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Yeah, whataboutism is essentially telling on one's self; an implicit recognition that one has no better arguments than to try to distract.

F-35 was more the high-profile failure. The F-22 was just produced in lower numbers than planned because there was no perceived need for a specialised air superiority fighter in the expected numbers after the Soviet collapse.

It's still something I'd rather have than not; not having it makes for a less fluid experience.

Yeah, the West kept semiconductor technology away from the Soviets for years and even though the Soviets managed ways of importing it through grey markets in other countries, their reverse-engineering attempts were consistently a decade or more behind the West, something that's continued to this day in Russia.

The vast majority of people who have any experience with crypto… will be people who were victims of rug-pulls

Don't forget ransomware!

First of all, not American.

Second of all, nine-dash line and neo-colonialism in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe says very differently. As does the Han supremacism that Xi surrepitously perpetuates.

That moment when you pretend to fight against imperialism - by implicitly supporting imperialists in the PRC.

Microsoft definitely did: https://www.zdnet.com/finance/blockchain/microsoft-is-shutting-down-its-azure-blockchain-service/

I wouldn't be surprised if there were also serious internal discussions from some cryptocurrency booster within the ranks at Google as well.

And this is an example of the "AI as a continuation of the same grift as blockchain" pipeline, with exactly the same vague business wank with no substance behind it: https://www.aiunleashedglobalsummit.com/summit

A lot of companies investigated cryptocurrency obliquely; "blockchain" was the hype word for several years in tech. And several of those companies had a serious sunk-cost fallacy going when they perpetuated their blockchain projects, despite blockchain only at best being a case of Worse Is Better, where a solution that sucks, but exists can be better than a perfect option that doesn't.

It's also worth noting that the same VCs who backed cryptocurrency have pivoted to generative AI. It's all part of the same grift, just with different clothes.

inb4 "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people"

He never ate his own balls like he said he would. Coward.

There goes the "will they, won't they?" of Red Bull taking all of the wins this year. Good work from Sainz, Norris and Hamilton; that was a bit embarrassing from Russell.

First of all, it suffers from what TV Tropes would call the Eight Deadly Words: "I don't care what happens to these people". I won't fault the acting; I feel the actors did the best they could with the writing they had. It's just that I thought the writing was extremely uncompelling and there was nothing about the characters which made me want to learn more about them or their troubles.

Secondly, I don't like the structure of the film. It's a melodrama, a type of story that I do not enjoy by default, with some plot points that are so heavily telegraphed that it sucked the energy out of the film. The multiverse structure that the film relies on was uncompelling to me. The action scenes lacked any sort of visceral impact to bring them back down to Earth; they were so obsessed with flashiness that there was nothing for me to connect with.

And thirdly, while I can enjoy absurdist humour, this film felt like it thought it was cleverer than it was throughout. I've heard a description elsewhere of this film as "nicecore Rick & Morty" and while that's awfully reductive, it still gets to the root of some of the problems I had with the film.

I don't know how to do spoilers on Kbin and frankly, most of that movie is a walking spoiler alert. Without giving too much away, it had to do with an oblique reference to another movie.

Contrarily to the general opinion, I found this a turgid and unpleasant experience to watch; there was a single moment in the film that amused me in passing, but they ended up taking that joke and beating the dead horse so hard you could use it as a dynamo.

Even worse: Shilling for the NFTs of a used game store.

I've heard that a Tiger II took more manhours to complete than an American heavy bomber.

German tanks still best cannons.

Heard you talking shit about my 17-pounder.

Sometimes, it's about the perception of power, but these people tend to make the worst sorts of moderators. Sometimes, it's about wanting to steer a community in a certain direction or to stabilise a community in the direction it's already going in. As for me, I've gone through the first two, plus had a third path - I was effectively deputised as a moderator twice as a spam-catcher.