‘They’ do want it to happen. Ordinary USians are gettng uppity and need to be taken down a peg.

The global elite don’t really need anything specific from the US anymore. For a brief moment, the world needed our higher education system, which is why anyone under 60 who went to grad school had lots of non-US folks in their cohorts. Those folks have gone back home in large part so there are plenty of skilled experts in critical fields internationally.

The US has no remaining unique resources, be they skilled people or natural resources. So we need to be dealt with since many of us still hold on to quaint notions like ‘freedom’, ‘autonomy’ and ‘living wage’.

I think we need to give kids more credit for being able to handle nuance, too. I clearly remember being amused as a tyke at the efforts of adults to ‘protect’ me from things I already knew quite a lot about.

I never needed anyone to explain to me just how risible Mickey Rooney’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was. I had only met a few folks of asian background by that point in real life and it was hard to even tell what he was parodying. It had no relation to even my limited exposure to non-white cultures and people.

“Ancient Chinese secret, huh?” IYKYK

(sigh) cool story

The great flood that left no evidence behind and all large animals were rescued by a guy who built a boat? The one that also left behind no genetic evidence of such a catastrophic population bottleneck? That great flood?

3D printing can be cost effective for small production runs too. There are large format printers both FDM and SLA with print quality, large bed size and speed more than sufficient.

Injection molding is only cheap when print runs are huge. In a rapidly developing space like drone warfare, a lot of plastic parts get changed frequently enough that injection molding becomes cost prohibitive, due to small production runs between design changes.

Take the example of a propeller vs a custom bracket to hold a new type of clip for ammo.

Propellers can be standardized according to motor, frame geometry, and power source parameters, so they can be mass produced with injection molding by the ton.

A bracket needed to test out a new configuration may only be made in runs of a few hundred before some other update changes things again.

All this is to say that drone warfare is logistically an insanely complex supply chain to manage.

3D printing will have a role in drones that see combat until the day the designs are completely perfect and never need to be changed again. Then the economy of scales can overcome the high setup costs of building an injection mold.

And the Pentagon will stockpile them by the billions to give SkyNet something to work with later. yay.

Ahh, so he went to the Henry Kissinger School of Becoming the Very Thing that Damged You Initially.

There is a whole suite of special Hells for that type.

About what time should I come over?

Wow, thanks for that. I struggled for decades and also had a difficult time after a breakthrough. I describe it as being released from a long stint in prison, but there is no one to pick you up at the gate. There’s still a long walk ahead of you.

Yeah things are much better now, but my life path is still altered forever, there’s no going back.

Training can be reinforced by opining on said media at work, with friends and online. Feedback from these other models in the form of their own wrong opinions about the media reinforces one’s own model to always be right.