"Girl math" is sexist, man.

Rolex watches don't have batteries. That is why they are so expensive.

Are you angry? I can't tell.

AI was just an excuse for having layoffs that they wanted anyway.

The AI was an excuse for layoffs. They fired thousands of workers.

This is signaling to the current employees that the layoffs are done, to prevent them from quitting and finding other jobs.

This indirect messaging is annoying until you compare it to the Zuck/Meta direct way of saying, "We laid off low performers" immediately hurting the job search of any former Facebook employee.

Yes, during the Obama era. If you adjust for inflation, it dropped even more in other eras.

Not practical yet.

So, one time? In the 90s?

How many different types of drone are you planning to carry on your back when running across a field while under attack by artillery and the other guys' drones?

I said "Drones CAN be defeated by a mesh net," I didn't say that a mesh net will defeat all drones. And the reason I said it was precisely because that guy I mentioned who has spent much of the last few years working with, fighting with and training Ukrainian troops mentioned it as one of the simplest defences against Russian drone attacks. They do it because it works against the kind of cheap drones which are typically launched against them.

> Stealth aircraft don't yet have countermeasures.

Yugoslavia shot one down in the 90s.

Russia regularly shoots down Storm Shadow missiles which are not much easier to detect than an F-35.

So yes, countermeasures are out there and have been for decades. This is why Israel doesn't fly its F-35s over Iran, and never even flew them over Syria.

Sure, but that's another thing you need to add to your drone to make it useful, just on the offchance that your target is hiding behind a net.

It makes sense to use them when you're attacking one of the transit routes which have nets spread around them because you can cut a hole with one drone and then fly other drones through it. But you don't want to put some kind of net-cutter on every single drone because pretty soon you're carrying ten kilos of things-that-might-be-useful-in-some-circumstances and the drone is no longer cheap and can't carry any useful payload.

Just another wrinkle in the strategy map.

Stealth aircraft don't yet have countermeasures.

Drones can be defeated by a mesh net. Bullets can't.

Despite the propaganda, they're not a wonder-weapon. I believe the record for most FPV drone hits survived by a single tank in Ukraine is now thirty-two, and it's normal for tanks to be hit ten times and still get back home alive. And against humans they're allegedly only about 10% effective.

It's also worth noting that Eastern Ukraine is ideal for drone warfare it's mostly flat and open. There's an interesting video on Youtube by a guy who worked with Ukrainian soldiers in Ukraine and then went to Taiwan to test drone tactics with the Taiwanese military and discovered it was vastly more complex there due to lots of hills and trees... cheap FPV drones don't work if the other guy is on the far side the hill you're hiding behind, for example.

Drone defenses are coming.

Once the drone defense gets figured out, drones are just going to be another wrinkle in the strategy map.

If you see an enemy 1000 meters out, no need to have extreme shooting accuracy. Send a drone out and take care of it.