anon_kyla

The Drone Question. Is America screwed by lack of industrial capacity?
The war in Ukraine is teaching us that explosive hunter-seeker drones, FPV piloted or autonomous, are shockingly overpowered. Flying panzerfausts are wrecking armor for fractional cents on the dollar, and flying grenades are blowing the legs off of boys wh... posted 13mo ago with 40 replies technology economics

The Drone Question.

fair enough. Fortress North America is not threatened and we could use a good solid haircut in imperialist ambitions to help us realize the situation and smoke out the opportunistic foreigners. But the imperial retreat is going to be extremely destructive ... 13mo ago

fair enough. Fortres

Well we're not doing great at diplomacy. Industrial revolution sounds necessary but I fear America has never done anything but surge the wave of European civilization. Now that the generating core is mostly gone though, can we get it back?... 13mo ago

Well we're not doing

I assume you mean to respond to >>1956. Good points, but the question is how to get there from here, without so much destructive reckoning.... 13mo ago

I assume you mean to

Yes this is important. We can't imitate Chinese victimology. We've had a century of foolishness, more than anything. No one could have done any of this to us without our own lack of will to thrive. Best to simply overcome it and move on. We may have to ide... 13mo ago

Yes this is importan

Instead of engaging to complain, just click the little X button to hide dumb posts. This will cause the algorithm to delete them and ban the poster if enough people hide them. (this guy is probably already banned) 13mo ago

Instead of engaging

I use "we" somewhat vaguely and uncommunicatively to refer to anything from sofiechan posters, to our extended network in "the sphere", to the broader majority of Americans and Europeans that I think we have common civilizational interests with. You are ri... 13mo ago

I use "we" somewhat

I disagree with your mapping of vitalistic/degenerate (a moral axis) onto friend/enemy (a political axis) domestically. I don't think they are all that correlated. The whole reason there's a real conflict is that the other side aren't that degenerate, they... 13mo ago

I disagree with your

Consumer demand isn't the problem. It's American supply. They're is plenty of consumer demand for drones in America and otherwise. The problem is America doesn't have a real industrial base anymore, so buying drones just amounts to just inviting Chinese mu... 12mo ago

Consumer demand isn'

Buying drones doesn't particularly help you build drones. Unless it's just a handful for reverse engineering and inspiration. I think if your drone sports were to be leveraged into something industrially useful, it would start by making drones do something... 12mo ago

Buying drones doesn'

consumer demand is a complete red herring here. Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosyste... 12mo ago

consumer demand is a