Post #710091

2026-03-22 12:15 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/116271481696841313 Oh good grief, this summary is both farcical and tragic: also, Trump has fucked air travel for at least the next two years, never mind automobiles and logistics. The supply chain shock will get as bad as 2022 within a couple of months—then keep getting worse.

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@rpluim@mastodon.social 2026-03-22 12:18

@cstross I'm looking forward to all the companies and governments mandating work from home again in order to save fuel. /s

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@PatrickTingen@mastodon.nl 2026-03-22 12:41

@cstross "The allies are cowards for not helping with the thing he doesn’t need, which is why he’s sending Marines to die for it, unless the countries that do need it do it themselves, which they won’t, because they’re cowards" Pure gold

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@isaackuo@spacey.space 2026-03-22 12:42

@cstross Trump and the people around him are absolute morons, yes, but there is a weird motivated thinking desire among many to breathlessly claim US military hardware - which Trump had no hand in the development of - somehow sucks. The F-35, for all its infamous flaws, is working better than experts expected. It was never designed to be fully stealthy - it emits radar so it can see and shoot at enemy aircraft. And SM-3 continues to be phenomenal. But the awesome performance of some systems

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