I’m no aerospace engineer but supersonic flight, no matter how technologically advanced we become, will always remain incredibly fuel inefficient because of fundamental laws of fluid dynamics. A supersonic aircraft would likely remain a niche market, never replacing our current transonic passenger aircraft. I’m betting the tickets would be prohibitively expensive who isn’t in the top 1% or paid for by a government agency.
They are not a reliable partner because India is being pragmatic, as in they are acting in their own interests. They are only reliable while it is in their interests; if the situation changes that it becomes less beneficial to India then they will certainly turn on China. Obviously their long-term partnership is not something to gamble on.
I will one day. But first, I need to travel to Pyongyang to use Stalin’s giant spoon. My powers will not work without it.
From the footage it seems that his right arm was severely injured too, yet he kept fighting. I have my criticisms of Hamas but Yahya Sinwar and the Al Qassam brigades are brave and based soldiers, unlike the Israeli Diaper Force.
There are pictures of his body posted by the IDF. It is quite charred but I would say it looks similar to Sinwar and it is very likely that he is dead.
The DPRK has built up incredible resistance to economic warfare and is self-sufficient in several areas. The few areas where they are reliant on outside support, mainly oil, is currently a priority for the government and they’re making great progress. The rolling blackouts in Pyongyang that were a staple of life post USSR collapse have mostly diminished, for example.
No one will deny that the DPRK and ROK both have powerful militaries. The ROK is more powerful on paper, but the DPRK has several advantages. They have one of the most disciplined armies in the world (which was already a key factor during the Korean war). The tunnel systems near the DMZ make Hamas and Hezbollah’s tunnels look like child’s play. There is universal arming and weapons training of the entire populace through the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and affiliated organizations, and the citizenry are highly ideologically motivated and educated. This means that if the DPRK government even were to collapse, the US would have to fight off an insurgency much larger and better organized than the one in Iraq. Not to mention that the ROK’s economy and military is completely reliant on the US and an American pullout would lead to a rapid takeover. Oh, and the DPRK has nukes.
A common refrain from US soldiers during the Korean war was that “Chinamen can’t fight”. Underestimating their enemy turned out so bad for the US they had to call in the UN to bail them out.
Wtf… I thought Stalin’s granddaughter being a lib was bad enough
Most of the time any “anti-revisionist” that denounces the DPRK will also denounce Cuba. There are some that support the DPRK but not Cuba because Cuba is much laxer with markets than the DPRK. Since Cuba’s industry isn’t as self-sufficient as the DPRK’s, the economy requires markets for foreign investment and to fill the gaps of the state sector. This alone will turn many “anti-revisionists” away from even critical support of Cuba. DPRK’s markets meanwhile were much more limited in scope; in my personal experience if a Maoist is calling the DPRK revisionist it’s mostly due to the Juche ideology rather than the markets.
By the way, the DPRK does allow foreign investment, though it does so very carefully:
The Saddam supporters have the worst cognitive dissonance possible… I’ve heard some of them claim that the missiles Iraqi militias sent on US military bases earlier this year were somehow empty. Now they’re claiming that Iran and Israel are best friends and just staging stuff to trick people. Some have called out that “Iran notified the US of the attack therefore it’s fake and staged” ignoring that Iran is notifying UNSC members to comply with article 51 of the UN Charter (Right to Self-Defense). By invoking the charter, Iran is playing their attacks in a calm and calculated way, harming Israel but not starting WW3. Saddam supporters are just mad because Iran won’t be like Saddam and just blindly shoot Scuds over Israel while achieving no political gains other than making themselves look “based” to clueless idiots.
The color palette makes it look like something from the DPRK but as another commentor stated, it is from Singapore.
Who’s going to tell them that Uyghurs being Muslim doesn’t make them of “middle eastern descent” and that they’re genetically more Central Asian?
Israel Epstein is pretty awesome, he was a journalist too.
Ah yes Hamas, famous for wearing the Lebanese flag.
Critical support for Raytheon
Hailo or another AI accelerator with Raspberry Pi will meet your requirements pretty well. Raspberry Pi 4 without an accelerator performs decently too depending on the task, but stuff like computer vision can be slow.
Looking into the other translations, I see the word “end” in parenthesis is used for Chinese and Korean. English, Russian, and Spanish translations use “-0-”, and the Japanese translation uses three dashes for some reason.
It puzzles me why they chose that signoff in the English translations. In the original Korean, it’s just the word “end” in parenthesis.
Libs: Genocide is ok because biden pretends to like gay people
The upper atmosphere would probably have less drag, but the lower speed of sound at high altitudes would exacerbate the issues of supersonic flight and require specialized, expensive aircraft. It may become more efficient, but I still see it as mostly a niche market.