Ahh, my bad. I misread your response as “this was confirmed to be an a10.”

The A10 had it’s day and place, mainly as a ground support aircraft battling against under armed insurgency groups. But yeah, against a force that has somewhat capable air defense they are definitely out of their depths.

No it’s a f-15. The A10 was downed during the rescue mission for the f15. The livery is from a flight squadron that is based in the UK which doesn’t have any A10.

Eh… I’m not an expert either, but there’s a few pics that show more traditional exposed riveting rather than the inset fasteners you see on stealth aircraft. Plus there are a few pics going around of an F-15 matching the matching livery.

making electrified transport a reality

Electrified rail remains the most efficient form of transportation and has been available since the late 1800s…

People are just so obsessed with cars that they ignored the safest, most efficient, and environmentally friendly option for over a hundred years.

I guess the future is bound to be filled with dangerous traffic with even heavier cars, and filled with millions of batteries filled with lithium mined by impoverished children.

Well, women have the ability to lie… Unlike the president, who many people are saying is biggly honest, and the most honest man in history.

That was kinda my point about absolute equality. There will always be people with disabilities and therefore absolute equity and absolute meritocracies are mostly utopian philosophical concepts. Plus, if we’re doing idealist delights why bother with anything but luxury space communism?

Imo an absolute meritocracy would first require a society of absolute equity. Otherwise how would you know if someone is actually more inherently better at something or if they just had more opportunity?

I think meritocracies are a nice idea, but they’ve mostly been supported by societal elites throughout history because they know it’s easy to score when you’re born on third base.

cis straight white males is that they don’t have to deal with racism, sexism, and bigotry over who they are and who they love

How does that racism materially present itself? With racism it’s by decades of economic support and government programs aimed at creating wealth for a certain ethnicity over another. With sex it’s decades of reinforcing gender roles and denying educational opportunities for women. Rules about race mixing were created to deny a dilution of the ethnic collective of political power.

That’s not a zero sum game. We can all have that privilege. That privilege isn’t what causes bigotry.

I would argue that it shouldn’t be a privilege, but a universal right.

But for the most part we’re fighting in large part for equal good treatment. It’s not a zero sum game.

I think you might want to look up the definition of privilege. You can’t be privileged unless someone is being disadvantaged. If you want to get rid of privilege then what you’re saying is you want everyone to be treated the same.

I think you’re running into a little cognitive dissonance. In this scenario, the privilege is what is causing the disadvantage in the first place. You cannot be privileged in a truly equal society, therefore you can’t elevate everyone to a privileged class, you can only equal the playing field.

It’s a zero sum game.