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  • 7isanoddnumber@sh.itjust.workstoNonCredibleDefense@piefed.social•Battleships are back? What? How do I even meme this? How is this not already a meme? Why is the usa like this? Do they know why battleships stopped being effective as line combatants?
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    2 days ago

    Firstly, yes this is colossally stupid at first glance. Trump is an egoist and an idiot, and he’d absolutely want a fleet of the biggest ships ever named after him so he can wave his tiny dick around for decades after he dies. However, I believe this is a renamed project that was already in development, not a new thing Trump wanted made. The main thing that makes this interesting to me and makes me consider why it might be more practical than the name leads on is the inclusion of a high powered laser system. With sufficient power, a naval laser could literally be the ultimate tool for naval combat and completely negate the weaknesses of a battleship style design. I’m not sure this ship will have a laser that powerful, but if it’s in the megawatt range then it could very well be essentially invulnerable to most modern aircraft and missiles. The US military even before Trump was focusing heavily on lasers in new developments as they’re likely going to define warfare in the next few decades, if not longer. There’s good reason for this, a sufficiently powerful laser could be able to destroy any unshielded aircraft or missile within seconds. The primary limiting factor for their effectiveness is getting to that power range in a portable form (which a nuclear ship solves), and turret rotation which basically limits the number of targets they can engage. One of the proposed Lockheed Martin F-47’s primary new features is an aerosol dispenser designed for laser defense, in another example of laser focused design. As silly as it is to call them battleships, this legitimately might be a decent call for a design. A fast, large ship with high power, long range guns and a laser defense system that protects it from missiles and aircraft to allow it to get in range to use those guns. If nothing else, it’s a big platform for missiles and has a decent gun for shore bombardment purposes. I think 100 of them might be crazy, though.

    Edit: OK this thing is gas turbine powered and the lasers are 300-600kw in power, plus they’ve almost certainly picked a shitty wavelength for ocean operations so I think this thing is going to be a budget black hole for 3 years and then (hopefully) when Trump doesn’t get elected again it’ll be cancelled and we might get a real set of frigates or destroyers instead.

  • 7isanoddnumber@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Seals the deal, once and for all.
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    1 month ago

    Hi, trans girl here. I’ve made a handful of jokes about how being belittled or harassed by men is gender affirming in the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s something that I seek out or something that I enjoy outside of the affirmation. It’s something that cis women also experience, and that makes me feel affirmed in my gender, but I’d definitely prefer if it didn’t happen at all.

    On the topic of hair stuff, you’re projecting your own experiences onto others there a lot. I find a greater sense of euphoria from being completely hairless because it makes me feel more feminine than just shaving, especially because hair comes back so fast from just a shave. There’s a factor of overcorrection as you mentioned, perhaps, where people choose to express their gender in some extreme ways, but that’s a choice that each person gets to make and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. There’s a massive difference between society pressuring every woman into being completely hairless and someone deciding personally to do laser hair removal because they find that feeling affirming. In no way is this meant to imply that cis women are in any way less valid in their experiences than trans women, and I fully support the right of everyone to choose how they express themselves. I love it when cis women decide to go against societal gender norms and show off muscles or body hair, but that’s not something that I want to do as I associate those feelings with my life pre-transition and masculinity which brings about feelings of dysphoria.

    As for the feeling afraid to go out alone at night and limited social opportunities, I can’t imagine that being a completely serious comment. Obviously the fact that women are mistreated in society sucks, a lot. I don’t think any of those comments were meant to belittle the struggles of any women ever. However, experiencing those same difficulties as a trans woman means that society at large essentially views you as a woman in every context, not just in ways that benefit you. It’s a sort of social side effect of transitioning. Its not a goal, but it is a side effect that affirms your identity. It essentially equates to a desire to pass at all times rather than just when “girlmoding” or whatever, which is very gender affirming even if it obviously sucks that all these challenges exist and society would be better if nobody had to experience any of them.

    I can understand the confusion between gender affirmation and thinking these things are good experiences. Something can make you feel like a woman without being a good experience, and that can be difficult to understand for people who aren’t trans. I don’t want to belittle your experiences, say they’re not valid, or anything like that.

    By the way, I don’t appreciate calling gender affirmation a fetish, that really rubs me the wrong way.