Kalbear

Except the number of people affected so far is zero.

Okay, you should be able to then tell me what trans woman is out there currently that is absolutely dominating her sport. Or were you insinuating that Serena Williams is trans? Because to my knowledge the number of professional or even amateur athletes that are trans and are crushing their sport is...zero. If you don't, why are you talking about it then?

I guess the problem I am having is where the actual, ya know, literal problem is here that is supposedly being legislated. Are there a lot of trans women angling to join women's national soccer teams? And are they so much better than the normal women that we need to preemptively legislate or fret about it?

Also, to go back to the actual topic the thing I'm far more worried about is the same thing Israel is being dinged on - that the tools they're using is incredibly failure-prone. That might be okay when you're trying to identify a tree, but it's not great when using it to detain people or to call airstrikes.

There aren't any, but please continue. And no, I doubt you care at all. I doubt it's a big deal whatsoever until it has a possibility of affecting you. Abuse is abuse. Yeah, it's worse, but you're still okay with that 1-2%. I don't think it would be far worse, at least not for a while. That's the thing about authoritarian systems - they don't tend to prosecute everyone. They barely harass most people. They just make sure that you know that you could, at any time, be harassed. For some reason or no reason. Which is exactly the state we have right now for a whole lot of folks.

I'm sure the abuse will be greater. But the potential for abuse by Trump or anyone else will still be there. You should care about the potential for abuse regardless of who is in control. To be clear I'm not equating anything - I'm saying that the problem exists now, not in the future. That said it likely doesn't matter that much when laws aren't really important and no one cares about holding powerful people accountable.

It doesn't; it applies to ALL the country. My point is that abuse is the entire MO already.

We are already using facial scanning and a whole lot of other data to block, suspend, or restrict people regularly. We do it for all sorts of stupid-ass shit, like a 7 year old having the same name as a terrorist and being blocked from flying. There are already no actual process rules or rights around this. The difference, as I said, is that you're now worried about it applying to you.

It already is for half the country, or more. If you don't like it, you should not like it right now.

Yeah, this is my take too, especially the ending. Things were wrapped up way too neatly, there were a number of side plots that were entertaining and added nothing to the story, and a number of times things just kind of...stopped. I was honestly expecting something clever with the carrier pigeons, but even that wasn't special. It's pretty and fun, and often funny. Early on in the season there are some real good Ritchie crime sequences and cutting wit. But the ending was definitely a letdown.

This is already the case, just not for people like you.

My feeling is that we've moved on from this being a logistical issue - especially one that Ukraine can now exploit - and gone to a more urgent issue of stopping advances. Per reports Russia is flying flags in towns NW of Avdiivka: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/24/russia-ukraine-war-live-us-biden-senate-zelenskiy-aid

I think that's cool, but also I think it's somewhat problematic that a lot of these works are heavily derivative of existing artists to the point that they're copying. I don't know that that's how you're using this, mind you, but if you're producing something that has a ton of artwork that is in the similar vein of existing artists and those artists aren't getting any credit I think that's pretty immoral - especially if you're then making money off of that.

If they're selling that, yes.

I do appreciate the incredible shittery of both criticising trans people for wanting to do sports because they have an advantage based on going through puberty as the other sex, and then ALSO criticizing using puberty blockers which would make this a nonissue.

but being literal is on my checklist of things to bring

Yes, I WANT to not have a massive depressive episode and withdrawals from lack of medicine while I'm on vacation

I'm really curious about this, honestly - what assessments of the technical components have been so strong? I'm entirely willing to believe I've missed a lot but the notion that tanks are being used in a critical way and therefore must adapt seems to be something that most military theorists are already going away from.

So why emphasize what you need to do to make a tank okay against certain types of drone strikes? I have seen that - the Gepard is exactly the sort of thing that is needed more of, not less - and it is not a tank. Then why defend specifically against drones? I like how you answered a bunch of the questions you asked. That makes it much easier. My point is that an infantry can fire some of these - especially drones that go after other drones - but more importantly they will either have to live with the idea that they will simply rely on not being found or being killed if they are, or they'll have to be under the umbrella of the defensive stuff. Which happens all the time apparently At least in Ukraine that's simply incorrect. A lot of manpads have hit things, mostly because the Russians didn't know that there were infantry waiting for the helicopters. No, it's not a joke; Russia has shitty night equipment and doesn't tend to fight at night. Sure, but it doesn't matter because of all the other factors. They did, but notice how they're not happening any more thanks to defensive structures and combined arms and the Russians learning how to counter them? No, I don't think they use salt water; submarines have passive cooling (which is what I said). They have the water around them and that makes a difference. They don't rely on it to cool actively but they absolutely do use it. Diesels use it even more than that. Seriously, why are you so upset about this? Why the personal attacks? The submarine is, however, and batteries ARE very hot if you want them to stay at reasonable performance. The Nissan Leaf got away with aircooling and they have a ridiculously shitty battery life. Teslas use more cooling. Just as a thought experiment - how far and fast do you think drones are going to advance in the next 6 years?

First off, again - drones aren't the only problem. Second, the systems needed to shoot down drones before they can see you or target you are not portable on a tank by itself, at least not any that we have seen so far. They are their own units and require combined arms use, which if you'll recall was one of the main points I made. And all of that STILL doesn't answer 'what is the value of an actual tank'. Sure, you can mount all of this on a tank - you can also mount it on a significantly faster, more mobile, lighter armored vehicle. Or just have it as part of the infantry kit. Or have guys in bunkers doing this from 10km away for you. And none of that - NONE of that - solves the problem of things like longer range ballistics that target you in minutes. They're still not used at the scale or scope that you're talking about, and running a battery on a 100-ton object that has passive cooling via the ocean and is several hundred feet long is not the same as running it on a car that is being jostled repeatedly by driving. "Almost" is not the same thing as here. And if you're talking a Toyota Prius as the option, well, it's way too gutless as a choice in terms of power and performance. Good luck with that. And AGAIN, all of this ignores the central premise: what is the actual battlefield value of a tank? Russia largely doesn't fight at night so that's largely irrelevant. Among other things, yep. What I said was that their role as a dedicated armor killer is not as valuable any more, and that role has evolved to a 'exploit this one place in particular' or ambush tactics. My point is that there is no reason that you MUST have the role 'attack helicopter' any more than you MUST have the role 'tank'. If you are going to adapt in warfare you should adapt. You don't see horses dying in combat and think 'I should build a better horse'.

So...my point was correct? Cool to know. Abrams have been heavily modernized recently. It doesn't really matter; they're not dying because of drone strikes, they're dying because of mass fires and accurate fires. Top armor ain't gonna protect against that. Again, the problem is that there exists no amount of sufficient armor to deter the weapons that are currently in use. That includes drones, indirect fires, direct fires, man-portable fire, mines, and all sorts of craziness. Heck, it's not entirely clear how well that armor can sustain something like a Bushmaster's attack. It isn't just dealing with drones (though how a tank can deal with individual fleets of drones is I guess left as an exercise to the reader). You didn't write anything about solid-state batteries or natrium batteries, and neither of those techs currently exist in the way we'll need to use them in vehicles like this. In any case it hardly matters. The problem is not that tanks can explode or that they produce heat. Fixing imaging to spot tanks is not difficult and exists as retrofits for most of the US and Europe-supplied weaponry anyway. Heat signatures are not what are being used to spot things. If you want to talk about future tech that doesn't exist you might as well talk about active camo - that would be significantly more useful. I confess modern designs might defeat some of the more creative cheap drone attacks like dropping a grenade or a RPG that was held by a off the shelf drone with a 3d printed harness into the open turret of a tank, but that's really not the main way drones are being used right now.

Per the director it has a lot of mecha-inspirations: https://www.gamesradar.com/atlas-netflix-jennifer-lopez-sci-fi-movie-brad-peyton-director-interview/ "Avatar, Aliens, Titanfall"

Pretty sure that's part of the Clan stuff but I could be wrong. It's been a while. D Va does, as does Halo/Cortana, as does Into the Spider Verse and Peni Parker. There's a lot of that out there.

It's not ideal. I don't know it's the worst, but it's an engine designed and optimized around not a ton of interactivity, a ton of multiplayer/networking support and lag-tolerant, a matchmaking system, poor communication tools and a large-scale amount of state transferrence from other disconnected entities. The good parts are that it's great at rendering and keeping in scope large scales of areas and does a decent job of interior and exterior systems. The real problem is that the tooling and modifications and systems that a RPG would want - NPCs moving around regularly, location and event triggering, large amounts of objects being modified in state, in-game cutscene rendering, inventory management, a large amount of different actions and interactions with environments - are things that basically none of the other users of Frostbite want. Which means you have to branch off and hope that the core frostbite engine doesn't break all your shit.

Or Overwatch, or Mechwarrior, or...