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Ok, what content stream in what medium when viewed in a bulk popularity view like that isn’t 90% memes or equivalent?
I agree, I think something that has been lost in conversation about progressive politics and leftism more broadly (in US-centric circles at least) is that as much as people on the left disagree about absolutely everything, in general (with plenty of exceptions) politically left movements and cultural spaces tend to be far better at identifying common values and truths that are universal and holding individuals and communities to those values and truths.
Whereas on the right the endless stumping about valuing freedom of speech turns out to mostly be a mirage when it comes to innocent, vulnerable people being physically murdered on camera by the state, on the left institutions and individuals are much more often held to a standard of values and called out if they fail to reach it.
When people enter a space where progressive and left voices haven’t been systematically silenced and it is a new experience for them, they often react negatively and feel rebuked. I know some of my first encounters when I was younger with actually left spaces initially made me bristle with how willing they were to say no to things that weren’t healthy, to challenge oppressive structures even if they were so normalized they were invisible to me… it can be an uncomfortable process but ultimately more often than not leftist spaces actually try to do it and it that is a good thing.
I entirely agree with people having agency to decide when politics comes up on their feed and when it doesn’t, but the idea that we are all just being a bit too negative and obsessed with the news and we should cheer up is honestly insulting in 2026 given, you know gestures at everything. Everything is political, if you have the capacity to complain about being subject to “too much politics” be thankful for your capacity to experience that state of choice.
Also, and this is on a personal note, talking about politics doesn’t make me depressed, it helps me feel less depressed and anxious because I know other people feel similarly and the more educated I am about what is happening the less scared and confused I feel.
7·2 days agojust make sure to water it
What conservatives want is for us to treat them like babies with tiny little fragile baby beliefs that we have to coddle.
I don’t care if you think differently than me, what I care about is babies demanding we take their hateful and irrational ideologies seriously while they simultaneously target vulnerable groups with at a minimum hate speech and harassment.
If we coddle conservatives this place becomes less welcoming to new people, that is how it is.
Trust me, if you get any more heavily armored than a KF41 you are talking about a main battle tank, this thing is a beast.
Think of a US Bradley but even more advanced and heavily armored, which if you are a russian soldier and you aren’t an idiot should make your sphincter clench tightly.
This is major, these AFVs/IFVs stomp on anything russia has and anything Ukraine is replacing with these.
Imagine being previously stuck in a tin can MT-LB, BTR or BMP and being upgraded to one of these, it would be quite the rush indeed.
Just considering engines alone, the engine in this thing shits on the engine output capability of most russian main battle tanks…
Here is a rundown of the KF41
Depends on the context, armored AA is still relevant, so is the Gepard for that matter.
What if we figured out the right prompt to get an AI to regurgitate its memorization of reddit and just copied that? Is that still theft if it was already stolen twice?
- More then Reddit this place is an echo chamber for the far left anti capitalist crowd. While I don’t mind a discussion, everything over simplified to EAT THE RICH was getting tiresome.
That must be so difficult for you compared to all the wonderful corporate platforms full of rightwing hateful trolls who genuinely harass people.
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Edit Actually after taking a step back and looking at how many thoughtful comments and conversations have happened on this thread, I am heartened.
There is a lot of passion here, we are just fighting against unbelievably strong currents.
Why? I think Ukraine could find plenty of human tankers who would love to step into a challenger 2.
That is why the self propelled and towed bohdana howitzers exist.
However, 44 of these is a lot. Not enough, but 44 of these vehicles when placed into the context they can play forms a devastating capacity especially as 155mm guided extended range artillery ammunition becomes more available.
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The most terrifying thing about artillery is with modern communication systems… you never actually know if you have been spotted and an artillery barrage is being dialed in to fire on your position.
Most of war most of the time is paradoxically boring, which means that the unpredictable onset of an artillery barrage infuses every moment of downtime with the latent question “am I being targeted?” like the thought of “are there sharks near me?” can totally fill up your mind when swimming in the ocean even if the chance of there being a shark is remote.
What a system like the Archer does is amplify that uncertainty because in the past you could develop through reconnaisance a picture of the enemies artillery capacity in an area and at least have an idea of how much pain the enemy could drop on you all at once out of nowhere. Further after a traditional artillery battery fires on you at least that intel can be fed back up the chain of command to develop a picture of where the enemies artillery and spotters are deployed and where the other weak spots must then be. This is doubly true if you have counter-battery radar like Ukraine does.
In the past counter-artillery work was often done by friendly artillery but obviously drones, particularly lancet type loitering drones have changed that. A less appreciated revolution are US supplied counter-battery artillery radars employed by Ukraine to quickly locate russian artillery (that Ukraine is developing domestic equivalents for). These counter-battery radars allow rapid location of enemy artillery after sensing incoming barrages and give Ukrainian drones and artillery the ability to quickly punish russian artillery that is out of position and vulnerable.
Not only is Ukraine better at hunting artillery and quickly capitalizing on the vulnerability that comes from the trajectory of artillery shells giving away the location of the cannon, Ukraine has already fielded a superior counter to their own counter… in highly mobile artillery systems such as the Archer and RCH 155 where even if a loitering munition receives the coordinates of an artillery battery within seconds of it occurring, it still might not be relevant unless a drone gets lucky and happens to be very close to the area.
You really have to step back and think about how to counter a system like the Archer or RCH 155 to appreciate how powerful artillery systems like this are. Extremely expensive guided long range missiles or air dominance are the only easy answers since even if you get the precise coordinates of an Archer or RCH 155 that just fired on you from 50km away, you have to be able to capitalize on that in a matter of minutes or else the highway speed capable self propelled artillery systems will be long gone. Locating the firing position is almost meaningless if there aren’t nearby assets since the location was likely chosen by the enemy to be unimportant to their static positions given the highly mobile nature of the self propelled artillery.
Systems like thus also allow what the US military calls “gun raids” which is where highly mobile artillery is used offensively and temporarily deployed far forward to decisively strike the enemy. An Archer artillery system may spend most of its time far back from the frontline, but that doesn’t mean that under certain operational conditions created by a synchronized advance of friendly forces an Archer can’t be brought forward for a brief window to fire deep into the enemies’ backline.
7·6 days agoThe obvious solution is to move laterally into the surveillance and genocide market like Microsoft did!
I agree, what this means I think is Russia is going to fire a lot of ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles and other assets in a bigger salvo than normal. These aren’t assets anybody can stockpile that quick, so when they are used in a pulse it is noteworthy even if the use of those systems isn’t new.
Unfortunately a plausible explanation is that the US is effectively warning Ukraine there will be retaliatory strikes by Russia on Ukraine after Israel or the US strike Iran. I hope that isn’t why…
While this is a russian ugv this is still a perfect example of why unmanned ground vehicles are a crucial battlefield innovation, when a logistics robot blows up no one dies…
But I don’t know how hard it actually is to gun down a drone
For an attack helicopter with a turret, trivial especially if automated targetting assistance is integrated.
I fear theory vs reality in this one. If a couple helicopter pilots are trying to save a city, they may not have the bandwidth to deal with all th drones in the airspace at once and get too close, even with vastly superior technology.
To be clear I think the future is helicopters + drones not one or the other so the question to me this scenario poses is why didn’t the helicopters have a screen of protecting cheap loiter/surveillance drones or interceptors already in the air waiting?
I am sure this kind of thing will eventually happen, I just doubt it will be broadly effective.
Yeah, this is definitely dangerous but it doesn’t solve the true problem which is how is the target sensed? A helicopter or aircraft hunting these unmanned aircraft should be carrying much more powerful sensing equipment than these drones can could so for this to work something forward must sense the target which may be a viable tactic but in my opinion it still relies on Ukrainian interceptors to let their guard down to work.
While I do not agree with the abduction of Venezuela’s leader, especially with such a hazy unclear plan of what to do next, it is incredible how much the strike undermines critical Russian air defense doctrine and technology issues to the point that I have to wonder whether they can truly consistently protect anyone or anything outside of a shrinking circle where the elite of Russia reside.
Maybe most Venezuelan air defense crews and military were bribed? Even in the event of that, it is a stunning example of how air defense is a multi-dimensional thing that you can’t fail at any level on or else the entire thing collapses.
I did a search and just posted the article I found to this community, it seems like a good guide to what is helpful to donate along with some suggested locations to donate to!
https://rubryka.com/en/article/blackout-essentials/