Okay I am adding my nerding time. The Ship seems to be modeled after USS Oriskany with SCB-27/SCB-125A refit.

I really hope it’ll live up to the wait.

Also does it mean we will have a few mission as a WSO? That’d be interesting

Ah yes. This surely will have no long term consequences.

Yeah probably. I still drive a 35 yo Peugeot, and it’s aging decently well for a 1500€ beater.

But winters in France are mild. Colder area might give issues to the chassis with rust.

It’s sad. Peugeot used to make decent cars. But they have really not done well since dropping diesel.

Yeah except right now the biggest issue the Bundeswehr faces is equipment and troop readiness. A report came around 2022 and made noise. After a short exercise 18 modern Puma IVF had been out of action for lack of spare parts on relatively minor issues. And that was on the 10th Panzer division which was earmarked for deployment in Lithuania, not a low priority unit.

More bodies are nice for an army. But those come after the infrastructure has been fixed for what already exist

If you have an article or maybe remember more details about that story?

The closest I could find is this.

Ukraine doesn’t really operate western helicopter in general so the story may have been about something else. We have reports of the Russian using captured American armor vehicles. So no kill switch in those.

I mean, something like Lynx is probably as private as you get. Might be lacking a few features like, anything graphical. Still relatively usable imo

Well then they are fucked. Maybe France’s Snecma is an option and the Japanese also have engines. Pretty much everything else is Licensed copy of American engine or Chinese/Russian which are obvious no.

I think turkey was looking into making their own jet engines. But Erdogan Turkey is about as good of an option as trump USA.

Okay so just to clarify what the software lockdown on F-35 means is that other country except the USA aren’t allowed to create update to the software. Exception for Israel and maybe the UK (don’t quote me) are allowed to modify the software themselves.

It doesn’t mean a instant kill switch. But it does mean that if the USA decides to block someone from update it’s much harder for a country to make their own update.

South African authorities said 23 of the Palestinians had traveled onwards to other countries, without naming those countries, but 130 remained and were allowed in after intervention from South Africa’s Ministry of Home Affairs and an offer by an NGO called Gift of the Givers to accommodate them.

“Even though they do not have the necessary documents and papers, these are people from a strife-torn, a war-torn country, and out of compassion, out of empathy, we must receive them and be able to deal with the situation that they are facing,” Ramaphosa said.

I need 1000 Bitcoin to control the totally real AGI you should be scared of. Like really real and scary. Just around the corner guys. And it says I need those 1000 Bitcoin to control it.

Wait the fucking minute. Kissinger? Kissinger got a god damn peace prize…

My god he actually did get it for the Paris peace Accords, before what he did in Cambodia and South America became known.

Revive the Nike-X you cowards. I want to die from the sonic boom of a missile accelerating to mach 10 in 5s

I’m listening to YouTube music with addblock. Which I am surprised isn’t a more common setup because it’s zero effort.

And a lot of burned CD of YouTube to MP3 because my car still has its 2000s radio player which doesn’t have USB.

Ah fuck I think they have the WRC license nowadays. Welp Dirt rally is still very good.

And for once, nothing will change

Yeah you are right. Didn’t notice the wrong wings. I was looking at the fact it managed to make an entire cruise ship look normal as evidence it was photoshop.

Edit : My bad, some obvious AI artifacts

Insane that people can’t tell this is a low effort Photoshop and think it’s AI. Look it’s literally a picture of a cropped cruise ship overlapped with a plane. It’s 5min of Gimp

How does that work? Wouldn’t the absence of predator results in a lack of evolutive pressure to grow larger?