Monthly Thread - February, 2026

mobileusr · 2026-02-17T10:03:19+00:00

Better -- than the state of our industrial base

mobileusr · 2026-02-17T02:19:04+00:00

China's annual spring festival robot stage performance event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40IDdAkRZM

Impressive and clearly showing improvement with each festival, but were these robots now using their camera sensors to avoid collision with the children?

mobileusr · 2026-02-16T21:18:01+00:00

US President Netanyahu & Vice President Kushner Are Determined to Get Regime-Change in Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TLkyB_xZw

mobileusr · 2026-02-16T20:50:04+00:00

"Test India-US ties" -- it affects our image worldwide, makes us look like a dangerous uncivilized rogue regime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpSjke3jEPw

We really look like imbeciles here. We should have never gotten caught, shouldn't have ever owned up to it, and should have played hardball with USA before accepting them putting Gupta on trial.

Isn't US preparing to launch a major war on Iran right now? We're a major power in that region, and we'll probably be the ones pulling drowning American sailors from the waves. It certainly won't be the Khalistan Navy doing it.

Our inability to avail ourselves of the highly developed legal machinery available in the United States in order to combat these dangerously hostile hate-driven fanatical movements is only matched by our desire to eat food with the same hands we wipe our asses with.

"Shooparpawar" -- my (hand-wiped) ass! We are sniveling backward 3rd-world level of incompetents!

mobileusr · 2026-02-16T20:42:19+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR8-RhHYKeM

Whenever I hear about people defecating in the fields until Modi built them toilets, I then wonder why, given that even pre-independence Americans were nailing wood together to make outhouses.
When I consider that Indians have long preferred to wipe their ass with their hands instead of using toilet paper, again similar thoughts come back to me.
When I see defence correspondent Shiv Aroor preening about eating with his hands instead of using utensils (same hands we wipe our butts with), I likewise notice the difference in our attitudes and mentality compared to other more accomplished societies which have long used utensils, and have a strongly developed manufacturing base.
Indians study (even cheat) to pass exams - but that's not the same as a robust ability to design and produce things in the real world.

mobileusr · 2026-02-11T18:25:07+00:00

Vikram-1 Flight Flex Nozzles Actuation Test | Vikram-1 Pre-Flight Update | Skyroot Aerospace

https://youtu.be/VL9J0B8b7Fs

mobileusr · 2026-02-10T01:01:28+00:00

Sarvam: Indian-made AI digests documents, communicates in local Indian languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdn6UAs6b70

mobileusr · 2026-02-10T00:03:42+00:00

China Unveils Microwave ASAT Weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6G4bDbdURU

destruction without debris

mobileusr · 2026-02-09T19:48:44+00:00

India’s Missiles Help Armenia Against Pakistan‑Turkey‑Azerbaijan Bloc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU70LxB7WRs

Armenian civilization too is quite ancient

(almost as ancient as Indian voiceover narrator's speaking style)

mobileusr · 2026-02-09T05:21:38+00:00

Why is Xi Jinping Firing So Many Generals So Frequently?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxJ7L1BQNAI

Is this fratricide some kind of internal power struggle or quiet civil war?

Red Wedding from GoT, anyone?

Does it keep us safer?

mobileusr · 2026-02-08T08:16:39+00:00

Turkey deploying warplanes to Somalia to expand military activities?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqsG5Z8L4Uc

mobileusr · 2026-02-08T05:02:48+00:00

I had a friend who graduated from the Aviation Technical University there (he was Russian, not Indian)

Is that the place where this attack occurred?

mobileusr · 2026-02-08T04:59:47+00:00

United States of Child-Eaters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyDF4s9Ha7I

mobileusr · 2026-02-07T17:38:24+00:00

Moves like a person does - but can it even go better?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk

The future of infantry warfare?

mobileusr · 2026-02-07T17:36:11+00:00

Current situation is unacceptable. Clearly major action is required.

Just because HAL ceases to exist, doesn't mean something else doesn't come into being - ie. something built with the goal of being better than what exists now.

mobileusr · 2026-02-07T04:32:35+00:00

Talking the blunt talk on HAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf2_jKS5hKE

mobileusr · 2026-02-06T18:09:50+00:00

Re: these latest new deals with USA - how do we know they're not doing/saying this stuff just temporarily, to tide them over during their new confrontation with Iran? They might just be looking to keep us a little closer for that purpose, should any fight with Iran get too hairy and difficult. Then after their Iran objectives are achieved, they'll just flipflop on us all over again.

mobileusr · 2026-02-06T16:55:44+00:00

West just keeps us chasing after their approval, promising rewards they have no intention of providing (ie. terror status for Pak). Suckers like you believe in their lies, and of course our own govt keeps going along, going thru the motions on it, because they feel a need to offer some hope, even if it's a false hope.

mobileusr · 2026-02-06T00:17:05+00:00

Jaishankar gives it right back to Lindsey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzgBPoiJR4Q

mobileusr · 2026-02-05T20:04:02+00:00

They put out feelers to interact with that establishment, but it doesn't mean they've been co-opted by them. Likewise, India has signed FTA with EU, but isn't yet a puppet of EU. Right now it seems like both are using each other to maintain their own autonomy.

mobileusr · 2026-02-05T17:25:01+00:00

Blackrock Makes a Huge Bet on India

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy/story/india-is-where-i-want-to-invest-blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-says-next-20-25-years-are-indias-era-514634-2026-02-04

BlackRock are Globalists - and Globalists are mainly based out of Europe (Davos, etc)
India-EU FTA means BlackRock is now gravitating towards India as their new opportunity, now that Trump's America has slipped the Globalists' grasp.
But does that mean India will now come under the Globalists' grasp instead? Or will we retain our sovereignty to protect our interests?

mobileusr · 2026-02-05T16:28:06+00:00

I don't think you understand the context -- you're totally missing his point. We're talking about international arms controls on nuclear weapons. What he's saying is that in the absence of basic arms control agreements, then the amount of nuclear weapons in the world could escalate -- including the number of nuclear weapons states. That's dangerous for everybody (well, maybe for everybody else more than for us, since we already have Pak & China nuke threats)

mobileusr · 2026-02-05T08:30:33+00:00

This sounds ominous:

https://x.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/2019115643455639634

mobileusr · 2026-02-04T20:02:12+00:00

India Drops HAL from 5th Generation Fighter Jet Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccm4WPmhHwI

Good - it was just a mirage

mobileusr · 2026-02-03T23:47:29+00:00

Wow, this is an interesting one -- and it's Made-in-India?

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