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And? Where is the calculation showing that the RoI for tanks is less than other systems? We could arm soldiers with spears very cheaply, and we'd lose everything.

Boy Scouts and, in BC, a CORE course used to cover almost all of that for the average non-urban teenager.

Beets. Beets are the worst. The colour match is scary.

That is the essence right there. You can have the best OA/SA/BA standing behind the workers observing and taking notes and then go out and implement a model, and it should faithfully duplicate everything you are doing poorly as much as whatever you are doing well. Everyone has foibles...

Obviously experiences can vary. Generally a real-world company doesn't have the luxury of indulging its developers (time and money), and all the time pressure tends to flow all the way to the bottom where developers are acutely aware they have none to spare. Nor, in any environment following...

Ask a Uighur or a Tibetan.

Sure. And along the way they find ways to acquire our tech and then undercut our companies, or we end up spending billions ripping out installed hardware we can't trust, or they get us dependent/vulnerable on a trade flow (in either direction) and then apply pressure to be politically...

The thing that has to give, for a path to peace with China, is Canada. It's ridiculous to argue on the one hand that standing up to Trump and ignoring the US is better than acquiescence to his demands, and on the other to plead for good relations with China that will essentially entail a great...

Nerds are awesome at building interfaces for non-nerds. What nerds can't do is read the minds of people responsible for articulating the design of whatever is to be modeled.

Not really a choice if China behaves like it thinks we ought to be approximately its vassal. There is always room for improvement in any of the deals extant. There is plenty to be done before kowtowing to the emperor in the palace.

I'm curious about how much experience western armies have with on/short-of objective dismounting against a true peer capable of brewing up a few boxes on their way to on/short-of. An IFV is just an ISC that hasn't encountered a particular reality...

"These go to 11."

If the most resolute opponents of the president-of-the-day, whatever president, whatever day, believed they could tie him up in the courts, they would. Getting a president into court over a misuse of military force is a lot juicier than fraud or overwrought imaginings of revolution. A great...

Presumably. There are plenty of other potential outrages that US courts would be competent to hear. I can guess that most people who want to see Trump answering for "official acts" would feel differently about Reagan (eg. Iran-Contra) or Clinton (eg. Al Shifa) or Bush (eg. many things) or...

Of course they did. Its the fundamental principle keeping US presidents from spending 100% of their time defending themselves against criminal charges. Questionable drone assassinations alone would suffice.

The USA is very different in a critical way - time. It is absurd to project a trend onto a few months and compare it to behaviours established over decades. You can bang your Chinese apologia drum as much as you want; I will continue to bang a different one.

To take a rhetorical question seriously, "No". It is not given to any person to decide "why" another person cast a vote, and the set of reasons is large. Most fundamentally, US elections are almost always binary choices, in which the failed candidate's shortcomings are a sub-set of "reasons"...

The USA is a "friend and ally" of Canada as much as any country can be to another. Our beef with the USA is with a small minority which controls the WH, and a larger minority willing to reflexively support the first one. The sum is not a majority. Status quo is severely time-limited due to...

It's good to debate, but not to inject junk. Trump was promising tariffs prior to election day 2024, which was prior to Christmas 2024. Add to that all the times he talked about tariffs during the preceding years, and the tariff-related policies he promised and executed leading up to the 2016...

If it's an ad to educate Americans about tariffs and not something deployed to raise a particular kind of shit at this particular moment in time, it sure took the brains behind it a long count of months to figure out what they were going to say. Pity they couldn't get out in front of the storm...