Damnit. I hate when my local city government’s finances are too fucked to pay the energy bill, but still have money for military weapons procurement.
Wait a minute…local city governments are able to purchase air launched cruise missiles and anti-tank weapons!!! And they can export them to!!!
Dude I think you might be into something, that is pretty wild…makes you wonder what the dog catcher is really up to… probably moonlights with gig economy wetwork.
I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:
“I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”
That’s somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.
Butterymales vibes.
Also, Trump isn’t the President. So whatever he may, or may not do, is hypothetical… It’s also irrelevant to what Biden is actually doing…you know, because he’s the current president…
This is mostly just public posturing and open diplomatic signaling.
Nuclear weapon submarines are always deployed, and have been since the advent of the Nuclear triad.
That’s as true for America, as it is for China, Russia, UK, etc. Basically every county with both nuclear weapons and a capable submarine platform/program.
There’s a lot more to sovereign monetary policy than currency exchange rates, such as the capital controls being exercised here
Awesome. Truly spectacular.
Generative AI is so energy intensive ($$$), that Google is requiring users subscribe to Gemini.
Google is entirely dependent on advertising sales. Ad revenue subsidizes literally everything else, from Android development to whichever 8-12 products and services they launch and subsequently cancel each year.
Now, Google wants to remove web results and just use generative AI instead of search as it’s default user interface.
So, like I said: Awesome.
You are leaving out the historical context of hyper violent insane independent action for honor mindset of the soldiers within the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy (IJA/IJN).
This culture of insubordination included a widespread belief that they did not to have obey civilian commands, and is largely responsible for ground level soldiers deciding on their own to kick off the war in Manchuria.
It’s entirely reasonable to envision a counterfactual version where either one of, or both the IJA and IJN refuse to surrender, or even just large contingents within either.
I’m not saying this to invalidate anything you’ve said, but I do think it’s highly relevant context when considering any alternative ways that could have gone.
Look, the worst that could happen is that he murders you, but honestly, he probably won’t.
It’s more likey he’ll probably just wear you down emotionally until you support him financially, while he stays at home and takes out credit cards under your name.
On the plus side, I bet he’ll fuck like a racehorse on the rare days when he isn’t too dipped, or shit faced.
Edit: Just noticed you added that he’s a veteran with PTSD, and yes, that changes my answer: he will probably murder you.
Not just because he’s a veteran with PTSD, but because he’s clearly a massively damaged and dangerous person AND has war trauma.
Most likely outcome: strangulation.
Interceptors haven’t been a thing since the cold war. BVR engagements have been the air to air norm for many years, and that requires a weapons grade targeting lock.
No, my assertion is that airspace is very dynamic battlefield.
Just because you can track a possible stealth aircraft several hundred nautical miles off you’re coast, does not guarantee your ability to intercept it with aircraft before it drops it’s payload, or that your SAM sites will be able to get a missile targeting lock.
It’s just a first step.
Your second sentence is mostly accurate, your first is not.
Just because tracking radar identifies something, does not mean it’s automatically vulnerable to interception, and it definitely does not guarantee that targeting radar will be able to create a missile, or weapons, lock.
But yes, the ability to track something is a critical first step in an anti-air kill chain.
Radar detection is not the same as weapons grade lock for anti-aircraft targeting purposes. Still helpful to know something is there, but the article doesn’t provide any additional information on how actionable that information will be.
Exactly. There’s no way that could ever go tits up.
You might want to start with a lease, with the option to buy out, or trade-in, after the original terms are up.
Ship building and shell production are on the polar opposite ends of time requirements for industrial capacity building…the fact that you used ship building as an example here makes me wonder if you’re being intentionally disingenuous…
Also, you don’t seem to understand how these funding programs actually work if you think this is being allocated to build out Ukrainian domestic production capacity.
Munition factories aren’t typically outsourced, but a lot were decommissioned after the Cold War ended. That problem is especially acute within European NATO member states.
But, in the context of NATO, as a whole, just supplying Ukraine for their existing conflict, production isn’t the limiting factor.
Industrial production is not a significant issue the collective West has within the context of supplying Ukraine armaments and ammunition.
The issue is a lack of, or decline in, domestic political capital in key member states, cohesive unified policy, and a long term strategy.
Now, if the United States was completely removed from the equation, then industrial production capacity constraints, especially around munitions, may become a real issue.
That… actually sounds pretty plausible.
VPNs don’t prevent tracking, especially when you’re logging into services.
They can help obfuscate your identity to varying degrees, but honestly this is a pretty odd decision. I’m guessing it has more to do with malicious activity, or some other type of activities that Reddit is trying to curtail, and they feel blocking VPN IP ranges will help them.
It’s just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some levels, a buy-in on the media’s relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.
Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but…wait, I won’t they’re horrible.
However, Iran’s theocracy is far less insidious then the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it’s better by default?
Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there’s that caveat as well.