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> How about we turn down the heat, everyone?

The heat is coming, in part, from the lack of a proper support channel.


I agree that their support is abysmal, and that is intentional. It's unfortunate that the greater market doesn't seem to care that much right now.

AliExpress?

In bulk, that'll cost you what, $50 or so?


The same place as the Ukrainians and the Russians get their stuff.

I presume that includes the engine, sensors, etc.

> One scary aspect of drones is that they can loiter around an area.

There are some new ones that work like landmines, too; they sit on the ground until they detect something worth going after.

> Another chilling aspect of drone warfare is that you don't get to surrender.

You can. First one happened in 1991.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/featured/humans-surrendered-t...

It happens fairly regularly in Ukraine.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukrai...


I have seen the videos where they surrender. I have also seen the countless videos where they would clearly have surrendered if given a chance, but instead, they were blown up.

There are plenty of videos of russians fake surrendering. They are specifically instructed to put armed grenades on their body to kill those accepting surrender.

Sure; the same is true for humans shooting at you with machine guns and artillery. You don't always get a chance to surrender.

> I have also seen the countless videos where they would clearly have surrendered if given a chance, but instead, they were blown up.

surrender is likely usually accepted when its possible, but with drones it is often logistically difficult because frontline is very wide now.


> There are some new ones that work like landmines, too; they sit on the ground until they detect something worth going after.

Half-life 2 manhack vibes.


> Naoki said that the AirKamuy 150 could carry around three pounds, which is just enough to carry a small amount of supplies or munitions to a target and it’s not hard to imagine swarms of incendiary cardboard drones slamming into targets in the near future.

"so far" is for the next five minutes or so.

It's a bit silly to claim a misleading headline when you can't read the article. https://archive.is/5Pqg6


"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it." - The Hunt for Red October

"I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival." -- War Games

I'm glad I live only a few miles from Moffit Airfield, which is almost certainly a primary target (given that besides taking out NASA you'd also get Google HQ). Knowing that I most likely wouldn't even perceive a nuclear attack is strangely comforting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qc8jJ0TjSY

Kid: What started it?

Col: I don't know two toughest Kids on the Block I guess sooner or later they're going to fight.

Kid: That simple?

Col: Maybe somebody just forgot what it was like.

Kid: Well who is on our side?

Col: 600 million screaming Chinese.

Kid: Last I heard there were a billion screaming Chinese.

Col: There were.

Red Dawn.


When I was a kid, "starving children in Ethiopia" was a reason to eat your whole dinner. My formerly Swiss grandma once said "starving children in Europe" and I was very thrown for a moment.

Immigration and naturalization restrictions.

So if they hit ten million do they start kicking people out for every native baby born?

Switzerland's fertility rate has been below the replacement rate of 2.1 babies / woman since the 1970s. There is zero chance of births pushing it above the 10M count. If anything, immigration is the sole reason the Swiss aren't going extinct.

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Following the same logic: everyone who isn't a Native American doesn't count as American.

And how are you going to count someone with one Swiss parent and one immigrant parent? Three Swiss grandparents and one immigrant grandparent? What are you going to do about all those people in Genève who had a forefather move over from Annecy 5 generations ago?

The fact that most Swiss people speak languages pretty damn close to German, French, and Italian should be a good indication that immigration does, in fact, create Swiss people.


What counts as a Swiss person? Would children of immigrants growing up in Swiss society, going to Swiss schools, and speaking the national languages of Switzerland count?

Swiss people are more strict about this than other parts of europe, so they lean more toward swiss ethnicity, also being open to neighbouring citizens. Last being immigrants from outside europe.

More like Switzerland has direct democracy so they can make their voices heard.

No, they just stop accepting immigrants.

I asked how to get a partial refund (it blew through my quota in a single question) and Claude sent me to Github.

> it was undoubtedly left-wing

What if it's just… right?


As Stephen Colbert said 20 years ago... "Reality has a well-known liberal bias"

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