You do realize military personnel in Ukraine willing decided this was ok to release right? Do you think you are a better expert on this than they are?

Im so sad

Why do people think the majority or even a large percentage of people in the US at this point will die on the hill of their sexism and racism?

Some of those people exist but most people want to hear a politician speaking to real things, they don’t have the energy to engage in the degree of identity politics bullshit the DNC and DC class of pundits seem to think everyone does. Even if you are somewhat sexist or racist if someone is promising you well thought out cost of housing policy reforms at a certain point you have to look after your family and support it to keep a roof over your head.

Sure MAGA cultists won’t or at least won’t get caught doing it but that isn’t the point. It is about speaking to everyone else.

A woman can absolutely win the next presidential election, there is a good chance our best option is a woman. It comes down to how the next presidential candidate can speak to the issues that are crushing everyday people.

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Not a good idea.

I think Kamala got totally screwed over by Biden, I think there is a chance if he had stepped out earlier that she could have had more time to differentiate herself from Biden, but there just wasn’t enough time. A significant amount of voters didn’t even know Biden had dropped out it happened so late in the process.

That can be true along with the fact that Kamala is not the right candidate now and she won’t win. I say this as someone who criticized her heavily on certain issues but still voted for her because yeah Trump is a fascist.

Also… it isn’t because she is a woman it is because she doesn’t have a track record of being genuinely for everyday issues like housing, healthcare and genuinely progressive reform. There are better people for this moment. We need people like AOC, Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar etc…

We have a lot of amazing women in politics in the US right now all the way to nearly the highest levels of power, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton just aren’t the right people for the moment, it isn’t about them being women though yes the US is sexist as hell still.

I think russia will hold to it only because it is just another day to stock up shahed supply for a larger strike, but I still think there is a symbolic use to this and Ukraine isn’t going to be sitting still per say… so I actually think this might hold but it isn’t because I trust russia/putin’s word.

I hope this is a sign towards movement towards more negotiation, like actual negotiation not just slapping Ukraine in the face and trying to get Ukraine to give up things it cannot.

…because Slartibartfast didn’t hand design them like he did for earth?

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You ever check up on these cute and heartwearming stories about moms coming home and having a bunch of kids awhile later?

I lean in and after looking around with a paranoid expression whisper in your ear - They all end up dead in the creek, UPSTREAM from the waterfalls, something is fishy about this…

I think it would be best if the show was presented as a festival for podcasts with a string of live performances in a beautiful old theater. What you don’t tell the podcasters is these two will be in the wing loudly interrupting well you do technically tell them you just put it in the annoying small text at the bottom of the agreement they sign.

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I am sure there exists very highly trained russian air defense crews, I just think russia’s whole air defense strategy relies on them being technically real cryptids that one could encounter but probably won’t in a sea of barely trained crews on questionably working equipment.

I would argue russia was already too hopelessly committed to the russian/soviet tanks of the last several decades for an effort to wholesale replace russian tanks starting in the 2010s to ever work or experience enough broad based support to work.

The T-14 was just as much a problem for russia having forward thinking aspects of its design in that it pointed out how bad russian tanks actually are that aren’t T-14s.

Ok, so basically what you are saying is Android is “Open” in name only and that in practice it is functionally not open.

What happened was decades before drones were even a thing russia/the soviet union fucked over their own soldiers by doubling down on making tanks that aren’t actually tanks.

If a tank has a bunch of thick armor and yet a small explosive detonated on the turret can bypass all of that by setting off ammunition inside the tank so the tank becomes a pressure cooker… it isn’t really a main battle tank, it is a deathtrap.

For decades the soviet union and russia pretended this wasn’t the case and the impact has been massive on russian tank losses in the Ukraine War. Russia has stumbled so badly here I am pretty sure the russian society is convinced that they need to double down on their tank designs such as Turtle Tanks when what they really need is to throw them away and start from scratch.

It isn’t just about obsolete ineffective armor design, that can be rectified by producing new tanks, getting rid of obsolete and ineffective doctrine in a military on the otherhand? I am unconvinced russia will be able to do that for many years.

There is nothing free or open about Android, it only looks like it is when compared with iOS.

I agree but I think people are also missing that attack helicopters are already flying flak cannons.

Yes of course they will and very very occasionally it might even work.

A couple of things to note that analysts and journalists completely ignore.

First point, if you strap the MANPADS to a shahed you are 100% going to lose that manpads whether a target is found and succesfully engaged or not. Contrast this to giving the manpads to a soldier who can carry it around until the right moment and has a much better chance of not wasting it.

Another major issue, basic physics dictates that a larger fixed wing or rotary wing aircraft will always be able to carry more powerful sensors, jammers and equipment. While a shahed definitely gains some stealth by being small, it physically cannot carry anywhere near as long distance sensors and their fidelity will be inherently limited.

To put this another way, this is like someone looking at a Bat and a Mosquito and thinking there is no way the much bigger Bat could see the Mosquito coming, but the reality is the Bat carries far more long distance and high fidelity sensors than the Mosquito does.

How is the shahed going to detect a helicopter or airplane hunting it before the helicopter or airplane detects the shahed?

One typical answer people give is “a pilot watches a camera” which ok even a super nice camera (doubt the camera is that nice) is a million times worse than a platform with a suite of radar, FLIR, night vision and other sensors.

Another typical answer people give is that well the shaheds can mesh network… but that still leaves the issue of how does the first shahed that will send the message back to the missile carrying shahed detect and locate the helicopter or airplane first?

Yes most videos released are of a helicopter or aircraft flying very close to the shahed before destroying it, but note both helicopters and airplanes can carry longer distance missiles and they always have a choice of whether to close distance with the shahed or not, so this strategy entirely relies on baiting the enemy into using a lower cost counter than they have the capability of doing.

Yes, that will work every once in a blue moon, it isn’t a hard counter, not nearly to the degree people say it is primarily because everything is dependent upon Ukrainian pilots not being careful which is just not a winning strategy.

Something to keep in mind, a dumb, hard to see shahed/lucas drone with limited sensors is most useful when flying as part of a pack with larger more capable platforms that actually can give the dumber more expendable UAV instructions so it can punch above its weight on the battlefield. To put it another way, the best way to leverage a shahed type platform is to have them surround high value manned aircraft platforms that serve as drone swarm directors.

The good news about this is it means russia does not have the functional aviation industry base left to properly take advantage of the platform they rely the most on whereas Ukraine is rapidly expanding their capacity to maximally leverage their cheap expendable flying bombs.