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WARNING: This video shows Russian troops dying at the 1:32 mark. The reason I am sharing it is because it's footage from some kind of civilian drone that literally flies above soldiers, stays still, and then just drops a bomb on them. At the 1:32 mark it drops a bomb into the open sunroof of a car that Russian soldiers take shelter in (to escape whatever is firing at them, since they apparently don't see or hear the drone).

Neat. But this type is still constrained by incredibly low temperatures?

The only good thing about Amazon was being able to find almost anything and get it the next day (or maybe two days later). Recently I was looking for something and saw it was Prime and had 1-day shipping. Perfect! I added it to the cart, and it then said "expected delivery date is [5 days later]." Listen, I get that supply chains are messed up. But if you lie about it in advance and hope I don't notice in the shopping cart, then I can't trust anything you are showing me to begin with, so why would I shop there?

The thread was getting too spicy, so I thought I'd throw out an opinion that was sure to get it off-topic

Lavrov is appearing to walk back some of the "this is a war with NATO" comments from the past week, saying today that Russia is not at war with NATO.

In some alternate universe we laugh about how now Ukraine is invading Transnistria to stop the Russians there. Then all of the sudden Ukraine takes the rest of Moldova, and moves on Berlin and Paris, claiming that Russian sympathizers are secretly embedded in the government. And it's too late to stop them, because Ukraine now has all the weapons in the world and every single person in the country is mobilized, and now they are taking boats to North America.

lol. I mean, they did say "Slovak" and "Polish" in the context of those flags.

Hmm for some reason Russia is missing a bunch of their best gear.

This shit has left the surface: Probably propaganda for May 9, but still

Slovakia may be giving all of their MiGs to Ukraine in exchange for Polish air patrols: Crazy to see the nations of central and eastern Europe working together like this.

Incredible video of the outside and inside of an air defense battery taking out a Russian jet. Really interesting to see the screen zoom in and watch the missile track the evading aircraft, and then hit.

Bam, just stole from Twitter (and D1P).

Yeah, and those leaders were typically already experienced tactical commanders. Like, if Major Winters in late-WWII had to swoop in and take command of a platoon or company, or something, then I'd be like, yeah, that could work. A man who has avoided combat his whole life, and has purged the experienced military leaders around him? No.

But really fun (imo). Also, if you're finding it too tough, you can change some difficulty settings. One that might help is the damage-on-contact setting, which you can disable so that you no longer lose health if you touch an enemy.

Not as much as I hate New York-style pizza.

Israel airport chaos as family brings unexploded shell WWW.BBC.COM Chaos erupts as Americans bring a 'souvenir' unexploded shell into Israel's international airport. What a bunch of nimrods.

More than I expected.

You live in a fantasy world. When Musk or Trump or anyone like them posts negatively about someone, their rabid dogs pounce and begin DMing harassment (or worse). We have countless examples, this is just the most recent. I'm not going to argue further since I've made my point quite clear: what the journalist did was wrong, but I also have no sympathy for the piece of shit that was revealed.

It's a moral issue because one person being doxxed is a giant POS and the other is a person doing their job who is now being harassed by the Musk chuds. As I said, I disagree with both situations. I just don't care that much about a POS getting comeuppance.

tl;dr: Ukraine is fighting for as long as possible in an area, then slowly pulling back, over and over, extracting maximum damage on Russians. It's expected that this will stop in a key urban area that Ukraine is preparing to hold even more strongly than Mariupol. Russia doesn't have the resources to take that area, and Ukraine is mostly stalling for time until their hundreds of thousands of new troops are fully trained (which started at the beginning of the war), allowing for a counter-offensive.

Footage today of Russia taking food and grain from storage in southern Ukraine and shipping it out by truck to Russia. They did the same thing in the 1930s during the Holodomyr, killing millions in Ukraine. They are likely going to try it again to starve out the south and eastern regions they control.

"You are against the death penalty because it's abused against Black people in the south, yet you support killing Hitler. How curious!" Just thought I'd being Godwin's Law into it. There are many cases in life where you can objectively against something yet also not give a fuck when it happens.

1 in 5 Educators Say They've Experienced Long COVID WWW.EDWEEK.ORG Many educators say they've experienced painful, debilitating symptoms months after contracting COVID. Some may have to quit their jobs. People are lining up to be teachers!

We're getting way off topic here. In the end, harassment/doxing is bad, but it's not always equal. If someone who makes their name by harassing people gets exposed, then it's probably still bad, but possibly deserved. If someone who simply works for a company gets targeted by someone who owns the company (or is buying it) and has a known, rabid fanbase who will go on the attack, then that is much worse. Stop falling for the whataboutism here.

Mass kidnapping and human trafficking: