Honestly if I’m being completely realistic it probably won’t be a major thing that kicks off balkanization or whatever but moreso a straw that broke the camels back type thing. It could very well be something stupid like Trump dying and the power struggle on the right ripping apart whatever little internal cohesion remains. Or it could just be just a police shooting and subsequent protest spiraling into a succession crises followed by balkanization.

I think at this point we’re on this weird razor edge of instability where everything is going to shit but it isn’t quite bad enough to outright cause the whole thing to collapse, so everyone is sitting around just kinda waiting. Personally I subscribe to the addage “The fall of empire is slow until it’s not” so this type of shit was always a distinct possibility. I do think there’s a chance shit will come to a head either when the stock market implodes or when something unseen kicks in and causes issues.

Personally I think we’ll see a civil war for a bit but it’ll burn out relatively quickly due to lack of fuel, then we may see a troubles like situation for a bit in some regions.

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Hey now let’s be far not all of them are on .ml at least not exclusively. I’m sure there are plenty on hexbear for example.

Like personally I wouldn’t drive a car through them for the simple fact of mass, a tank or a even a bulldoze though? Absolutely. I know all I need to when they start waving their flag about, same goes for the fucking Christian flag mind you.

Only reason I don’t is that I don’t think I could get away with it, survival instincts conflicting with morality and all that.

Wake up or everything collapsed probably both if history is anything to go by. After all the great palaces of the Mycenaean were left intact right up until things went to shit, then they burned.

I feel like that jackass has probably rat fucked his biology with the shit he puts in his system so bad example.

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”.