 287d
Mega? Put together they're barely a Phoenix Arizona. Each one alone is the size of San Francisco
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 287d
or west virginia and virginia combines to form "virginia combine
pentastarm@piefed.ca · 37 pts · 288d
kingofras@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
It’s what you end up saying if you have so much funding you have to give it to the Dwight Schrutes to come up with anything. Anything at all.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 287d
people don't understand that the DOD has had decades to create op plans for damned near every potential situation. so fuck yeah idaho, but also, florida or oklahoma rebelling, vermont being taken over by genetically modified bears, or even people in Nevada waking up and suddenly realizing they live in a godforsaken hell hole. There's a plan for them all.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 287d
They literally were at some point hiring non fiction writers to come up with scenarios. The DOD has 'legitimate' 'playbooks' for alien invasions, wakanda's and even super people. There is surely mostly grounded in reality scenarios but the out there ones are the most fun to consider is being taken seriously. I like the genetically engineered bears one haha
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 287d
The issue is that they stop sucking and cause Texas to fall into the Gulf of Mexico.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
I'd miss the food...
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 287d
or the gulf of mexico encroaches on texas.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 286d
That's basically how the Laguna Madre and the barrier islands came to be.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 286d
soon florida, lousiana will also be one with the gulf.
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
Do they also have a plan in case a portal opens in Ohio and fantasy invaders come from within and start killing civilians and pillaging before we counterattack and spread freedom and democracy across the magical empire?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 287d
sounds like a chapter from Dungeon Crawler Carl. And no, we're not prepared for that at all, like Clarke said, the technological disparity is so great, it may as well be magic.
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
It's just fireballs and shit, elves, Orcs, backwards humans and some big ass dragons perhaps. Nothing we can't annihilate from afar.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 287d
a little to west, in cheyenne mountains.
InevitableWaffles@midwest.social · 1 pts · 287d
You mean the other Hellmouth?
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
What's a hellmouth?
InevitableWaffles@midwest.social · 1 pts · 287d
In the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, there is a nexus of demonic activity massed around a Hellmouth. A Hellmouth is a literal opening in the Earth to Hell. There is the primary one in Sunnyvale, California. That's where the show takes place. Later on in the seasons that a second one exists in Cleveland, Ohio. This is factually accurate to Cleveland and I will take no questions lol.
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
Oh, a portal to a dimension with infinite energy. More fuel for our progress :)
InevitableWaffles@midwest.social · 1 pts · 287d
Found the Samuel Hayden.
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 286d
Demons and angels are just food for humans
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 287d
I think you're vastly overestimating the competence of the people that have been working for the DOD all those decades
selfAwareCoder@programming.dev · 2 pts · 287d
They make the plan as a training exercise, not something they actually think will happen, but if they ask a new planner to plan a war with China he's probably thought a lot about it and you learn more about what plans he's read than what unique and out of the box thinking he has, if you ask him to make plans for zombie outbreak or idaho rebelling or an alien invasion in Montana you get unique answers, so they have thousands of plans that no one ever reads again but it's less competence and more " 1999 q4 training exercise"
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
Are you saying competent military planners are concerned with the sudden disappearance of Idaho, and also think the biggest problem that would cause is that the flag wouldn't correctly represent the country anymore? It's plans for the things that actually do happen (or almost happen) that are few and far between.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
oh homey. tsk. you've mistaken 'doing some planning' for 'competent planning' and (critically) PREPARING for idaho to evaporate suddenly. Trust me, books of PLANS we have. Plans we have prepared for, prepositioning potato supplies, figuring out where we can outsource our hyperchristian conservative militia types - you know, idaho things - no, we haven't done that. There's planning, and there's preparation. One requires a few flag grade officers to pontificate and argue, and some field grade officers to type for them.
The other requires logistical competence, funding, training, and careful analysis. We don't do a lot of the other.
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 288d
The Idaho Initiative is merely a smokescreen, hiding their intentions for Ohio.
What they don't know is that Ohio has its own plans.
forrgott@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 288d
Really? You expect me to believe Ohio plans anything?? 🤣
BakerBagel@midwest.social · 3 pts · 288d
Yeah, i plan on getting some Skyline chili on my way home from the Buckeye game this Saturday
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
As a fellow Ohioan I am appalled, Wendy's has better chili.
BakerBagel@midwest.social · 3 pts · 288d
I don't eat Skyline because it's good. I eat it because I'm depressed
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
Damn, skyline chili depressed is deep. Sending a digital hug, and would love to cook you some good chili sometime lol.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
They plan their next meth or Fenty fix.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 287d
‘We give Ohio way too much power’
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 288d
1984@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 288d
Appearently idaho is one of the most conservative states in America and is one of the largest potato producing regions in the world.
I was just looking for reasons for it to disappear. Trump likes potatoes?
Also has a massive nuclear research center.... Hmm.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 288d
Not just conservative, but far-right white supremacists.
mech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 286d
po-ta-to
Madison420@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 287d
Prison potatos.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/sep/10/inmates-harvest-record-yield-prison-farm-food-bank/
Idaho has a crazy amount of farm prisons.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 287d
idaho is the forefront of white supremecist movement, nobody would notice if it was suddenly gone.
pyre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 287d
i don't think anyone has really confirmed it even exists. people just take it for granted, but have you seen Idaho firsthand?
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 287d
I mean, I have.
pyre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 287d
classic government plant "hey fellow citizens, Idaho is totes real amirite?" i wasn't born yesterday
PugJesus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 287d
I'm sorry to hear you had to go through that 😔
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 287d
So am I. Though the snake river is beautiful.
reptar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
Oregon trail ptsd
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 286d
all i see is a field of potatoes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 287d
Idaho is like that one planet from Star Trek that is out of phase with the rest of the universe and is only physically there for a few hundred years before it shifts back out. We are close to a phase shift.
Source: My mom was from Idaho.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 287d
thank goodness, I'm tired of all their sick people clogging up the hospitals in WA and OR.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 287d
the planet in tng, basically advanced cloaked from the rest of the galaxy or the delta quadrant planet that is out of sync of time with the rest of the galaxy.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 287d
You've heard of the Greater Idaho Movement, get ready gor the Lesser Idaho Movement
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 287d
They’re gonna give Russia Alaska
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blitzen@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 288d
Just make DC state. Voila! Same flag.
dondelelcaro@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 287d
Does he have something against 1959 when the US had a 49 star flag before Hawaii became a state?
null@piefed.nullspace.lol · 4 pts · 288d
Wait a minute... idaho backwards is ohadi...
webp@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 287d
Wait a minute...
ohadi
ohad
oha
oh
o
or
ore
oreg
orego
oregon
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 287d
I say we nuke the place from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social · 4 pts · 288d