No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector

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  • He was a machine gun section leader and then he worked as a private military guard/grunt, which everyone acts like is this shocking betrayal not understanding that for the individual soldiers actually doing soldier stuff that isn’t an unusual career path and it simply isn’t the same as being a CEO of a company like that… and while you can criticize it you can also make the argument it might be good to have someone in the Senate who has actually experienced what it is like to be a grunt in the US military, not everybody needs to have that experience, diversity is good but a couple more of those and a couple less lawyers would do us a whole lot of good I think.

    I am not saying the guy is perfect either, it is just that the accusations are so lazy and I think voters see that in Maine clearly.













  • Russia treats their soldiers like sheep, Ukraine treats their soldiers like shepherds of robotic sheep, the former is not only a much more careless way to toss away human lives, it is a militarily inferior strategy both in the moment and over time and attrition as experience builds for the shepherds while the sheep are endlessly sacrificed to the frontlines.

    Russia banked their whole strategy on robots making human expertise at tactical warfare obsolete and if anything the opposite has happened, warfare has become more demanding of human technical skill not less and this fact has backfired spectacularly on russia because russia never bothered to try to keep its infantry alive or increase their veteran experience, russia only cared that higher ups learned the lessons after all the infantry were slaughtered because of a bad tactic.

    The problem is if individual veteran experience is required for competency at modern near-peer warfare than all of that abstracted knowledge isn’t that useful if nobody is still alive who was actually there and experienced it, just useless beaucratic types higher up who have collated words written by people who weren’t there talking about things they didn’t see or do…





  • These videos look like a call of duty game or something, I don’t think anyone expected fighter bombers to be flying near stall speed right near the ground eliminating extremely slow flying bombs at close enough range the destruction of the target becomes a hazard to the aircraft.

    It is pretty funny to see the mig-29 flying as slow as possible pull up right behind a slow flying shahed and then fire a missile that flies SUPER FAST to blow up the shahed. Kind of symbolic of the overkill still inherent to most of these fixed wing counters to shaheds.