A thing I’ve noticed but haven’t seen talked about a lot:

If you’re a shitty government with shitty economics etc. you’ll want to have more powerful weapons in the hands of less troops. It’s easier to ensure the loyalty of a few thousand people with good pay, perks etc. compared to an army of several million. The more powerful the weapon, the more loyal you want its wielder. Definitely don’t want an F-22 wandering across the border because a pilot’s pay didn’t go through.

Over time, this tendency seems to produce an over reliance on small numbers of technically complex weapons. During peacetime, these machines don’t get pushed to the limit, so their actual combat efficacy is unknown (particularly compared to machines produced towards reliability and mass production).

A little example I remember is from Ukraine, where the Germans sent their modern howitzers. These howitzers could be extremely accurate, but with how much they got used and increased wear on the barrel, they rapidly became just another howitzer despite their increased cost and technical complexity.

I don’t want to rewatch an episode and don’t want to miss anything, but I’ve forgotten where I was up to. Quite the bind

Tool library or art collective

goat started calling dbzer0 users tankies, saying that letting tankie users engage on dbzer0 comms means other users are tankies

Tankie used to mean something, damn it!

I think the windows default is to treat them as something else rather than opening them in notepad or something

I usually store thoughts relevant to the conversation until they are no longer relevant because everyone in the conversation is interrupting each other and not leaving breathing room for anyone else

Oh, does that mean they’ll pay for lost labour time or something?

Yes

I’m currently here

Every time the Cancer Council gets mentioned

Noooo

Damn, that’s a tiny tax

I remember going to a LAN that got its wifi from a local library via collander-boosting. Those were the days, and carrying around CRT monitors was sort of like exercise

I remember reading an article about how unkillable and fast growing kudzu vines were as a kid, but that was in the 90s and the US is still there

We are classing landmines as stationary stealth drones, for marketing

The other RT

I made dinner last week, this is a solved problem. I have to make dinner again???

Catia

CAD software is very overpriced and deserves to be pirated, more so than other digital stuff

I thought they explained that they did punk things and took it in turns to get possessed by a demon or something