A machine purpose built to withstand bullets does well at withstanding bullets. We could still build them to withstand bullets, but as it turns out, being almost invisible to radar is better for the survival of the aircraft.
It's kind of like how when they started issuing helmets to soldiers, there was a sharp uptick in head injuries. Suddenly more soldiers were surviving getting hit in the head.
We've made it harder to detect aircraft, and the technology for bringing them down has advanced significantly. They're much less likely to be shot at, and what they're being shot with isn't something any aircraft will survive a fight with.
There's an interesting story of a tail gunner surviving a fall from 30k feet in the tail section of a B17. The aircraft kept a steady coarse long enough for one other tech to safely escape after it had been shot to hell and everyone else inside had died. Looking very much like this image, without the tail section. But the thing is, these aircraft required fighter escorts because the were essentially sitting ducks. They were big, slow behemoths and they had to send in swarms because half of them would be shot down before reaching the target.
To become more agile, the aircraft also had to become more unstable. Meaning the technology for controlling these aircraft had to get more delicate. But not being hit at all is still better than soaking up damage. Where 30 bombers were required before, a handful of stealth bombers, or even just one, can deploy ordinance and escape the mission area without ever being detected.
This image is of a caveman crushing a skull with a rock, saying the rock is built better than a pistol that jams occasionally.
It's simpler, it's effective, but it's not necessarily better.
Lawmakers don't know shit about fuck. Sometimes they have experts available they listen to. Otherwise it's whoever spends the most, who they're buddies with, or what just feels like it will jive with their base at the time.
He's running out of inexperienced engineers to burn through. He statedv early on that he wanted to create a surplus of engineers to drive down the cost.
That cost being, paying the engineers' salaries.
I work pretty closely with a lot of young engineers. My work brings them in as interns, hires them, but doesn't pay them very well and after 2 years we have new engineers because they've all found better jobs. Saturating the market with talent really hasn't worked out the way he wanted it to, because as it turns out that's nothing new.
So now he's gotta find a new way to pay engineers less.
Walmart is one of the largest welfare queens in the country. They profit off of poverty, and are actively incentivized to not only keep communities poor, but to make them poor.
Justunsubbed is mostly conservatives bitching about their hobbies moving left without them. I went through the list a few times to find subreddits I hadn't heard of, and found the communities they were bitching about to be universally less insufferable than the people at justunsubbed.
I have no issue sailing the seas, if I can't buy it an own it, then I don't see the problem in downloading it.
My mother hates Spotify and just wants to own her music and listen to like the 100 or so songs she likes, but absolutely cannot figure out how to buy them. She's not really technical and wouldn't pirate if she were.
It's all but impossible to purchase an mp3 anymore. Anywhere you can theoretically buy music does everything it can to lock you in to their ecosystem and prevent you from accessing your music outside of it.
First of all, Lemmy has a lot of users for whom English is a second language. So maybe don't be a jackass about correcting grammar.
Secondly, in case you happen to be in that group of people 'largest media company' in this context applies to their reach, and not to their actual size. They are 'large' because they have a large audience, generate a lot of revenue, and are worth a lot of money. LMG also comprises 10 different YouTube channels with maybe 10 billion views between them.
I would give this pill to a million Chinese and Russian dissidents.
Xi and Putin would just be constantly shitting. There would be no moment in any day for as long as they lived that they weren't shitting.