Jul 25

Cide

I agree about the FPV drones and drones in general. I too saw that video mentioned. That Russian soldier was clearly already injured, but not that wounded as he was ambulatory and walking fairly normally.

Still, once he knew a drone was onto him he immediately shot himself through the heart. I guess he calculated it was better to die without much suffering rather than dying slowly and painfully with his limbs blown off or guts torn open, which is I am sure how he’d experienced the demise of his comrades. (And don’t tell me this does not happen; I have personally watched 500+ videos of this very thing happening.)

All war is horrible and terrifying, but drone war is many levels worse than the normal horror.

Jul 25

Copeathetic

No matter what motherfuckers tell you, it’s infinitely better to be strong, smart, slim and rich than weak, dumb, fat and poor.

Anything else is just cope.

Jul 25

Oh Be

If it weren’t for clownish behavior, most people would have no behavior at all.

Jul 24

Spark

Some waitress when I was in the army gave me sparkling water and I had no fucking clue what it was, either. It also tasted like garbage and I could not drink it. I believe Vance’s story; when you grow up in hick areas with no culture, you don’t see much and only know what you read about.

PMC libs don’t realize it but they have the same problem — they don’t buy any story that does not reflect their also-very-limited PMC upbringing.

Jul 24

Disksec

This was just to keep people from casually yoinking your disks in the office or even at home. They were pretty expensive back then and not that easy to replace.

Jul 24

NoExp

You can tell a lot of people on Reddit are really, really young because they are eager to declare any story “fake,” even many things that are extremely common. Everything seems unlikely when you’re 15 and your life experience consists of going to a boring suburban upper middle class school day after day.

Jul 24

Zion

I really do think 99.99% of people who talk about how Israel is uniquely terrible actually do just hate Jews and wish for their extinction. The antisemites just have a convenient cover for it that Israel has committed to defending itself, as any country would.