When the only politics people know is posting, it's inevitable that art can only be understood in the same way.

Augustine's Law but for MDA programs.

Guillam as the human, if only because I want the scene where Smiley (Kermit) walks in on Ann (Ms. piggy) and Haydon (Fozzie Bear).

Ah yeah I just mean that today you probably have 20+ MIRVed ICBMs heading to the US and a few hundred shorter range things in theater, not to mention rocket artillery all let off at the same time if Kim decides to Do It. "Fun" to speculate about for sure!

Guess I need to go back and read it too. Although given the trendline and that NK seems to be doing the 1950s maximum overkill strategy, guess if they let everything off the hook in the first salvo... so a lot more get through.

Kinematics for intercepting a highly lofted ICBM very different than a maximum range MRBM, so I wouldn't feel very good about being in Japan.

Confusing means and ends? Wouldn't happen to my elite, certainly not in national security too, nooooo

Is he the crank who also things Russia and China are secretly doing low yield tests? Because if so man...

Très bon episode, mais je l'ai trouvé un peu crédule sur les capacités des nouveaux acteurs de la BITD. C'est vrai qu'ils font la pub mieux que les gros groupes, mais on attend de voir que la qualité de l'équipement soit au rendez-vous. Sans parler de la capacité a industrialiser à bas coût...

RTEMS - Wikipedia

RTEMS: Real Time Executive for Mecha Systems: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTEMS

Background on this: there's a recent chips act funding call and $600M in DARPA funding in FY26 for quantum; wouldn't surprise me if they make giving over shares a requirement for that funding.

Neither Victims nor Executioners - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neither...

Pretty sure no one in VC land knows the defense primes have <10% margins...

The graphics are kinda cringe but as far as I'm concerned it's an absolutely legitimate form of civil disobedience.

For knowing a few, it's absolutely not? Mainly quakers, anabaptists and other peace church members? Most accept that a possible consequence of this is jail time.

Keeps you warm at night! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_rad...

"Is EAR99 export controlled", the greatest thread in forum history, locked by a moderator after 12329 pages of heated debate,

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed...

The more plausible scenario to me for A Bad Time has always been GMD shots from Alaska looking to the Russians like ICBMs due to paranoia and poor early warning

Kind of sad to recreate in the aggregate christian pacifism and yet miss the point so completely! (Not the book, which I didn't know was written by a quaker!)

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

Not so much a product of Obama as a direct downstream consequence of the domestic politics of the GWOT.

Hard not to read all this as national security types processing their angst on main!

Sure, which is why I think any path forward will involve the US choosing to trade off primacy for the (re-)building of liberal international institutions and participation in a multilateral order (i.e. make the Atlantic charter great again)

Long shadow of the GWOT, plus the unwillingness of most foreign policy types to engage in domestic politics and make a positive argument (unfortunately!)

I totally agree, but I find it interesting that it's so hard for people to imagine this outside of American "leadership" (however speciously defined).

Doesn't the fact that the Safran engines have roughly the same specific fuel consumption and TWR as the engines listed as "turbofans" imply that they are roughly equivalent? I wonder if there's a translation issue from french.

Best class I took in college was STS -- Engineering Disasters, taught by a retired NTSB investigator -- on the intersection of policy, engineering, and the social construction of risk. Hugely underrated discipline IMO!

I mean I work in quantum, and literally can't think of a single area where they "lead"! But always happy to be proven wrong!

How are we behind?