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Rocket Teslas are the new Patriot missile. It really seems like Musk's whole thing at this point is mass market grifting to win lucrative MIC favor. Starlink, SpaceX, Tesla, etc are just hype vehicles to fund MIC tech incubation by LARPing as tech companies. They're libertarian versions of DARPA run by and funded by 12yos.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    They hate Trump so much, so they hate Putin even more because he controls Trump in the Russia-gate mythos, so they vote for L Graham's executive power grab for tariffs against Russia that can be rewritten by Trump from moment to moment. It's the Slava Ukraini Blue MAGA Resistance!

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  • [–] 22 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    So are VLCC ship builders getting a lot of new orders? From a cursory glance it seems like most of the builders are in Asia. This USIS war is going to end up completely upending the flow of oil across the world's oceans for years to come if this continues apace.

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  • [–] 30 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    from the wiki page:

    The Air Force has said the MOAB has a unit price of $170,000, but this is a historical unit cost made in the mid-2000s and various factors of the bomb's atypical development process have made exact cost estimation difficult. The Air Force Research Lab generated the value based on already existing parts such as bomb casing and metals, and since the bomb was built in-house, they did not pay for outside research or have standard procurement costs associated with it. MOAB was a "crash project" developed for use against an adversary with uncertain tactics on unfamiliar terrain, and so was an effort to meet an urgent need rather than a formal program.

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