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Just so all the Ak owners are aware. This is the peak weapon system

These boots explain why America is collapsing. No, seriously. Stay with me. First off the boots. I am terribly disappointed in what Under Armor is calling Valsetz these days. For comparison on the left is the pair of Valsetz I've had for over 10 years. They're full of holes, have no tread, and they've hiked more miles than I count. I've loved them dearly but entropy claims us all one day and it's their time to go. I figured I'd buy a new set of Valsetz since I saw they still exist. I looked at the listing on Amazon and thought they looked weird but that I'd give them a shot anyway since my last pair treated me well. They arrived and I'm disappointed. The build quality feels cheap. The externals have less reinforcement and the little that is there has less stitching, meaning it's likely to break sooner. The internals have a much cheaper memory foam inside and are noticeably less plush. Finally the toe box is bigger for some reason, they're at least a half inch longer in the toe than the other pair, they fit more like a 10.5 than a 10. I can't comment on wearing them too much as I've only done some basic breaking in, less than a week's worth of wear but they definitely aren't fantastic so far. Overall, I'm disappointed to see my favorite pair of boots be reduced to slop. But that's the entire country at this point. Over the last decade we've seen the US reduced to an economic zone to plunder. The identity of "an American" is now as fluid and shifting as the spring breeze. As a result, every company has focused on chasing profits in the shorter and shorter run. Companies are worried about the profits this quarter, nevermind next or the one after. That's because they don't see a long term future here. The goal is to get the profits now, consumer be damned. They're a wallet to plunder and nothing else. Multinational conglomerates, billionaires, and foreign nations have plundered this country and are killing it so they can move onto the next host after this one dies. Nobody is chasing profits tomorrow because they won't be here. The boots don't need to be good, they just need to trick the consumer into buying them because profits get announced in a few weeks anyway and there's still some brand goodwill to destroy. This didn't happen overnight. It happened imperceptibly over time through taxation, economic policy, immigration policy, corporate culture, and greater cultural psyops. The entire system reinvented itself to serve itself at the behest of everyone else. "The purpose of the system is what it does." And in this case the system extracts capital, returns little value, and moves capital out of the country forever. Money never comes in and it only goes out. The United States is not dying. It is being killed. The perpetrators are the same ones promising to help you. They are the ENTIRE political class, the entire corporate class, and anyone who has either a dual citizenship or a home in a foreign nation. It's not just a pair of boots. It's an entire nation. Our nation.

Nothing says “honoring the dead” like using them for cheap political points

Тестування українського перехоплювача БПЛА з ракетним прискорювачем Система виносить перехоплювач на висоту 2 км, і відпадає. Таким чином зберігається заряд, для подальшого пошуку цілей в небі.

Just when you thought you understood the power of genetics, along comes the Enhanced Games to remind you.

A Russian once told me that America systemically limits opportunities for white men to funnel them into the military industrial complex and the oil industry

VANCE CONSIDERS ABANDONING 2028 PRESIDENTIAL RUN, SOURCES SAY — MAIL

I almost passed on Perseus Defense because they had zero ARR. That would have been the worst mistake of my career. Applying SaaS metrics to defense hardware is like judging a nuclear submarine by its app store rating. Perseus was founded by an engineer who led NASA's Titan Dragonfly program and another who built autonomous systems for Boeing and USV swarms for the Navy. The Ukraine conflict proved that $500 drones can destroy $100M military assets. Perseus was solving that problem at speed - a functional micro-UAS prototype in one week, two guided missile versions a month later. The DoD at the table is the early customer. That's not a pipeline. That's a market validation no ARR dashboard can replicate. Stop asking hardware founders about recurring revenue. Start asking whether the problem they're solving can afford to wait.

AN OXFORD STUDENT IS RUNNING A PARTICLE SIMULATION WITH REAL PEOPLE'S NAMES AND CLAIMS CERN IS TAUNTING HIM THROUGH THE CODE Thousands of particles on a black screen - each one labeled with a real person's name - moving according to the laws of physics in real time and he is completely convinced this is not a simulation but a personal message from CERN directed at him specifically. Particle simulation with collision detection, velocity vectors and brownian motion - technically flawless code that tracks every particle individually and renders trajectories at 60 fps. CERN operates a 17km collider that accelerates protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light and generates a petabyte of data every single day - and apparently found the time to encode Oxford student names into a simulation. The code is real. The physics is correct. The conclusions are a separate conversation.

Footage of a Ukrainian SAM system downing a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile over Kyiv this weekend.

I should build a spidget finner