US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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NASA has had VR technology with full hand motion capture since 1990. I don't like to Stud post but @Sensitive Young Man is right. Anything you see today is streamlined tech from 30 years ago and anything their hiding is about 60 years ahead.
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iirc even the power glove was fairly good, it just was hampered by running on an NES
there was a thing in the 90s of modding them to run on serial ports
 
even IF you want to belive it, we lost 100k HIGH PAYING jobs in January,
yeah you know all those DEI daycare jobs were funded by jew money in HCOL areas right? all those "Diversity Director" and "Inclusion Outreach" and "Sensitivity Reader" bullshit jobs were making like 120k each
 
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even IF you want to belive it, we lost 100k HIGH PAYING jobs in January,
Blame AI.
If it's Americans I care, however I do not give one single flying microscopic fuck if 100k Balijeets and Sanjeets were flushed from the tech industry.
The bulk of them were from Amazon so it’s almost certainly jeets.

as far as i'm aware as civillian tech has caught up the gap between military and us hardware has lessened
That’s what they want you to think.
 
Could you give more info on this? as far as i'm aware as civillian tech has caught up the gap between military and us hardware has lessened.
Without getting into specifics and derailing too much. It's not so much about tech level as much as it is about available energy. A civilian and the government largely have access to the same technology but only the government has access to theoretically limitless energy. In the 90's that headset didn't take alot of electricity to power but the monster of a computer it requires to run the software did, likely a small dedicated powerplant that just powered the training facility. And that's just not something a civilian can compete with. Now that computers are more powerful while demanding less energy they finally we're able to get the technology out to us, being that was the limiting factor.

You or I could realistically play around with 10Mw lasers in our homes. Enough to pop balloons and burn wood and we would conclude that the technology is not up to snuff for current military needs. The government can dedicate an entire battleship reactor to testing a 40Kw laser that burns holes in aluminum a mile away and decide it's ready to go into production. The gap in available energy is what controls the dynamic between what technology we have vs. What the government has.
 
What's the last thing you could think of that was military tech that was unveiled that they've had for a long ass time in secret?
xm25_3.jpg these have been around for a while and don't get talked about nor could we buy them or own them.

Also this, even older. XM29.jpg

Have you been able to buy a stealth tech vehicle yet?


They failed you say, but that testimony in venezuela sounded a lot like its still in use.
 
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And what would you say the time from them having that tech made was vs it getting revealed to the public?

Without getting into specifics and derailing too much. It's not so much about tech level as much as it is about available energy. A civilian and the government largely have access to the same technology but only the government has access to theoretically limitless energy. In the 90's that headset didn't take alot of electricity to power but the monster of a computer it requires to run the software did, likely a small dedicated powerplant that just powered the training facility. And that's just not something a civilian can compete with. Now that computers are more powerful while demanding less energy they finally we're able to get the technology out to us, being that was the limiting factor.

You or I could realistically play around with 10Mw lasers in our homes. Enough to pop balloons and burn wood and we would conclude that the technology is not up to snuff for current military needs. The government can dedicate an entire battleship reactor to testing a 40Kw laser that burns holes in aluminum a mile away and decide it's ready to go into production. The gap in available energy is what controls the dynamic between what technology we have vs. What the government has.
Same with this, do you think there's a consistent amount of time before this kind of stuff gets to us? or has the gap widened/lessened over time? what is the gap if so? 10 years? 20 years?
View attachment 8547689 these have been around for a while and don't get talked about nor could we buy them or own them.
IIRC AIWS failed
 
LMAO we shut down an airport for 10 days over a party balloon

you clowns arent reading what I wrote, there was NO DRONE, it was a balloon
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Can't reply to the post directly despite it being smaller than what I would expect from long-form posts getting auto-disabled from quotes, but:

It actually infuriates me to no end whenever shitlibs from blue states brag ceaselessly about "hurr durr you red state inbred hicks are subsidized by the federal government and our leftist policies." It's always been the inverse and a projection from their smart mouths given their states subsidize their illegal migrants and other lumpenproles at the expense of the working middle class Americans who still have the misfortune to live in those blue hellholes.
The thing is, every time they pull bullshit that about how the red states draw more in welfare or subsidies, etc. what they ALWAYS fail to mention is that it's always 99.9% the one, ultra blue liberal saturated city in the red state that is the reason for that.
 
these have been around for a while and don't get talked about nor could we buy them or own them.
These are cool but never achieved adoption as they were inconvenient to use, had a lot of problems in the field and didn't do anything that you couldn't accomplish with an m4a1 and grenades or other already available munitions.
 
Same with this, do you think there's a consistent amount of time before this kind of stuff gets to us? or has the gap widened/lessened over time? what is the gap if so? 10 years? 20 years?
Its not timed. It just comes down to running a cost/benefits analysis. If it becomes cheaper to producd, can be powered and produces a profit then it's "released". It's not like a disclosure or aliens thing lol. Also the public is the best kind of beta tester you could ask for. Mass adoption of new consumer technology results in rapid refinement of that technology. So the benefits goes both ways. We get cool new stuff. They get telemetry/data to make the stuff they have better, faster.
IIRC AIWS failed
It didn't fail per say. The ammunition was too expensive to produce at that scale and store. But the data was invaluable in the development of our new tank shells that are basically the same but scaled up. New US tanks will be using a smart shell that is programmed inside the breach. Turns out it's actually a good idea when you're not trying to cram a computer into a .50cal
 
A little cheat code 4 u. Look up government, company, police, etc auctions. They typically have the VIN available, and if so ask the nearest dealer for the maintenance records. You can then take a stab as to whats wrong with the car and if its in decent condition but just being cycled out due to age.
Another idea is estate auctions that have cars available, and you may be able to do a similar strat especially if the car only ever had 1 owner. Have got multiple good condition cars for under 6k, my current SUV was only 3k with 125k and a broken AC.
I will second this advice. Govdeals and PublicSurplus are websites that do this sorta shit. My current car was 4k flat from a Govdeals auction.
 
They were still in use and whatevers left of them still probably used as necessary until gone, but its the kind of thing they do that you don't really hear about and not allowed to even be around as a civ unless you develop them, but even then you can't really keep it in your safe at home. The operators liked to use them so much so they would often abandon the m4 and solely use an xm25.
 
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