Calling all weapons makers: Pentagon seeks new ideas to arm Ukraine.
Many, many drones. Capable off-road vehicles like LAV-25s — anything that allows light armored “shoot and scoot” with things like Javelins, NLAWs, MANPADS, etc. Night vision equipment. Mortars and mortar training. (Mortars are very devastating and demoralizing in close engagements while being quite portable.)
Last night I was
Visiting with the dead in dreams
I’m still unsure who
Was visiting who
I saw someone gone twenty years
As real as the sun on my face
Cemetery hours
Every stop closer
To your destination
That sun
That sun on my face
Felt as real in the dream
As the one in this world
This world; one among many
There’s no veil to pierce
(No veil)
Time being an illusion
We are here, where they are
We all are
QAnon star Cirsten Weldon, who said only idiots get vaccinated,… and called for Dr. Fauci to be executed,… has died of Covid.https://t.co/MOsXsfVikL
— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) April 23, 2022
LOL.
If anyone with a microphone or a soapbox is still trying to tell you nearly two months into a conflict wracked with Russian war crimes, Russian destruction, Russian terror, etc, that the onus is all on Ukraine and the West to "find peace," they are a braindead fucking cretin.
— War Takes (@War_Takes) April 21, 2022
Unfortunately, this country and world has a lot of braindead fucking cretins. (Looking at you, Ian Welsh.)
I feel this even within myself. I literally can’t communicate unless I can use my face, and unless I can see my interlocutor’s face. With a mask on I become small as I lose social legibility https://t.co/pOLo78cOH1
— Seasonal Clickfarm Worker (@ClickingSeason) April 23, 2022
But masks have no negative effects, blah, blah.
I’d expect kids who spent a large part of their childhood masked to be developmentally behind others 2-3 years, and prone to more violence and social issues of various kinds. But as with many things, time will tell.
'Forever' is not the definition of success. I love this. pic.twitter.com/Nk58pxGojj
— Angie McKeown (@AngieMcKeown) April 21, 2022
It has always puzzled me why almost everyone thinks if something is not eternal, it is worthless. Some of my best experiences were transitory and evanescent, and I think they (and I) am better for that.
dufus is claiming that Russia's comparatively enormous military—allowed by Belarus to surround Ukraine and attack across a less defended border—coupled with transcendent materiel advantages and a massive fifth column—will be unable to overcome Ukrainian "grit". https://t.co/U9ABj2M2Lx
— David Stewart Zink (@goofbone) February 25, 2022
David’s tweet held up very well, didn’t it? Ha. At least he didn’t delete it as many would. To be fair I didn’t think the Russian military would be so terrible and unable to coordinate itself, either.
Was just thinking at how bad humans are at assessing risk; so bad that people often do things that are dozens to hundreds of times as dangerous as the risk they are attempting to avoid. So odd.
The Locksmith Paradox
As the locksmith improves at his craft, the customers become increasingly upset by the lower time input required to deliver a fixed output.
The results are the same, but the perception of value has changed.
The locksmith is penalized for proficiency!
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) April 23, 2022
This is very true in my field.
Some MBA: Why do we need this expensive IT staff? Let’s get rid of them, we never have any problems anyway.
Six months later, the same MBA: Why is everything down all the time and there are three Russian hackers in the network at all times? The hackers send more email from my account than I do!
I’ve seen that dance play out over and over again at various places.
Not a cellphone in sight. Just ppl living in the moment. pic.twitter.com/jgdNfBW91I
— Vanessinator 🤖 T-80085 (@ilovejohnkimble) April 19, 2022
But just look at her shoulders, delts and lats! (Yes, I know that is the apocalypse shot from Terminator 2.)
Yes it's a torpedo with a parachute https://t.co/mhkXLaHubJ
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) April 21, 2022
??
The sonar assembly is fragile. Stringray torps are also dropped from ASW helos. Why would it not have a parachute? Hitting the water at 80mph would destroy the sonar equipment and make a very loud sound a sub can hear easily.
When the startup gives their one #infosec employee that acts as a CISO, IT, AppSec, and GRC, the SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and HITRUST audits. pic.twitter.com/lh5e5lYFw0
— Will Gregorian (@WillGregorian) April 22, 2022
I am this employee for two different companies. It is not fun.
If ppl actually took covid risk seriously, they'd have been advocating for better masks on airplanes; cloth masks do very little. When I was avoiding getting covid I just behaved as though others were maskless, and wore a full respirator on planes. Do that, it's within ur power!
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) April 23, 2022
Aella, what’s most important to most people (especially paranoiac PMC libs) is being able to enforce their absurd diktats and priorities on others, not on protecting themselves. Their identity is threatened if others make different choices than they have. You’re unusual in that you do what you wanna for the most part and it’s difficult for you to understand (as it is for me) why others can’t or don’t do that.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Huh. Didn’t really know this, looked it up and it seems to be correct.
So it was always white women absolutely no one was interested in convinced they were going to be kidnapped from the general store/Target parking lot and pressed into sex slavery? Guess some absurd fantasies never die. Be interested to understand more about the weird psychology of this.
