TranscendentalEmpire

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Right, but you are going to want to choose a fuel that has the least chance of flaming up if you’re making a military vehicle.

Why? If something has gotten through the armour, your fuel is the least of your worries. I mean you are sitting next to a stack of shells filled with high explosives.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My dude, the military transports more volatile materials than hydrogen every day. Just because something doesn't make sense for civilian use doesn't mean it's never going to be viable for military use.

If you're worried about the dangers of transporting something like hydrogen, you're going to lose it when you find out what bombs are made out of.

Electric motors are just more efficient in just about every way at scale, the current diesel motors being used in tanks aren't really able to be improved upon. They're at their technological peak, so the only way to move forward with mbt is by figuring out how to make electric motors work.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Growth doesn't mean revenue over cost anymore, it just means number go up. The easiest way to create growth from nothing is marketing tulips to venture capital and retail investors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you mean to say, my "feels" are based on justification!

Is English your second language?

Btw abortions rock, I'm responsible for my fair share,

I dont think that's the brag you seem to think it is?

but I think using clickbaiting as a weapon is bad, even when it's for good causes

You haven't explained how you think this is click bait........ Something doesn't automatically become click bait, just because you think it's over an excitable topic. That would make all headlines click bait, based on the subjectivity of the observer.

"something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest"

There's a reason we have the Jenova Convention, after all

Lol, it's like I'm talking to an AI that's done way too many whippits.

The geneva convention, is an agreement pertaining to how soldiers interact with civilians during times of conflict. It has nothing to do with what we're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh because it's all just for optics.

Hey, that's a highly reductionist take. When did super charging the military industrial complex become "just for optics"?

Without funneling billions of dollars to corporations like RTX, this would be a very wildly unamerican conflict.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But your "justification" is based on feels......

The article goes into great detail supporting the substance of the title, meaning it's not click bait or manipulation.

You are the one attempting to manipulate people by claiming that the title is something it's not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Lol, you can't confirm it's click bait unless you read the article.....

None of your critiques are valid, as the substance of the article is congruent with the messaging in the title.

You're just being lazy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Yeah, I could, but it's a perfectly valid line of conversation to critique a post's title.

I don't think laziness is a valid line of criticism. I also find it strange to critique a title separate from its intended context.

we have the saying, "Always judge a book by its cover, and judge a response by it's grammar"

I don't think that's a very common idiom. It seems to imply that pedantry is more important than substance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Depends, but most of the time with NDA they don't prohibit you from talking about how an accident happened. They just don't allow you to assign liability/responsibility to the company.

The victim and the family of the victim kinda fell over themselves to make it clear that they don't blame the company, despite the fact that they were so negligent.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To be fair, they may have signed an NDA as part of their workers comp agreement. The prosthetics he has are pretty rare to see on people, as most private and socialized insurances won't cover microprocessing knee units.

The vast majority of the time when you see a high end powered knee unit on a guy that young, it's because they had a workers comp case, or they got them at the Walter Reed veterans hospital.

The knee looks like a Genium x3, which alone can bill for around 100k. His prosthetic feet bill for around 10k a piece, and then there's probably another 50k for custom sockets.

Even if he did harbor a grudge against the employer, in his position it would be difficult to rock the boat and potentially be on the hook for his acquired medical cost.

It's unfortunate, but I've definitely had a patient who was successfully sued for losing their leg at work. Word to the wise, don't get hurt on the job in Kansas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

You could always read the article......

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

K2 is just running on a big diesel engine, so it's not going to be as maintenance prone as the turbine on the Abrams.

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