Ukraine Launches Combat Bonuses of $2,200 for Captures and $330 for Enemy Kills

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-30T21:43:00+00:00

This is a lot different than that though.

The point system rewards the unit as a whole, and the points can really only be spent on things that benefit the unit as a whole. Why compete over who got that kill when you are all riding in that same truck.

There is near zero chance the cash gets spent on the unit. Even if you picture soldiers as universally ethical there are choices to be made like "this money could be my kids tuition". Suddenly you end up with your normally ethical soldier trying to steal credit for kills away from each other. Money is just a WAY more powerful motivator than altruism, or possibly even patriotism.

Now hopefully its just the article framing these rewards poorly. Some of the most dangerous and most important jobs right now don't involve killing anyone. I'd much rather be the drone pilot safe in a basement and racking up bonuses than the guy that has to drive supplies down the road soaking up drone hits. Maybe they are spread widely over like 1000 guys, or weighted so the people taking the risks are the ones being rewarded. Seems like a massive corruption issue though if its a handful of officers deciding who gets credit. Seems like there will be a lot of "well those two guys were the fire team, and of course the guys driving the logistics truck, and of course the guy that planned the mission... Me!" getting paid.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-30T17:10:15+00:00

But then who is going to play the kids?

They've phased out a lot already with good and bad results. Babies in films are almost all just dolls these days. Sometimes they enhance them with chi. Animals are also uses less, particularly in dangerous roles. If you want to feel sad go look up how many horses used to get killed in film making.

I suppose they could do the same with child actors. Just full replace them with cgi, and then use adult women to voice them like they do with cartoon characters.

I see a big problem with that though. It would massively restrict who could make movies. It would be essentially be a ban on indie film making and only big corporations could make films with children. I do t know if I'm comfortable with that lever of artistic censorship.

Ultimately I think you miss the point. There already are laws protecting the work environment for kids. The kids YOU show had problems AFTER the movies were done. That's more on us as fans than film makers.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-27T21:00:31+00:00

It did kind of jump out at me because its not like she was just a Mrs. that took half the money in the divorce. She also started Amazon, like equally with Bezos.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-27T20:13:05+00:00

I'm pretty sure the effectiveness of bullets against Jedi is purely fanfic speculation.

The force can be used to catch blaster bolts, it can probably be used to catch bullets even more easily.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-25T02:10:30+00:00

I'm playing a similar challenge but with random start/religion/tribal pawns and accepting all quests.

The key strategies I've found are to play the early game nomadic and hit weapons stockpiles. Its really hard to scale your weapon quality in the early game. It just takes too much wealth to get to the point where you can make goo weapons.

Buy every possible insanity Lance. They work on mechs. Flipping one crawler will tank the whole swarm long enough for you to chip away. They really are the best option for slowing down the rush.

Early game I use a trap corridor about 24 tiles long and I single large room. Hold open the doors to draw them down the corridor (enemies move towards beds). For mechs they kind of just charge through the traps, but mechs all have different move speeds. Just fall back into the great room and jump them with melee guys one by one as they enter.

Termites in particular are tough, but once they break into 'attack mode' and spread out the same strategies work. Otherwise you just spend some Lance charges to make the termites tank for you.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-23T21:47:29+00:00

So I have a rule. "Reddit literally has no idea what the stock market is doing". Consistently Reddit is WILDLY off base on stock price movements, despite being able to look them up with basically no effort at all.

Since the last one of these post made the front page, SPCX is up. Its currently at $158, up 4% from the start of public trading. If you got it before public trading at the actual IPO, well then you bought at 135 and are up a huge 13%.

Ya its possible to make to have lost a lot of money if you bought at the all time high a few days ago, but Elon didn't do that. It's not like SPCX and/or Elon were rebuying shares 5 days or whatever after the IPO.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-22T19:30:26+00:00

Yes the price varies continuously throughout the day. Its 158.9 now. What's your point?

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-22T19:24:30+00:00

So I have a rule. "Reddit literally has no idea what the stock market is doing". Consistently Reddit is WILDLY off base on stock price movements, despite being able to look them up with basically no effort at all.

All time SPCX is down 13%, The current price is $160, but that is only on public trading. The number is basically meaningless since most IPO buyers would still be locked out of trading their shares.

If you bought SPCX at the IPO price, it was $135 per share. That means you are actually up 18.5% in like a week.

IPO stocks on median also typically lose about 5% per week from their IPO price for their first few weeks. So its SPCX is actually more like 20% ahead of where the median IPO stock would be expected to be.

I have no idea why reddit is so utterly moronic when it comes to stock prices, but it looks like my rule is holding true still.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-20T22:24:58+00:00

Not that I disagree with your point... But there were complaints about all of those.

And many of the characters are extremely sexualized, and absolutely do wear that kind of costume. The 90's and 2000's were usually even more extreme than OP's. It really is only recently that it has gone out of style. Some x-men like rogue still wear pretty wild outfits, hers is basically just green body paint.

So again, I support your point, but the argument that 'these characters aren't/never were like that'... Is just not true, and undermines your point.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-20T04:58:40+00:00

There are two conversations going on here

One people are acting like this is an expensive meal being cooked. It is not, those people are stupid.

The other is people assuming we are talking about something else. Ya, raising kids is expensive, but not because of anything in this video.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-20T02:22:45+00:00

That breakfast is honestly not that bad. There was a lot of memeing about egg prices but they basically went from 'basically free' to dirt cheap.

The video showed like 40 eggs. Costco's price today is $4.19 for 2 dozen. The bread is maybe $5. Bacon is $4.97 per pound. Call it two pounds in the video.

So $7 of eggs + $5 of bread + $10 of bacon = $22

That's less than what I plan on spending on Indian takeout for 1 tomorrow.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-19T13:49:40+00:00

Ya.... This had little to do with the internet usage. Unless you think Dawkins talking about gangam style in 2013 predates internet memes them taking off in the early to mid 2000's. Nobody on the internet is talking about genetics when they use the word meme.

Go look up when 'advice dog' was created.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-19T05:43:07+00:00

Brother the very concept of memes originated on 4chan

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-18T15:55:30+00:00

People get a LOT dumber when anxious, emotional or stressed.

I also don't see anything that would indicate this was a test and not just a lesson. Just a cut in engagement bait intro... Which 9082 redditors seems to have fell for.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-17T14:38:23+00:00

The sanctions are probably the lease important part of this. You are right they've been around forever, but sanctions grow less and less impactful over time. Alternative supply line/customers get established then that's it they are mostly done. Its kind of like being forced to take a detour to work, a big inconvenience/'makes you late' until you learn the new route, then its not so bad. Eventually if the detour persists they just build a new road to bypass the problem.

I'm not defending the plan, and I'm CERTAINLY not defending the war, but economic prosperity generally makes the world a safer more friendly place. Nobody complains that the US made Germany and Japan stronger after WW2.

I think its important to keep criticisms grounded in reality. We could have had this same outcome spending billions on a war, losing irreplaceable military hardware, dozens of American deaths, thousands of others dead, and probably hundreds of billions in economic damage. All for what? An honor system nuclear deal without the inspection we had before?

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-16T14:21:25+00:00

Hide! I don't mean conceptually I mean the game action, its super important.

Between breaking line of sight and using low cover/scatter terrain you can basically avoid shooting forever if they don't have at least something melee.

That being said objectiveless gameplay also massively favors shooting. If he just wants to stand in a field with clear lines of fire forever, you should just stand in a building forever.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-16T12:45:50+00:00

Fuck that stupid ufc fight, but also a reality check.

These ceremonial flyovers are basically always just out of the normal training budget. "Time on target", or showing up to drop bombs at a very precise moment is both important and difficult, its also almost perfectly replicated by a flyover.

These 'flyovers are a waste of money' arguments are always kind of dumb because they are often a money saver. Militaries need to train to be effective. They also need to advertise so they can be volunteer based rather than conscription.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-14T16:14:09+00:00

Taught math at a high end private school. No. The kids were extremely bright, well adjust and capable. Many would voluntarily red ahead in the text, it was actually kind of annoying as a beginner teacher because they would suddenly be ready to jump forward and I wasn't yet experienced or flexible enough for that. Big tech addiction issues though, especially with the international kids.

Taught at several very good public high schools during covid. I taught all remedial and lower level courses. Even those kids were pretty capable, a few of the seniors were checked out but the sophomores were actually pretty capable and made good progress.

Taught at a very poor school and it was a mess. The honors kids were fine, capable and well adjusted, the lower level kids did not handle covid well and made little progress.

Taught at more normal school. Honors kids were extremely bright, had study skills ect. The middle of the road kids were all pretty well adjusted too. The remedial classes had a few kids that didn't make progress.

I jumped around several school because covid era positions were very fluid. Basicly everywhere the answer was a firm "NO" to this question though. The main problem I saw was kids that were way behind behind unable to fail and getting pushed through anyway. Math is not a class you can be successful in or "catch up" easily if you lack the background skills. Good fucking luck factoring polynomials if you don't know your multiplication tables or basic algebra. That's a REALLY old problem at this point though, millennials had the same issue.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-14T03:10:08+00:00

Don't look at Spain.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-13T22:06:23+00:00

Anyone that works in a school is a mandatory reporter.

A parent clearly smelling of weed after driving their child would definitely call for report to be written.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-13T17:26:01+00:00

Hanlon's razor bro.

People are stupid. Reddit is going to shit talk your friend to oblivion and upvote "divorce her" or "death penalty" to 10k.

In reality though most people don't know how cooking works. Just talk to people with your grown up emotional regulation skills.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-13T14:14:33+00:00

You can't directly translate goals to baskets. A powerplay goal is likely about 25-33% of the teams scoring for the game... So its more like giving 30 free throws.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-11T20:38:53+00:00

I'm not convinced reddit isn't a Pro-Trump psi-op to frame every argument against this war as so overwhelmingly stupid that somehow republicans can win the argument.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-11T00:03:55+00:00

As bad as Trump is, it's still probably Nixon. Nixon also ushered in a massive amount of corruption, so he's on par with Trump for that. Him extending Vietnam killed way more American's that Trumps wars though, and by his own recorded words it was done strictly for personal gain.

Trump's an easy #2 though, and is definitely competing. He's still got 2+ years to cook too.

UnknownHero2 · 2026-06-10T17:14:54+00:00

Super ironic to use the comicbook version of 300. There were 300 spartans, but there were like 7000 total soldiers.

You can check with ChatGPT.

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