Sorry if this is just semantics (it is), but angler fish are sentient, just not sapient. Sentience is the ability to feel and perceive, Sapience is the ability to reason and think.
Revolutionary tactic: Kessler cascade
Sorry fam, I actually want a habitable planet when capitalism finally shits the bed for good. We need the use of space.
Why would refit be difficult? You can make this from off the shelf components. If you are really rushed and don't care much beyond making stuff work quickly you can use smartphones, those have cameras computers and accelerometers, granted those would be a bit limited in "capabilities" Militaries might not go for that, and probably be incapacitated, fine i concede this point. Do munitions really depend on GPS for detonation ? would that not make them susceptible to jamming ?
Oh right this was about producing Kessler syndrome, i had forgotten that, and was thinking about this in the context of using it for putting up satellites. I even had thought about using thermal glue to encase foldable solar panels so they don't get shredded during hard acceleration phase, and basically melting the glue once in orbit, maybe using waste heat from the rocket-phase. Oh you would not use shrapnel, you'd just smack into something.
For the Kessler cascade, maybe not, whatever creates loads of space junk flying in all directions is all that's needed. High explosive fragmenting shells in space could do the trick without high speed collisions.
As I said earlier in the thread, GNSS is only used for precision. In the event of war between major powers, it can be assumed that GNSS will be knocked out, so almost all weapons systems can use other navigation techniques.
For example, Tomahawk cruise missiles primarily use Terrain Contour Matching for navigation. They also have DSMAC, which is pretty much a camera that looks for the target.
Just dropped in to say humans under communism are eusocial, and the natural state of humanity is egalitarian eusociality. Currently, workers who more often than not never procreate (incels, wine aunts) produce large amounts of surplus and rearing labor to support a breeding, ruling class (who use inheritance thus breeding to maintain their class) and the workers only procreate in any case to make more workers or servitors for the rulers. Wars between countries or alliances of countries are either functionalist (steal resources, remove impurity, kill memes/ideology that is maladaptive) or based on hive survival (muh country/ethnicity survive better, me kill threat country/ethnicity hur dur). When humans kill each other they do so not out of surface emotions but the deep set evolutionary motives that created those emotions. Disgust for "degenerates" is a holdover of some kind of herd immunity like response to behaviors they responded to as bad for survival. Culling the weak is done when the weak can't be helped. This is my pet theory and by no means super solid, but I believe it's a possible interpretation. Society itself, civilization and culture, it is just eusociality expressed in an animal with higher cognitive function.
Why do we need selection pressure?
Real competition is like when dogs nibble and nip at each other for play and whichever is stronger, cleverer, or more aggressive is considered more dominant. Competition like capitalists describe is perversion of a drive that is fundamentally not harmful and is healthy into one that does great harm to the species. Competition is playful, not violent or something one risks their life in.
Primitive communism had a whole community raising children. It aligns with eusocial models.
This is an incorrect reading of eusociality. The castes that exist in bees or ants have functional differences in the biology of their species. This would be like saying black people are hormonally distinct and thus stronger than whites and thus make good slave laborers as a class. It's not equitable in that way. Humans have no genetic ruling class per se, nor do our males have an ability to receive fertilization from females. Ants for example, have biological roles, but they are flexible, more like the differences between a buff dude and a skinny dude (exercise makes the physique). These are comparable sorts of structures, but otherwise "castes" should not be understood in a limited way, given that they are not universal in eusocial species (not all ants have castes). Sexual division of labor is far more important a part of eusociality than just castes. Ants of one caste have sub groups and they can fill roles as needed, changing roles throughout their lives or as roles are emptied when a member dies. The worker ants also reproduce but only create other male/worker ants whose eggs have to be fertilized.
I would argue that the drive to kill eachother comes from group selection which would be even stronger in eusocial species
Social insects castes are sort of like [imperfect analogy incoming] capitalists and proletariet, except instead of capitalists the reproductive individuals are themselves the means of production. Decisions about the means of production (this queen is old and isn't laying enough eggs, we need a new one) are made more or less democratically by the worker caste. Alternatively you could view food production as the "means of production." Decisions about this are also made democratically by the worker caste. Either way, natural selection shows us communism is the best system.
Or maybe what it shows us is that the capitalist class should be allowed to exist, but only at the mercy of the workers, and the slightest slip up means the workers will murder and replace the capitalist with a younger more adaptable one, if we take this imperfect analogy to its logical conclusion
No they aren't you massive sped.
None of the actions in an insect colony are performed consciously, they react to chemical markers. Worker ants have a set series of roles they go through in the colony starting underground and then moving up, and after entering one role they never go back.The ants you see at the top of the nest trying to defend it or bring in food never contact the queen. There is not much more descision-making in a colony of eusocial animals than there is among the cells of your body. The whole colony system is just an evolutionary happy accident with no communication or decision-making, only very refined action, that exists because the queen can continue the species by making more colonies even though the workers don't breed. There is no conflict between the castes because the workers don't have any interests whatsoever, they are sterile appendages of the thing that breeds as opposed to being individuals or a group that can get something at the expense of another group. Why do you think there are still bees that die when they sting? Ah yes, democratically electing the queen, you do realise that female naked mole rats compete chemically to suppress the fertility of each other until there is only one queen right? It's literally just pussy stank.
Stop trying to anthropomorphise animals.
You do understand that high infant mortality after 9 months of costly gestation makes it pretty hard for human beings to have a breeding caste, let alone queens, right? Human infants are much larger than chimpanzee infants but both have similarly-sized birth canals, if the trend was towards eusociality you wouldn't see that. And that the population of countries with high childlessness is currently in unsustainable decline unless you count immigration to them.
I know all of this I just believe it's easier to communicate with simple language. When individuals give off chemical signals based on their surroundings, and the sum of these chemical signals determines collective action, you have what is essentially a democratic process without the need for conscious decision making.
My point is natural selection led to a system where the workers, who are non sentient insects, make "decisions" about the "means of production" in a quasi democratic manner.