I was watching this earlier and got about halfway through before the power went out. I spent the next 90 minutes before it came back on trying to imagine a style of these that would look good on the south side of my house.

I didn’t come up with anything that my wife would let me install so I guess I’m going to stick with my plan of automated shades or drapes.

All 3 dish washer videos.

Also you can somehow carry 15 different weapons and 10,000 rounds of ammunition plus grenades, a knife, a flashlight, and even a BAZOOKA…but not extra health packs.

They just built them. Did you miss the announcement earlier this week?

Oh look, stochastic terrorism.

Confusing your own VP for the opposition party’s candidate is not a gaffe.

Could you electroplate the rotors?

I’m sure you could but the more armor you stack on the more you reduce the performance.

Which is why we’re only seeing this technology being deployed as stationary anti air defense.

Someone should let the US Army know. 😎

The US already has a DEW unit that fits in a UTV (Side by Side) for shooting down smaller drones…and they had it back in 2022.

The US also has a more powerful palletized version that fits in the bed of a pickup truck.

Then there’s the even heavier duty DE M-SHORAD capable knocking down UAVs and Mortar Rounds. It was tested and approved in 2021 and the first units of this are already deployed.

Unless they’re gps guided

These lower power DEW systems don’t target the optics they target propulsion, like the actual rotors themselves. Takes about 1-2 seconds to knock them out on the ISR type drones, maybe a bit longer on the FPV type depending on size.

Being a bulky, heavy weapon with a reliance on a lot of electricity

The SK version is bulky and heavy because it’s their 1st Gen however other countries already have versions that are significantly smaller, lighter, and fully mobile.

Plus it is huge and unweildy.

The US already has a DEW unit that fits in a UTV (Side by Side) for shooting down smaller drones.

The US also has a more powerful palletized version that fits in the bed of a pickup truck.

The South Koreans are just a few years behind is all.

That’s where they work the best. Seriously.

For fucks sake…not again.

Russia may not have

Russia is NOT the only problem, they aren’t even the main problem. There’s quite a number of issues where the mainstream media discourse depends almost entirely on whose in office. As an example take a look at crime statistics since 1991 and then align the media coverage about crime with whose in charge at the time. Immigration is another one. 2,000 people or more crossing the border every day may or may not be a crisis depending on which political party is in charge.

Those and other issues aren’t being manipulated, at least not primarily, by Russia Propaganda. That work is being done by mainstream media sources and the only way to know you’re being manipulated into an opinion is by putting in the work to learn the context and history of an issue.

It’s a massive time suck that can require hours, days, or even weeks to get a deep enough understanding to know you’re being lied to and / or manipulated.

Just accept it as Head Canon.

So who do you recommend replace him?

You ain’t pulling any MAGA supporters off Trump no matter what you do so why try? A Harris / Ocasio-Cortez ticket would energize the Dem base, drag Progressives in by the train load, pull over all the Dem leaning Independents and almost certainly more than a few of the “We want political change!” people.

It would also result in heart attacks for double digit percentage of MAGA people and they can’t vote if they have passed into the great beyond.

Aside from the funny it’s also a balanced ticket with Kamala “The Understudy” Harris on top and Alexandria “The Squad” Ocasio-Cortez present but without any real power as the VP.

Then have them get out there and swing for the fences. Harris can be the calm one while AOC can get all fiery and tirade on everything. It would be a great time!

I don’t swing their way politically but I’d honestly vote for that ticket ahead of anything else that’s probably going to be on there. Trump is a total non-starter for me, the Libertarians have gone loony, and no one else has any chance at all of being elected.

The DNP and RNP were large and absolutely in charge long before Citizens United. They took complete control of the election system after Ross Perot had them shitting their pants back in 1992.

DO most employers want to get this right?

Since MOST companies are small and privately held I’d say yeah, most of them probably do. The issue is mostly with large publicly traded companies and because they have so many employees their cheating is what drives the statistics you quoted.

That doesn’t mean a small company won’t ever try to cheat because they will, I’m just saying that the smaller companies who are closer to their workers and don’t have “shareholders” are far less likely to shiv someone over their OT.

Black powder, model rocket igniters, and ball bearings shoved into a piece of threaded pipe that’s capped on one end. You can build one of these in less than 30 minutes.

Hardest thing to get in Japan would probably be the black powder and it’s completely possible to manufacture that yourself. Everything else comes from the plumbing aisle of a DIY store and a model rocket shop.

I’m willing to bet that they somehow locked themselves into using 8 inch disks in the early to mid 80s if not earlier, when the 5¼ discs were still new-ish and the 3½ were brand-new or not even available yet.

You nailed it. The contract was awarded in June of 1988 and the ship was being designed in 87/88. That means the targeting system was almost certainly designed in 85/86. A time when 8" floppies were still prevalent in Industrial, Commercial, and Military systems.