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oh thank god I won’t be alone 😌

Grrrrrrrr, so face-meltingly jelly :owl-pissed:

Still it’s nice to have some reassurance that things could still work out eventually, even if it is years down the line when I’m an Old. Well, all right. What can I do but keep on keeping on, and turn up the :soviet-bottom: to 11 and hope that being a doormat compensates somehow.

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If you need a gemologist with a literal laboratory to tell whether a diamond or pearl are grown in a lab then “fake” stuff has the exact same utility for jewelry. Folx, nobody’s coming up to you with a loupe and a microscope asking to examine your necklace to determine if it looks nice on you!

Ooh thank you for correcting me, this is really informative! I must have gotten some bad info, or misremembered. Thanks! :rosa-salute:

The ship itself was like Brezhnev-era old but I thought that it was nevertheless loaded with fully modern anti-air anti-missile tech :vivian-shrug:

I still don’t understand how hypersonic anti-ship missiles don’t just immediately end the viability of all surface ships. I mean even against regular subsonic missiles, anti-missile systems seemed very sketchy to me. CIWS is a security blanket that would get torn to shreds in actual combat with a peer that could overwhelm it. Intercepting with missiles of your own is really difficult and unreliable- even shooting down missiles on perfectly predictable ballistic trajectories with generous advance notice is fearsomely hard and US systems don’t exactly have a flawless test record. And sure enough that Russian cruiser went down in the Black Sea to just a couple of Ukrainian ASMs despite being packed to the gills with supposedly state-of-the-art tech. And hypersonics? As far as I know the US doesn’t even have radar that can track those. So how is the entire US pacific fleet not headed straight for the bottom on day one of a hot war?

The only answers I’ve ever seen for this are:

1. “It’s hard to find and target a ship in the wide open ocean if we shoot down their satellites first.” Um okay I guess, but it still can’t be great to just sink immediately if an enemy ship or recon drone ever spots you, ever.

2. “Lazerzzzzz! Maybe? Someday? Idk.” Wow so how many percentage points of GDP do you need for building useless ships until this speculative directed energy tech someday materializes?

Am I missing something? Cause I’m unqualified too and it seems like I must be missing something. If surface ships are donezo then why is the PLAN still building carriers?

I vaguely remember that you’re also supposed to update them if you ever move addresses. never known a single person who did that though lmao