What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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🦋 | 15 | 3.71% | |
🦇 | 115 | 28.47% | |
🪰 | 12 | 2.97% | |
🐦 | 67 | 16.58% | |
dragonfly | 94 | 23.27% | |
🦟 | 14 | 3.47% | |
🐝 | 87 | 21.53% | |
Total: | 404 votes |
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Seatbelts posted:it might as well be; this is Andrew Taint's personal shitter I thought it was a goons renovated bathroom?
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:25 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 11:03 |
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another gift for future generations is that battlefields get inundated with lead. and unlike uxo, no one’s even going to try to pretend to clean that up.
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:25 |
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3 posted:the submunitions not only stick around for a while undetonated sometimes as mentioned, but for a while they were also the exact same color as US humanitarian rations that were being dropped into the exact same areas for bonus fun points what the gently caress
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:26 |
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3 posted:the submunitions not only stick around for a while undetonated sometimes as mentioned, but for a while they were also the exact same color as US humanitarian rations that were being dropped into the exact same areas for bonus fun points Yeah a bunch of people got their arms blown off picking up what they thought was food, it was deeply hosed up like, if you were trying on purpose to cause as much pointless civilian suffering as possible, you might do something like that
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:36 |
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1631284166707892224 Ukraine begs GDI for use of Ion Cannon to fend off Brotherhood of NOD forces
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:43 |
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3 posted:the submunitions not only stick around for a while undetonated sometimes as mentioned, but for a while they were also the exact same color as US humanitarian rations that were being dropped into the exact same areas for bonus fun points I understand the ration pack being yellow because you want people to find them easily so they can eat but why the submunition? Even if we forget the fuckup of it being misidentified for ration packs, why would you make those yellow?
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:45 |
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supersnowman posted:I understand the ration pack being yellow because you want people to find them easily so they can eat but why the submunition? Even if we forget the fuckup of it being misidentified for ration packs, why would you make those yellow? make it bright yellow so people don't accidentally get blowed up by it, and then don't look at anyone else's work
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:47 |
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supersnowman posted:I understand the ration pack being yellow because you want people to find them easily so they can eat but why the submunition? Even if we forget the fuckup of it being misidentified for ration packs, why would you make those yellow? I’m guessing a similar but reverse logic where if the munition doesn’t explode it should be yellow so people know to avoid it
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:48 |
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Nonsense posted:I thought it was a goons renovated bathroom? now i'm confused and its' seemingly become impossible to find pictures of the insides of his embarrassing house in Romania Upon further investigation you are correct; I must have seen that posted as a joke and took it for serious Seatbelts has issued a correction as of 01:52 on Mar 3, 2023 |
# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:49 |
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Danann posted:(from t.me/intelslava/45310, via tgsa) Huh? I thought ukraine wasn't on the offensive.
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:51 |
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Seatbelts posted:now i'm confused and its' seemingly become impossible to find pictures of the insides of his embarrassing house in Romania lol
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:55 |
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Best Friends posted:though note that all explosive projectiles have a dud rate. anywhere getting shelled is also going to have a lot of unexploded ordinance sinking into the mud as a gift for future generations. Yeah, UXO is always a problem, but cluster bombs are far, far more likely to end up unexploded by their design and fuzing in contrast with a howitzer round slamming into the ground. Cluster munitions can be more susceptible to failing to detonate based on landing on softer surfaces like mud, sand, water, thick/tall vegetation, angled surfaces, etc. Cluster Munition Monitor from last year. http://www.the-monitor.org/media/3299403/cluster-munition-monitor-2021_web.pdf In 2008, the US started moving toward strict limitations on what cluster munitions could be retained at all and strict rules about when/where they could ever be used, with an eye toward potentially banning them entirely. In 2017, the new administration shat on that idea pretty explicitly, calling out the past effort as wrong-headed and stating that cluster munitions are required. Yeah, it had some requirements for lower dud rates, but it was prety clearly a signal that the new admin was doing a 180 on the Obama admins' policies and planning guidance. https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/DOD-POLICY-ON-CLUSTER-MUNITIONS-OSD071415-17.pdf
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 01:57 |
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quote:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-03/adelaide-anti-vaccination-protest-used-for-russian-propaganda/102040148 Pro-Ukrainian anti-vaxxer angry about russians spreading disinformation is a funny character
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:00 |
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supersnowman posted:I understand the ration pack being yellow because you want people to find them easily so they can eat but why the submunition? Even if we forget the fuckup of it being misidentified for ration packs, why would you make those yellow? A high vis yellow makes them easier to see/find rather than an earthy color, because you know for a fact that they have an expected dud rate of about 5%. So the high vis is for the safety of the same military that used the weapon. The humanitarian rations were changed over to a clear bag, so that people could see that the contents were food and not a cluster bomblet. I don't know what the most ideal "do not touch" color might be, but I at least know that dropping yellow ration packs and also dropping yellow munitions is terrible.
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:02 |
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supersnowman posted:I understand the ration pack being yellow because you want people to find them easily so they can eat but why the submunition? Even if we forget the fuckup of it being misidentified for ration packs, why would you make those yellow? the purpose of a UN "humanitarian" effort is what it does
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:19 |
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You’d think they’d at least print the universal hazard sign for “explosive” on them:
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:21 |
E: ^^^^ needs to be an exploding skull I would simply draw a skull on the cluster bomblets, that's a pretty universal symbol for bad
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:24 |
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Endman posted:You’d think they’d at least print the universal hazard sign for “explosive” on them: oh that one has jawbreakers inside
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:25 |
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Slavvy posted:I would simply draw a skull on the cluster bomblets, that's a pretty universal symbol for bad those poor gamers
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:25 |
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Kazakhstan, whose government was propped up by russian soldiers one year ago, is probably just playing all sides this for instance was published yesterday https://www.dw.com/en/germany-how-does-its-kazakh-oil-deal-benefit-russia/a-64849621 Germany: How does its Kazakh oil deal benefit Russia? posted:Ashutosh Pandey can someone tell me if you label a country an international pariah, is it still ok to use the pariah's oil infrastructure through an active warzone?
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:26 |
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mlmp08 posted:those poor gamers I mean you definitely shouldn’t drink those
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:26 |
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They're both clearly labeled bomb and humanitarian aid
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:28 |
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Salean posted:They're both clearly labeled bomb and humanitarian aid its a good thing afghanistan has a 37% literacy rate so at least some people can read those labels
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:32 |
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Tankbuster posted:Huh? I thought ukraine wasn't on the offensive. Westwards advance is the same direction as being pushed back by the Russians.
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:32 |
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3 posted:the submunitions not only stick around for a while undetonated sometimes as mentioned, but for a while they were also the exact same color as US humanitarian rations that were being dropped into the exact same areas for bonus fun points *mlmp08ishly* those are not the exact same colour there's clearly differences
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:36 |
mlmp08 posted:those poor gamers That looks like a deadly chemical to me? Endman posted:I mean you definitely shouldn’t drink those
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:51 |
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mlmp08 posted:those poor gamers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exQLEi7fM5Y
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 02:59 |
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Spergin Morlock posted:its a good thing afghanistan has a 37% literacy rate so at least some people can read those labels skill issue
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:00 |
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Best Friends posted:yeah 10%* or so of the bomblets don’t go off and become basically lovely land mines. It's like 30% conservatively. 10% is what the manufacturers claim. "In 2008, the US started moving toward strict limitations on what cluster munitions could be retained at all and strict rules about when/where they could ever be used, with an eye toward potentially banning them entirely." As anyone who saw US operations from 2008 onwards can attest, this was a real thing and not just PR bullshit. They are famously extremely strict about this, as with their policy to not target hospitals with gunships. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 03:18 on Mar 3, 2023 |
# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:14 |
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Seatbelts posted:Ukraine begs GDI for use of Ion Cannon to fend off Brotherhood of NOD forces
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:17 |
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After the US announced any new cluster bomb had to be 1% or lower dud rate 15 years ago, the US has acquired 0 new models of cluster munition. There is development of weapons that would adhere to the convention on cluster munitions (CCM), but between it being hard to make low dude rate weapons that don't adhere to CCM and fear of lack of market for them, I'm pretty sure their development is stalled out in the US. Still manufactured and developed elsewhere in the world.
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:18 |
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:18 |
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mlmp08 posted:After the US announced any new cluster bomb had to be 1% or lower dud rate 15 years ago, the US has acquired 0 new models of cluster munition. There is development of weapons that would adhere to the convention on cluster munitions (CCM), but between it being hard to make low dude rate weapons that don't adhere to CCM and fear of lack of market for them, I'm pretty sure their development is stalled out in the US. Still manufactured and developed elsewhere in the world. This is ridiculous considering you and I both know Mk-20s and CEMs are still in service. It doesn't matter if they've acquired 0 new models if they are using Vietnam era munitions. That's a weaselly technicality. "The US announced any new service rifle will be less-than-lethal and has acquired 0 new models of lethal service rifles. They will continue to use M4s however." Great.
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:20 |
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Seatbelts posted:Ukraine begs GDI for use of Ion Cannon to fend off Brotherhood of NOD forces Tbh if I was gettin invaded by NOD and GDI just hosed off instead of deploying the Ion Cannon, id be furious
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:23 |
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Frosted Flake posted:This is ridiculous considering you and I both know Mk-20s and CEMs are still in service. It doesn't matter if they've acquired 0 new models if they are using Vietnam era munitions. That's a weaselly technicality. I was just stating the exact truth and even posted in this very thread the cluster Cluster Munition Monitor, which very explicitly states that the US still possesses cluster munitions. You're seeing some deceit where there isn't any. Of course the US still possesses cluster munitions. And I referenced that the US has publicly stated that they would like to develop more cluster munitions in the future, just with a 1% dud rate requirement. Reread below and try to consider that before accusing me of being misleading. mlmp08 posted:Yeah, UXO is always a problem, but cluster bombs are far, far more likely to end up unexploded by their design and fuzing in contrast with a howitzer round slamming into the ground. Cluster munitions can be more susceptible to failing to detonate based on landing on softer surfaces like mud, sand, water, thick/tall vegetation, angled surfaces, etc. Here is an excerpt from you from the cluster munition monitor I linked. E: The 2008 policy was "let's get rid of the old cluster munitions and build news one to a new standard." The 2017 policy is "we should build better cluster munitions, but you cannot get rid of the lovely old ones until you have replacements built and on hand." So I'm pointing out in the post above with the 2017 policy memo that the US has committed to keeping legacy old cluster munitions for the foreseeable future. The entire point of my post was that the US is keeping the old lovely cluster munitions around, despite saying they would pursue a less miserable version. mlmp08 has issued a correction as of 03:33 on Mar 3, 2023 |
# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:27 |
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Round-up of news of the day President of Ukraine quote:https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/okupant-neminuche-vidchuvatime-nashu-silu-spravedlivosti-zve-81381 White House quote:https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...s-john-kirby-7/ Reuters quote:https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-clings-bakhmut-us-readies-400-million-new-military-aid-2023-03-02 Washington Post quote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/02/bryansk-russia-attack-ukraine-saboteurs Guardian quote:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/bakhmut-burning-fires-everywhere-as-russians-close-in-ukraine
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:33 |
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:33 |
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One thing I didn't really realise until this conflict is just how big Wagner seems to be.
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:34 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 11:03 |
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gonna need an edit with the jazz hands
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# ? Mar 3, 2023 03:34 |