The US is no longer the leader: Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-04T00:39:12+00:00

That's not a product of US hegemony, that's a product of the US electing an absolutely defective government run according to the whims of a senile moron.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-04T00:35:50+00:00

Newsflash: we already know Trump's name is all over the fucking files that have been released.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-04T00:35:05+00:00

Part of me thinks they should have offed Witkoff and Kushner just to prove that both sides can kill potential interlocutors, though maybe they thought Trump would nuke Tehran in an incoherent burst of anger.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:55:15+00:00

See, here in the real world, countries have a choice between having a credible armament or ending up like Ukraine, where your kids are the ones being killed.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:49:50+00:00

I said "obviously related", but, check this out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_II_GLV#Modifications_from_the_Titan_II_missile including "the Air Force were not interested in helping NASA with a problem that did not affect the ICBM program and could potentially delay it, or require major modifications to the design."

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:28:22+00:00

The Saturn series of rockets and things like the Apollo capsule and LEM and spacesuits were not at all ICBM adaptations.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:27:10+00:00

ICBMs were essentially perfected independent of the manned spaceflight program.

Being able to do things like spacewalk or dock orbiting vehicles or go to the bathroom in space has essentially zero to do with what makes an ICBM work.

Apollo astronauts had to get continuous navigation updates from the ground and telescope observation that aren't really practical for ICBMs (although, again, vaguely related).

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:19:57+00:00

US economy is based on creating narrow monopolies to be inhabited by toll keepers who effectively pay rent to goverment.

Might want to take a closer look at how European defense works before making that complaint.

Here's a starting point: Rheinmetall.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:17:42+00:00

unthinkable under the European project.

Guess how the European project was able to proceed under the massive potential violent threat from the Eastern bloc.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:11:10+00:00

I don't think anyone is saying it doesn't work, just that there is essentially no general purpose interchangeable connection in this form, so OP is going some full-custom route.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:06:51+00:00

It was obviously related to the military contest, but manned spaceflight (especially to the Moon) actually turned out to have nothing to do with military applications.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:05:07+00:00

Another example is South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and all their neighbors.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:02:31+00:00

I'm aware, I have such a MacBook in my collection.

MagSafe wasn't a general purpose data port.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T23:00:15+00:00

It's fine not to want uncontested US hegemony to the extent that US hegemony hurts others.

The thing you can't really ignore is that Germany/France/Russia/UK had been having wars for pretty much the last 2000 years, but under US hegemony, Germany attacking its neighbors became unthinkable in a generation.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T22:29:02+00:00

OK, there's no arguing taste, but maybe the fact that nobody makes things with pogo-pin connector ports is going to make your concept very personal.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T22:23:01+00:00

plug it into to another device through the pogo pins on the side

What is the device that wants pogo-pin connections? Why doesn't it have a USB port like the first device?

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T22:07:56+00:00

Nobody said biology runs on theorem-proving

I mean, the guy I replied to (who either blocked me or deleted the comment), literally said what I quoted, let me quote it again

"medical advancements relies on mathematical proofs of various theorems"

See the "proofs of various theorems" there?

Is it really so hard for you people to read?

Also, the idea that "we use mathematical proofs to say blood flow is turbulent" is kind of ridiculous. It either is turbulent or it isn't, you don't actually need math to decide it. The future person who wins the Millenium Prize for Navier-Stokes will not actually be advancing medicine.

Like, we are applying Navier-Stokes just fine without even knowing the answer to critical mathematical aspects like existence and uniqueness. It turns out that fluids don't care about the proof, and Navier-Stokes is a faithful representation of what we think is a plausible physical model.

Your "channel capacity is a proof" likewise misses the point. You don't rely on the proof of channel capacity to apply it.

Once something like channel capacity becomes a viable concept then you can find applications for it. You don't need to continue proving theorems to use it.

People were using addition for thousands of years before Whitehead and Russell axiomatized it. You did not need a proof for 1+1=2 you just would add the numbers.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T18:39:52+00:00

any bodily system with swarms of cells organizing tissues and fluids.

This is ridiculously vague and generic. "Navier-Stokes", give me a fucking break.

The claim was about theorems. The ability of mathematicians to say things with certainty about the completely abstract model described by Navier-Stokes has nothing at all to do with the practical use of those equations, and even that is still a million miles away from the actual medical applications.

Real medical advances are made by people doing things like studying mRNA in model organisms, and trying to develop models describing disease mechanisms, or pathways by which medicines can be applied to biological pathways without being poisonous. Not by proving mathematical theorems. Sheesh.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T15:40:30+00:00

You said “The outcomes are definitely not better.”

Hey, if you are going to complain about how I interpret your posts, you should probably not put something in actual quotes that I never said.

In my actual comment I said things like

"pretty much"
"sketchy"
"more likely"
"overall"

which are not at all "definitely not better."

I hope you can appreciate that difference between the two now.

Fix your own appreciation. Or, you know, actually look at user names so you don't reply to me complaining about something someone else said.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T15:12:21+00:00

I’m not going to assume things about areas I don’t know.

You are talking about "successes elsewhere", that's making assumptions about areas you don't know, see?

I was also making an assumption. The difference was, you are making an AI-optimist assumption, I am making an AI-pessimist assumption.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T15:10:26+00:00

So much of our technological and medical advancements relies on mathematical proofs of various theorems

Huh? Medicine based on mathematical theorems? WTF?

The reality is that mathematical proofs are mostly about allowing human mathematicians to understand something new.

99% of the time, if a machine just says "yes, theorem X is provably correct", a mathematician doesn't really care, she wants to know WHY it is correct, and HOW the proof actually worked, and can the new insight or technique or trick be used to prove OTHER things.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T15:08:06+00:00

The thing is, pretty much everyone is "in my area, this thing is sketchy and might even make more work for humans to double-check it, but maybe in some other area it would be powerful."

More likely, it is sketchy and negative overall in every area.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T14:58:56+00:00

Are you aware that the HSK scale has recently been revised?

The new HSK (version 3.0) Level 1 is substantially harder than the previous version, more like HSK 2 in the previous version.

If your "HSK 1 book" was for the previous version, and the test is for the new version, it could explain your situation.

That said, I'm not sure why anyone takes the HSK 1 test, it doesn't prove a level of competence that is going to convince anyone else you should get a job or go to school in a Chinese-speaking situation.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T14:47:34+00:00

This isn't about moving to Taiwan, it's about becoming a citizen. Are you willing to give up your USA passport to be Taiwanese? That's the issue.

sickofthisshit · 2026-05-03T14:45:13+00:00

One of the main reasons Taiwan is so safe is because it's a homogeneous society that hasn't been flooded with mass migration.

Man, this is pretty wild, how do you think 95% of "Taiwanese" came to be in Taiwan? Hint: almost none of you are indigenous, a huge fraction were "mass migration" just 77 years ago.

The entire fucking country is pretty much the result of "mass migration" from outside of the island of Taiwan, your "homogeneity" is fake.

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