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Damnit. I hate when my local city government’s finances are too fucked to pay the energy bill, but still have money for military weapons procurement.

Wait a minute…local city governments are able to purchase air launched cruise missiles and anti-tank weapons!!! And they can export them to!!!

Dude I think you might be onto something, that is pretty wild…makes you wonder what the dog catcher is really up to… probably moonlights with gig economy wetwork.

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lol.

Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

Customer pays

Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.

Butterymales vibes.

Also, Trump isn’t the President. So whatever he may, or may not do, is hypothetical… It’s also irrelevant to what Biden is actually doing…you know, because he’s the current president…

This is mostly just public posturing and open diplomatic signaling.

Nuclear weapon submarines are always deployed, and have been since the advent of the Nuclear triad.

That’s as true for America, as it is for China, Russia, UK, etc. Basically every county with both nuclear weapons and a capable submarine platform/program.

Great read, thanks for sharing.

FYI there’s a link in that article that goes to the initial, and much more brief, walkthrough of the original letter, and it’s comically short response.

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Awesome. Truly spectacular.

Generative AI is so energy intensive ($$$), that Google is requiring users subscribe to Gemini.

Google is entirely dependent on advertising sales. Ad revenue subsidizes literally everything else, from Android development to whichever 8-12 products and services they launch and subsequently cancel each year.

Now, Google wants to remove web results and just use generative AI instead of search as it’s default user interface.

So, like I said: Awesome.

You are leaving out the historical context of hyper violent insane independent action for honor mindset of the soldiers within the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy (IJA/IJN).

This culture of insubordination included a widespread belief that they did not to have obey civilian commands, and is largely responsible for ground level soldiers deciding on their own to kick off the war in Manchuria.

It’s entirely reasonable to envision a counterfactual version where either one of, or both the IJA and IJN refuse to surrender, or even just large contingents within either.

I’m not saying this to invalidate anything you’ve said, but I do think it’s highly relevant context when considering any alternative ways that could have gone.

That version of events was in a different article covering this from a different Lemmy thread, not sure which one. Here’s another one that appears to align with those additional details:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/florida-airman-killed-by-police-roger-fortson

I believe he was on a video call with a woman, and her account is that someone knocked, didn’t respond when he asked who was there, and they hid themselves from the peep hole.

Then the police started pounding, still without announcing themselves, so he went and armed himself BECAUSE HE’S ABOUT HAVE HIS HOME INVADED.

Next thing, cops kick in door, see him, kill him, and blame him for making them murder him.

Oh, and cops were at the wrong apartment #.

I recently switched my main Linux laptop to Fedora and I have to say, it’s probably the most stable and clean distro I’ve ever used.

Interceptors haven’t been a thing since the cold war. BVR engagements have been the air to air norm for many years, and that requires a weapons grade targeting lock.

No, my assertion is that airspace is very dynamic battlefield.

Just because you can track a possible stealth aircraft several hundred nautical miles off you’re coast, does not guarantee your ability to intercept it with aircraft before it drops it’s payload, or that your SAM sites will be able to get a missile targeting lock.

It’s just a first step.

Your second sentence is mostly accurate, your first is not.

Just because tracking radar identifies something, does not mean it’s automatically vulnerable to interception, and it definitely does not guarantee that targeting radar will be able to create a missile, or weapons, lock.

But yes, the ability to track something is a critical first step in an anti-air kill chain.

Radar detection is not the same as weapons grade lock for anti-aircraft targeting purposes. Still helpful to know something is there, but the article doesn’t provide any additional information on how actionable that information will be.

Industrial production is not a significant issue the collective West has within the context of supplying Ukraine armaments and ammunition.

The issue is a lack of, or decline in, domestic political capital in key member states, cohesive unified policy, and a long term strategy.

Now, if the United States was completely removed from the equation, then industrial production capacity constraints, especially around munitions, may become a real issue.

I think someone in the department had a grudge against that family, or more likely, a general disdain for that neighborhood.

Then they brought their weak ass phoney PC to a friendly judge, and smashed the fuck out of that family’s home, before they went home and beat their wives and girlfriends for not having a hot dinner ready.

No, they were located in a stolen car, and their tracking location was used as PC for a warrant.

Still insane, corrupt, and shameful - just marginally better than having busted out the SWAT entirely for the lost pods.

You toss a better word salad, I’ll give you that.

However, you probably should have read the conversation to understand the context behind my dismissive “mic drop”.

OP said something kinda dumb.

I corrected them.

Instead of owning their mistake, or moving on, they try to explain away their dumb comment with a large block of tangentially related regional facts and observations, logical fallacies, and a bad metaphor/analogy about the meaning of a kiss.