• @friend_of_satan
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    5 hours ago

    In one sense this is much worse, and more terrifying than the run-of-the-mill IED’s used by militant groups. Having to be suspicious of everything around you would be maddening. It’s indiscriminate mass psychological warfare, where the collateral damage goes way beyond the people actually carrying the devices.

    • @RestrictedAccount
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      3 hours ago

      OK, I’m gonna tell a little story that we used to tell in my part of the country. In my part of the country they grow a lot of watermelons.

      So there was this watermelon farmer who got upset that everybody kept sneaking into his fields at night and taking watermelons.

      So he came up with his great idea that he put a sign at the edge of the field that said one of these watermelons is poison. Now he knew that no one could take a watermelon cause they wouldn’t know which one was poisoned. He was quite proud of this idea.

      So we came back in the morning to see how his sign worked. And sure enough no watermelons have been taken overnight.

      However, he noticed the number one on his sign had been crossed out and somebody had put two.

      • @raspberriesareyummy
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        82 hours ago

        However, he noticed the number one on his sign had been crossed out and somebody had put two.

        That is both genius and a total Bond villain origin story.

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 hour ago

      Don’t you just have to watch out for your Hezbollah-supplied devices?

      Also, fat chance they could pull the same thing off again

      • @Dozzi92
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        Yeah, Hezbollah absolutely fired their IT guy after the second time it happened.