there shouldn’t be billion dollar startups

No. Barrels of API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) are mostly hauled from India or China, then formulated into pills or whatever, this goes especially for generic medicines. There is some american manufacture of APIs, but these tend to be on more expensive side (biologicals or small molecule drugs under patent). Inputs for these APIs also tend to be made in India or China

japanese have 100v and don’t have this problem

It’s not. He-3 is supposed to be maybe one day used in fusion power, but we’re talking about tons of this stuff. Not only scale is off, also He-3 burning requires much higher temperature than D-T fusion, and this is just around in next 20 years pinky promise

People who think that it’s a big deal also take Ray Kurzweil seriously, it’s scifi noise

In practical terms, when DHS wanted to get He-3 neutron sensors, they bought out entire global supply for multiple years, for an application where only grams are needed and it’s not used up. It’s made from decay of tritium currently and it’d be less energy intensive to make it the usual way

you shouldn’t mix alcohol and zopiclone mate you’re gonna die from this

at minimum brits have source code. couple of eu countries make parts for it as well

there’s a couple of big failures in american defense industry (like shipbuilding) but F35 is not one of them. the alleged killswitch is not likely a thing because first, it could be used by the most probable adversary, and they already shown capability in EW; and second, it’s not necessary because it requires constant stream of spare parts and maintenance. as if it’s worth it, ask any remaining iranian radar operator for firsthand opinion

some countries switched to euro made jets anyway, but these aren’t likely to be doing the job that F35 is cut to do anyway (SEAD)

there’s already euro alternative in development, for which americans were explicitly not invited (GCAP, FCAS). there’s also the everything else part of military, half of euro countries make now artillery (both tube and rocket) so these can be bought locally too

it’s not listed because this is not what is happening

italy for example put bridge construction in that military budget (as critical infrastructure)

also the subtext was “spend that defense budget in america” and this is not happening either for variety of reasons, so it’s partial failure already for them

hyperloop was a fever dream cooked specifically to kill californian high speed rail, so this one worked

ah yes, major effects of crypto: it brought new innovative ways of money laundering, sanctions evasion and ransomware, and chatbots can give you psychosis and/or noninvasive lobotomy

No, fusion research is just paper thin disguise for thermonuclear weapons research, so this will get funding no matter what. I mean here especially things going on in places like Z-machine, Laser Megajoule, NIF and such but not only these

These things haven’t been able to factor 35 so far, despite decades of development

you people see that’s another buzzword? this is set up by a handful of credulous tech journalists to be a new bubble after ai bubble falters. exactly the same way when grifters jumped from crypto to ai (some with metaverse along the way)

Horseshit. USAF doesn’t need AIM-7 Sparrow or MIM-23 Hawk missiles, these aren’t even in service anymore. But Ukraine can use these (Hawk missiles can be used on Buk launchers)

who’s the third white weirdo?

maybe check from openai didn’t clear

this sounds more like another org with ties to a couple of conservative oligarchs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Families

well it’s spacecraft, not aircraft, duh

they were still a party to NPT the entire time, and they didn’t meet obligations of that treaty for over 20 years. NPT also includes inspections by IAEA

say what you want, they can’t unbomb Fordow so any discussions about future iranian nuclear program are pointless

ah yes, the completely civilian nuclear program that for last month+ was busy using up 5% enriched uranium (on upper range of enrichment in normal reactors) and 20% (usual in research reactors) to get 60% enriched uranium (no civilian applications)

neither. the same kind of propaganda activity targeted at iranian internal audience like after assassination of qasem soleimani. like in 2020, it’s pretty obvious that trump takes this offramp

but also, this time international response is wildly different

in 2020: UK and Qatar called for deescalation, Saudis said they stand with Iraq, Turkey offered diplomatic support for deescalation

today, Saudis, UAE, Qatar (obviously), Bahrain, Kuwait, (countries directly impacted) but also Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen (Aden) and Palestinian Authority all condemned Iranian strikes

today also iranian proxies are much weaker, and we already know how incompetent their air defences were