VikingLifeBlog

This video analyzes recent USAF tests of their JDAM bombs. Now with novel guidance system that will enable them to be used against moving targets, such as ships. Could it all mean that suddenly the entire satellite guided bomb inventory may become dual use weapon inventory, capable of targeting ships? Watch the video to see how it was achieved.

Binkov’s Battlegrounds

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Battlegrounds – a guide to warfare

About China

Common sense dictates that becoming dependent on others for one’s sustenance is a risky business for all involved. This is not to say that short-term assistance is not beneficial[…] But to create economic dependency in able workers disrupts the economy and can hurt those it purports to help. COVID “relief” funds for “nonessential workers” under the touchy-feely “CARES Act” is a case in point.

Many people did not receive weekly government benefits during COVID-19 (all of which is borrowed/printed money yet to be repaid). Dividing humans between so-called “essentials” and “nonessentials” was an exercise in absurdity, the definition of “arbitrary and capricious.”[…] Local restaurants were devastated, while national franchises like McDonald’s got extra business. And many idled workers bought X-Boxes and other consumer toys while they refused to seek “essential” work — many made more money sitting home than when employed full-time pre-COVID.

This state of affairs further hurt businesses, whose “help wanted” pleas are ubiquitous. Yet this has been the situation in Vermont for years — many able workers make more money collecting welfare and other benefits than if they took a private job position. There is no incentive to change that dependency, and it hardly gives most people a sense of worth — and the public resents people not working who could. Many people receiving benefits object equally strongly — they want a leg up, not an economic enslavement.

Vermont Folk Troth

Hawaii police are defending their use of pandemic relief funds for a robotic “police dog” made by Boston Dynamics which scans homeless people’s eyes to see if they have a fever.

“If you’re homeless and looking for temporary shelter in Hawaii’s capital, expect a visit from a robotic police dog that will scan your eye to make sure you don’t have a fever,” says a new report from Associated Press. “That’s just one of the ways public safety agencies are starting to use Spot, the best-known of a new commercial category of robots that trot around with animal-like agility.”

Muunyayo

Happy Hump Day. Humps so hard it broke the camel’s back without a straw. Thirsty? Come on in for a better metaphor.

The Sperg Box