cosmosaucer [he/him]

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  • i had a similar interaction the other day in a random focus group about climate change and i had to hear live from university students old tropes like “But at what cost to their population?” when China came up as doing well on climate change lmao. hanging out in predominantly communist bubbles made me blissfully unaware how blatantly uninformed and id like to say idiotic the general population seemingly is. tho as sad as it is whenever the bubble gets pierced at times like these im also reminded that we still have a lot of work to do

    my ass was playing mental bingo with all the anti-socialism arguments, some guy deadass responded that we don’t need to end capitalism we just need to reduce consumption, whatever that means lmao









  • Apparently Ukraine has issues with its drones because of the market making a bunch of different drones/drone parts that aren’t necessarily mutually compatible, leading to chaos on the frontline among drone operators.

    According to the same military blogger, Russia basically only makes one type of drone so they don’t have that issue.

    I found this particularly interesting reading through this piece by the eventsinukraine substack so I thought I’d share it here:

    Quote by the milblogger

    There’s only one question — quality — and it’s pretty bad, because every FPV manufacturer is trying to get into this field.

    But not every manufacturer understands that making drones is not the same as making optics, and as a result we have personnel who weren’t trained and weren’t provided with the necessary gear to service optics working with the attitude that if it only flies every other time — that’s already great.

    Different manufacturers, different optics, different batteries, different kits — and that creates overall chaos, because each manufacturer requires specific equipment.

    For example, at one position in my unit there are as many as nine ground stations and it’s just a fucking disaster when you’re constantly switching from one to another and, as a result, it all turns into a complete mess and the equipment gets ruined.

    You won’t be surprised when I say who acts most sensibly here — the removeds [EIU - the standard term among Ukrainian militarists for the Russians], who in our experience in most cases use one type of drone with optics that everyone basically knows.

    I understand we’re supposed to have a market, healthy competition, but for us that turns into a side effect where anyone and everyone rushes to the trough [a hint at corruption - EIU] and as a result we end up saturating the army with a bunch of useless drone models.

    Radio gear is similar, but in optics this shows up most clearly because of the complexity of the design.