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What? You mean other than bolting two snowboards to the bottom of each skid and not being a total bitch about it?

Either because it comes across more clearly over comms, or someone flipped a coin.

But, it is called that outside of the military, sometimes…sort of.

Ignore them. They’re just haters who can’t handle the fact that despite it’s youth, the Osprey is already a legendary platform.

Think of it like the A-10, except instead of repeatedly slaughtering friendly forces, it just regularly kills anyone dumb enough to ride in one, or pilot it.

I used text to speech and didn’t proofread because that’s all this little dialogue warranted. You got me.

It’s not a slippery slope, it’s called an escalation ladder.

Again, you need to stop thinking of this in the historical context of the Cold War and USSR vs USA. Well there are similarities, it is a very different situation for any number of reasons.

More prepared, yes, but a lot smaller. A saturation attack is going to do significantly more damage because of the higher density of critical targets and infrastructure. But unlike a CBG, they can’t withdraw out of range while they wait for resupply.

Oh come off it. I know you really don’t believe that a standard US administration would launch a nuclear first strike in defense of Taiwan.

China is not the USSR, and the possibility of war between the powers has not historically been thought of in the same context as the Cold War USA vs USSR WWIII Nuclear Bonanza.

I know right? You should really only ever need 1/3rd of a fighter jet for home defense.

Either Bosnian Ape Society has really gone downhill, or the jabronies trying to copy their style were raised on a diet of lead paint chips.

Are you fucking stupid?

Do you seriously think that the DoD forgot to include the line item for radar absorbing hentai plane art?

JFC get with the times.

Zip drive.

But I’m getting ready for their NGD program (Next Gen Disk), and buying up all Jaz drives and disks left on eBay.

In 50 years when they release the next RFP, I’ll be a lock.

…why does Lemmy’s noncredible insist on being lesscredible, or even credible?

But thanks for the write up and graphics to show me why WWII era naval torpedoes weren’t actually mounted on those hard points lol.

Pretty sure those are Mark 14’s.

lol.

Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

Customer pays

Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.

Awesome. Truly spectacular.

Generative AI is so energy intensive ($$$), that Google is requiring users subscribe to Gemini.

Google is entirely dependent on advertising sales. Ad revenue subsidizes literally everything else, from Android development to whichever 8-12 products and services they launch and subsequently cancel each year.

Now, Google wants to remove web results and just use generative AI instead of search as it’s default user interface.

So, like I said: Awesome.

No, it’s a way to say that Mint has become bloated and not a great experience.

I just switched to Fedora from Mint, and was impressed.

I recently switched my main Linux laptop to Fedora and I have to say, it’s probably the most stable and clean distro I’ve ever used.

Oh really? Based on what evidence?

You know what’s worse than a credible defense post in NCD?

A noncredible post, trying to use credible information, only to be unintentionally noncredible.

Since when is some dickhead in a New England air reserve unit, a member of the USAF?

Because it was in Syria, and the people slaughtered were a mix of local Syrian military/militia and Russian mercs.