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ohdeargodno ◴[] No.45078337[source]
The amount of variants of "I missed <X> important event of my life to build a drone made to [kill people|break shit|arrest small time drug dealers]" in that article makes me think of complete fucking insanity instead of amusement park, but sure.

Skipping your paternity leave to release a shitty SaaS for a startup is already dumb shit, but doing so for the US military is some sociopathic behavior.

Also, for all their jerking off: congrats, you reinvented Skunkworks. Inevitably, in a few years, Anduril will be captured by political interests greater than them, and will become the same kind of crap company that Lockheed Martin is. And the world will be better off knowing there's fewer people making things to bomb brown people.

(And before any "uuuh but what about ukraiiine" response: the US will. never. be. attacked. Its conventional force is plenty enough to threaten any adversary. You can relax, the Chinese aren't coming to conquer Alaska, put down the power armor)

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delta_p_delta_x ◴[] No.45078837[source]
> the US will. never. be. attacked. Its conventional force is plenty enough to threaten any adversary.

That's what the Romans, the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the British said. There's no need to attack an 'empire' that implodes from within.

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