No no even with aerospace, you’re good now. We’re deregulating everything. It’ll be fine. Definitely won’t be catastrophic. Don’t worry about it. 🫠

All fair points. And it’s further illustrating the fact that something is very fucking fishy

He’s an apparently intelligent and articulate software engineer… and he keeps a hard copy… of his manifesto… on his person…? Knowing it would be wildly incriminating? Like, come on. Also, the tone and diction of “his” manifesto seems a liiiiiiiiiittle off to me compared to written correspondences he’s had with people since being imprisoned that have been posted online.

TL;DR I don’t buy what the NY DA is selling here, for a LOT of reasons.

Yeah, fair points; all I mean is that an intelligent and rational person would work something like that out pretty much immediately.

EA-18G: rolls up with a 10M candlepower spotlight and a pocket full of Class 4 lasers

I would like to once again congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs

Right??? Who the fuck would keep a hard copy on hand…? Like… what…?

In the context of engineering and technology: it’s a broader issue. It’s a matter of engineers either refusing to accept responsibility and accountability around the systems they build and the societal effects they have, or failing that, the companies that said engineers work for preventing them from doing so because profitability.

I say this as an engineer who has come to care a whole fucking lot about engineering ethics.

I think, frankly, it’s fair to point out that an intelligent engineer thinking about doing this sort of thing would almost certainly devise a way to destroy the printed gun after the fact, and that such a thing could be easily done in a half hour with a MAPP torch and a spare bottle or two. It’s resin. It will melt. And any remaining metallic parts can be easily ditched in some random storm drain at some point in the hundreds of miles between where the adjustment occurred and where the other Mario brother was arrested. And to conveniently keep a manifesto on your person in that context just seems comically implausible. Based on that, in addition to other data points, I am reasonably confident that he is in fact an innocent man being railroaded.

lol ok sure. Fucking go for it. I have genuinely stopped caring about whatever fucking idiocy goes on below the mason dixon line at this point. Fucking confeds.

Found the Marine

It’s hard enough when the users are intelligent. It’s essentially impossible when the user has a favorite flavor of crayon.

This meme is bad and you should feel bad

Well, also, there was a MASSIVE data leak/espionage op run by the CCP where they got a ton of the design files for the F-35.

If you’re not a US citizen - in fact, if you’re not a natural-born US citizen - seriously consider whether you want to go at all. There’s a significantly higher chance they’ll stick you on a plane somewhere and ignore much or all of the bureaucracy that was intended to prevent systemic abuses like this in the past.

If you’re going for max stealth (which the NGAD was), you want to absolutely minimize the amount of control surfaces, because those have joints and expose less stealth-optimized parts of the airframe when the surfaces move.

Note that the B-2 and B-21 look largely identical in terms of basic design - this is essentially carcinization in the stealth aircraft domain. It’s the best general layout for minimizing radar returns. Also, combine that with the fact that ACM is actually, finally, beginning to become conceptually obsolete (as a result of extremely capable missiles, unmanned drones that can probably pull 30Gs indefinitely, and directed energy weapons). So these days, in the cutting edge of the air combat domain that the US expects it would actually have to throw down within, maneuverability has stopped mattering quite so much. TL;DR ‘nards on the new stealth fighter is a genuinely pretty dumb idea.

Note that this whole statement is completely predicated on the existence and functioning of an absolute shitload of other support systems and infrastructure, and we’re tearing a lot of that shit up, so who fucking knows what’s gonna happen.

lol I’m low-key curious if orangeboi was like “all those Russian planes have the little front wings, ours should have that too”. Because for a stealth platform, canards are a pretty dumb idea. And last I heard, the NGAD program was exploring boundary-layer stuff in lieu of a lot of the control surfaces.

puts credible defense hat on

But you know, stealth isn’t the be-all, end-all, really. The Navy’s been dragging their feet on 35 procurement for a while, more heavily emphasizing Rhinos and Growlers. Growlers have an absolutely silly amount of extremely advanced ECM and EW hardware onboard. The general doctrine for USN in peer conflicts right now is to just jam the absolute shit out out anything that’s making unfriendly electronic noises around it and then kill the things with prejudice. Don’t need stealth when the stealth when you just straight up blind the enemy. Definitely more of a brute force approach, but it’s absolutely valid.

The hubris is just absolutely infuriating