… lol

Isn’t he the guy being medicated for asthma, allergies, and ADHD… For which the medication just coincidentally happens to be performance-enhancing? Yeah forgive me if I have no sympathy for the guy.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global code by letting several athletes it had caught between 2011 and 2014 violating drugs rules go undercover and keep on competing without prosecution in exchange for information on other violators.

US gold medals, 2000 to 2016:

2000 - 37 (300 events)

2004 - 36 (301 events)

2008 - 36 (302 events)

2012 - 48 (302 events)

2016 - 46 (306 events)

On one hand, we have clear US overperformance in gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. On the other hand, we have proof that athletes CAUGHT DOPING between 2011 and 2014 were allowed to continue competing for years afterwards.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, maybe it’s a duck?

The one where… Tank man blocked a convoy of tanks by standing there?

The one where he was pulled away by his friends afterwards?

It’s sort of challenging to hide a crushed body, and yet no journalists who were there the night of or the morning after reported anything. No photographic evidence is available.

I’ve given up trying to convince people here otherwise. lemmy.ml at least gives sane discussion on this issue.

maintenance cost on F-35s are sort of absurd

tbh I’m not convinced that high-maintenance stealth aircraft will have a role in modern conflicts. The Russia-Ukraine war is highlighting the issues with over engineered Western weapons in sustained conflict. If you don’t dominate the opponent logistically, they’re impractical.

it’s funny how often it happens lol

Yes but it’s pro-Western and thus good

Reuters truly the “most factual” news site

Welcome to Poland

Haha no

That’s just how free speech works

F-35s are absurdly expensive compared to F-16s though

religious fanaticism in all regards

they spent decades fighting off two superpowers playing around in their backyard

sucks to be you then

We literally saw a university president get deposed from their position for having a politically unpopular position lmao

Feel free to point out any inaccurate reporting in the article. Ad hominem attacks aren’t very useful.

Feel free to point out something inaccurate in the article rather than resorting to ad hominem arguments.

What security fears? The West has completely obliterated medium-term leverage in high tech exports. We’ve single-handedly done something that multiple levels of Chinese government have failed to: force Chinese companies to use domestic vendors despite inferior performance and higher cost. We’ve single-handedly pushed Made in China 2025 into a success story, driven millions of dollars into research investment, and contributed billions in dollars in sales into Chinese companies that people wouldn’t even consider as vendors before.

Huawei was desperately trying to sell their Ascend AI accelerators before and to no avail. Today? They’re swamped with orders. SMIC was barely usable except for research purposes and bottom-of-the-barrel development (and even research would prefer to use TSMC). Today? They’re shipping millions of units at 7nm.

Globalization theory works to protect established powers so long as established powers continue to innovate, since newcomers have little incentive to invest in fields that established powers are both 1. Much more advanced in and 2. Constantly advancing in at a pace that’s difficult to catch up to.