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Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by esafak on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:50AM (#43266329)
As fired federal workers found out.
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by Muromec on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:55AM (#43266399)
That's not the most severe things that can happen for ignoring politics. Some people are unfortunate enough to ignore it to the point they sit in a frozen trench while IR-enabled drone is looking for them
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Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by kspacewalk2 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:10AM (#43266592)
I know, what is it about shrill people insisting on looking up lately? Dial down on the fear factor, baby! It's like they say on Russian TV: what do you decide, anyway? The higher-ups aren't fools, they know what they're doing.
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by hackyhacky on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:26AM (#43266823)
> The higher-ups aren't fools, they know what they're doing.

Recent evidence contradicts this viewpoint.

Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by dredmorbius on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:39AM (#43267018)
Parent was satire.
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by Muromec on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:16AM (#43266683)
It can be very abstract for some, but I am actually eligible for a magical summon letter to participate in this team sport involving drones
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by latentcall on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:21AM (#43266750)
I understand not wanting to live in fear but if SHTF what are you gonna do? You’ll be less informed than the “scared” ones and you’ll be screwed. I wouldn’t say I live in fear. I still enjoy day to day life but I also stay informed and ready to scram if need be..
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by becquerel on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:31AM (#43266906)
I regret to inform you that war does in fact happen. In fact it happens quite frequently
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by FreebasingLLMs on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:41AM (#43267054)
Yes and Ukraine is just like the United States.
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by jajko on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:27AM (#43267801)
Drone warfare as we see in Ukraine is new default. Any poor schmuck ragtag group can muster hundreds of them, with basic grenades or 30/40mm AP grenades. Enough power to kill anything on wheels or tracks apart from modern main battle tank, that one would be just more or less crippled. Bigger drones can and do kill everything, some drop literal 152/155mm shells.

You may say - but we have good EW! Which is pointless for optic cable drones, can't affect them like that. Those are a bit more expensive and sophisticated but not that much.

If US decided to do their invasion to Iraq or Afghanistan these days things would be very different re US casualties and expensive material loss.

Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by unyttigfjelltol on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:17AM (#43268596)
Insurgency is not the highest and best use of drones. Odds are we have not yet seen their true capabilities in the hands of a world industrial power.
Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by hackyhacky on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:09AM (#43267551)
Do you have an actual point, or are you just here to troll?

If you disagree with the points in the article, please state them.

Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:03AM (#43267465)
Many of them voted for this.

I know they are portrayed as a cabal of woke leftists, but a third of them are veterans and they probably broadly reflect American professional demographics.

You could argue that many of the people voting Trump are also simultaneously ignoring a big chunk of politics and reality more generally I suppose, but it's not the standard meaning of ignoring politics.

Re:Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We ... by briandear on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:43AM (#43267084)