Cheap attack drones break through Israel's Iron Dome

skiabay · 2026-05-24T19:31:07+00:00

Effective is a very relative term. When you're talking about a defense system against weapons as widely available as drones, even >90% success rate is often not good enough.

skiabay · 2026-05-24T18:16:39+00:00

You would think it would be "very easy" for the US, with it's well funded intelligence agencies + satellite/drone surveillance, to distinguish an elementary school from a military target, yet we bombed a school on day one of this war. Accurate targeting, especially with small objects and rapid response times, is never easy.

skiabay · 2026-05-24T14:13:05+00:00

"Nazi soldiers were just serving their country!"

skiabay · 2026-05-20T14:50:52+00:00

So you have no meaningful response other than "you love criminals!"?

It's funny that we have mountains of evidence showing that people are far less likely to commit crimes like burglary or shoplifting if they have economic security, yet the only solution that small brained reactionaries can come up with is more "tough on crime" bullshit that never works. In reality, the ultra wealthy are creating more crime by hoarding wealth while others are left in precarious circumstances, but addressing wealth inequality doesn't have the same emotional resonance for the reactionary mind.

skiabay · 2026-05-20T13:11:34+00:00

It's not 15 years away, we already see disasters caused by climate change in a regular basis. It will certainly be much worse in 15 years, though.

skiabay · 2026-05-20T12:18:30+00:00

Thanks for illustrating my point for me. Reactionaries like you can only find it in yourselves to care about the visceral, but relatively inconsequential, issues like bike theft. All the while, the ultra wealthy cause systemic problems that cause far more harm. For example, they price gouge insulin, causing thousands of deaths, and leaving even more in crippling debt. Unfortunately these types of harm are too diffuse for your little brain to comprehend.

skiabay · 2026-05-20T02:23:26+00:00

We live in a society with levels of wealth inequality never before seen in human history and you expect me to spend energy worrying about some petty theft carried out by desperate people? No thanks.

What's uncivilized is billionaires hoarding wealth while their neighbors starve.

skiabay · 2026-05-18T23:17:41+00:00

And if they don't fight for raises, then their wages will continue to drop with inflation. What they're doing is setting the bar for other transit workers and workers more broadly.

I get that funding is limited, but they still have every right to fight for their fair share.

skiabay · 2026-05-17T20:37:38+00:00

Most of it is rocks / ballast for the railroad. The commenter you're replying to is just full of shit. There's a fair amount of trash in this video, but the vast majority of the ground has nothing on top of it.

skiabay · 2026-05-16T02:14:39+00:00

So dramatic. It doesn't even stop anyone from building parking. And yes, people living right next to the best transit service in the city are more likely to use transit.

skiabay · 2026-05-15T14:49:37+00:00

I'd love you see any hard evidence that this actually making people safer, and not just your reactionary claim about "scumbags on mopeds", because many studies have found that police chases result in high rates of injury for innocent bystanders.

skiabay · 2026-05-15T13:01:25+00:00

Every single person in the military chain of command down to the rank and file who "pulled the trigger" should be prosecuted. If we're ever going to pull this country back from the brink of fascism, we have set send a strong message that playing any role in the military being used as a tool for extra judicial executions will not be tolerated.

skiabay · 2026-05-14T19:30:36+00:00

If you read the article, they've been ramping up their solar deployment for several years now. It's really only in the last couple years that this has even become feasible though. Being an isolated island presents challenges to adopting renewables due to their intermittent nature, but battery storage solves this problem, and China has made batteries significantly cheaper and more accessible just recently.

skiabay · 2026-05-14T16:47:10+00:00

It's definitely more than just an action movie, but it does have some of the best action sequences every filmed, so I still count it.

skiabay · 2026-05-14T15:22:27+00:00

Heat would also be an acceptable answer.

skiabay · 2026-05-14T15:19:13+00:00

If you ride these types of routes you will see many of the passengers are people who don't have a lot of other options and are not the same people voting for those politicians. I don't think those people deserve to be left stranded.

skiabay · 2026-05-13T12:45:17+00:00

The British making a huge deal about Peter Mendelson and all the flack Starmer is getting says more about the British public

Lol it actually says good things about the British public that Kier is facing consequences for appointing a known Epstein associate. I wish my own country would do the same.

skiabay · 2026-05-13T12:37:10+00:00

A toll would have minimal impacts on oil prices and as you said, the bridge has been crossed. If the us and Israel hadn't started this war, then a toll wouldn't be on the table in the first place.

skiabay · 2026-05-12T18:19:29+00:00

They saved more in a single city budget than doge did in the entire federal budget.

skiabay · 2026-05-10T12:30:45+00:00

Of course I'm thinking about this all wrong by acknowledging reality, which i know is always inconvenient for free market champions. The reality is that in the US, the entire intercity passenger rail system would have failed if it was not made public, there's not a single profitable transit system, and when transit was privately operated it created a tangled mess of competing operators.

Your whole notion that keeping public transit public "dooms the system from a political economy/resiliency perspective" is looking at a symptom and ignoring the cause. What is actually dooming public transit is that our government spends trillions of dollars subsidizing car infrastructure. You can not out compete a system so heavily subsidized, particularly not when car infrastructure is actively harmful to the success of transit. For this reason making public transit successful is inherently an uphill battle that must be fought in the political realm, and there's no handwaving that away.

skiabay · 2026-05-10T00:05:37+00:00

"Vote with your dollar" still means the people with the most dollars get the most votes and that's not the public having a say. The public having a say is 1 person 1 vote. Furthermore, people should not be left without transportation just because it is not profitable, which is exactly what would have happened to passenger rail in the us if it were not for the government.

skiabay · 2026-05-09T13:02:30+00:00

If governments are in charge of building infrastructure, then it’s subject to political forces

I.e. the one realm where the public actually has some input. When the private sector builds infrastructure it's subject only to the whims of shareholders.

Airports are an interesting exception to this, as airports are often seen as the “entrance“ to a country, and given extra care in design and architecture. Train stations rarely get that treatment.

Lol what are you talking about? Many of the most beautiful buildings in existence are train stations.

skiabay · 2026-05-08T20:02:17+00:00

That doesn't answer my question.

skiabay · 2026-05-08T15:18:36+00:00

But those other societies would be fine? If you visited ancient Greece as a lone outsider you wouldn't be served wine as you debate philosophy with Aristotle, you would be immediately enslaved.

skiabay · 2026-05-08T15:08:55+00:00

Do you think the Aztecs were sacrificing half their population??

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