• BeamBrain [he/him]
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      16 hours ago

      The Russians never invent anything. All they have, they’ve got from others. Everything comes to them from abroad—the engineers, the machine-tools. Give them the most highly perfected bombing-sights. They’re capable of copying them, but not of inventing them.

      Look up who said this quote. Then look back at your comment. Then think long and hard about what the resemblance says about your beliefs.

      • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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        8 hours ago

        The Russians never invent anything

        Literally the most prominent ethnicity of a country that was first to get into space.

        Also, as a person with a math background, hearing that somebody says that is just funny to me in general (albeit, I am considering the usage of the word 'invent' as 'invent or discover' here). Like, have these people not heard of, for example, this obscure field of contemporary math called 'probability theory', the axiomatisation of which was done by Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, a Russian Soviet mathematician? I guess ideas such as 'measure' are too big for their thinking stoves.

      • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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        16 hours ago

        I'd like to add: "It's not who does it first, it's who does it best."

      • Inui [comrade/them]
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        16 hours ago

        I don't know what that comment said and guess that it was something racist but from the context, who even cares if it was stolen technology? Better used to benefit more people in the world than hoarded by governments and corporations as a political weapon.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      17 hours ago

      I don't know which yakubian demon country you're from but the only thing your countries can make are weapons and not even that well anymore. Maybe let the people with decades of vertically integrated industrial and supply chain expertise take the lead on this one.