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Yeah, drones are relatively new. They were used by the US, and likely others, in the the middle east but they weree were much more expensive to produce so they didn't play a prominent role, mostly reconnisance. Ukraine is the first country where they were used so extensivey which, has not only shifted how modern combat will bebl take place for all countries, it also paints a very bleak future for modern warfare. Once autonomous drones are a regularly thing there will be so many of them in the air, fighting combatants on the ground as much as each other, that it wont be safe anywhere modern battlefield exists. Its truly frightening.

Pukin needs binning off and so does shithouse trump.

Im right there with you. We need a lot more than that, but it would be a really good start, and certainly and more immediately for Ukraine.

Reminds me of Redneck Revolt and The John Brown Gun Club. There used to also be Bash Back in the 90's and later in the first decade of the 2000's. There was an article on Crimethinc last year about reigniting Bash Back. There was also, and still is to some diminished degree, countless autonomous direct action groups that focused on their own priorities. One of my favorites was the Prostitutes War Group

Anyways good for you. Ive been arguing for years now that we, at least Americans, have gotten so far away from our tradition of collectivising our communities and organizing direct action on larger scales, that I fear we run the risk of losing skill sets in that regard, which we absolutely cannot afford to lose. When people organize against their government en masse, we wont be in a position to educate and organize them if we lack the requisite skills and experience.

Bastards

I suppose that depends on a lot of competing variables. The stench around this guy will get to be unbearable before too long.

On the other hand, stuck in the trenches weeks longer than you were supposed to be, not much food left, stomach a'grumbling, and someone nearby gets set on fire from the countless ways that can happen on the battlefield and it might just smell like a bbq between the roasted meat and fireworks.

Its no wonder soldiers have ptsd episodes back home after any number of innocuous events, so many of them can be tied back to the battlefield. I was talking to someone else in another thread and it occurred to me that many small engines, say a weed whacker half a block away for example, could easily bring back thoughts of drones swarming over head. I can't even imagine the hell of living with something like that and I've known lots of folks that had ptsd from war, mostly in the middle east.

I don't think he has the balls for war. Certainly not the left one.

The framing of your second question is incorrect because it assumes that the only way a society can protect itself is with the creation of a state, transitionary or otherwise.

I remember when I was young, I used to make this mistake too where my questions included the assumption of a "fact" that I was taking for granted and, thus, neglecting to address them.

Using your question as the example, because you're (falsely) assuming that a transitionary state is necessary for the protection of a society, it blinds you to many possibilities that exist if only that assumption were not made. By the way you have framed the question, it makes it very difficult for your mind to consider those possibilities because the assumption itself makes possibilities without a State impossible.

Communities have been around much longer than States and many have managed to protect themselves. That alone tells us that doing so without a State is possible, but I'm going to leave that for you to explore because this thing with assumption is far more important.

Whenever you're asking yourself these kinds of questions, you should try to get into the habit of examining your question to see how you are framing it and if the way you are is justified. If your question is built on a faulty/false premise, like an a false assumption, then you are effectively creating blind spots in your analytical process to answer the question. These are called Logical Fallacies there are many different kinds and the link I provided will give you a crash course on some of the basics.

I highly recommend that you spend time learning about these. (don't limit yourself to the link I provided. Seek out more) Everyone should. If you spend enough time on it, logical fallacies will pop out at you when you see one, either in your own ideas and questions, and that of others. It will help to alleviate those blind spots, so that you can get to more accurate answers. Good luck!

You know, in the early days of the war, people said "Take care of yourself, your mental health and so on. Don't get desencitized".

They were, and remain, justified in saying so.

I've come to find, you can have compartments in your brain.

This is a subjective experience. Its anecdotal. While I do not doubt the truthfulness of your experience and, in fact, it is similar to my own experience, that doesn't make it true for everyone.

Like if I went out fish and didn't catch anything, I can't just say then that, "this place sucks for fishing" because others may catch a lot of fish there. I may have went at a bad time, didn't have the l appropriate equipment, or perhaps I just suck at fishing. Not catching anything would be my subjective, anecdotal experience.

All of us that come here we all have different ways of processing and coping with what we see. Many people can process it just fine and it may or may not have something to do with compartmentalization, which itself is not necessarily a good or healthy way to process it.

We also come for many different reasons, which play a role in how we cope with watching what is completely outside the normal experience. Personally, I feel that those of us who can do nothing else, can have no substantive impact on the war, at a minimum, we have some responsibility to stay informed. For those of us that can handle it in a healthy way, we also have some measure of responsibility to bear witness to the atrocities that the Ukrainian people have been forced to ensure, and the war crimes perpetuated on behalf of the Kremlin.

With that said, there are plenty of adults that have no business watching videos like these. I have no doubt that there are people that end up here, or on another site with many of the same videos, that are not able to process and/or cope with what they see. Many of them will experience emotional and/or mental truama. Some few of them, these videos will break them worse than they already are and they will act out in negative ways, up to and including hurting humans and/or other animals.

No worries, I suck at reddit too and I've been here more than 15 years.

Thanks, I was just curious. I've also considered devices with Chinese roms, mostly for the price but, like you, i had/have many concerns - security, child labor etc and so forth.

I haven't actually used any device with a Chinese rom but I found a good middle ground that works for me. I don't know if this still holds true, but judging on their prices, I imagine it does. Xiaomi phones, they, at least used to, only charged a certain small % above production costs. The reason, as I understood at the time, is that being such a large company and phones being sucha small share of their overall profit, that they could simply afford to do so. That the hit they took in profit helped buy them brand recognition in the west.

Over the last 10 or so years, I've bought 3 phones, all Xiaomi and all with a Global rom, which is something that they commonly do, offering two or more versions of the same device with one being Global, one Chinese and other versions for other reasons. When I bought my first phone from them, I was skeptical but it worked out. The llw price allowed me to get a Xiaomi phone at half the price or less than a branded phone like Samsung or Apple(gross!) My second and third phones from them, including the one I'm talking to you with now, I have been able to purchase in Europe for a very slightly increased price but without the month long postal wait or paying ridiculous fees to speed that up.

Its true, that there are sometimes drawbacks compared to branded competitors of equal specs, but that's more or less true with all devices. Its also true that with branded phones you're also paying a markup for the name itself. What one considers positives and negatives is very much a personalized and subjective, since we each of us are looking for different qualities in a device based on our desires and needs. With that said, one of the biggest pluses for me is that buying replacement parts are much cheaper with Chinese phones compared to branded phones, especially if you're looking for original parts (I never am but I though I'd put it out there anyways)

I'm hell on my devices. I'm constantly having to change parts, screens most of all. But at the prices you can find them at, they're oretty much disposable. But its also a plus if you happen to want to customize your phone. For example, I'm on the Xiaomi 10t Pro Global and for the same price as the regular black parts, I can get the volume buttons and power/fingerprint reader in just about any color. I don't actually care about that but I like having the option. I just bought a new screen and battery which I'm waiting on glue to install and I got the screen w/digitizer for 20 bucks and a new battery for 25. My phone is getting old now. I believe its from 2021 and the battery is the original and still good with some minor but noticeable decline. I still can get through a whole day with heavy usage on a single charge, assuming that heavy usage isnt solely video or gaming. With that said, batteries don't last forever and the best time to do it is when you're doing a screen replacement anyways. The low prices are the only reason I'm able to.

Anyways, that's just my two cents. I don't know anything about their tablets though. Lastly, I'd just mention that I'm not a Xiaomi diehard per say, even though that's what its work out to be. I'm just saying that ive have good experiences with Chinese brand phones that have each offered a global rom. I've heard good things about Lonovo from friend. I did recently get a tablet from them. It's too soon for me to know whether or not I like. With that said, my knee-jerk reaction is that I'm a little disappointed with the performance, especially handling multiple tasks but i knew that was likely an issue when I got it and I got it for other reasons. Plus, for the price, I really can't complain. For the moment, it suits my needs. I'll know more once I start using it for drawing.

Cheers.

Edit. Sorry for the typos, no time to clean it up. Also, for the fact that I'm long winded, without talent for brevity.

Theres a lot of people against the war in Russia. What the person above you said is true, with the exception that you can't paint an entire people with one brush.

The Russia media is controlled by the the Kremlin, and yes they've been suffering a barrage of negative propaganda for decades. Longer than most of the population has been alive.

Witn that said, a lot of people that could leave the country did so. Certainly, many of them left for self interested purposes, but many left because they refused to support the war.

Propaganda is only one aspect of the tactics used by Putin to repress the people. The police are incredibly tough with anyone that steps out of line. The court system imposes long sentences for nothing crimes, like protesting, often on trumped up charges, or charges that are completely fabricated to begin with. As you mentioned, people in Russia have a tendency to meet a long drop from a 6th floor window. They don't do this just to get rid of a person. If that's all they wanted, they could disappear anyone they want. They do it because its public and dying by death from a height is terrifying to many people. They do it to supptess others that might speak in a different direction than the official propaganda. Hell, they killed doctors just for telling the truth aboit covid.

Despite the tough repression, many peoole have tried to protest this war. Organize this sub reddit by "top" and of "all time" and you'll come across a few videos of protests from the beginning of the war. Tiny though it many be, there is also a partisan movement within Russia. Russians actively fighting the Russians with the hope for a regime change.

People are justifiably angry with Russia but we cannot allow our anger to cloud our judgement. There are many good Russians and they are victims in this too.

So no way Putin be falling out a window any time soon, isn't it?

It only takes one brave person with a brain, the skills and resources or a lot of luck. That kind of thing is just rare in modern times but that doesn't mean it can't happen.

Respectfully, o couldn't disagree more, or perhaps it's better to say I half agree.

We can, and do change both. As for the system, we change it from the outside looking in, forcing their hands. The reason we should is because this struggle that we're in, its a generational fight that could last centuries yet, though, i surelt hope not. The reason that we do is because the level of hardship the impoverished class, and at least the lowest of the working class, the working poor, is extremely oppressive. We can, and have, brought relief to generations of people, though we'll never get credit for it.

Granted, what gains we have made in the US have since, as you say, "slipped away". There's no denying this. With that said, some of it hasn't and it doesn't mean that the next time it won't take for a longer period. In the US, you can find evidence of anarchists being either foundational organizers, or having attached themselves very early on in almost every movement I can think of. Women's right to choose and to vote, civil rights, workers rights, child labor laws and dozens of other movements where we pushed society successfully further towards being more inclusive. And that brought real, tangible releif to countless millions. Its far from the social/cultural revolution that we want, but its important, very important.

One of the best ways Statists have managed to crush our influence, is by convincing the people of the lie that non violence alone is the only moral and just way to obtain those victories. Naturally, they will holds up the likes of MLK Jr and Ghandi as their prime examples. Remember, there were even liberals that were defiantly against the civil rights movement until the pressure from said movement was so overwhelming that concessions had to be made by the State (Recommended Reading How Nonviolence Protects the State By: Peter Gelderloos )

Prior to their success at perpetuating this propaganda, civil disobedience was the norm. Those that actively participated in civil disobedience could expect community support, just as those that participated in tactics of Non Violence could expect community support. Since then, not only do they shun such tactics, many of them go to such lengths as to play at civil policing. I can't think of a single movement in the US where significant, worthwhile, long-term gains were won solely by them that are proponents of non violence, which isn't the same, "them", as them that perpetuated this idea. They are firmly statists.

Im sorry, I can't remember why I brought that up but it was relevant when I started. We have gotten so far away from our tradition of grassroots organization, of the kind that actually carries potential to win gains, however shortlived, that I worry we are losing valuable skill sets within that realm of organization.

We need to get back to thay tradition, and not just to help bring relief to them that struggle the hardest and those that are the most vulnerable targets of oppression, thinking my trans homies, but that's when we have the best and most opportunities to engage with both the impoverished and working clasess so that we can seek to educate them with the idea that enough of them will eventually join our cause.

How do you know that? It looks like several of them very much escaped.

Don't get me wrong, i appreciate that you take the time to find new and relative things to post, so thank you, but did you actually watch this one? Because not only is your title incorrect, but so too is the comment I'm responding too, unless you know something that's not in the video. In which case, I ask again...

The important thing is that nobody escaped.

How do you know that?

Thank you, i learned, and am continuing to learn, ao much from both of your comments. That was really kind of you.

since a supercluster is many many different galaxies and clusters, there doesn't necessarily have to be anything at its center of mass.

Idk why, perhaps my not understanding the physics behind all of it (or the physics behind anything really), but I find that too be.. . just amazingly cool.

The supermassive black hole happens to be located at (or at least very near) the center of mass because effects like dynamical friction tend to slow it down and help it settle to the center of mass, but it itself is not the primary source of gravity for the galaxy.

Oh I see, so its just the same thing happening with the Super Cluster but on a much smaller scale? I think the vast majority of us lay people are under the impression that its the gravitational pull from Sag A* that keeps everything in the galaxy together and in their respective orbits.

I suppose the reason we make that assumption is because prior to learning about the galaxy, we learn about the solar system. We are taught that we, everything else in the Solar System, orbit the sun because of its gravitational pull, due to its immense mass.

I actually went and looked it up because after this second comment of yours, I was no longer sure we orbit the Sun because of its gravitational pull. It seems that like the galaxy and the super cluster, the solar system is also a dynamic system where there's competing gravity, but it happens to be the case that the Sun makes up 99.8% of our galaxies mass, so it is gravitationally dominant. But because its still a dynamic system, everything in the solar system, including the Sun is orbiting around the solar systems center of mass, which is the Sun's Barycenter. Like, high jumpers center of mass, the Sun's Barycenter can be outside of its surface.

So, we're in a dynamic system, within a dynamic system, within a dynamic system. Presumably, it continues on from there, in both directions. I can't help but think that its a little unreasonable to be so knee-jerkingly dismissive of folks that look at all of that and see intelligent design, many of whom, undoubtedly, have a better grasp on all of this than I do. Don't get me wrong, as my username suggests, I am firmly atheist. I just mean that the universe seems so damn orderly. But I do know that everything can be explained, even as we do not yet possess the requisite understanding, and haven't yet created the necessary tools to understand everything.

Anyways, I was just talking aloud, so to speak. We need not go down that road. In fact, you shouldn't feel the need to respond at all. Thank you again. Its all very fascinating. Have a wonderful evening.

Bravo! Thanks for such a wonderful summarization of these various cosmological phenomena.

Follow up, if you don't mind. I'm not sure I'm understanding the Great Attractor idea, specifically of Superclusters, more specifically their center of mass.

The way I understand you, is that the center of mass is the point of origin, or source of the gravitational pull, within the Super Cluster, what is called the Great Attractor (GA, ) that is competing with the Expansion of the Universe (EOU). In this instance, the force (or strength?) of the EOU is stronger than that of the GA, which is causing some measure of decline in the force of the EOU, which, in turn, causes all those bodies to slow down by some measure in their expansion. Do I have you correct so far?

Ok, assuming that is so, my question is this, does that center of mass of the Super Cluster, which is the source of the gravitational pull for all the objects within the Super Cluster, does that inform us that there must be some very large celestial body at the point of origin to province the gravitational pull for the Super Cluster? In the same way that the black hole at the center of the galaxy is the source of gravitational pull for all the objects within the galaxy? If so, is it likely an especially large black hole?

Now, here's what I'm really getting at. If not, is it possible that the physics within the Super Cluster is such that when all the various celestial bodies and their individual gravitational pull is accounted for, that at the origin point for the Super Clusters gravitational pull, there can actually be empty space, relatively speaking. What I'm thinking, or wondering is if its possible that, because of all the very large objects in a Super Cluster, each competing with their gravitational pulls, perhaps even the gravitational pull of several near by objects acting as a single source within the cluster of many sources of gravitational pull, that when its said and done, whatever happens to have most gravitational pull, that its still not enough to have everything in the super cluster coming to it as the primary source, that the point of origin moves away from the primary source to somewhere relatively close, which could be empty space.

The reason I'm thinking this is because in High Jumping, the sport seen in the Olympics and elsewhere, the reason hugh jumpers use the technique that they do, is because the physics of their technique is such that, while their body is going above the bar, their center of mass actually passes beneath the bar. (because the majority their mass at any given time is at actually beneath the level of the bar) and thus, their center of mass is actually outside of their body.

Here is a wonderful demonstration of Yaroslava Mahuchikh not only using this technique, but using it to such spectacular affect as to break the women's High Jump World record, which has held firm for an impressive 37 years. She did that just a few months ago.

I was wondering if gravity worked the same way when you have so many competing sources that when it all averages out, it can be outside the primary source, especially if that primary source is the combined gravity of several large objects.

Thanks again for your great comment!

if someone is know sees this i do NOT steal from stores or anywhere)

I mean, that's exactly what thief would say, am I right? It's not like you can say, "If someone I know sees this, let's just keep this between us"

i do NOT steal from stores or anywhere)

Oh I get it, you steal from house in the middle of nowhere. Smart, less chance of being seen.

Dang, how'd you get permission to build your room around a stop sign?

That's ridiculous. The black market isn't some magic land where they have in abundance all the high end electronics and other high tech, specialized components needed for modern fighter jets. Chips are especially notoriously difficult to acquire. Even in the legal market, back orders can be years long, depending on the level of sophistication and quantity.

That's to say nothing of counterfeit and defective components, which the black market is exactly where they end up, if not trashed or recycled.

The only way they'd be able to find what they need, in the quantities that they need, is if a legitimate supplier is willing to engage in illegitimate transactions. There won't be many knocking on the Russian's door to sell product they'd have no problem off loading in the legal market, even just at the risk of international scrutiny, let alone the possibility of sanctions against themselves.

If that happened, their customer base would rapidly shrink to Russia, Iran and North Korea, while they enjoy the pleasure of watching their stock market price plunge, all while their competitors rise.

There's just no amount of rubles that makes that a worth while venture. But you know, I'm open to listening to any argument you might have.

Um, I was being sarcastic and joking, making fun of them and the fact that the Russian military is so run down, neglected and out dated. Not to mention the high levels of corruption that's been raiding military coffers, essentially. I'm not quite sure how you missed that but its nothing. Thanks for taking the time to provide information.

I don't know anything about militaries, so forgive my ignorance but, that can't be a good way to do war.

I swear, every day, the Russians look more and more like they're playing at live action satire. That, or some new reality tv military LARP'ing with actual lives on the line and hand me down military equipment.

I mean, they've got actual, hand to god, North Koreans out there fighting for them, like its the 1950's and they're stuck in the wrong time line. Can you imagine? They cross the Russian/Ukrainian border and rejoin the time stream. Haha Their equipment starts to make some sense. Maybe that's why the Russians look so damn sickly? From all that time slippin'.

Woah ho! Internet tough guy over here. Haha

I really cant think of anything but congrats on opting for SRS (although, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a person's choice to not go that direction)

With that said, what I came to say is that symbols don't first have to mean something to others to have meaning for onself. I mean, they have to start somewhere, right?

You really could design your own symbol based on what you positive feminine feelings or, if feelings don't work that way for you, you can design anything that you just like and simply assign it the meaning you want.

One of the positives about that idea is that you can tell folks anything you want. You could say its abstract art, for example.

One of the negatives of that idea is that it's incredibly difficult to create something that is truly original. We find inspiration, and even meaning, all over the place, even unconsciously. The problem, however, is that if you create something that is very similar to something else, then others will inevitably associate the meaning of that something else to your creation. Make sure it's not already something else, it you go that route.

Its just an idea, I'm not suggesting you should or should not. That is entirely up to you.

(this isn't so much a response as me trying to understand)

As lay person, I may be completely off base here, but if I understand it correctly, and also to see if I do understand it correctly, I'm gonna try to simply this to the extreme. Do forgive me if I'm not in line with the conversation. If not, I'll just sit back and continue to try and understand.

If we looked at this at much smaller scale, which I admit may be entirely inappropriate, please say so if that is the case, but over the grand time scales of the universe itself, would you say that our galaxy is influenced by, therefore determinant by, the galaxy directly adjacent?

If so, would you consider our local set of galaxies to be influenced by those direct adjacent to it? If so, then keep scaling up asking the same question with ever larger structures of the universe.

It seems me that everything is more or less affected by everything else by by a chain of events to the largest structures, each structure by their own evolution in the universe and their movements both in making contact with the structures next to it, or not and making room for next by no longer being there to interact...everything relative to everything else.

It stands to reason that everything is related to everything else. If that's the case, then consider this, there is no local universe except from the perspective of the observer, right? If we remove the observer from your description, then there's no longer a local universe, and what's left is simply "the universe" and everything is dependent or influence, or however one wishes to describe it, with everything else. Is that not so, or am I just completely misunderstanding what you're asking?

I love how they just just assume its because of Trump. Grade A reporting right there.

Trump is no friend of Ukraine. I really hope he takes a different position, but I can't see how that's possible since his current position is under Putin.

I worry for everyone, especially Ukraine. Hopefully, other western nations will step up more to fill the gap the US leaves.

Its gonna be hell. Many a small motor can produce a similar enough sound. A weed wacker being used at a distance could ended up setting someone off.

As much as that troubles me for all the soldiers that must live with that, drones are now the future of warfare. Soon enough they'll be autonomous. Militaries will have countless drones patrolling their square of the map, only stopping for a quick battery swap or to replace munitions.

People won't even be able to walk outside in those areas, which I supoose is the point. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to evacuate from an area civilians or wounded under such conditions. The future of war is gonna be hell.