This dude is joking, right? FPI/UNICOR manufactures just about everything the military makes and uses that isn't directly from a defense contractor, and that's exclusively prison labor, paid on the order of 23 cents per hour in commissary balance, not cash. They also do a huge portion of the vehicle maintenance and laundry.
I was just about to say, like a ton of equipment they use is made by prisoners
"Del Toro was born in Havana, Cuba [in 1961] and immigrated to the United States with his parents as a little child."
:fidel-wut:
How many other countries explicitly allow slavery in their constitution?
The USSR was consistently ahead of the US in metallurgy. The US was convinced that it wasn't possible to weld titanium for submarine use until the USSR built one. The advantage is that it's the same strength as steel with less weight so it can dive deeper and go faster.
And then, iirc, the Soviets decided it wasn't worth the trouble due to something about the properties of titanium and went back to using steel while the us still didn't know how to do it in the first place.
The Ti subs were also like an underwater F1 car and they’d routinely just go fast to show off.
Dudes rock.
the ability of americans to just make things up in counter to reality they don't want to hear is amazing. Unfortunately for them it does have the disadvantage of still not being true
We have the best ships. The biggest ships. China would never - they just couldn't. The other day, an admiral came up - big man, very distinguished. The admiral, he said, "Sir, I think China has better guns. They have bigger guns, bigger ships. Very, very scary." I said, "Bullshit." They don't got any ships!
[crowd laughs]
Xi - friendly guy, the media is too scared to say, but he really is. No offense, Xi, but you use... Weejurs in chains to build your ships. We don't do that here. We have amazing builders working on our ships. The best. My father built things, too. He could design a navy ship if he was still here. Great man, great man.
Weejurs
Just a heads up I think we decided against doing this kinda thing in the past (although we all know what you mean buy it and idk if the mods are enforcing it and if you put an asterisk or something it might be fine anyway)
“In many ways our shipbuilders are better shipbuilders.”
Dude has a point. Nazi Germany built Tigers with a highly skilled work force using low volume semi-artisanal construction methods while everyone else used casting and assembly line techniques to build more tanks.
That's why Tigers never broke down and allowed Nazi Germany to win the war.
Oh yeah that makes sense. Aren't electrical systems essentially linear ODEs and reducible to a linear algebra problem with the appropriate choice of coordinate system?
This actually answers my complaint of 100% accuracy, this is a perfect application for ML
But the US military is kept afloat by prisoner slave labour...
Multi-level-marxist-leninist-machine-learning
I want to inject this.
US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told reporters in Washington last month that China had 13 shipyards for warship production, and “one shipyard has more capacity than all of our shipyards combined”.
Damn right bozo
In other news China is mostly coastline and won't repeat the mistakes of the past. Their navy is their first line of defence, that's why they invest so much in it. They recently launched a remote-controlled drone carrier.
This would be well and good except that it's going to be used for making war even more ruthlessly efficient... and I don't mean China, probably not as a first strike, anyway. :manhattan:
Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs we're currently in, but I can see this being easily transferable to cargo ships at least and I imagine there would be applications in infrastructure projects with more tweaking too.
Good news: China has plans to 3D print a dam using AI-assisted robots so this kind of tech definitely isn't only being used for military applications.
Holy shit not a decade ago that'd be an event in some sci-fi. It'll be cool to see how China integrates AI into this kind of production, as opposed to capitalists in the Global North using it as a means to squeeze the existing human workforce.
Yh I don't know to what extent this is bad, given that, whether we like it or not, the US is still here. Like is is it preferable or not for China to be as militarily advanced as possible given the threat of the US? Does this make direct military conflict more or less likely? Will it incentivize the US state, in particular hawkish officials, the deep-state and elements of the military-industrial complex to push for more and earlier provocation (thinking better now than later, given evidence of the US's secular decline)?
We have discovered that the warship works better when the water is on the outside :xinternet:
