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New comment by daemoens in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

daemoens — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:22:40 +0000

The Millennium Challenge 2002 is discredited because it had motorcycle couriers that moved at light speed handling all communications and 10' speed boats launching 19' missiles.

New comment by daemoens in "End of Japanese community"

daemoens — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:42:08 +0000

Do you have any examples of American expressions young generations are using in French?

New comment by daemoens in "Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say"

daemoens — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:38:34 +0000

It was mostly children. Every child is on the internet and uses the same social medias adults use.

New comment by daemoens in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

daemoens — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:14:55 +0000

I don't believe there is anything else we could realistically do. This stage of the conflict is about to hit the 2 year mark.

New comment by daemoens in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

daemoens — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:33:18 +0000

You still vote for the lesser evil? Sitting out only benefits the greater evil, not you. I don't know how to make this any clearer.

New comment by daemoens in "Anduril's product engineering machine"

daemoens — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:32:10 +0000

> Shahed where originally designed and manufactured by Iran.

I'm talking about mass manufacturing, not design. Russia has had capability to hit any Ukrainian factory since Day 1 of the war, that's why they've successfully dispersed and hidden their production so much. Also, I've always been pro-Ukraine.

>they are always several steps behind Ukrainians.

That's not true anymore, both sides have plateaued because all innovations are quickly copied. Anti-recon quadcopters were another Ukrainian innovation that took the Russians roughly 6 months to catch up to. The only advantage they have is size and strategic depth. There isn't much else.

New comment by daemoens in "Anduril's product engineering machine"

daemoens — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:09:33 +0000

Russia has the strategic depth to mass manufacture specialty drones in a way that Ukraine cannot. Even though Ukraine used fiber optic drones first, the Russians were the first to produce them in large numbers and it took Ukraine months to catch up. Lancet/Shahed drones are even bigger examples of this.

New comment by daemoens in "Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock"

daemoens — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:23:31 +0000

> How long would it be until their entire fleet is sunk? 2 days? A week?

That's not something you or anyone else could predict.

> How long after that should the Three Gorges Dam be allowed to exist?

This would immediately cause a death toll in the millions and a nuclear response would follow.

New comment by daemoens in "Kagi for Kids"

daemoens — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:32:48 +0000

Read the rest of his comment

> Not that I'm a rabid atheist or would deny my child such a thing, but if THAT can enter my 8yr olds brain via his short allowed time where he can browse by himself, i'm worried what else is coming his way through it.

New comment by daemoens in "A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake"

daemoens — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:08:01 +0000

No such kill switch exists, the US stopped providing electronic warfare intelligence that made the jets more survivable. The stoppage of all military aid was significantly more damaging.

New comment by daemoens in "Ukraine agrees to accept immediate, 30-day ceasefire -US-Ukraine statement"

daemoens — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:12:19 +0000

The reality is that both sides still kill someone begging like that. Both sides are using over at least a 1,000+ drones a day and yet only 1-2 videos of this nature come out every month.

New comment by daemoens in "Ukraine agrees to accept immediate, 30-day ceasefire -US-Ukraine statement"

daemoens — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:46:50 +0000

I don't see that happening. They're too simple and too effective for any military to ignore. The bomber drones cause more casualities than any other type of drone and most of them are just commericial off-the-shelf drones with very simple modifications.

New comment by daemoens in "Go European: Discover European products and services"

daemoens — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:10:45 +0000

It doesn't matter if you build skyscrapers for over a century if you don't build enough of them. The only places in the country where rent is actually going down is where housing is actually being built in any significant numbers. Austin builds more homes in a week than San Fransisco does in an entire year.

Rent is 5k because the supply isn't meeting the amount of demand.

New comment by daemoens in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

daemoens — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 05:29:55 +0000

That factoid is because Muslims are obsessed with the name, and you will find someone named Mohammed in the majority of Muslim families, not immigration. It doesn't take much for the name to enter the top 10 boy names when they become 0.1% of the population.

New comment by daemoens in "Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port"

daemoens — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:08:01 +0000

You could get a dummy HDMI plug for $3 on Amazon and free up that monitor if you need it. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/BKFK-HDMI-Dummy-Plug-3840x2160/dp/B0C...

New comment by daemoens in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

daemoens — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:26:08 +0000

But nothing was done to Room 641A? What imaginary limits are you talking about? All the lawsuits went nowhere.

New comment by daemoens in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

daemoens — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:19:18 +0000

If you are an American, the intelligence community already treats you like you are the outgroup.

New comment by daemoens in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

daemoens — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:12:15 +0000

It's meaningful because it's one of the few things congress could actually pass. You can count on one hand the number of bills that passed this year with that kind of support that wasn't something like a budget bill.

New comment by daemoens in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

daemoens — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:47:31 +0000

The app was shutdown a couple of hours ago in the US and this was the message all TikTok users saw when they opened the app.[1]

The same guy who pushed for a ban massively last year, is going to save the app despite the security concerns he and most of our government said they had. If only we knew what happened in that classified briefing that made them vote together across party lines.

[1] https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.c...

New comment by daemoens in "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"

daemoens — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:27:53 +0000

Are there any other services or companies besides ByteDance affected by the bill?