In a really twisted sort of way, it shows how a country can make really smart moves (social media war/propaganda, Hormuz choke point, etc) once your elderly leaders are removed (in this case, by bombs).

I wanted to say, “No, instead the police simply won’t wait before starting the shooting” but tbh, they already do that. Every interaction will be a Renee Good or Alex Pretti.

And that’s why we were all legitimately worried that he’d try to nuke Iran.

Content warning: needless uninvited pedantry ahead

Trump acts like a toddler. And any parent can tell you that predicting the inevitably dumb behavior of your toddler isn’t rocket science.

He’s so predictably stupid and selfish that most of the time, everyone else but him knows what he’s doing. It’s a fun meme but I think the reality is the opposite.

To be fair, China isn’t very good at communism and the US isn’t very good at capitalism.

China has way too many billionaires. And the US isn’t a well regulated, free market.

I’ve sometimes thought that WW2 flak cannons (~artillery) with a programmable fuse (set immediately before “launch” by radar) could be effective. You would get longer range than C-RAM or laser and artillery shells are cheap. Shahed/Gerans are not particularly fast or durable. It wouldn’t take much to make it fall out of the sky: close enough is good enough.

Again, this particular DIY radar has no application in Ukraine. It does not have a 50+km range (10km). It can not direct or interface with an interceptor missile, of any kind, to shoot down TBMs, Shaheds, etc. The critical issue really is how many interceptor missiles Ukraine has and far less about janky early-warning radar coverage.

Acoustics are used for FPVs, which have a tiny radar cross section and can fly at tree top altitude or lower. A basic/crude DIY radar would not be effective there and at $12,000 vs $Free, acoustics win hands down for FPVs. The Gepards (AA gun) have their own onboard radar already for cruise missiles/shaheds. No one is proposing or expecting acoustics to track missiles or bombs. These are two very different problems.

The Russian Navy stays way, way the hell away from the Ukraine coast these days. The drone-boat bombs have them running scared. Even Sevastopol in Crimea is too risky.

This doesn’t have any practical application in Ukraine.

Ukraine detects FPV drones with numerous distributed and networked microphone/acoustic sensors. You’re not going to get any cheaper than a used phone paired with a $2 USB solar panel.

The larger Shahed/Geran and above stuff isn’t limited by radar detection. What they need are cheap interceptors to deal with swarm attacks.

“I’m not here because it’s the right thing to do. I’m here because I expect to get something out of it.”

The minute the deal doesn’t look good, they drop you like a sack of bricks. It happens in ever facet of how they act.

I think I’m gonna need more proof on this one. Not just one guy that works in an office who attached an image in an email.

It’s kinda got all the classic markers. Superbly outlandish yet just believable enough. Confirms everyone’s preexisting beliefs.

They are closing the labs where the work is happening. You can’t just throw your experiment in the back seat of your car and drive to Colorado.

And how can you centralize research when so much of it is location specific? It’s costs more money to fund “off site” long distance research on a temporary basis versus having something local and long term.

The “ghost gun” 3D printing laws going around had me thinking about “ghost drones”. I think a lot of the NDAA and FAA noise around drones is an attempt to gain control over domestic drone use. They’re criminalizing flying a drone within 1km of ICE activities - which is impossible to know or avoid.

But you don’t need an expensive flight controller, fancy ESC, or even brushless motors to get your basic drone in the air. An esp32, some mosfets, servos (for a wing), and brushed motors will get the job done. Will it compete in multiGP? Hell no. But it’ll fly and it’ll cost like $15.

Please submit your driver’s license for age verification.

If you read the article though, it’s not as simple as being dissolved. They’re just massively reorganizing how it’s run so it’s dysfunctional and the original mission is lost. They’re letting states (industry) have dominating access and control over USFS policies and shutting down long running and irreplaceable research projects. Like RFK’s CDC, if you stop testing and gathering facts, you can then justify any policy you want.

its the (nearly?) richest country

Not at this rate.

Instead of a convertible, we get a lame attempt at a metaverse and VR goggles?

One less person saying “no” to a land invasion of Iran :(

Yeah, I hear ya. I can’t watch Jon, Colbert, or any comedian really because it’s all too depressing. Before, you had this naive assumption that it’ll get fixed eventually. The “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”, blah blah blah. I don’t know if Dr King knew just how long he was talking about.

Since this is Lemmy, I can’t tell if you’re talking Meta/X or EFF and Jon…

As opposed to what? Under your mattress? Gold? Real estate? Foreign exchanges are a joke compared to NYSE.

Even in a collapse, SP is still your best hope. And that’s also why the market doesn’t react much anymore to doomscrolling news: there aren’t any real alternatives.