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Latest NDAA has removed right to repair language.
Dec 10, 2025 3:40 PM
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Latest NDAA has removed right to repair language.
meowingintensifies
John Deere: *wanks furiously on a pile of cash and dreams of more cash* Just another sign that corporations run this country.
tzahtman
The NDAA also includes a bit about the Secretary of Defense's travel budget is cut until it releases all unedited videos/logs of the Navy blowing up Venezuelans as well as Hegsworth being required to write a document detailing how the US has helped Ukraine.
ChickenNuggetNumber05
thats how you cripple your own military
BellsTheorem
And make billionaires even richer.
76000BatteryLlamas
The system works as designed
PotatOSLament
The purpose of a system is what it does.
CodeWarrior
I am a former infantryman who was assigned to the company arms room. I was responsible for the maintenance and security of the weapons, NVGs, and aiming lasers. The BEST part of my job was the under the table deals that I made with higher level maintenance units to get unauthorized parts so that I and my company could fix our own fucking weapons. M-249 safety retaining spring, not authorized, they break about once per year. 2 minute fix rather than deadline the gun for a few weeks.
evaunit117
How can you live with yourself? You were circumventing the bureaucracy which was put in place for your benefit, and other jokes to tell yourself
CodeWarrior
I comfort myself with the fact that it was fun to do underhanded shit, and that I had tacit approval from my command staff that I was to continue doing it in an effort to keep all of our weapons functioning.
Oatmealman1
I'll repair whatever the fuck I want. The only reason they stopped it is because they can't even fix how badly they ruined this country, Nazi traitors
hfctom
I mean, my favorite was when the Navy figured out it could make AvGas from Sea Water using the giant nuclear reactor on their big ships and Congress was like "No you may absolutely not." but apparently that's now back in the works so YAY! https://www.seadragon.energy/seawater-to-jet-fuel
StephenDaniels
Avgas is a variant of car gas. Smallish, non-turbocharged prop planes use it. Jet fuel is almost always some variant of kerosine.
hfctom
Apparently it's JP-5
limbodog
AvGas presumably stands for Audio/video Gas. Much like grid squares and blinker fluid, it is used to teach newbies the ropes.
secretdpp
In welding shops we had Aluminum magnets and wood welders to see how much we could screw with the newbies.
Ranb40
Power is limited on a nuclear powered ship. The reactor is only powerful enough to supply steam to the propulsion plant, turbine generators and smaller auxiliary loads. There is really not much left over to power a large plant to produce fuel from seawater and CO2.
I suppose such a plant could be installed, but it might take up lots of room and require so much power that the ship would be rather limited in speed.
behemothman
1 reactor on a carrier can support all loads except "flank" speed and they have 2....they are far from limited.
Ranb40
Nimitz has two A4W reactors with an output of (unclassified) 550 MW each; a strict limit, they will not exceed 100% of rated power. Where is this fuel production plant to be installed? Space on a Nimitz class carrier is all accounted for; no spaces exist that will accommodate a large fuel plant.
A Nimitz class carrier will hold about 3 million gallons of jet fuel, or nearly 120,000 MW hours of power. How efficient would a fuel plant be when converting seawater to JP-5? 50%? 10%? Less?
LordBrandonTheBold
Right to repair doesn't benefit the military industrial complex.
pixelsnader
That would make it "military industrial streamlined".
ProbablyPoe
Nor us, shit I just want healthcare for those less fortunate
CallMeCourierSix
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS!?
imaynotbeasmartmanjenny
Tell that to the co that can’t get his cable news because the tmds shop had to send a part to the manufacturer lol
SteelyDad
It's almost like Milo Minderbender is behind this, or whatever the dude from Catch 22 was called. Just so blatantly about extracting money for the MIC at the expense of the troops and taxpayers.
Freyja33
I mean I would say it affects military preparedness if equipment cannot be fixed and is fubared the moment it breaks, because even if a unit can stay equipped under those circumstances it's much more expensive when everything has to be replaced with a brand new unit every time it breaks. On the other hand it would be a massive cash grab for the companies selling equipment to the military, which is the entire point. This enriches the oligarchs who control the 'military industrial complex'.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
This would matter if the politicians who decide if we go to war, actually cared about our military being effective. They don't care if every single soldier dies, as long as they can get elected again.
MikeRInternetTraveler
Military preparedness is not remotely the primary goal.
Enriching arms and equipment manufacturers is.
gtotherizzle
They don't want our soldiers to come back. It's too expensive to pay for the "benefits" they lied about to get them to fight. No profit to be made in a returning soldier
ErwiinMadness
How dare you use logic in this day and age!?
LordBrandonTheBold
I think that qualifies as high crimes and misdemeanors.
LordBrandonTheBold
I agree. The military as a fighting force is just a thing to make money from, as far as the corporations are concerned. They're purely extractive in their business practices.
DarthFutuza
They're also a threat to their business if not carefully chained and restricted. Governments are some of the only entities on the planet capable of regulating and reducing their profits, so an additional benefit from their perspective is that its better to make sure the military is completely dependent on you to function, so that if they were ever deployed against your interests you can punish them/hinder their effectiveness.
DarthFutuza
You're also forgetting how much the corporation benefits if they hold all the keys and the military were suddenly deployed against their interests. Hard to succeed at enforcing anti-trust regulations, if all your hardware can be disabled remotely and suddenly the company is the only one with working planes.
Rubblebubble
look at early on in the Ukraine war, there were at least 1 or 2 very visible strikes against Russia that failed because Musk cut starlink for the Ukrainians.
meganical
Saw a commercial today ask people to donate $19 a month for wounded veterans to receive healthcare they need as a result of the injuries they suffered while serving—disgusting that our government doesn’t assign any of their billions in budget on that alone but expects the already-struggling average citizen to have any money left to feel comfortable enough to donate it
Frozenspokes
The VA is far better than the fake news makes it out to be. Many of these organizations that advertise that they're helping veterans barely meet the requirements for being called a nonprofit. For an example, look up Wounded Warrior Project. It's a business disguised as a nonprofit.
tzahtman
The party that keeps restricting/removing vets benefits is also the one that vets vote overwhelming for. Just like farmers, a lot of vets vote to be punched in the balls then turn around and complain that the people they helped put into office are punching them in the balls. For the vets trying to help it has to be extra infuriating that many of the people they're trying to help keep cutting them off at the knees.
Ranb40
What charity was trolling for funds? It might be a scam. https://veteranlife.com/military-news/wounded-warrior-project-scandal
BobaFettApproves
They don’t care and they never did.
LanceSackless
Its wild to me that serving in a war doesnt GUARANTEE you care and housing for the rest of your life
rubypilgrim
Health services is the second largest line item in our nation's budget, including the VA. Social Security is the largest. By way of example, Canada's budget is similar. The difference is, Canada's national debt is about $1.5tn in US dollars, while the debt of the US surpasses 37tn and is swiftly rising. Canadian dollars fund their social and health programs directly, while the US pays for-profit insurance companies to provide most of the services - so the US is significantly overpaying for -
rubypilgrim
that care. I don't know how fees are set, but the US is certainly funding a private profit that Canada doesn't have to pay. A long way of saying US healthcare for all of us is funding profits for private insurance companies, and they're bleeding us all dry.
2graves
What's the first and by what margin
rubypilgrim
social security is 23%. net interest on the debt is comparable to defense spending, about 13% each. Finally, health services (medicare 11%, medicaid and CHIP 10%, and other mandatory expenses (i think this includes the VA) is 12%. Other discretionary spending (cancer research, etc) is 9%. Source: CBO Budget and Economic Outlook 2025. This is all approximate and doesn't reveal granular data. For example, with social security, the lion's share actually goes to seniors, disabled folk, survivors -
rubypilgrim
and so on, mostly people who funded the program for others. Medicare, on the other hand, about 42% goes directly to insurance companies. Some of that money pays for their profits. Would we save $ if we went all government operated? it depends. Canada has a public healthcare system for all, and they have a similar budget breakdown re social spending. The big difference is in the national debt of the two countries. From this limited data, I can't extract the root causes of the two economies. -
rubypilgrim
just that one country has been reasonably well managed, and the other hasn't. The US is the hasn't.