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brbbuzzkill here 😬 funny meme make sad (which never happens with you TPM 💙)
Oof, that is incredibly upsetting. I don't know how we fix this.
Prioritize education and universal child care services
Yes, I'd much rather have my tax dollars going toward that than another air superiority fighter that: A. Doesn't work and B. Wouldn't be used because most of our military engagements are against groups without air forces.
Shockingly the military isn’t the reason we cant have the other things we want, it’s because we don’t make everyone pay their fair share.
Also while it’s unpopular the f22 project did push the envelope for technology and that money wasn’t just burned, the f22 is still quite the technological achievement and even failures result in significant research and development
What non-military technologies have come out of developing the F-22?
Well it's sensor fusion technology has been the blue print for every machine intended to "make its own decision" in terms of where it goes, and what functions it uses. The sensor tech created have lead to a bunch of significant increases in a number of tracking technologies, everything from optically informed triggers and movement, improvements in camera, and display tech, and a large array of sensors using a lot of other means of sensing things, such as EM fields/projection. The air frame has informed the development of more efficient commercial aircraft. Developments in HUD/AR displays have a lot to thank from the tech developed for the F-22's pilot information systems. All sorts of different user interface tech was influenced by things developed for it.
A whole lot of what many industries have been doing draws from stuff developed for the system. So-much-so that congress made an amendment that specifically blocked the sale of the F-22 and its associated sub-systems.
Fair enough
Removing profiteering would be a good first step. We got here by neolibs deciding that everything was fair game to make money on. So, millennial, zoomer, and future generations' educations were sold off. For decades, literacy education has been using systems developed to allow people with learning disabilities to be functional in modern society, not to foster reading comprehension.
Overhaul the entire tax system and how schools are funded. Good luck.
I think for a lot of people, reading of kind of a luxury they don't have time for. Kind of hard to hone your literacy skills when you're living hand to mouth.
Then again, I'm a self taught engineer from a poor immigrant family. So who the hell knows.
You got me fucked up if you think I'm reading all that.
USA can’t read good
Huh? What are those shapes?
Do you know what the proportion of native English speakers vs non-native speakers is in the US?
It doesn't diminish your point, but probably that non-native speakers skew the stats a bit if they are included in the stat.