No, not key to seizing Donbas lol the media bias is ridiculous.

Russia will fall long before it takes the Donbas.

If the BBC employed journalists to do journalism they would do some simple math and see that at the current rates taking the Donbas is a pipe dream for russia and it only goes downhill for russia from here in terms of capability.

so A12 then

No it is even worse, russia is using Quantum Physics in their satellites now, the way it works is they build the satellites in pairs and each pair is built at the same time with precisely the same materials and methods. Both satellites are launched into space without being tested or turned on, once in orbit then russia can turn one satellite on and simultaneously determine whether the other satellite they put up is junk or not.

Got keep blowing to keep the AI bubble growing!

True and even then it might not be enough, however I think starving to death while seeking to understand the natural world is preferable to just starving to death!

Ultra-long-range jets like the Falcon 10X typically command charter rates in the range of $10,000 to $15,000+ per hour, depending on region, fuel prices, crew fees, and operator specifics, and Jettly explains how private jet charter costs are calculated in more detail.

A Falcon 10X-class jet is ideal for:

Nonstop trips exceeding 5,000–6,000 nautical miles

Groups of 10–16 passengers requiring distinct rest and work zones

Time-critical business travel demands flexibility and speed

Multi-continent itineraries without intermediate stops

For shorter flights under four hours, regional meetings, or smaller groups of 4–6 travelers, smaller jets may offer better value, and Jettly’s guide to affordable, budget-friendly aircraft choices can help identify suitable options. Jettly’s instant pricing tool enables quick comparison, and personalized assistance is available for complex itineraries.

https://jettly.com/post/falcon-10x

Not only are you missing that this aircraft is aimed at a part of the aircraft market that has not been addressed with a configurable highly advanced large jet business aircraft that can be easily set up for extremely advanced military or civilian roles, the airframe itself was constructed with very advanced techniques that are notable themselves. Primarily, the Falcon 10x is the first all composite-wing business jet and the body has a significant amount of composite shaping to it that goes beyond the traditional metal tube and wing design limitations that metal airframes are more limited by.

https://www.jetforums.net/...

https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/...

These aircraft represent such a unique capability that while these jets are designed for commercial purposes they out perform similar military aircraft by such a large margin that they are becoming the bread and butter of electronics warfare, surveillance and signals intelligence done at a regional scale by nationstates (along with orbital assets). The impacts aren't just for military and dystopian surveillance uses though, these jets could just as also be turned into mobile extremely advanced scientific sensors set up to gather very high resolution climate data in real time for example.

The composite body shaping is important because the "tube and wing" airplane design is aerodynamically extremely inefficient. Wing-in-body aircraft will take over, the limitation is industrial-scale sophisticated and economical composites shaping becoming a practical reality for aircraft manufacturing, which this aircraft is also a bellwether for.

Mission analysis is performed for the blended wing body, a conventional tube-and wing variant with metallic structures, and an advanced tube-and-wing with composite structures. The results show that the blended wing body operates with 15-20% higher lift-over-drag during the cruise, 24% lower fuel burn for the design mission, and 15% reduction in ramp weight relative to the conventional tube-and-wing. These differences drop to 20% for the design mission fuel burn and 10% for the ramp weight relative to the advanced tube-and-wing. When the engines are re-sized and optimised separately for each configuration, the blended wing body demonstrates a 25% improvement in block fuel and 16% reduction in ramp weight relative to the conventional tube-and wing, which decreases to 21% and 10% relative to the advanced tube-and-wing.

https://www.cambridge.org/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body

Casual observers might imagine the Dassault Falcon 10X is turning its nose up at the other jets around. Though some might say it has good reason to do so, its distinctive nose serves a far more practical purpose while also hinting at the jet’s clean sheet design.

That clean sheet approach was necessary to allow Dassault to build an ultra-long-range jet capable of covering its full 7,500nm range as quickly and efficiently as possible – in this case Mach 0.85 (maximum cruise at shorter range is Mach 0.925) – while also offering the largest cabin on the market.

A significant part of Dassault succeeding in its objective is tied in with the Falcon 10X’s aerodynamics.

That unique nose-shape, for example, combined with a flatter fuselage directly above the cockpit ultimately allow for greater airflow efficiency, reducing the effects of headwinds and helping to optimize high-Mach cruise. Meanwhile, the flatter roof also serves to reduce noise in the cockpit.

Moving along the exterior, the wing to fuselage fairing is another area Dassault carefully addressed, developing and refining the design to minimize vortex generation and drag and promote the cruise speed/range objectives.

The wings themselves – including the panels, spars and ribs – are advanced carbon fiber composite, helping lessen weight while affording greater flexibility to dampen turbulence and enhance passenger comfort.

https://www.avbuyer.com/...

See the MV-75 Cheyenne's all composite wing as a military industry equivalent of the cutting edge.

https://theaviationist.com/...

To me the point of Data, the character from Star Trek is that they spend all this time debating and philosophizing over whether Data can love because he is an artificial consciousness and yet none of it matters because Data is the most loving character in the series regardless, to which my point is that not everyone grows up understanding how to interact with other humans well or finds it intuitive, but that is a separate question than love, which Elon possesses none of.

annoying note - for the record I quoted this from the article, I didn't write this.

I agree with you though, that is the exact reason I quoted that section because it clarified things for me!

Good

People will struggle to remember Keir Starmer's name or who he was in 15 years like the way people can't keep the random, unimportant placeholder kings that ruled over England and other countries in the annals of history who, while technically extremely powerful, were too much of a weathervane to the prevailing winds of power of the time to be memorable in any way except as an empty vessel of state power with a nametag on it.

Nah, Baseball is the true sport of the prophets that Sisko brought to Earth by timetravelling in order to save humanity from a rogue Klingon faction that encountered earth before the Vulcans made contact. Inside the baseballs were genetic modifiers that would turn the Klingons into looking like humans and it embarassed them so bad they fled.

A timeloop is formed, which is why Sisko keeps the baseball in his office to remind him of it.

The Borg fear Baseball because they recognize it represents power over reality itself.

Self driving cars are such a boring, lame empty vision of the future.

1 million times funnier than SNL.

It is larger than any Airbus not custom converted from air cargo or bulk passenger configurations is the point. This represents an example of essentially a new class of aircraft. One of the ways you can see that is militaries are directly buying these aircraft instead of trying to build similar aircraft custom designed to be military aircraft as they simply cannot compete against the capabilities of modern large business jets pushing this envelope.

The Falcon 10X’s cabin width stands at 2.77 m (9.1 ft.) and its height at 2.03 m, making it the widest and tallest cabin in purpose-designed bizjets. The increased width allows a passenger to leave the table in a conference area without disturbing other passengers, Philippe Reignier, technical sales manager, told reporters. The aft bedroom accommodates a 60-in.-wide bed.

The four-zone, 78.7-m3 cabin is highly modular, meaning customers can have partition walls installed virtually anywhere. “We describe an area as a three- or six-window lounge, for instance,” Reignier said.

Systems such as electric wiring and emergency oxygen ducts offer enough interfaces in the cabin for each zone to have sufficient outlets, whatever the zone’s length. Layouts in previous bizjet designs made it difficult to install a partition outside the planned location, a Dassault engineer explained. The small intervals between the structure’s frames and the large number of windows—38, each with a 30% greater surface area than on the recent Falcon 6X—contribute to the improved flexibility in the cabin’s floor plan.

https://aviationweek.com/...

PugJesus is toxic to the fediverse.

PJTB

The interior size and range make this a globally relevant step up in aircraft design both for civilian and military purposes.

Arch is not the only distribution that has a service for providing "use at your own risk", unreviewed, user-submitted content; Fedora has Copr, the openSUSE project has the Open Build Service (OBS), and Ubuntu has Personal Package Archives (PPAs). Each of those services allow a person to sign up without any review process and build packages for download by other users of the distributions.

However, there are important differences between those services and the AUR. They provide a build environment that is similar to the ones used for the official distribution packages, and do not allow pre-built binaries or proprietary software. The model for Copr, OBS, and PPAs is that a user creates a project under their own user namespace; users have to add each repository from one of those services separately.

For example, niri creator Ivan Molodetskikh maintains a Copr repository for Fedora users who want to run the tiling Wayland compositor. To install niri from Copr, a user has to enable that repository specifically. It is possible for other Copr users to create a similar project under their own namespace, but it is not possible for another user to take over Molodetskikh's repository unless they compromise his credentials. A would-be attacker could create a malicious fork on Copr and try to lure Fedora users to add that package repository to their system instead, but the attacker cannot simply pick up an orphaned Copr repository to compromise users who have already added it.

The AUR, on the other hand, is much more relaxed about ownership; the PKGBUILD files are all maintained under the AUR namespace. The rules state that, when a new maintainer takes over an AUR package, they are supposed to add their own information as maintainer and then list the prior maintainers as contributors. That, however, is taken on trust and (as seen with the current attack) can be easily abused.

The disadvantage of a bicopter tiltrotor is the blades and engine must work harder than a traditional helicopter because of the smaller props meant to work for forward flight as well.

That being said bicopter tiltrotors such as the Osprey and Cheyenne II are undeniably the future, they just aren't as optimized for hovering as a normal helicopter.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA167719

Trade-off studies were conducted wherein two versions of tilt rotor aircraft were examined to determine optimum mission distances where the tilt rotor designs were superior to a comparable contemporary pure helicopter. Two FORTRAN computer programs VASCOMP II and HESCOMP were used to predict aircraft performance. Program results were validated using data from independent sources. A simplified users manual is included with sample data and program output for VASCOMP II. The experimental results substantiate that the V-22, designated to replace the CH-46F among other aircraft, will offer significant improvements in speed, loiter endurance, hover endurance, performance, and efficiency. The results lend further credence to the manufacturers claims that tilt rotor aircraft can transport more passengerspayload over longer distances in less time than conventional helicopters while retaining the important advantage of vertical takeoff and landing. It is acknowledged that the tilt rotor can readily perform transport missions using less fuel than helicopters but if a large percentage of hovering flight is required, conventional rotary wing aircraft are far more efficient than a fuel consumption standpoint. However, they do not have the staying power that the tilt rotor demonstrates.

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/...

In Afghanistan, Marine units used the Osprey to extend evacuation coverage into areas where conventional helicopters struggled to preserve medically meaningful timelines, compressing distance and helping sustain survival rates under challenging conditions.

Those lessons are directly relevant to the Army’s future operating environment. Like the Osprey, the MV-75 offers a way to overcome the tyranny of distance that defines the Indo-Pacific. Unlike earlier platforms, however, it is being designed from the outset around a digital backbone. That distinction matters, because it creates an opportunity not simply to evacuate patients faster, but to fundamentally change how care is coordinated, communicated and delivered during flight.

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/...

Israel never stopped doing war in Lebanon, the peacedeal never existed.

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