ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃

  • 0 Posts
  • 62 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 11th, 2023

help-circle





  • I think fashion will change to fit the technology, honestly. It’s happened before with smartwatches (somewhere down the line we decided a square black “mirror” on the wrist actually looks pretty darned cool if you design it right).

    Look at cyberpunk for examples. In general their design team did really, really well, and while many wouldn’t adopt the chunkier bits, I’d certainly opt for that style.

    For a real life example, we have the Hyperion Thinview (an fpv headset) that shows practicality for that form factor. Not the best, but throw in Meta levels of screen density and high-tech optics and yeah I think it’s possible in that thin compact design.


  • It’s not the whole plane, just major systems. The main cost is the engines, that alone likely costs millions. As it mentioned, there’s other overhauls too, like the landing gear that’s due. These are all on a fixed schedule related to “this many flight-hours” and a certain number of years or months for some parts. The engine overhaul isn’t just “six to twelve months,” it’s “this many flying hours” (which typically comes out to 6-12 months all the same).

    I wouldn’t be upset about the overhauls, that’s a normal part of the cost of owning a plane (though it’s harder to sell if it’s due one, because the buyer will have to spend a fuckton of money before flying it).

    The upsetting part is that’s is foreign and not up to spec - AKA yeah they’ll have to remove, scan, x-ray and debug every part of that interior and redo the entire electrical and coms system, and install nuclear shielding on the whole-ass plane. Still cheaper than buying a new AF1 but not by as much as one would hope.







  • An old us military simple sabotage field manual is available from archive.org. Won’t provide over this platform, do your own (secure) research.

    Use TOR. Lookup how to use orbot. Degoogle your device, there’s a community for that. Use signal or telegram, ditch all corporate media and discord. Lemmy has been good for news but learn to access tor boards and bookmark pro publica.

    Organize. And do it securely. Get signal with burner numbers. Learn to keep yourselves safe.