TIL Thomas The Tank Engine is the child of No Face from Spirited Away and Hollow from Scavenger’s Reign wearing a train suit as a disguise.

I disagree, especially in support of light, dispersed infantry the T-62 brings almost nothing to the table, they are decidedly obsolete and not worth the weight to lug around.

That is 40 tons of junk you have to haul around with your logistics.

JD Vance is a worthless insecure manbaby

T-62s are basically a cruel joke on the lives of their crew in 2026 fighting against a sophisticated defender like Ukraine.

Worse than useless in the vast majority of cases.

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Fantastic article with great figures tho it is grim…

I feel so sad, but at least I feel less crazy now for thinking science as a career in the US had gone off a cliff, people are being forced to reckon with the fact that this cannot be undone with a flick of a wand and that the damage will reverberate for decades… for one it will lead to there being no early career scientists or engineers to train into more experienced workers in the US because we all left or changed careers. This is an alarm younger people have been ringing for years now while older people condescendingly ignored it and now the consequences have become existential not just to younger people trying to enter a career…

This is the collapse of science in the US, the general public will not care or understand adequately how to rebuild a robust culture and funding structure for science after conservatives have annihilated it and thus this is inevitably the beginning of a period of stagnation in US culture where the centrist, moderate position is halfway between a basic understanding of gradeschool level science and MAHA quack nonsense pseudoscience.

…

…ughhh

Don’t know how many times people told me not to worry and that at the end of the day that valuable science will be funded blah blah blah…

To those people fuck you for telling me to calm down and be less worried.

One of the core reasons neoliberalism inevitability leads to fascism and collapse is as an ideology it is entirely negative about the possibility of systematic forces of evil having any kind of systematic solution. All we can do is try to individually be better individuals ourselves and do our part.

In neoliberalism we are the noun and corporations, the ruling class, money, endless growth and unfettered greed are the verbs that change us. If we begin to organize and behave like a verb, neoliberalism acts with existential hostility and labels this “unnatural” in some way.

yeah but what if instead we just try corporate social media again but this time we punish kids more?

Also see https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/emerging-technologies/nasa-set-next-gen-airliner-wing-laminar-flow-flight-tests

Even if laminarity can be achieved, it is notoriously hard to sustain. “We plan to explore how off-design conditions affect laminar flow extents,” says Lewis Owens, CATNLF flow physics investigator at Langley. “How sensitive is this laminar flow shaping design to leading edge surface roughness changes? We created various 2D arrays of surface roughness elements to be temporarily applied to the wing leading edge to test the laminar flow sensitivity to increased surface roughness levels.

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looks awesome!

We banish you from this plane of reality, AI bubble!

waves wand

Begone evil beast!

useless fuck

Those specs include a total weight one-quarter less than today’s 70-plus-ton Abrams. It also has a hybrid-electric engine that sips half the fuel while delivering a top speed of about 40 mph.

A hybrid-electric drive is absolutely crucial for survivability as it allows an armored vehicle to reduce its heat signature by turning off the engine and relying on electric power to run all the systems on the tank.

yes?

Not really though I get how the game seems like it might be like that, in fact what I like about Farm Together 1 and 2 is that they are very focused on the actual moment to moment process of a running an arcadey farm. It is almost like a realtime boardgame or simple economy simulator, which makes the core gameplay loop immediately salient to anybody. You can pick up a controller, jump in and start helping out on the farm, it is a very simple, relaxed and rewarding gameplay loop and it makes the perfect co-op game because of it. There aren’t long cutscenes and lots of stuff and context you have to explain, it is a pick up and play experience.

It isn’t a shallow game either, while the game by no means “hard” in the sense that there aren’t really fail states, figuring out how to create an economy with your farm is a really interesting challenge and the wide variety of unlocks encourage and reward strategizing. The graphics are deceptive, there is a genuine engine building game at the heart of Farm Together 2.

Will you die already Ubisoft!??!?!

I don’t wish for game developers at Ubisoft to lose their jobs, I want them to be employed somewhere that doesn’t torpedo the end product of their talent.

Farm Together 2 is AWESOME

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2418520/Farm_Together_2/

The graphics are nice but don’t make the game stand out which is a minor shame since this is by far my favorite “build a farm” type game.

Splitscreen co-op and multiplayer is a blast and the game flow is very chill but rewarding.

Just wait til “Democratic” funding starts going to Platner’s opponents, that will show how truly scared they are of a genuine progressive candidate.

:(