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Joust

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Extreme close combat of a Ukranian Bradley vs Russian APC.

Jesus Christ, that is the craziest thing I have seen in this war. The Bradley definitely came out on top there, but damn.

And this is mentioned in the comments, but in the below video a Bradley destroys a T-90M. Very impressive. The Bradley and its main gun are formidable.

About the Bradley vs. BTR engagement, my assessment is that the Bradley was hit but survived, but the BTR was obviously a total loss (and more than a few Russians died in the process). So fucking glad I am not in that war.

Omg Did She Call Him Baby?

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Really good song. And interestingly, if a man wrote a song like this about a woman he’d be accused of “only wanting sex” and not being a “real friend” even though what Beth here says is way more graphic than what a man would typically say about a woman friend he might have a crush on, e.g. “i keep dreaming of her tongue/her blue denim skirt undone.”

If you haven’t picked up on it yet, I really hate double standards and being looked at as an “unthinking sex beast” because I find a female friend attractive. Why for only men does that mean we’re being disingenuous and vile? The song of which this is a rewrite is not nearly so graphic because a man cannot get away with writing something like that.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Summer’s Glau

Chill Video, Video (TV show)

Such a great, insanely well-written show. What I like about it in particular (and this scene) is that even though everyone knows what “she” is, her looking like that still allows her to partake of the halo effect of young female beauty, but also be constrained by it as well in certain situations — that is, even being a “very scary robot” still doesn’t allow her unrestrained freedom.

Again, so well-written — e.g. the part where she turns his phrase around on him and says, “He’s not a guy, he’s a ‘scary robot.'” It helps to know the backstory of the show and Cameron’s (the female terminator) as well, but it’s clear that she is resentful of his by-proxy characterization of her. That’s why she turns his phrase back around on him like that. But it’s all done with great subtlety. Each line matters, and each one reveals something more to the viewer without either character explaining anything in the emotional sense directly. Some shows would spend half an hour belaboring what the writers managed to do there in just a couple of taut minutes. And that is pretty impressive.

That show is just full of scenes I wish I could’ve written. (Sorry for the crap resolution.)