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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Nix Panicus posted:You're not wrong. Without western support Ukraine would have collapsed a long time ago. They aren't capable of carrying out their own defense. Even with western support they appear to be barely holding on. Ukraine should consider a negotiated surrender before their position deteriorates further. Ukraine doesn't need the Americans, they can produce their own weaponry!
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:40 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 12:17 |
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Ukraine doesn't need the Americans, they can produce their own weaponry! im sure they actually used to made them until the americans came
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:41 |
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I could swear there was an article posted earlier that had a Ukraine soldier complain about this. https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1679559747165364237
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:45 |
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Whenever I see discussion of Mr. Beast I think that otherwise relatively wholesome eating competition guy has really fallen, then I remember that's the LA Beast and it seems he's still abusing his digestive system.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:47 |
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Palladium posted:im sure they actually used to made them until the americans came quote:The most intriguing small arms “producer” in Ukraine was the KB-ST (Design Bureau for Special Techniques). This highly controversial organization was established in 1993 and during the late nineties announced a series of a “revolutionary” small arms designs, such as sub-machine guns and sniper rifles of outstanding, if not unbelievable, characteristics. However, no foreign experts ever were able to test these “wonder weapons”, and by this time KB-ST has folded and gone out of business. One of such wonder weapons widely advertised in Ukrainian literature as “unique” and “superior” was the Pistolet Shevchenko, or PSh in short. This overly complicated and strange-looking weapon was also an amalgam of previously known ideas, some of which were tried and rejected 50 or even 100 years ago. To start with, the PSh used a two-stage feed system, borrowed from the 1900-period Gabbet-Fairfax “Mars” pistol of British origin. This system, in which the cartridge is first pulled back from the magazine and placed on a lifter, then raised inline with the barrel and fed forward and into the chamber, was necessary because of the elongated barrel, which protruded back into the action. To further complicate the construction, its designer Shevchenko used a very rare gas-operated locking system first (and probably last) used in a WW2-era prototype Horn assault rifle from Germany. This system employs two small gas pistons that are forced by gas pressure sideways from the frame and into locking recesses in the slide. Another strange feature was a hand-cocking device, probably taken from HK P7 pistol, but in a twist – instead of full-hand cocking lever PSh employed some form of a second trigger, located below the “primary” trigger and used to cock the striker when pressed by one middle finger. It also had a ribbed, aluminium jacket on the barrel, and a very special sort of slide stop, that locked slide open once there was one cartridge left in the gun. The claimed purpose of this arrangement was to allow shooter to make its “deliberate last shot” – in its own head, probably.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:47 |
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The 90's were a dark and troubling time for Eastern European weapon design.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:49 |
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Emily Channel Justice
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:51 |
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Ukraine doesn't need the Americans, they can produce their own weaponry! All I see on the reddit videos lately from the Ukraine side are quadcopters dropping mortars on wounded russian soldiers. I am sure all of them are made by Ukraine with 3d printed parts and Chinese civilian drone motors and controllers.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:52 |
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Complications posted:Whenever I see discussion of Mr. Beast I think that otherwise relatively wholesome eating competition guy has really fallen, then I remember that's the LA Beast and it seems he's still abusing his digestive system. oh lmao i thought it was that eating guy
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:52 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:All I see on the reddit videos lately from the Ukraine side are quadcopters dropping mortars on wounded russian soldiers. I am sure all of them are made by Ukraine with 3d printed parts and Chinese civilian drone motors and controllers. i would stop watching those videos tbh
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:55 |
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CODChimera posted:oh lmao i thought it was that eating guy LA Beast has a jawline
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:55 |
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Vomik posted:I’m trying to imagine what I would do in this scenario hypothetically if I were conscripted into a forced suicide march and I’d probably try to get captured? but how exactly can you allow yourself capture if you have to walk through miles of mines to do so? Yeah, I'd probably just mentally freeze up and follow orders (which is sort of the "default" action in that scenario).
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:57 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:All I see on the reddit videos lately from the Ukraine side are quadcopters dropping mortars on wounded russian soldiers. I am sure all of them are made by Ukraine with 3d printed parts and Chinese civilian drone motors and controllers. I think Ukraine correctly determined they are poo poo at weapons design and if they make anything at all is just knockoffs of whatever russia is making. another 90's "pistol"
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:58 |
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Virtual Russian posted:You just don't attack through a minefield, it isn't done. A minefield is area denial, no one would dare attack through one, you have to go around. A mine clearing tank isn't really meant to lead an attack through one, you could only follow it and retreat along a narrow path. quote:When we come to a minefield our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there unfortunately ukraine hasn't been following the rest of the quote quote:The losses we get from personnel mines we consider only equal to those we would have gotten from machine guns and artillery if the Germans had chosen to defend that particular area with strong bodies of troops instead of with minefields. The attacking infantry does not set off the vehicular mines, so after they have penetrated to the far side of the field they form a bridgehead, after which the engineers come up and dig out channels through which our vehicles can go. and has instead been sending vehicles to set off up both the anti-tank AND anti-personal mines
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 02:59 |
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Zedhe Khoja posted:I think Ukraine correctly determined they are poo poo at weapons design and if they make anything at all is just knockoffs of whatever russia is making. "aim high" isn't always applicable smh
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:03 |
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Lions led by donkeys. I cannot imagine the horror that would be stepping into a minefield.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:03 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:unfortunately ukraine hasn't been following the rest of the quote Admittedly, the Ukrainians have taken positions usually by rushing infantry afterwards in waves until they get a foothold… then the Russians move to the next trench line and hammer what the Ukrainians send over until the process starts over. The Ukrainians do gradually improve their positions but they use up entire brigades to move up 500 meters. The Russians are fine with this because the Ukrainians aren’t really threatening anything serious strategic and they know they have far more trench lines. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 03:08 on Aug 20, 2023 |
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Ardennes posted:Admittedly, the Ukrainians have taken positions usually by rushing infantry afterwards in waves until they get a foothold and then the Russians move to the next trench line and hammer what the Ukrainians send over until the process starts over. The Ukrainians do gradually improve their positions but they use up entirely brigades to move up 500 meters. That is WW1 you are describing.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:05 |
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Virtual Russian posted:Lions led by donkeys. I cannot imagine the horror that would be stepping into a minefield. legs for doggo memes is a great trade ackstually
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Virtual Russian posted:Lions led by donkeys. I cannot imagine the horror that would be stepping into a minefield. What's wrong with donkeys? Working animals, unlike the lazy male lion (and we know they're talking about the male lions, with their iconic manes).
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:05 |
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i say swears online posted:"aim high" isn't always applicable smh quote:a rather large and distinctive laser pointer sitting at the bottom of
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:05 |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/ukraine-war-west-gloom/quote:Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians). The West’s most reckless antagonist has been rocked. NATO has grown much stronger with the additions of Sweden and Finland. Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy and, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values. NATO squabbles make headlines, but overall, this has been a triumphal summer for the alliance. relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians)
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:07 |
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Virtual Russian posted:That is WW1 you are describing. no i think armored operations in WW1 went far far better than ukraine getting an entire column soloed by a t-72
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:08 |
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Virtual Russian posted:That is WW1 you are describing. It is basically World War One with some drones and copters.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:08 |
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Subvisual Haze posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/ukraine-war-west-gloom/
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:10 |
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Subvisual Haze posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/ukraine-war-west-gloom/ EU industry getting destroyed is also relatively low cost for the americans also the .~*WE*~. need to destroy putler by all means necessary rhetoric in the comments is definitely different from the neocons they hate Palladium has issued a correction as of 03:16 on Aug 20, 2023 |
# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:10 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I maintain that "The British Empire-but-not-racist" could have lived up to the dream of the Imperial Exhibitions. "british empire but not racist" is literally the founding principle of the japanese empire but good luck getting anyone to actually acknowledge that when the japanese empire is a designated Monster Of History and analyzing the intent of their laws versus how they were actually enforced begs a lot of uncomfortable questions about just how meaningless the former is when compared to the latter
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:14 |
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Both sides used artillery in WW1.Some Guy TT posted:"british empire but not racist" is literally the founding principle of the japanese empire but good luck getting anyone to actually acknowledge that when the japanese empire is a designated Monster Of History and analyzing the intent of their laws versus how they were actually enforced begs a lot of uncomfortable questions about just how meaningless the former is when compared to the latter This is deeply concerning.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:15 |
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Complications posted:Whenever I see discussion of Mr. Beast I think that otherwise relatively wholesome eating competition guy has really fallen, then I remember that's the LA Beast and it seems he's still abusing his digestive system. Also, not to be confused with Mr. Beat, a schoolteacher / tuber who makes videos about US history.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:17 |
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Complications posted:Whenever I see discussion of Mr. Beast I think that otherwise relatively wholesome eating competition guy has really fallen, then I remember that's the LA Beast and it seems he's still abusing his digestive system. watched la eat a bunch of warheads recently when checking this out myself. dude still has it
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:26 |
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KomradeX posted:You know the Ukrainians keep saying the 1991 borders need to be respected, but don't those 1991 borders have an independent republic of Crimea? Crimea declared independence in 1992. Frosted Flake posted:That can't be right. An attack usually fails at like... 20%. At 85% casualties there's not an organized body of men trying to achieve an objective, it would be more like a disorganized mob trying to get out of the line of fire. It's a platoon assaulting a village on the outskirts of Donetsk city 85% of which took injuries of any sort. Seems plausible if only because that could happen in a second. quote:One of the men, a former U.S. soldier from Texas who goes by the callsign "Tango," said his unit of "dozens" of men took "85% casualties" and that two of their comrades were killed when the team was ambushed whilst advancing into Russian-occupied territory. Forty percent of the unit was so badly injured they were rendered "combat ineffective," he said.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:33 |
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Ardennes posted:It is basically World War One with some drones and copters. WW1 with drones and live broadcasting. The libe broadcasting IMO is the reason the casualties have been lower than WW1 numbers because people for the most part know what's happening at the front line.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:34 |
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Palladium posted:EU industry getting destroyed is also relatively low cost for the americans EU industry getting destroyed is a net positive for the world.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:36 |
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Subvisual Haze posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/ukraine-war-west-gloom/ this type of wording keeps popping up and its very concerning how the cost to Ukrainians is a side thought at best
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:52 |
just don't drive over the mine lol
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:52 |
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Subvisual Haze posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/18/ukraine-war-west-gloom/ [UKR/RUS war] relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians)
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:54 |
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CODChimera posted:this type of wording keeps popping up and its very concerning how the cost to Ukrainians is a side thought at best for many, the only real person is themselves, their families, maybe a few friends they'll pay lip service to the idea that humans are all people, but when the rubber meets the road they don't really think so and even that small circle can be prone to shrinkage given even some incentive
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:55 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:EU industry getting destroyed is a net positive for the world. they're just going to get cannibalized by the US, how does that help anyone? The US is going to get a boost. It's not like the EU was a major threat to China.
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:56 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:WW1 with drones and live broadcasting. I think there are plenty of older/middle age Ukrainians relying on just their own news and rumors, it isn’t really that different. If anything, social media has been pretty good about restricting the absolute worst on the Ukrainian side. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 04:14 on Aug 20, 2023 |
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Google Butt posted:just don't drive over the mine lol see if it was me, i just wouldn't get shot
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# ? Aug 20, 2023 03:59 |