Imagining a world where all of our bonkers stupid defense research spending had any focus on cost at all. Very hilarious that you can just use a drone with a bomb attached to do the exact same shit that someone in Langley got twenty billion dollars to design and it costs more than it would to feed and house someone for their entire life.

the best part is, since the American state only exists to direct taxpayer money to grifters, it is constitutionally incapable of learning the lesson that cheap, simple, and plentiful beats delicate, expensive wunderwaffle every fucking time

big Arithmetic On The Frontier energy here