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"Robots will replace all jobs and work for us!" -- Who realistically thought they would be in the "us" here?

Robots belong to companies owned by shareholders, but mostly oligarchs. In their view, when robots work for "them", human population has been culled with 99.9% of the population died by starvation and/or stopped reproducing, and the 0.1% billionaire families survivors enjoy a cosy life where robots do everything.

Until the system crashes and none of these idiots know how to fix anything.

That's one more human extinction scenario to the list…

Let's step back a bit: stealth is about reducing the apparent size for radars. Being stealthy doesn't mean you're undetectable, but you will see a (non-stealth) enemy jet before it sees you. Then you fire a missile… and are instantly detected!
Air combat superiority will do only if you're still beyond missile range at that point. Otherwise the other side also shoots back a long range missile at you, and it's likely to end in mutual destruction. And even if it's not, you revealed yourself, so better not be outnumbered. That reduces the usage in air combat.

For air to ground, which is what happened here, same idea, except there are a lot of things you want to drop on a target that requires a certain proximity. The benefit of the F35 is it can theoretically take out air defence systems before being detected (again: providing the enemy radar does not have one of these next-gen fancy radars that can detect it). That's what happened in Iran… except that the whole scenario assumes once again conventional air defence: SAM batteries are typically massive and well "visible". They were destroyed before any jet would get close. But Iranians have APPARENTLY (I don't think that was clarified) used a much smaller launcher that conventional SAM, maybe even on man's shoulder, that was not destroyed, and worse: since it was optical/IR based, it didn't emit any radar signal and the F35 didn't see it coming (it didn't launch flares nor done any evasive move).

So, once again, the F35 niche app was to take out SAMs and that was revealed insufficient.

Now, was it an excess of confidence and could the F35 have performed its mission without exposing itself so much? We don't know. But the point is this is a flagrant demonstration of the limit of the "stealth" claims that often sound like a magic invisibility coat. I maintain: stealth does not have that many use cases!

GrapheneOS is not a company doing business. If they're banned, that just means Motorola can't sell pre-installed phones, but that doesn't change anything about the phone compatibility with GOS. You'll have to install it yourself, just like today.

Actually the reason is the US uses 3M$ anti-missile missiles to intercept 20k$ drones. It was obvious from the start they would run out of them way while Iran would keep producing more of their drones (plus the ones they get from Russia).

It's quite unbelievable they the US were so confident in their capabilities they didn't bother to learn anything from the war in Ukraine, where swarms of cheap drones have replaced advanced but costly missiles for years now.

So the money may be genuinely used on weapons (and well, lobsters and steaks…). It's just spent stupid.

In US universities, a lot of the student protesters against the genocide in Gaza were jews, they were called anti-semitic terrorists anyway. We've seen the same thing in France, where jews students protested but were still called anti-semitic, pro-Hamas, etc.

Going with the confusion is very exactly what Netanyahu and his accomplices want: people mad about what Israel is doing taking on jews, so that Israel supporters can label them all anti-semitic and immediately discard whatever they will say.

I know someone who told me (in French) M.B.A stands for "Moins Bon qu'Avant", that translates to "less good than before".

Ok, all personal efforts are good to take, but we will never emphasize enough that the energy transition is not and cannot work solely at individual or households level.

In our current world, we use oil to make fertilizer to grow food, we use extensive gas-powered machinery for everything in the fields and for cattles. Then we need gas-powered trucks to transport food to the supermarkets, themselves dependent on transportation of an army of low wages jobs: the ones who will struggle more with rising costs of transportations.

In winter, a lot of food is growed in greenhouses heated by burning gas.

Almost all of complex devices around us are heavily dependent on globlalization, so cheap transportation of goods thanks to oil.

Even after the war, damages on natural gas infra already made will have repercussions for years.

And even beyond that, we know that the conventional oil reserve worldwide is depleting, and non-conventional will get more and more expensive as the most accessible deposit will also deplete.

We urgently need ambitious public policies.

This! Swarms of FPV drones is what Russia and Ukraine use. Even at 10% target hit because of defense systems, you can inflict considerable damages.

Iranians have used conventional optical tech. The promise of the F35 is to be detected late by conventional long range radar. They were never supposed to be invisible or quiet.

Granted that makes the stealth advantage very limited in terms of usage: coming from far away undetected. Then be very visible.

Besides yes, China claims they can detect them with their satellites network and a France military equipment maker is apparently developing a radar that detects stealth jets. So that advantage is apparently not going to last.

Look, how many young attractive women would agree to follow and prop Trump everywhere without feeling (legitimately) in danger?

Only an AI would!

This! Knowing one path that "works" despite all it flaws and the pain it creates, but feeling trapped because the alternative is a great unknown and possibly a worse outcome, so he follows the one he can foresee.

Anyone claiming atheists have no moral value because they have no God should be kept under close monitoring. They're saying out loud they have urges to kill, rape and rampage and only God prevents them from doing those!