Their voting records don’t seem to bear that theory out.

Well, that, and the CEO of Sears was an Ayn Rand fan who decided departments needed to fight each other over everything.

If I have a hose and the other guy has an RPG I’m probably not starting shit.

> See, the hijackers can't actually sail the ship. So they can't kill the crew, or at least can't kill very many of them.

Sailing the ship safely takes some skill.

Sailing the ship at all takes about 5 minutes of watching youtube worth of learning.

And they can certainly sink the ship as a warning to the next ship. Indeed attacks in the area have a history of sinking ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_attacks_on_commercial_v...

> If you have a hose that you can fire from a fairly protected position and the guy with the RPG is completely exposed because he's trying to climb up the side of a tanker, yeah, I might.

In this scenario you are standing on a ship that is full of highly flammable oil.

There are more outcomes than just the hijackers gain control of the ship or they leave you alone.

If gaining control is no longer an option they could decide "fuck it" and just fire into the side of your hull.

Fire is always a risk, but crude oil is not "highly flammable". Some refined products and LNG are more problematic.

That might cause the oil to leak out. It's unlikely to start a fire unless the tank is fairly empty.

> the guy with the RPG is completely exposed

No, he isn’t. He’s sitting in the speedboat with the guys with rifles protecting the guy on the ladder.

> See, the hijackers can't actually sail the ship.

You think Somalia has zero people with experience working on a cargo ship?

> guy with the RPG is completely exposed because he's trying to climb up the side of a tanker

Uh? Stay 100m away and send a "park your tanker over there or we fire at you" message.

>See, the hijackers can't actually sail the ship

Its pretty dumb to assume that.

Somali commercial sailors and merchant mariners do exist. Information and simulator software is available also in Somalia.

A project of that size is gonna be even harder to conceal.

I think the idea is that before they sell it to the public they should trust it with their own loved ones.

There's a video of the founder of Figure robotics trusting it enough to let it do laundry next to his kids

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1950685253447913798

The first phase is likely don't let the kids go near it since it could easily hurt a human by accident.

Is it automated or is it like when they demoed that neo humanoid robot and it was actually just a dude driving it with vr goggles.

Notably it does not show the robot turning on the washing machine?

That requires the ProMax subscription at $2500/month.

Stockton Rush trusted his submarine with his own life.

> He criticized the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993 as "needlessly prioritiz[ing] passenger safety over commercial innovation".

:-)))

Or to put it another way, before selling it for laundry folding, make sure it won't fold the baby that was left on the wrong table.

> How about we turn down the heat, everyone?

The heat is coming, in part, from the lack of a proper support channel.

I agree that their support is abysmal, and that is intentional. It's unfortunate that the greater market doesn't seem to care that much right now.

The same place as the Ukrainians and the Russians get their stuff.

I presume that includes the engine, sensors, etc.

> One scary aspect of drones is that they can loiter around an area.

There are some new ones that work like landmines, too; they sit on the ground until they detect something worth going after.

> Another chilling aspect of drone warfare is that you don't get to surrender.

You can. First one happened in 1991.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/featured/humans-surrendered-t...

It happens fairly regularly in Ukraine.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukrai...

I have seen the videos where they surrender. I have also seen the countless videos where they would clearly have surrendered if given a chance, but instead, they were blown up.

Sure; the same is true for humans shooting at you with machine guns and artillery. You don't always get a chance to surrender.

> I have also seen the countless videos where they would clearly have surrendered if given a chance, but instead, they were blown up.

surrender is likely usually accepted when its possible, but with drones it is often logistically difficult because frontline is very wide now.

There are plenty of videos of russians fake surrendering. They are specifically instructed to put armed grenades on their body to kill those accepting surrender.

> There are some new ones that work like landmines, too; they sit on the ground until they detect something worth going after.

Half-life 2 manhack vibes.

> Naoki said that the AirKamuy 150 could carry around three pounds, which is just enough to carry a small amount of supplies or munitions to a target and it’s not hard to imagine swarms of incendiary cardboard drones slamming into targets in the near future.

"so far" is for the next five minutes or so.

It's a bit silly to claim a misleading headline when you can't read the article. https://archive.is/5Pqg6