CBJSprague24 posted:

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1741776296017805437?t=w_LdJ0tmevYxVy_lqSHNlg&s=19

Tythas posted:

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I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, “we’re gonna use magnets!” to lift up the elevators with seven planes. We need them fast, these massive elevators. They used magnets, they wanted to try it for the first time. This was a ship that was supposed to cost 2.5 billion, it cost 19 billion and didn’t work, and still doesn’t work right.

They had a $900 million cost over on these stupid electric catapults that didn’t work. They had almost a billion dollar cost over on the magnetic elevators. Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. Why didn’t they use John Deere? Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere.

pseudosavior posted:

It amazes me that we spend $800+ billion a year on 'defense', but our actual equipment is just as ancient, grizzled, and broken-down as our politicians are.

facialimpediment posted:

good thing the DNC isn't really a functional thing that exists outside of an extension of the Biden campaign

if you're going to do the doomer thing, please doomer correctly

Edit: mainly this is my frustration with the concept of the DNC as this all-powerful thing when it's loving nothing

CBJSprague24 posted:

Lose, and he kicks and screams and gets a bunch more illiterate, uneducated rednecks thrown in prison for continuing to pout that he's a loser.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

It’s aged like a fine 15 year old Brie. 15 years, as in how old YT is while the author openly muses about her loving the late 30’s Hiro Protagonist.

It’s a mess of a book. But it also contains certain nerd shibboleths and touchstones that make it hard to just outright 1:1 dismiss entirely.

Google Earth?
Central Intelligence Corporations “Earth”
The Metaverse?
The literal loving metaverse.
Terminal Capitalism?
The main character is a Hacker that does literally no hacking/Pizza delivery driver with no car. If that’s not prescient it’s close enough to our lived reality to seem both more and less insane than this did in 1992.

Neuromancer > Snow Crash all day every day, but you can’t completely ignore snow crash. You don’t have to like it, but it’s quickly becoming Old Testament poo poo for nerds of a certain age and almost every billionaire in America is a nerd.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

A very awfully written, very frozen in time satire that billionaire doom cultist nerds whack it to.

Like I said, it’s not everything, but it’s not nothing.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Cryptonomicon is actually his favorite book of mine.

So yeah on the one hand there’s cryptonomicon, on all the other hands is Elon Musk.

facialimpediment posted:

You know that circumstance when someone's car is clearly hosed up, but they don't know it, and you have to drive past them really fast and start waving for them to pull over?

Don't think you can do that here without a fighter jet.

https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1748355382303453692?t=U_Y7gT-_ZdbukdJJVoHTyg&s=19

stealie72 posted:

Did any serious person not think that's exactly what was going to happen?

OddObserver posted:

No one ever remembers McKinley.

not caring here posted:

Yeah, if the spicy stuff works for you and you don't have any addiction problems, it's silly not to keep the spares around. hosed up tooth, broken bone, can't immediately get to a doctor? Oh yes please, mister oxy, I would like to not drive myself mad with pain and possibly make my condition worse.

facialimpediment posted:

it appears that a CIWS got to fire shots in anger yesterday

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/us-warship-close-call-houthi-missile/index.html