[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 11:33 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> >…Irrelevant.  The US Navy is not Congress, and the modern US Navy's capabilities have no bearing on what Congrss authorized long before the oldest US ship in the conflict was designed…
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> Extremely relevant.  What the US Navy is doing demonstrates the process works.

No, it does not.
1) The US Navy could have achieved similar results with similar
quantities of obsolete or advanced equipment.
2) The historical period in question was mostly before the US Navy's
current equipment was manufactured.

> >…John and I see your attempted Gish Gallop, and remind you that tactic does not work nearly as well in written forums like this.
>
> Regarding your comment that POTUS does spend money not authorized by congress and the courts eventually rule on it, what that demonstrates is that we need originalist justices on the SCOTUS.

Multiple SCOTUS judges who call themselves "originalist" have been
attempting to enable POTUS doing things without Congressional
authorization despite the plain language of the Constitution
forbidding those things.  So, that solution has been shown not to
work.  That solution also does nothing about needing to take a while
to file lawsuits in the first place, authorizing ongoing harm in the
short term - indeed, a series of ongoing harms: when (or before) the
courts shoot one down, another pops up.