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ACuriousPLAFan said:

For a country with (kind of) a bolt-out-of-blue defense industry that is already capable of challenging all the other major powers, some of which already has a long-standing solidified presence on the international arms market, the scenario that you have described is rather unbelievable, TBH...

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That's because the entire defense industry is just Erdogans retarded attempt at "revitalizing" the country. (at the severe detriment to everything else) He for some reason beloved that the military industry ( and related industries) will be the future for turkey and wants to be the China for military needs. His little idiots club has poured absurd amounts of money into everything military. You guys remember TEKNOFEST? I went there, and every freaking university has some rocket model sitting outside their booth hoping to get some of that MIC cash.
In the uni there is also an innovation center called TEKMER. One of the many "innovations" they showcase proudly are hexacopter drones (all built from Chinese parts lol) , and a "high speed 3D printer" (Copy of A Voron 0 (how do I know? There was some boron branding still on the x axis belt tensioner lol.) with some badly made sheet metal parts. Won an award from KOSGEB (they run and supervise TEKMER ), a "drone jammer gun" ( that weighs like 8-10 KG , lol how dafuq is that practical?) A company that produces gears (shitty inaccurate gears with stupidly high backlash. MF was proudly showing off his planetary gear that was produced and you could feel several degrees of backlash (basically shitty tolerances) , you can get significantly better planetary gears from alibaba for the same cost lol). And he showed me a proposal to make a "new" and "innovative" machine to make gears. It was a hobbing machine that have existed for more than 40 years that you can get off alibaba (undoubtedly at significantly higher quality given his "best" product). His office is littered with various projects that with some forethought he would have noticed that they were doomed to fail like a freaking 3d printer whose chassis was made from thin ass ACRYLIC. Another one is a projection machine for making large screen printing masks (which failed because he somehow couldn't figure out how to get the target areas aligned with the projector.) There is of course the usual littany of DOA projects that rode the "metaverse", "AI" and "block chain" hypewave to get into TEKMER and anyone with any knowledge of their promises would have noticed that their promises were hollow and their confidence was through the roof. These "companies" ended up becoming nothing more than gathering clubs for friends to eat and drink fastfood.
There is also a company that is run by a guy studying computer science but wants to make one of those DOA "city air prurifiers" scams and wants to propose it to the Saudi government (no idea what happened).

Anyways this a short list of what I remembered

pevade said:

There is also a company that is run by a guy studying computer science but wants to make one of those DOA "city air prurifiers" scams and wants to propose it to the Saudi government (no idea what happened).

Anyways this a short list of what I remembered

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Khashoggi'd probably

for proposing an idea that looks, sounds and costs like a scam

Another US Military Osprey crashed in Aus, three marines killed
4th osprey crash from last year

kwaigonegin said:

Not to brag but I got 96% on my ASVAB if memory serves. How dumb do you have to be to need to use the calculator?

Unless the math portion got significantly harder since I took it, which I doubt, you don't really need a damn calculator on the math portions.

The dumbing down on the military continues together with all the wokeism.

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I don't think calculator usage is an indication of "dumbness". I don't think any university level math disallows calculators, and probably if you took them away, most students would struggle. I don't think you would not call them "dumb".

I think basic math education (arithmetic) has fallen to the wayside due to the prevalence of calculators. While this could be considered "dumbing down" (to a certain extent, it is), I think it is more indicative of a shift in educational priorities. 60 years ago, you didn't learn a thing about computers in primary school, but probably spent a lot more time on arithmetic. Would you say more computer lessons aren't important for today's primary school children?

That being said, I think this test would be exposing some of the shortcomings of this kind of approach. It could be that the basic arithmetic is far more important in building up numeracy skill than we think.

With respect to the military, there are also other factors at play. The military is a national organization, but educational standards are set at a state level. Are some state standards lagging behind? Is the military recruiting at a higher rate from those states (I suspect this could be a factor).

My friend was sending me some similar stories, and at the time I thought, "What a joke, these people are too dumb for the army?", but when I thought about it more, I wondered if the system is failing them.

We also can't discount the effect of family environment (or lack of) on education, are there any differences on the number of recruits from single-parent or other family situations compared to the past?

Space Force Lt. General Michael Guetlein, commander of Space Systems Command, said in a pre-launch teleconference on Monday (Aug. 28) that the Silent Barker mission is designed to "deter aggression" through letting the United States' potential adversaries know that the Space Force is keeping a close watch on what happens in geosynchronous orbit (GEO).

"A huge element of deterrence is the ability for the adversary to know what we can and cannot see," Guetlein said. "So we actually want our competitors to know that we have eyes in GEO and that we can see what's happening in GEO. Not only are we going to maintain custody and the ability to detect what's going on in GEO, but we'll have the indications and warnings to know there's something out of the normal occurring, and that goes a long way towards deterrence."

supersnoop said:

I don't think calculator usage is an indication of "dumbness". I don't think any university level math disallows calculators, and probably if you took them away, most students would struggle. I don't think you would not call them "dumb".

I think basic math education (arithmetic) has fallen to the wayside due to the prevalence of calculators. While this could be considered "dumbing down" (to a certain extent, it is), I think it is more indicative of a shift in educational priorities. 60 years ago, you didn't learn a thing about computers in primary school, but probably spent a lot more time on arithmetic. Would you say more computer lessons aren't important for today's primary school children?

That being said, I think this test would be exposing some of the shortcomings of this kind of approach. It could be that the basic arithmetic is far more important in building up numeracy skill than we think.

With respect to the military, there are also other factors at play. The military is a national organization, but educational standards are set at a state level. Are some state standards lagging behind? Is the military recruiting at a higher rate from those states (I suspect this could be a factor).

My friend was sending me some similar stories, and at the time I thought, "What a joke, these people are too dumb for the army?", but when I thought about it more, I wondered if the system is failing them.

We also can't discount the effect of family environment (or lack of) on education, are there any differences on the number of recruits from single-parent or other family situations compared to the past?

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I know what you're trying to say, but trust me when I say dumb I meant it.
I've taken the ASVAB. We are talking relatively basic arithmetic, not some complex problems or differential equations.
If tou need a calculator to punch in 9 x 9, you're dumb. I'm sorry to be harsh!
Withat that said, this is a failure of the US educational system as a whole especially in inner cities or poorer districts.
Sadly, many of the people enlisting in the military are just products of our failed education system.

Ok, this adds nothing to the discussion, but it was just serendipitously sent to me…

supersnoop said:

I don't think calculator usage is an indication of "dumbness". I don't think any university level math disallows calculators, and probably if you took them away, most students would struggle. I don't think you would not call them "dumb".

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Eh, if you're allowed a calculator, then it's probably not university level math.
Computation shouldn't be a focus. Also every mathematician loves pretty numbers and fractions.

I was reading about on Wikipedia and made this crummy little graph that shows the number of submarines launched by year for US Navy covering the Los Angeles, Ohio and Virginia class submarines.

They will need to ramp up production, they are discarding them faster than they are replacing them.


That's a lot to replace...