That's also possible, it's too early to tell at this point. If tanks can carry a lot of anti drone munitions, and the AI systems can target drones reliably then a few tanks together might be able to fend off a lot of drones. There's also stuff like EV warfare and counterdrones as well. All this stuff is evolving rapidly.
I agree, the whole view of life being a binary is kind of silly in my opinion. It's a continuum from inorganic matter that simply reacts to the environment to self organizing living matter. Living things take input energy and then instead of resolving energy gradients directly as basic chemical reactions do, they channel this energy through metabolic pathways which allows maintaining some internal state. So, in a sense, it's kind of like a battery which facilitates delayed energy gradient resolution.
The key figures in the Azov Battalion are its commander, Andriy Biletsky, and his deputy, Ihor Mosiychuk.
Andriy Biletsky is also the leader of a Ukrainian organisation called the Social National Assembly. Its aims are stated in one of their online publications:
"to prepare Ukraine for further expansion and to struggle for the liberation of the entire White Race from the domination of the internationalist speculative capital"
"to punish severely sexual perversions and any interracial contacts that lead to the extinction of the white man"
As somebody who lives up there, I can tell you that all this is very performative. It doesn't move the needle on the general trade imbalance. If Canada wanted to actually get serious about this then we'd be creating crown corps to kick start domestic industry.
"There should be no doubt in anyone's mind how seriously Hitler has damaged first and foremost Germany and second the perception that people not just in the US but around the world have of Germany"
After doing a bit of posturing needed to placate the hoi polloi, Canada will cave to everything the US demands. The reality is that the US accounts for a far bigger percentage of trade for Canada than the other way around. So, the damage to Canada is proportionally much higher, and there's no way that the capital owning class will accept losing that much profit.
I just love the capacity Americans have for externalizing all their problems. It can't possibly be that the country is rotting from within and is the cause of its own problems. It's all these nefarious external actors who are at fault.
My point is that there's a global shortage of oil, so whatever oil is available on the market will be put to direct use. Meanwhile, the US is doing the opposite of refilling the strategic reserve right now, they're draining it in a desperate attempt to stabilize the price. And no, there aren't magical places where oil grown on trees where you can just go and get more. That's not how anything works.
That's also possible, it's too early to tell at this point. If tanks can carry a lot of anti drone munitions, and the AI systems can target drones reliably then a few tanks together might be able to fend off a lot of drones. There's also stuff like EV warfare and counterdrones as well. All this stuff is evolving rapidly.
I agree, the whole view of life being a binary is kind of silly in my opinion. It's a continuum from inorganic matter that simply reacts to the environment to self organizing living matter. Living things take input energy and then instead of resolving energy gradients directly as basic chemical reactions do, they channel this energy through metabolic pathways which allows maintaining some internal state. So, in a sense, it's kind of like a battery which facilitates delayed energy gradient resolution.
Better ban open source printer designs for security reasons.
And now people started printing knock offs which everybody is playing with.
Historically, a counter is developed every new weapon. Looks like that's already happening. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/08/10/russias-fpv-stopping-arena-system-for-tanks-gets-combat-debut/
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What's unfortunate about the world finally healing?
I think this a self reinforcing phenomenon myself. You need a material base to subjugate the rest of the world, and western material base has been severely eroded at this point. This is what I think is happening https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-global-south-holds-the-means
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28329329
These are the shared values of Ukraine and western liberals in a nutshell.
As somebody who lives up there, I can tell you that all this is very performative. It doesn't move the needle on the general trade imbalance. If Canada wanted to actually get serious about this then we'd be creating crown corps to kick start domestic industry.
It's even worse than that, it's the orphan crushing machine packaging its horrors in a way that makes them seem positive and heartwarming.
Trump’s golden age
"There should be no doubt in anyone's mind how seriously Hitler has damaged first and foremost Germany and second the perception that people not just in the US but around the world have of Germany"
After doing a bit of posturing needed to placate the hoi polloi, Canada will cave to everything the US demands. The reality is that the US accounts for a far bigger percentage of trade for Canada than the other way around. So, the damage to Canada is proportionally much higher, and there's no way that the capital owning class will accept losing that much profit.
Ukraine is going to be a model for the rest of Europe going forward.
yes, this is a huge risk for the Anthropic IPO
nuclear reactors are basically fancy steam engines
Thanks for making it, was a really neat concept. :)
I just love the capacity Americans have for externalizing all their problems. It can't possibly be that the country is rotting from within and is the cause of its own problems. It's all these nefarious external actors who are at fault.
My point is that there's a global shortage of oil, so whatever oil is available on the market will be put to direct use. Meanwhile, the US is doing the opposite of refilling the strategic reserve right now, they're draining it in a desperate attempt to stabilize the price. And no, there aren't magical places where oil grown on trees where you can just go and get more. That's not how anything works.