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Cake day: January 18th, 2024

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  • The problem the US has is that they’re not adapting fast enough to the drone warfare present, because defense contracts are decided by a committee that’s just trying to line its own pockets.

    They have a basically infinite budget though and they may be behind now, but they sure as shit know how bounce to the top quickly when it comes to inventing new ways to make others suffer.

    The US armed forces will eventually get deployable drone swarms too big and advanced to either defend against or penetrate through with other drones, and the cat-mouse game continues.

    God forbid they stop making aircraft carriers that can launch 30 hornets and start making ones that launch 100.000 rc fireworks from hell






  • US is not by any means as authoritarian as China.

    To achieve that, the US would need a government that controls mass media, kills people just for protesting, disappearing enemies of the government in remote prison camps with no oversight or accountability, have mass surveillance everywhere, make books illegal, demonstrably suppress all ethnic minorities, threaten religious leaders for speaking ill of the government…

    All run by a hardline government that has a strongman leader that people respect and a cabinet full of loyalists with competence in the task they’re assigned.

    Once the US achieves that last bit, THEN they’ll be as authoritarian as China.






  • I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.

    It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.

    My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.

    I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.