@ethiopiancheri Pope has accorded the mandate of heaven to Anthropic. Peter Thiel seething.
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Rahul Shekar
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@tonyannett Let's not forget wage suppression and no welfare state
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The best analogy is the classic East Asian model - heavy industrial policy, export competition, financial repression, and capital controls.
Joseph V. Coniglio@JosephVConiglio
Not true. China is still Marxist and Bolshevism as implemented eg in Russia embodied state capitalism in many respects (see Lenin's new economic policy) and was even criticized from the left as such.
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@tonyannett China is the obvious case against this argument. No social safety to speak of and yet relatively high productivity over the last couple of decades.
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Why does the welfare state boost productivity? Plenty of reasons.
- Education expansion lifts talented working class kids.
- Healthcare leads to a healthier workforce.
- Unemployment insurance and active labor market policies allow workers to find better jobs.
- Pensions mean that less productive older people can retire in security.
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@ethiopiancheri When you get to the part about Medicaid, Medicare and their interaction with insurance companies, you'll start to want to throw things
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@KPSingh0809 I completely agree that sovereign backing in defence is crucial but why is a private defence company handing out dividends instead of using that cash for R&D and product development? We ought to question the private sector's risk appetite as much as bureaucratic incompetence.
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@rahulshekar29 It's not that easy to find customers abroad. Why not create for your own country when it really needs them. Do you want your economy to be laggard?
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Why does urgency emerge only after an operation or crisis? Solar Industries had submitted proposals under the Make-II category back in 2022 for high-mobility long-range precision rocket systems; Maheshwarastra-1 with a 150 km range and Maheshwarastra-2 with a 250 km range. If such capabilities suddenly become critical today, then why were these proposals not pursued seriously then?
Three years is a sufficient timeline to develop and mature such systems indigenously. This reflects a deeper issue of long-term capability planning and strategic vision. If the requirement was foreseeable and modern battlefield trends clearly indicated it was, then delaying indigenous development only increases future dependence and emergency procurement pressure.
Calling this “unnecessary controversy” misses the actual point. The concern is about institutional foresight, timely decision-making, and whether India wants to build capabilities proactively or only react after operational gaps become visible.
Defence Matrix@Defencematrix1
2 units under emergency as we don't have doemstic alternatives. Even many Indian drones were purchased under emergency and were used during live ops too. Why create unnecessary controversy on everything?
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@KPSingh0809 If product development is successful they can sell abroad (Armenia) and generate cash flow as has been done in the case of howitzers. Besides, there is immense utility in the research, development and testing of these systems. Far better use of money than handing out dividends.
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Because if they decide not to buy, money invested becomes a liability. That is why private companies are not investing enough to set up new manufacturing facilities. Can you waste your money like that. Defence business is based on sovereign support, it's not a retail business where you will find customers easily for your product.
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@Vishwamitr36384 Solar is free to build and test those munitions without waiting for MoD. They are sitting on piles of cash that they hand out as dividends.
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We could've had this
We chose imported instead 🙂
Mera desh mahan ✌️
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@alexjordanATL History, unfortunately, does not support your argument. It will be hegemony - by whom and how is the question. Power abhors vacuum.
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no, humanity is not doomed to “global domination” by one or another country’s military
a better world is in fact possible, if you only dare to ignore the myths peddled to you by the military industrial complex and its allies in Washington
Organizermemes@OrganizerMemes
I don't want an end to the U.S. empire that just means handing over global hegemony to authoritarians
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@arya_amsha NAVIC, even when it existed, was not in any shape or form analogous to the GPS, particularly in terms of precision which is why none of India's munitions are built with NAVIC guidance
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@Z_DauletSingh They built a FARP inside Iran. If they did that with partial air superiority, it reflects even more poorly on Iranian ISR.
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These losses show that the US only achieved partial air superiority (and never air supremacy over Iran), forcing the use of expensive stand off weaponry in the bombing campaign. The massive depletion of those weapons added to the cost of the war and shapes the calculus of escalation for the next phase.
Preston Stewart@prestonstew_
The Congressional Research Service just listed the 42 US aircraft lost or damaged so far during the war with Iran. 4 x F-15E Strike Eagles destroyed 1 x F-35A damaged by Iranian ground fire 1 x A-10 destroyed 7 x KC-135 Stratotankers (2 destroyed, 5 damaged) 1 x E-3 Sentry AWACS damaged 2 x MC-130J destroyed 1 x HH-60W helicopter damaged by small arms fire 24 x MQ-9 Reapers destroyed 1 x MQ-4C Triton destroyed
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@zone5aviation Why is there a Growler demo team in the first place?
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Nah, three of them were cussing out one guy.
But the real problem lies with whoever approved this profile — assuming it was flown as approved.
Voödoo 6 von Inyanga@6Voodoo
I can not imagine the obscenities these Growler crew hurled at one another on their way down.
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@tolstoybb This was 5 years pre Stuxnet! Really does make you wonder what TAO is cooking today
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@rahulshekar29 @lukeisamazing Median income in the United States is just over half that.
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so many here have a deep seated need to vindicate America, an outlet for nationalism they’ve never given up, as if anything could justify this evil. a big part is pretending 1776 is real revolutionary precedent and not just a bourgeois project for slaveowners and genocidaires
A-100 gecs@PinstripeBungle
extremely odd to have a how should the US left narrativize itself vis a vis 1776 discourse when abolitionism and the civil war are right there as clearly historically progressive struggles that are also a national myth.
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@NotWoofers This guy firing ignorant takes on air warfare now, quickly graduated from geopolitics
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No. They’re not. Not how that works. There’s humans in the loop the whole time.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
I don't think it's permeated the public consciousness yet, but Ukraine is already using fully autonomous drones. The operator just tells the drone where to find targets, it flies several miles, finds a target, and kills it. Human soldiers just die against these autonomous drones.
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@ethiopiancheri @EFCevie There's been like 4 Prime Ministers since I landed on this island absolute state of this
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what even is british politics
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer tells MPs that he is a "gooner"
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this even predated StuxNet??
man those Iranian nuclear scientists never stood a chance, we’ve been fucking with their shit since Bush was president
hanlon’s mortola razr@rhizomaticthot
the fast16 malware was almost certainly targeting spherical implosion simulations. left: unmodified LS-DYNA 970 right: LS-DYNA 970 modified with the relevant portions of fast16.sys both running a spherical implosion deck
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@ShoahUkraine Incompetence can hardly be cause for praise or celebration
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The Soviet Union lost an average of 278 soldiers per hour, 24 hours a day, every day for 165 days during the defense of Stalingrad, with total Soviet casualties reaching approximately 1.1 million. When the call came to defend Stalingrad, many soldiers kissed their families goodbye knowing full well there was an overwhelming chance they would be dead within the next 24 hours.
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