Can’t forget propagandized, I will not stop beating this war drum until every right wing propagandist has been sacrificed in a Blòt.

Which is very annoying since I alone have dozens of better ideas, problem is they’re all mundane and have absolutely no flash outside of theoretical branding. The first one is boring as fuck and would just exist to undermine the Tesla charging network, basically in conjunction with electrician unions and guilds manufacture what amounts to generic charging stations to sell to governmental and third party entities. The other is basically to import Japanese vending machines to stick at said charging stations with the end goal of eventually getting hot food ones for the more productive ones.

Problem is they aren’t fancy and frankly speaking even if I could get the cash theres a near garuntee that Musk, one of his fanboys, or a Tesla investor would burn down the manufacturing facility before anything ships.

You must also watch Adam something. But yeah startups are pretty shit on a baseline, at least when they describe themselves as a startup since if I’m being honest a company just calling themselves new is less of a red flag word.

My money is that shits going to evolve into something like those weird Japanese carrier destroyers or someone is going to dig up the concept for carrier submarines to adapt to drones. Pretty hard to guess since there’s always the possibility that something is found that can hard counter drones kinda like how close air support broke the artillery doctrines post WW1.

Edit: ignore the previous comment lemmy freaked the fuck out.

My point is they weren’t obsolete by WW2, they were in a bit of a weird doctrinal area by the end of the war for sure but at the start of the war they were certainly still in their prime. Remember carriers were still being figured out during the inter-war period and weren’t exactly all that great, hell the first major use of a carrier during the war was during Pearl harbor and even then that only worked so well because of how small the harbor is which restricted movements and thus the reaction (Didn’t stop the Nevada from beaching itself and becoming a point defense platform) which was frankly luck for the Japanese.

Now by the end of the war they were showing their age especially with the modernized carriers that were being pumped out nearly as fast as battleships and with the improved destroyer and escort designs that could compensate for the relative lack of defenses on carriers. Frankly speaking carriers by themselves are kinda shit, they need an escort fleet to even function lest they be even more exposed than a battleship, hell there’s a reason why everyone kept trying to make carrier battleships for awhile.

Y’know I fucking hate startups simply because they seem to just exist to waste time and money. Doing some fucky R&D for old tech is fine and can be interesting since sometimes someone finds something new to correct old issues, but as soon as a startup gets involved it basically instantly turns into a boondoggle. This is the type of shit that should be left to the Skunkworks and borderline redneck R&D labs in towns you’ve never heard of not some dipshit who thinks innovation means slapping LEDs on everything.

Honestly I just like dirigibles so if they want to bash their heads against walls and build new ones I’ll be happy.

They were always vulnerable to torpedoes hell that’s one of the reasons why the old dreadnaught class was phased out. Regardless they still served their purpose during WW2 as a way to imperfectly fill the hole that modern destroyers now fill, also they were damned useful artillery platforms in the Pacific and during Korea.

Blimps and Zeplins were heavily limited by the tech of their time materials were heavy and hard to use for example I know damned well the blimps built here in SoCal used leather gaskets. It’s possible to compensate for some of the instability with more modern props and battery tech.

Also if shit keeps going how it is we may need a couple modernized designs due to resource shortages, hydrogen can be sourced locally jet fuel not so much.

Honestly the place my brain went is weirdly the old blimp carrier concept from the inter-war period. Like I wonder if it could be adapted to work with drones, maybe with modern materials and tech it could solve the core issues of it being weirdly uncontrollable and the planes breaking themselves and the blimp when trying to “land”.

I’m both impressed and disturbed.

George Santos is probably one of the least intimidating pieces of shit I know of. Threats without gravitas is nothing more than comedy.

Killing people for being gay is wrong. But people not knowing about an incident nearly thirty years ago in one of the least relevant states in the US has literally no bearing on people’s morality, just like how you not knowing about the cross burners in my home town has no frame of reference on your morality.

Is that a simplified enough explanation for ya? Because if it isn’t you’re either a troll, obtuse, or so lost in the sauce you’ve forgotten what geographic and temporal relevance is.

Dude I’m a history nerd and have a pretty solid grasp on random abscure shit and this was an unknown to me. I’m in California and my town was having crosses burned around the same time which is more directly relevance to me, some dude getting lynched a year before I was born in fucking Wyoming is so far outside my view you may as well bring up hate crimes in Vostoc Russia, the same thing applies to damned near everyone.

Fact of the matter is that it’s categorically impossible to know about every hate crime committed in the past 30 years, even folks who study this shit for a living would probably miss some things. You don’t need to know about every thrice damned obscure case to know the broad trends and issues.

Personally if I was gonna rip one of these apart I’d just drive into the mountains and rend it down in the back of my truck.

Could also be a hold over from WW1 or WW2 that caused the weird drunk litres thing, would not put it past some dude in logistics getting bitched at by the French and that situation spiraling into litre measurements being standardized for drinks.

Like even that aside technology is inherently malfunction prone, even if they were unhackable there’s always the chance something goes wrong. With a piece of paper the worst that can happen is that it gets destroyed and reduced to null.

This feels like a fetish.

As a Californian who’s only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.