antiship killchain doomers on suicide watch, only thing left to cope about is the amount of cloud cover in the red sea

nobodys lathing shit until i get my kv2bvm done, the turtle tanks are so close but theyre not quite doing it for me

i just wanted to point out that an exaggerated taiwanese accent is generally perceived to be more effeminate to your average mainlander. so their son was not in any danger of sounding like a hillbilly, at worst people might think he was gay or fem

is hovering a requirement? i thought most fpvs delegate target acquisition to other platforms

also it seemed to me that most strikes are on relatively slow vehicles moving in predictable directions and static emplacements, didnt feel like agility was a high priority

wonder why rotary drones are still so prevalent for payload delivery

i bet fixed wing could probably do better load/range/complexity/speed in exchange for needing a guy to hump around some kind of a launch system and some restraints on launch area

polish agricultural lobby playing 5d chess the entire time sending weapons to ukraine in hopes of pissing off the russians such that they steamroll everything east of lviv

because no one in the factory has ever used a linux machine and the none of the engineers want to be the go to hand holding guy when your prototype inevitably shits itself so they just use windows and hope that its one less thing to have to worry about.

its about convenience, perceived or otherwise. nobody gets paid enough to care about the politics or the tech

big reason they use windows is because a lot of front line workers dont understand computers and windows is still the least annoying os to use at least for those people

like yeah 10 and 11 are mostly shit but it beats having to teach the vocational school grad (who doesnt know english) basic bash commands just to do shit he already knows how to do in windows

there is also the fact that junior chinese programmers are more familiar with windows in general and that plays a part, but its mostly for troubleshooting convenience

this pretty much. if anyone took a survey of how many manchu nobles are still rich despite all the shit that happened in the entire past century i'd put money on the number being upwards of ~80%

going off completely unsubstantiated folk sayings, it takes around 3 generations of failsons to destroy a family's wealth

i choose to interpret this as an approximation of the half life of personal wealth under about the worst conditions possible (my made up justification being that most social structures are more vulnerable to internal risks rather than external, see: every empire in history), so given this it would make sense that accumulated wealth will not instantly evaporate to baseline when exposed to mere adverse external pressures. also, like, the sheer amount of wealth hoarded by feudal ruling class people probably would take way more than 3 generations of failsons and a cultural revolution to reduce down to pleb level in absolute terms.

US is aimlessly flailing, they can't dollarize anything with high interest rates since all the money they pump out just gets sucked right back in instead of infesting the host countries and growing to maturity as it did with past cycles. in any case, i'd imagine any country that does get dollarized can probably just go the china route in the future and have china dump some more tbills to patch over however much debt got grown in the meantime

they're trying to sow and reap at the same time currently and while it's not the end of empire, it probably won't provide the results they're looking for

as i said before, so long as brandon doesn't do something extremely funny before the elections, this cycle is probably a wash. one to look out for will be the next one

energized them all

children of a dead earth

you could probably play this game for heat transfer and intermediate aerodynamics lab credit

jpy's been getting btfo past couple weeks, did not expect american satrapies to get cannibalized this quickly lol

honestly woulda gone with sk first since its basically a lost cause in the event of anything kinetic but whatever

i could see israel having a failed plan a considering the limp dick response but nukes and shot down f35s are a bit too tom clancy

meanwhile the libs:

by compradors, for compradors

even something dumb like taiping 2.0 woulda gotten more traction

normally i hate this kind of white room nerdlording, but in all cynicism, the widely broadcast and exceedingly graphic genocide of 33k civilians in the geostrategic backwater of palestine has netted us 1 aaron bushnell.

discounting the fact that nuclear genocide of the chinese would not be nearly so publicized nor evocative given their status as a peer competitor and ideological enemy (not to mention the means of extermination), in the current best case scenario we'd have 42k bushnells for 1.4b chinese.

42k is not a small number by any means, but i am uncertain of the effectiveness of such a group given that their only trump card is being white while their opponent is a regime that just glassed an entire country.

edit: maybe 82k actually, i remembered that one lady in atlanta

sometimes it feels like the only difference between barbarism and civilization is what lies between negative and positive incentives

it would be celebrated, valorized and enshrined as the capstone achievement of the american experiment within 3 generations

so long as the idea of america persists, any criticism of it will be met with 'at least we got all the removed'