Gambisons and chain vests were korw widely available. Most common soldiers/conscripted peasants would have had either of those for basic chest protection, basic leather/metal caps, a shield, and a spear. It was a very long time after rome fell that there would be militaries with standardized arms/armor. The general kit above was mostly what would come about because spears are easy to teach, cheap to make, and the most effective general hand weapon.
I just think from my talks that US is still capable of building some decent shit and must be reverse engineering stuff too, but I don't think the gap is so wide; nor our production w/out a war economy is so great. The geopolitics would not at all be playing out as they are if that were truly the case. People see a bunch of tech shit and it is their avenue of autism, but reality does not reflect those things on terms of actors that do know FAR more than any of us.
@kaiservenom Just gonna be the weimar rush for dictator savior.
Thoughts? The US is does seem tonhave some hypersonic counte rmeasures and some of their own, but they're fortifying asia instead of sending things to jizzrael or Ukriane. I don't believe the wuantities of new tech are high and this is coming off the usual convo of guys praising US wonder development and downplaying eastern weapon advancement. Somehow the Houthis aren't responsible for US fleet withdrawls and peace made with them.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-u-s-navys-hypersonic-missile-program-is-down-but-not-out
Health Thoughts
Why do I feel tired and loose motivation?
>Looks at previous log on Fitbit, 2,400 calories burned. Less than 979 steps taken.
>Looks at Fitbit today, 2,820 calories burned. 4,000 steps taken.
>Realizes the pattern,
“My body is a damn food furnace”
>Starts analyzing food packaging for caloric intake and setting a goal for 1,000+ calories a meal. Sets time to eat.
@Justicar Gay
@RegalBeagle Probably old glass decorative beading for gardens/plants
@sardonicsmile What is 'living comfortably'. Honestly a lot of ehat changed in terms of standards was giving each kid their own room. I grew up sharing a room for forever.
@Justicar Well what I don't see is where Microsoft is earning 16% y/y. They say it is because of trained AI. I highly doubt it. I don't see how they'd be getting more advertising money either. Maybe this is following retailing frontloading to pump as many sales out to the consumers as possible before tariff issues? Maybe it id a mix of it all. Perhaps we'll have tow ait for a Q3/Q4 beat this year.
@Justicar What's got me tapping my noggin is how tech is fairing. Apparently Microsoft has AI writing a shit ton of low level code and has replaced floor lrvel coders with ai engineers that get this... tell the AI what to do. I am a bit sceptical on this considering other AI 'innovations' were indians or koreans doing shit. They must be getting gov doles as well to push funding at stuff I'd imagine too because where's all this spending into their ads and growth if consumers are tapped.
@Scubbie nothing new learned. It's a pitch to the world to not dump the dollar and join BRICS.
@Zeb @Mr_Mister You're forgetting the migrants, the inflation and all the other tools designed to make you own nothing, which they can easily fine-tune to offset women leaving the workforce.
The problems don't go away, simply because the government sent women back to the kitchen.
Men enforce all the tyranny, women are nothing in this equation. Their fictitious rights aren't in your way, other men are.
And the more you reward these compliant men, the worse things get.
What happens when you give women the right to vote without any repercussions?
- Women don’t fight in war
Men fight the wars, die in the wars for no benefit.
- Women are not net tax payers
Women can vote for all the welfare programs they want and men have to pay for them or go to jail.
Dollar gets off gold standard, devalued currency. Dogshit economy. No fathers, Women is supported by government.
- Women vote primarily with emotions and immediate benefit.
Society suffers as a whole.