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  • there's a couple of big failures in american defense industry (like shipbuilding) but F35 is not one of them. the alleged killswitch is not likely a thing because first, it could be used by the most probable adversary, and they already shown capability in EW; and second, it's not necessary because it requires constant stream of spare parts and maintenance. as if it's worth it, ask any remaining iranian radar operator for firsthand opinion

    some countries switched to euro made jets anyway, but these aren't likely to be doing the job that F35 is cut to do anyway (SEAD)

    there's already euro alternative in development, for which americans were explicitly not invited (GCAP, FCAS). there's also the everything else part of military, half of euro countries make now artillery (both tube and rocket) so these can be bought locally too

  • it's not listed because this is not what is happening

    italy for example put bridge construction in that military budget (as critical infrastructure)

    also the subtext was "spend that defense budget in america" and this is not happening either for variety of reasons, so it's partial failure already for them

  • this is about exactly what you can expect from a man whose approach to science is take a phenomenon -> think about it really, really hard -> just know how it works and have an answer (without checking if it's correct or not, he already thinks he figured it out and won't change opinion ever even in the face of contrary evidence)

  • that ai cult also doubles as a get smart quick scheme

  • you're right, he couldn't be high school dropout because he never attended high school. he went to normal schools before that allegedly, but 8th grade broke him

  • yeah all while being a high school dropout he never went to high school

  • hyperloop was a fever dream cooked specifically to kill californian high speed rail, so this one worked

    ah yes, major effects of crypto: it brought new innovative ways of money laundering, sanctions evasion and ransomware, and chatbots can give you psychosis and/or noninvasive lobotomy

  • No, fusion research is just paper thin disguise for thermonuclear weapons research, so this will get funding no matter what. I mean here especially things going on in places like Z-machine, Laser Megajoule, NIF and such but not only these

  • These things haven't been able to factor 35 so far, despite decades of development

  • you people see that's another buzzword? this is set up by a handful of credulous tech journalists to be a new bubble after ai bubble falters. exactly the same way when grifters jumped from crypto to ai (some with metaverse along the way)

  • Horseshit. USAF doesn't need AIM-7 Sparrow or MIM-23 Hawk missiles, these aren't even in service anymore. But Ukraine can use these (Hawk missiles can be used on Buk launchers)

  • maybe check from openai didn't clear

  • well it's spacecraft, not aircraft, duh

  • they were still a party to NPT the entire time, and they didn't meet obligations of that treaty for over 20 years. NPT also includes inspections by IAEA

    say what you want, they can't unbomb Fordow so any discussions about future iranian nuclear program are pointless

  • ah yes, the completely civilian nuclear program that for last month+ was busy using up 5% enriched uranium (on upper range of enrichment in normal reactors) and 20% (usual in research reactors) to get 60% enriched uranium (no civilian applications)

  • neither. the same kind of propaganda activity targeted at iranian internal audience like after assassination of qasem soleimani. like in 2020, it's pretty obvious that trump takes this offramp

    but also, this time international response is wildly different

    in 2020: UK and Qatar called for deescalation, Saudis said they stand with Iraq, Turkey offered diplomatic support for deescalation

    today, Saudis, UAE, Qatar (obviously), Bahrain, Kuwait, (countries directly impacted) but also Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen (Aden) and Palestinian Authority all condemned Iranian strikes

    today also iranian proxies are much weaker, and we already know how incompetent their air defences were

  • if it's permanently installed high power device, it only makes sense to wire it directly, like it's done with ovens, and EV charger draws even more power. why there's even plug on the way there? it's not gonna be moved anyway. and while we're at, why you people don't have three phase circuits for big loads like this? standard euro five wire three phase 32A circuit (or plug) gets you 22kW, that plug tops off at 9kW

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  • 80000 hours are the same cultists from lesswrong/EA that believe singularity any time now and they're also the core of people trying to build their imagined machine god in openai and anthropic

    it's all very much expected. verbose nonsense is their speciality and they did that way before time when chatbots were a thing