Tanked

How? The 125mm cannon has a daytime sighted range of 4000m. If it’s a true tank/tank kill, it’s the longest in history by very far and probably used the Sokol-1. Ignore that range there. The Sokol-1 can actually do 12km indirect fire.

Unlong

Yup. Most “Long Covid” is really Short or Medium Covid. There’s nothing amazing or special about Covid-19. It’s just another damn coronavirus.

For 98% of people, Long Covid will be 1-2 years of somewhat bad times, certainly, but not lifelong and ever-worsening disability (and a lot of Long Covid is real, but mental — that is, it is not the result of anything physiological). That the Covidians wanted to end civilzation to avoid Long Covid is cool and all I guess, but not really a proportionate response.

Comp Time

are men really surprised about being complimented?

Yes. Because it happens extremely rarely. The average woman probably receives 1000x as many compliments as even the more exceptional men. I remember every single woman who has ever complimented me in public since I was five years old.

It’s four. That’s why it’s easy to remember — because it’s happened four times total. This is true for most men. Tons of men never receive a single unprompted compliment from non-parents or non-partners in their entire lives. When you’re a man, you’re very aware of the vast indifference of the universe to you — so when something breaks through that, you fuckin’ remember it forever.