Buelldozer

Flagged under Saint Kitts / Nevis.

https://archive.ph/POl10

Archive link of that source.

It’s what the US always does. Russia claims to have this or that so the US builds something to defeat it. It’s happening with China now too.

You think the people who brought us Stuxnet aren’t fucking with Russia?

Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?

I don’t know. I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I’m only on FB once every couple of months.

It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.

Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?

I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.

The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn’t put political junk in my feed. If you’re getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.

That’s the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.

They are only asking to target places that are being used to actively attack them though.

Are they? Because I see Ukraine using drones against infrastructure and sending them against the City of Moscow itself. That isn’t wrong of them however it does lead to legitimate questions about where exactly they would strike with other weapons.

What does YouTube have to do with this? I’m on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I’ve yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.

Sigh. I don’t know why I keep tilting at this windmill but…

A. There’s an appeals process.

The Brazilian Government has never released the details on who they asked Xitter to ban nor why they were banned. They also gagged Xitter so they couldn’t tell anyone either. So what good is an appeals process if you you can’t use it because you don’t know you’ve been banned?

Now Xitter TRIED to use it but…

Musk could have blocked those accounts from being visible in Brazil and then had his legal representative argue that’s compliance.

What you are suggesting is pretty much what Xitter did.

Notice that part about “threatened to arrest our employees”? That’s why Xitter doesn’t have the required “Legal Representative”. This Judge threatened to imprison the last one and pre-emptively froze their bank accounts. This is also why Xitter closed their office in Brazil.

There’s a LOT more going on here than “Elon Bad” but it can’t be discussed because of the volume of utter nonces who incapable of handling nuance.

I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over.

Replace judge with CEO and ask the question again.

The CEO can’t threaten to throw you in prison and freeze your bank accounts, two things that this Judge did. That’s why Xitter doesn’t have a Legal Representative in the country anymore. The last one resigned after being threatened by the Judge and Xitter won’t appointment a new one because of that.

But sure, a CEO has exactly the same power as a Supreme Court Justice. Literally no difference at all.

They didn’t approve the “Initial Ruling”. They approved the amended version that didn’t bar Apple and Google from distributing VPN Software and didn’t create a 5 day deadline.

Do you know WHY Xitter doesn’t just appoint a legal representative and sidestep this mess? It’s because this same Judge threatened to imprison the last one and pre-emptively froze her bank accounts!

https://time.com/7016537/brazil-blocks-elon-musk-x-twitter-company-refuses-comply-judge/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3rnl5qv3o

This is not how a legal system is supposed to behave.

Listen, Musk is an asshole who has created large problems at Xitter. There is absolutely no debate on that.

HOWEVER I have to wonder if most of the people cheering what’s happening in Brazil actually know what’s going on?

Did you know that one single Judge has been given the power the censor the Internet? Do you know that no justification needs to be released to the public about WHY a person, account, or post is being censored, removed, or banned? Do you know that this Judge actually banned Apple and Google from distributing any VPN Software before they were forced to change the order due to public outcry? Do you know that the fines this Judge is issuing have no basis in the law?

Even prominent Brazilian Attorneys, like Thiago Amparo, who previously supported this Judge and their work are now saying that it’s going too far.

Brazil now has an Internet Censor who obviously doesn’t understand the technology who is issuing censorship orders that require no justification and to the surprise of no one his orders are helpful almost entirely to the current President specifically and the ruling party in general.

Here’s an archive link to the New York Times giving more details.

So yeah, screw Musk but also screw whatever unholy state censorship is going on down in Brazil too.

I thought the laser CIWS was deemed a failure and shelved too?

I don’t know about a laser CIWS but the Army already has DE M-SHORAD units deployed.

but it looks like a new and improved scramjet.

You could say that, just like you could say a 2024 Mustang GT is just an upgraded Model T. :)

Combined Cycle Combustion has been worked on for at least 40 years now and adding Rotating Detonation to it is on another planet of complexity. In the end it’s a Jet Engine with fewer moving parts capable of efficient output at speeds from Zero to Mach 5+.

Rapid Dragon is just putting missiles on a pallet instead of on a pylon, so I’d hardly call it groundbreaking.

It’s not the weapons system that breaks ground, its the capability that it enables. A single stealth plane of any type can be hundreds of miles forward of cargo planes and relay targeting data for dozens or hundreds of missiles dumped out of those cargo planes.

And this is the first I hear about Manta Ray.

Manta Ray is an amazing platform that solves some real operation challenges for the US Navy and I predict they will end up deploying hundreds of them. How it communicates seems to be a secret right now but I’m sure it will come out eventually.

You and I have very different memories of Yugos.

Mexico and Canada are still in North America.

The 183 was cancelled, no?

Maybe yes, maybe no. There’s no official decision yet but it exists and that means it or something like it will soon find its way into the inventory. I agree that there’s always lots of small scale high-tech demonstrators but things like E-SHORAD (Laser Air Defense system) are already out there. The combined cycle rotating detonation jet engine already exists at Hermeus (and they supposedly got it from Lockheed), Rapid Dragon exists, Manta Ray exists.

I agree with you on CyberSec. It’s a real and urgent problem.

It undeniably does until the DoD gets spooked and starts burying defense contractors in unspeakably large piles of money. Then you get the AGM-183A and where did the US choose to test it? Guam where China could would have a front row seat.

There’s so much ludicrous tech rolling out of the US MIC right now that it’s honestly getting hard to keep track of. Rapid Dragon missile deployment, hypersonic missiles, hypersonic planes, combined cycle rotating detonation jet propulsion, laser defense systems, next gen ICBMs, quantum radar, quantum lidar, underwater autonomous drones that can self power and remain hidden for months at a time…the list of verifiable stuff hurts my brain.

Just put in a call to the Americans to do it for them.

Japan has its own domestically developed Surface to Air missile system.

Still not clear why anyone is shooting down Chinese cargo planes.

The Y-9 has several variants, some of which are ELINT and AWACS. I’d trust the Japanese to know which are which, they see them often enough on their radar screens.