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  • So I was curious because I genuinely had that mixed up when reading the thread, so I watched a quick documentary about the foxhound. It is extremely similar because it’s derived directly from the fox bat platform. The mig 31 is an interceptor fighter. It’s still extremely quick, but not as quick as the fox bat. It could hit mach 2.5 and could intercept the sr 71 if it was pushing hard apparently, especially given that a missile could reach out and touch the blackbird if required.

    The biggest difference I learned was that the 25 was all go and nothing else, whereas the 31 was slower to allow for more capabilities. The changes that they made for the 31 allowed it to be somewhat successful as a fighter as well at lower speed.











  • Yeah I was watching an automation tech working on a cell that moves sheets of glass a while ago. He was done and I was bored so I watching him wrap things up and he offered to show me how fast they can move. He turned the speed from its production value to like 50% of its max acceleration and holy fuck those things can move. I was blown away by how fast it was while not being anywhere near the firmware max speeds.





  • That’s wild, the American brain truly cannot comprehend the amount of things you can have for free in the EU and in Nordic countries haha

    It’s a good point to remember that in other countries where they have more social safety net and social good baked in to their system the citizens still feel duped. The far right is rising all over the western world right now.

    I definitely agree with your points. I want that type of leader on the left who can really changed things for the better here. But the system will never fund him. Bernie was doing crazy things with grass roots fund raising. His 27$ donation campaign was getting thousands of working class people to donate. I didn’t know if we can ever get that kind of effort going again.

    I don’t know how you bridge the gap between what the people donate and what’s required to win a presidential campaign because the elite are not going to help a far left candidate the way they help a Biden or Obama.

    And that problem assumes we solved the other big issue of getting someone through the primary and selected to run.

    Those are the hurdles where I get disheartened thinking about how an actual good candidate would be so hard to elect. They will fight that person every step of the way.

    If you believe Michael Moore, the dnc lied at the 2016 convention and stole votes from Bernie in a critical state to ensure Hillary was selected. that’s the type of things that really makes me question how much we could really grab at one time.

    To me, it seems necessary to use stepping stones to elect someone who will do the campaign finance law reforms and maybe revamp the primary system. Then you can reach for that ultra progressive candidate. But that’s just a back of a napkin theory. Idk how to really do it.




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