This dude is joking, right? FPI/UNICOR manufactures just about everything the military makes and uses that isn't directly from a defense contractor, and that's exclusively prison labor, paid on the order of 23 cents per hour in commissary balance, not cash. They also do a huge portion of the vehicle maintenance and laundry.
The USSR was consistently ahead of the US in metallurgy. The US was convinced that it wasn't possible to weld titanium for submarine use until the USSR built one. The advantage is that it's the same strength as steel with less weight so it can dive deeper and go faster.
And then, iirc, the Soviets decided it wasn't worth the trouble due to something about the properties of titanium and went back to using steel while the us still didn't know how to do it in the first place.
the ability of americans to just make things up in counter to reality they don't want to hear is amazing. Unfortunately for them it does have the disadvantage of still not being true
We have the best ships. The biggest ships. China would never - they just couldn't. The other day, an admiral came up - big man, very distinguished. The admiral, he said, "Sir, I think China has better guns. They have bigger guns, bigger ships. Very, very scary." I said, "Bullshit." They don't got any ships!
[crowd laughs]
Xi - friendly guy, the media is too scared to say, but he really is. No offense, Xi, but you use... Weejurs in chains to build your ships. We don't do that here. We have amazing builders working on our ships. The best. My father built things, too. He could design a navy ship if he was still here. Great man, great man.
Just a heads up I think we decided against doing this kinda thing in the past (although we all know what you mean buy it and idk if the mods are enforcing it and if you put an asterisk or something it might be fine anyway)
“In many ways our shipbuilders are better shipbuilders.”
Dude has a point. Nazi Germany built Tigers with a highly skilled work force using low volume semi-artisanal construction methods while everyone else used casting and assembly line techniques to build more tanks.
That's why Tigers never broke down and allowed Nazi Germany to win the war.
Oh yeah that makes sense. Aren't electrical systems essentially linear ODEs and reducible to a linear algebra problem with the appropriate choice of coordinate system?
This actually answers my complaint of 100% accuracy, this is a perfect application for ML
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This dude is joking, right? FPI/UNICOR manufactures just about everything the military makes and uses that isn't directly from a defense contractor, and that's exclusively prison labor, paid on the order of 23 cents per hour in commissary balance, not cash. They also do a huge portion of the vehicle maintenance and laundry.
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Every accusation is an admission.
I was just about to say, like a ton of equipment they use is made by prisoners
:fidel-wut:
:data-laughing: every. fucking. time.
Inventing human rights issues and getting superior about them
Cope; seethe; project
How many other countries explicitly allow slavery in their constitution?
:amerikkka-clap: at least one
“In many ways”
“Which ways?”
“Many ways”
Just don't ask them to weld titanium. :joker-troll:
I don’t get it :sicko-wistful:
The USSR was consistently ahead of the US in metallurgy. The US was convinced that it wasn't possible to weld titanium for submarine use until the USSR built one. The advantage is that it's the same strength as steel with less weight so it can dive deeper and go faster.
And then, iirc, the Soviets decided it wasn't worth the trouble due to something about the properties of titanium and went back to using steel while the us still didn't know how to do it in the first place.
The Ti subs were also like an underwater F1 car and they’d routinely just go fast to show off.
Dudes rock.
:yes-hahaha-yes-l:
the ability of americans to just make things up in counter to reality they don't want to hear is amazing. Unfortunately for them it does have the disadvantage of still not being true
We have the best ships. The biggest ships. China would never - they just couldn't. The other day, an admiral came up - big man, very distinguished. The admiral, he said, "Sir, I think China has better guns. They have bigger guns, bigger ships. Very, very scary." I said, "Bullshit." They don't got any ships!
[crowd laughs]
Xi - friendly guy, the media is too scared to say, but he really is. No offense, Xi, but you use... Weejurs in chains to build your ships. We don't do that here. We have amazing builders working on our ships. The best. My father built things, too. He could design a navy ship if he was still here. Great man, great man.
Just a heads up I think we decided against doing this kinda thing in the past (although we all know what you mean buy it and idk if the mods are enforcing it and if you put an asterisk or something it might be fine anyway)
Dude has a point. Nazi Germany built Tigers with a highly skilled work force using low volume semi-artisanal construction methods while everyone else used casting and assembly line techniques to build more tanks.
That's why Tigers never broke down and allowed Nazi Germany to win the war.
Oh yeah that makes sense. Aren't electrical systems essentially linear ODEs and reducible to a linear algebra problem with the appropriate choice of coordinate system?
This actually answers my complaint of 100% accuracy, this is a perfect application for ML
laughs in zumwalt
But the US military is kept afloat by prisoner slave labour...