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  • While I agree with the Duopolies are bad statement. I don’t see how Brazil or China would be able to break this in the near to medium future.

    Brazil/Embraer are quite happy in the regional/ business jet niche. Their CEO recently said that they have no plans to break into new markets. And even if they would start developing a new narrow body aircraft, they would need at least a decade before they could deliver it.

    China/Comac theoretically have a narrow body aircraft in production, but they seem to have lost the ambition to get this aircraft certified outside of China. Looks like they are unable to meet international safety standards with the C919. For the C929 or the C939 to be competitive , they would need to fly international and thus fulfill even higher standards than the ones already missed by the C919.


  • I mean, OK? My point was that the book is a strategic guide and not just obvious stuff noblemen don’t know. But there is also plenty of other stuff in there, and as I said earlier, logistics are probably the most important aspect of modern conflict.

    Looks like I was a little too hyperbolic in my summary. Doesn’t help, if two non-native speakers try to communicate in such a way. :D

    Yes you are right. There is a good reason, why the booklet is widely known. No, I don’t think logistics is easy.

    I’m just having a chuckle about the use of “Sun Tzu level” in the post, where it is used as a metaphor for being smarter than everyone else. While the book referenced is a dated beginner-level introduction to the subject of military strategy.



  • A little reminder that Sun Tzu “The Art of War” is not some grand masterpiece in strategic thinking. It is a guide aimed at nobelmen that were so far removed from reality, that they needed to be told things like “You can’t just order a win in a real competition” or “If you don’t give your soldiers food, they become weak and die”

    The reason, why his literature created such a cultural ripple, is that telling them these absolute basic things, massively improved there performance on the battlefield. Not because it made them a grand strategic thinker, but because they no longer acted like spoiled toddlers throwing toys around.

    Saying someone is a Sun Tzu-level strategic thinker, means they have an absolute basic grasp on reality and nothing really more.

    So either 4D Chess is much more simple than regular chess, or this knob doesn’t know the things he’s referencing.


  • Bombs in WWII were both inaccurate and relatively unreliable. Something around 10% of bombs dropped didn’t explode and of those that did explode only ~5-10% did so on target.

    The answer was to just drop more bombs, increasing the amount of duds even more. Roughly 2.5 million tonnes of tnt equivalent were dropped over Germany alone, mostly in 50kg to 500kg packages.

    Additionally factors like muddy grounds both increases the chance of malfunctioning trigger mechanism and the bomb simply burrowing into the ground, hiding from visual detection.

    I leave you with the math on how many duds are potentially buried.

    To me it is a form of memorial on why war, especially large scale war, just sucks. Society still has to pay the price of the actions of people that are mostly dead by now. And I’m scared that more and more people in the world want to revive the ideology behind those actions.



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    Iirc He wasn’t lost. Somebody told the authorities, that the guy was missing and that he wanted to go on a hike. So they called him to see if he really was lost. He didn’t answer the call, so they presumed he was injured or lost his phone. With this information they declared him lost and started a search.


  • The word you are looking for is enthnicity. Enthnicity describes the (self-)perceived belonging to a population group. This is of course highly subjective.

    There is undeniably perception of grouping in the US based on heritage, where it doesn’t really matter when your ancestors arrived, just from where. So from an American POV it makes sense to call him Italian, because he is in the same perceived group as all the people from Italy.

    On the other hand from a European POV it doesn’t really matter, where your great grandparents come from. You are part of the US-Group, so you are American.

    This is not an exclusive US Problem, but a general migration problem & it happens everywhere. Comments like yours are the reason, why people from migrated families feel like they are in-between cultures. Instead of writing snarky comments on the internet, just accept that your perception of ethnicity is part of your ethnicity and other people can have other perceptions.






  • There is a fine line between valid criticism of gender roles & sexism.

    An example of the former would be, “Men are dangerous for women”. Of course not all men are dangerous, but it describes the experience of many women & how they have to navigate the world, to not be assaulted.

    This one describes the dynamic of a relationship between individuals & assigns a thought pattern to one of those individuals, based on their gender.

    Maybe I missed some nuances here & I would be glad to be enlightened, but this looks like plain sexism.


  • Because they state that free healthcare is automatically bad healthcare. Which, as a general statement, is just wrong.

    Free Healthcare is a broad term for dozens of different policies in dozens of different countries. Just because OP’s specific country has problems, doesn’t mean that every single implementation of free healthcare leads to bad healthcare. Also a similar rhetoric is used as a dog whistle by the far right in the USA.

    Additionally they are using a specific question about their situation, to rant about a much broader topic. This soapboxing called behaviour is generally frowned upon.

    So the comment in isolation is wrong, attention seeking & looks like written by someone who is something between a manchild, that is unable/unwilling to present a nuanced opinion, and a nazi. All of which are imho criteria for a downvote.