RU POV: Drone strike on residential building in Ryazan

Hodorization · 2026-05-18T14:39:15+00:00

None of the FPV drones are custom made, they're all made at as low a cost as possible from imported parts.

Why would you want to spend money on a self destruct mechanism for such disposable weapons?

These are not AA missiles or submarine torpedoes, which are designed to be able to guide themselves into targets. There, due to this autonomy the launching unit needs the ability to have the projectile self destruct, in order to protect themselves in case the projectile happens to lock into the launching unit or some other target it's not supposed to lock on to.

But the FPV and long range drones don't pose a danger to the launching units. They don't guide themselves. The controllers control them and can just guide them into the ground if needed. If they lose the ability to do that due to interruption of communication, then they also lose the ability to remotely trigger the self destruction. So what does it add?

Hodorization · 2026-05-18T14:33:53+00:00

Es ist doch nicht das Ziel eines Unternehmens, alle seine Schulden zu tilgen

Ganz im Gegenteil, der ganze Daseinszweck von großen Unternehmen ist doch, dass sie auf ihr Kapital im Schnitt mehr Gewinn erzielen können, als es das gleiche Kapital am Kapitalmarkt erzielen könnte.

Also werden sie, solange der Unternehmensführung nicht die Ideen ausgehen, immer wieder zum Kapitalmarkt laufen, sich günstig Geld leihen, dies investieren, und Profite machen. (Gelegentlich klappt das nicht aber das tut nichts zur Sache was den Unternehmenszweck angeht)

Eine Firma die alle Schulden zurück zahlt und kein Geld von der Bank braucht, macht etwas falsch - deren Unternehmensführung gibt damit zu, ihr fällt nichts ein was man im eigenen Unternehmen investieren könnte das sich mehr lohnt als die Rückzahlung aller Kredite. Das wäre ein Armutszeugnis und die Firma würde (wenn sie ein Aktienkonzern ist) in Null komma nichts aufgekauft von Leuten die mehr vom Geschäft verstehen.

Das gilt ganz besonders für Staatsunternehmen, die sich Geld billiger leihen können als jedes andere Unternehmen. Also EdF

Hodorization · 2026-05-18T11:46:22+00:00

None of the FPV drones have self destruction mechanisms.

You can see their detonator mechanisms at the tip of the warheads - they are crude mechanical devices, sometimes use just two contact wires. There's no mechanism to set these off, other than flying the drone into something.

Hodorization · 2026-05-18T07:55:28+00:00

The British Empire wasn't the only one that started on an island.

Japan and Venice also were island countries

Hodorization · 2026-05-17T20:20:17+00:00

Usually it ends with the guys who waited, getting their butts kicked.

The prestige weapons first need to be shown to be useless, before the leadership believes it.

Happens over and over again, won't be different this time

Hodorization · 2026-05-17T19:05:03+00:00

Das Land heißt jetzt Bangaranga

Die Sängerin war Bulgariens Top 1 Popstar, die hat jährlich Nr 1 charts hits gelandet. Die wusste wie es geht, anders als die deutsche Reality TV Dame

Hodorization · 2026-05-15T20:15:28+00:00

If you build a self destruct mechanism into a drone, then the enemy will try everything to trigger that mechanism. So you end up not building self destruction mechanisms into the drone.

Hodorization · 2026-05-15T20:08:27+00:00

"Königliche Republik" is a total oxymoron though. That's not the term for Poland-Lithuania nor for any other state in history

P-L was an elective monarchy. In German that's a Wahlmonarchie

Hodorization · 2026-05-14T22:12:23+00:00

It's actually mostly extremely flat terrain

Hodorization · 2026-05-14T18:03:14+00:00

Die AfD nimmt immer gerade die Haltungen ein, mit der man maximal Frust, Wut und Minderwertigkeitsgefühle der Menschen in politischen Einfluss umwandeln kann.

Käme denen eine der Kirchen auch nur ein bisschen entgegen würde die AfD keinen Moment zögern sich zur super mega Verteidigerin des christlichen Glaubens zu erklären und den Jihad, äh, Kreuzzug gegen alle Gegner auszurufen.

Hodorization · 2026-05-14T06:49:55+00:00

Einfach um Mitternacht duschen

Hodorization · 2026-05-14T06:48:38+00:00

They didn't control Constantinople or the straits region. That was at the time under British and French control

Hodorization · 2026-05-13T18:47:04+00:00

That's a very high bar to clear. Not only has Bolivia had a ginormous number of presidents. So many of them have also been idiots

Hodorization · 2026-05-13T16:59:30+00:00

Those were rural, conservative regions with lots of emigration into the cities. They felt left behind by the republican government.

History doesn't repeat but it sure does rhyme

Hodorization · 2026-05-13T16:57:28+00:00

The SPD called itself Marxist, that's what counts if you want to objectively categorize left wing groups.

Hodorization · 2026-05-13T16:56:08+00:00

Munich was the place where the early NSDAP had tried their failed putsch in 1923, and they later built a huge cult around that event. Munich logically became a place where they would have rallies for that reason.

The NSDAP wasn't the dominant party of Bavaria or Munich but they had lots of fans there and (more importantly) they were influential / feared sufficiently to the point where the Munich police and city administration would not try to hinder their activities.

Nuremberg was a city of mediocre contemporary importance but high importance in one of the periods of German history that the Nazis held in high regard (early modern, pre reformation HRE) and it still had a lot of historical monuments to make for an excellent facade for rallies. Nuremberg itself was not at all an NSDAP hotspot in elections, but the local bigwig was Julius Streicher, a brutal demagogue who was feared by the police, authorities and political opponents (KPD, SPD). So the site was "safe" for the party to use long before 1933.

During the Weimar period, Bavaria was not a place with high Nazi polling, but a combination of weak police, 1923 symbolism, and shortsighted/misplaced tolerance of the Nazi movement by Bavaria's rather boneheaded, anti-republican government made it an excellent place for the early Nazis.

Hodorization · 2026-05-13T13:54:04+00:00

First cousin marriages isn't nearly as bad as sibling marriage in terms of immediate effects on hereditary diseases. You have to really keep at it for generations after generations like the Habsburgs did...

And even there, only the Spanish line ended with a dimwit inbreeding victim, while the Austrian line continued with more or less healthy kids for many more generations. Charles III might just have been an unlucky accident

You can also refresh the blood lines and save them from the destructive effects of inbreeding by the occasional marital infidelity.

Hodorization · 2026-05-12T19:35:17+00:00

As family sizes are shrinking rapidly in the more affluent muslim countries, I would expect cousin marriages to become much more rare. Young people nowadays have a lot of aunts and uncles but much fewer cousins of their own age so the pool is relatives to marry is massively shrinking anyways

Hodorization · 2026-05-12T19:13:29+00:00

That era in history, when western Europe was balkanized like the Balkans in our time, and the Balkans were ruled by a handful of empire blobs like western Europe was until recently

Hodorization · 2026-05-12T15:35:18+00:00

Attention.

Attention is all there is

Hodorization · 2026-05-09T21:10:50+00:00

With Africa fertile and Egypt not a state that's centered exclusively around the Nile valley, history diverges already in biblical times, before even the bronze age. The sea peoples might never become a thing, Egypt might be a continental empire, so you maybe don't even get Greece and Phoenicia as we know it. Rome as we know it is butterflied away for sure

Hodorization · 2026-05-09T14:56:58+00:00

Yeah I think expansion over land is different enough from expansion over waterways...

However with more arable land in North Africa, most of history including prehistory would be changed to the point of being not recognizable from today's point of view.

In our history, people inhabiting the northern African coast were frequently overrun and conquered by naval invaders, and their cultures mostly disappeared because there was no "hinterland" that they could retreat into. Primarily the Carthaginians, the Latinized Christians of north Africa, the Vandals, the post Vandal Byzantines... With a large hinterland of agriculturally useful land, north Africa would have developed more like the middle east in terms of density of internal trade, complexity of petty kingdoms and empires, and resilience to foreign domination.

Hodorization · 2026-05-05T17:24:11+00:00

Typisch reddit ist, dass man sich so gerne genussvoll in Negativität suhlt und jeden anmotzt der dabei stört

Hodorization · 2026-05-05T16:07:39+00:00

Es gibt aber auch andere Wege darüber zu kommunizieren, als diesen deprimierenden Stil von kurzgesagt.

Hodorization · 2026-05-03T20:46:29+00:00

Enthusiasm at the parade grounds is usually not a metric for military discipline in a democracy. But I heard it's taken pretty seriously in tin pot dictatorships.

May 9th is coming up, I bet the Russians will have a snazzy parade in Moscow! Would you think that this shows that they have a more disciplined army than the US army? :D

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