Razors and blades - every console game has a, IIRC, ~$5 platform holder fee, which goes to Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo. So if you buy a Playstation at-cost and then buy 5 games, then Sony makes ~$25 in profit.

They’re literally building bunkers though. The bunkers are for literally going and hiding in a hole like Saddam Hussein.

Bullet Heaven is an old bullet-hell game playable here. Naming the genre that is stupid.

Bullet Heaven is the name of an existing game, don’t clobber it with a genre name.

100% correct. If AI somehow replaces junior devs, someone will have to train them in substitute for paid real-world experience.

The PineNote. Depending on your definition of “proper”, since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn’t have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.

Adding to OP:

Framework: You are self-employed.

and Chinese companies are not actively bribing EU governments for months

Is the US doing that? What are you referring to?

They keep saying “51st state”, which implies Canada will only be a single state under the electoral college, and thus will be shafted just like California.

They fought in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion. Which is distinct from mercenaries AIUI because Ukraine is 100% in charge of the chain of command and takes full responsibility for their actions.

That’s really cool.

The tea party was astroturfed and was their construct from day one, they didn’t coopt it.

I don’t know what he considers waste, but there’s a ton of obvious waste, such as military suppliers

That’s likely an accounting quirk you linked: if they list 9 screws and a tank for $1M but don’t specify individual prices, in some situations they just approximate it by assuming they cost the average - so they assume the tank costs $100k and each screw costs $100k each.

The real problem is that noboct created a “redditreposts” subreddit.

Ukraine has had a “no mercenaries” policy IIRC, if NK troops are seen as mercenaries then maybe it’ll legitimize Ukraine shopping for manpower.

Neither are ATACMs. They aren’t air force though.

What if they switched to shooting sand? Raining sand isn’t too deadly, it’s not dense enough right? And if it’s not lethal enough to the drones, then they can just up the caliber to shoot more sand.

Okay then, how does Hungry Jacks fit into that chain of logic?

How much obsolete tech does the WW2 infantry have, is the question - e.g. if it’s US troops then they’ll have Garands, which are only obsolescent, and they only need to stall until the modern air force can come help.

…actually, no. The modern air force could split up, put 10%ish of its forces into ROFLstomping the WW2 air force and the other 90% into supporting the WW2 infantry. So the WW2 infantry will always have air support from the moment the war starts. If the air force can obliterate a few platoons of modern infantry, then the WW2 infantry can scavenge some of their equipment and level the playing field a bit.

Aren’t those planes brought up to the air by actual planes? If modern planes have air dominance, then those plywood planes had better have a functioning plywood engine because there won’t be anything else to get them skybound.