Yeah, from the conversations I’ve had, they’re kind of the best of a bad bunch, all things considered.

It’s really special to not have ternary, but have Elvis.

Haven’t the dems recently started some kind of initiative for an amendment to prevent court packing?

Eh, it works for what it is. The whole plane is basically a manned stage-1 of an AA missile.

Once again, I’m not sure what conversation you think you’re having, but it’s not this one.

I’d wager (heh) Tooze is familiar with armament production. Germany still built something like 4k Leo 2s. Add to that about 1k of Leclercs, half that of Challengers, some Ariettes, and a bunch of other crap, there’s room for an economy of scale, it’s just not being used. And frankly, EU armies buying M1s isn’t helping. In addition, you can put the proposition backwards, and say high unit costs are a sign of too few of them being built.

I’m wondering if he’s maybe comparing older models. An M1A2 can come from anywhere between early nineties and today - L2A8s are brand spanking new. But even then, the PzH 2000 being six times more expensive then the K9 is just insane.

Misinfo? I’m talking about opinion pieces. “Israel has a right to defend itself” isn’t strictly misinfo, but it is, arguably, an opinion. And you’re correct. They’re not only used for opinion laundering - they also appear to be a sort of make-work program.

And I don’t know what conversation your tangent on what you’re reminded of comes from, but it’s not the one we’re having.

You should. Arguably, you should nail the to the cross for opinion pieces more, because opinion pieces exist to launder articles that the paper can’t reasonably justify publishing… but still really wants to publish.

Also, earth-pear, for some reason.

It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.