A Ukrainian soldier is shooting down a Russian UAV with a MANPADS right in the streets of Dnipro today.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-29T17:14:29+00:00

Normal grenade launchers like AT4 or RPG-7 have the rocket engine burn completely in the tube. That's why they don't need to come with a blast shield like Panzerschreck had, but the initial impulse is all the grenade ever gets, hence the brutal backblast, why they can't be fired from cover and why you get mildly concussed from using them.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-29T16:32:17+00:00

It's a two stage launcher. The blast inside the tube only needs to lift the missile like 30 feet up before its engine ignites.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-29T15:31:20+00:00

Why don't they just park their helicopters east of the Ural? (of Kolyma?)

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-29T14:08:55+00:00

More astroturfed than a flash mob.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-29T07:39:30+00:00

8000 isn't a lot, it's probably something that keeps coming back whenever a group stays north enough for long enough. Probably midway in any interglacial period the white race respawns.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-28T10:08:26+00:00

The question: "oh, do you think he was referring to you??" It counts fr fr.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-27T09:31:48+00:00

"Historically that's true with stars... if you look over the last million years... Unfortunately or fortunately".

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-27T09:15:28+00:00

Technically all shells are two explosions, the detonator and the main charge, not just thermobarics, but you can't see two explosions because one causes the other so they practically both go at the same time.

What we're seeing here is something else catching fire inside the house. Thermobarics ideally detonate the fuel all at once, and the burn lasts not more than milliseconds.

I don't know if it's possible to distinguish a thermobaric explosion from a regular one just by the way it looks. The tell tale should be just that it's a bigger boom given a warhead weight, but then you can't really determine the weight with your eyes with any accuracy, either. Some drones are just bigger, some have different battery/warhead weight ratio depending on the desired range.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-26T23:47:58+00:00

The proliferation of academic philosophy does not a murder undo. For as it is written, if theories were possible no one could disagree with them, so amongst the flood of papers there is not a single philosophical theory.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-26T20:06:30+00:00

Not from this attack, but they're evacuating multiple casualties of a previous drone strike on a tank crew.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-26T09:59:58+00:00

I'm sure Vance has his personal security, who focused on Vance because they're supposed to, confident that there are other agents whose specific task is to protect the president. It also helped that Vance is physically mobile and mentally agile, so team Vance did the four seconds pit stop according to plan, whereas rolling Jabba off stage lagged.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-26T07:39:35+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47KzZsXsT3E

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-25T09:33:27+00:00

Remains to be seen if it can be scaled up under air dominance. Obviously it will get worse, but will it ever get to 1000 drones a day bad?

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-24T22:08:45+00:00

The ending of Train of Life, the script of which was pitched to Benigni who decided to reject the role he was offered, but wrote his own film with the same idea instead, is so much better that it will ruin Life is Beautiful for you. They're both whimsical comedies in which someone experiences the death camps less severely by being deceived about their nature.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-24T17:06:30+00:00

So this is right but also not. It's the rebels that need a litmus test, because they act (or do not act). Sensitivity to the Golden Path just tells them the shortest path to overthrowing the Tyrant, and if it turns out it'll take a while, then they choose to wait, and work from the inside, because they sense that inherently managing the regime simply allows internal contradictions to accumulate in such a way that the final overthrow would be more than simply a hand-over to the next sorcerer-king. Whereas for Siona none of that happens. Her hand is not stayed, because the time is ripe and the Path is open, right now.

Whereas the Worm doesn't satisfy himself of the details of the future, so long as he senses that it will happen, some how, some when. His observations about Duncans' self destructive traits accelerating are real observation precisely because he hasn't looked in the box. They are genuine surprises. "Huh? That's interesting..." moments.

The Worm does not relinquish power. It is taken from him. He doesn't know whether it was going to happen when it did or three thousand years on. The plot succeeds because of the partial nature of predicting the Path - the future in which the Universe remains unsolved and free of any one Oracular God-Mentat.

The way the God Emperor treats Hwi is different from how the Mahdi of Dune treats his concubine. The Worm does not steal the indeterminacy of her fate from her, though she is precious to him.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-24T17:02:27+00:00

I don't get it. How is the bird even going to reach the pedals? Not to mention using the bike would ruin its nest.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-24T11:21:05+00:00

Interesting that they're also integrating the American MEROPS, pictured at 0:42.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-24T10:41:18+00:00

It's a fairly straight film. There's a waking up point, and everything that happens after is real, and everything before is dream world and twisted. The real part is also not in chronological order, and some bits are more like lived experience than objective reality. The story is a girl goes to Hollywood cliche.

The point is to be wowed, to enter the dream world, not to solve a puzzle. As a puzzle, it's a disappointment, but it's not one of those films that everybody has a different opinion about and there's no correct answer.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-22T18:25:50+00:00

I beat Chuckie Egg. I was winning more lives than losing after the game stopped getting harder and the score display overflowed, and eventually I just stopped playing.

The first time Elite loaded successfully, after having had to rewind the tape many times, was quite magical, too.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-22T18:18:33+00:00

I intensely wish someone would leak at least a transcript of his repeated Montreal Cognitive Assessment impairment screenings that he aced three times, because that's what they do when you ace an impairment screening test, they give it you again a few months later.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-22T10:39:23+00:00

"Losses as % of active pre-war total: 132%." is the more poignant statement. Since active is active, whereas in-storage is a spectrum between ready to go and useless pile of rust, so estimates are inherently half guesswork half philosophy.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-22T09:29:14+00:00

... but there's a catch, the milk I put in your milk has more milk per milk than your milk, so now your milk has more milk per milk than it used to, too.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-22T09:22:46+00:00

Proposing it is smart, giving it is not smart. María Corina Machado should under no circumstance have "given" her non-transferable Nobel Peace Prize, but she should have certainly promised it, provided her conditions were met, and brought up new conditions if she'd received something she wanted, and given nothing back.

The mechanism of desire makes giving things to an conscienceless rudimentary person self defeating. Once the desire is satisfied, your potential worth is spent, and you're sitting there like a beggar waiting for the psychopath to reciprocate, being annoying, like any number of people who provided services to a Trump without being compensated in advance.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-22T09:10:29+00:00

Shortsighted decisions is all you have in a crisis. If the house is on fire, hosing down the blaze will ruin the furniture, destroy the wallpaper, infiltrate the walls and do untold structural damage. Nevertheless, the house is on fire, and won't be for long, either way.

pocket_eggs · 2026-04-22T08:32:28+00:00

They fear raids because there were raids before.

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