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Should be a wild four years.

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Oeselian Chad said:
So economically no reason to have 2 different stealth fighters when 1 can do the same job.
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It's better to look at it as a platform then a "Jack of all trades meme". There are three main variants with completely different duties, also a bunch of drop in equipment for different missions. The entire point is to have a long service aircraft family with completely interchangeable parts and supply chain.

BTW the Joint Strike Fighter Program is a massive graft shit show, that happily kills its pilots for kicks
 
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Autistic Gunspergings said:
before we get too excited about RFK Jr, here's a "satirical comedy" about the republican party I found in my recommendations.
I had to see this retardation, and I simply must push it needlessly onto others who never wanted to see it instead of leaving it alone like an upstanding citizen.
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everyone that wasn't a theater kid knew they were never, ever cool, and with government shadow money being pulled now they're going to find out too
 
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Your Girlfriend's Dad said:
Holy shit, we have 2 designated Happenings threads for the Russia-Ukraine War. Can we keep the conversation ITT away from that outside of maybe US involvement in fostering a peace deal?

Every time it just devolves into the complete domination of the thread for 5-10 pages.
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The thing is, it's gonna be a hot button thing for a few days, and ever more so when a cease fire happens.
 
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Autistic Gunspergings said:
before we get too excited about RFK Jr, here's a "satirical comedy" about the republican party I found in my recommendations.
I had to see this retardation, and I simply must push it needlessly onto others who never wanted to see it instead of leaving it alone like an upstanding citizen.
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What’s funny is that if you swapped “Republican” out for “Democrat” but kept the script exactly the same, it would be 100% accurate to the current political climate
 
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Gregis said:
The artisans who would create the beautiful detail work simply no longer exist. It's not even a matter of money, if you want buildings in an old style, you'd need to start scholar-craftsmen NOW on a project of relearning and even reinventing the techniques of the past, so that maybe in several years you could start putting them to work on a handful of buildings doing that work, and slowly training apprentices so you could scale up. Unadorned concrete is cheaper on so many levels.

A beautiful, adorned style of the future will probably need to rely on mass-production techniques in some way to have any chance of taking off; perhaps automated yet custom production techniques like 3D printing offer a model.
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Fundamentally recreating traditional architecture is the equivalent of reshoring manufacturing, as the skillsets and human capital have to be reintroduced (design and technical), while government needs to prioritize it (like Made-in-America) in order to perpetuate a preference cascade in the profession.

The first place to start is to establish more classical architecture schools like Notre Dame, as the source of modernist indoctrination begins with the majority of architecture schools in the US. If a new cadre of students have the choice between choosing between a classical education and a modernist one, control of the architectural profession will likely be less lopsided, as much of the modernist domination of the architecture scene is driven by a whole ecosystem of media (academia, magazines, journals, awards) that effectively creates their world- a typical architect today will have always been born in the modernist context and does not know of a world outside of it.

Likewise, a new generation of classically-educated architects will effectively eliminate the 'bad' traditional architecture (i.e. McMansions) in the US- which is effectively caused by B-tier modernist architects tasked with design traditional architecture for tasteless developers despite lacking the knowledge of how to do so. The damage will have to be slowly undone- starting off with less-ornate traditional styles like late forms of Art Deco- but it's quite possible to have it done well since traditional architecture is really more about proportions, and effective results can be attained by switching skins while retaining the building systems inside.

The below Tuscaloosa Federal building was built in 2011 at a very reasonable cost of around $50 million, which is comparable to a modernist equivalent in Austin built around the same time.

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