Yeah. Technically he qualified it by saying he didn't think they were used "in open battle," and his reasons were probably accurate, but yes he's missing a whole category of use for which they probably were super useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTd_0FRAwOQ
In fairness, he seems to base it purely on himself saying "it's a stupid idea" and not on any historical research that he cites explicitly.
Lindybeige told me this was fake, though
Haha thank you. I like to hear myself talk so it works out.
Yeah. That's one thing I really liked about the Slashdot voting explanations (and their whole system), it indoctrinated a sense of responsibility. There's a whole separate issue where the "free account" model sort of creates a sense of entitlement where no one really has to take any good care of the space.
Also yeah, the whole issue of votes as dopamine-delivery systems, versus votes as ways to surface good content, as two very different things. I feel like they're both good aspects to the system, but they are separate things that are a little bit tangled together right now.
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Could Pam Bondi have prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida's top legal officer?
(eu.palmbeachpost.com)
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'ad to make your own way 'ere, on yer own plane, didn't ya?
Seriously.
I can hear directly from the horse's mouth from someone who went through World War 2, fought in a trench and saw all the tanks, saw their friends die, had all these crazy experiences.
I watched Dunkirk and I didn't like it because it was all a bunch of crap. Roald Dahl already told me how it was (not in France, in Greece, but sort of the same situation) and it just wasn't like that. He watched German fighters buzzing around and picking off ships in the bay, from up on the hill, he went up in the air and flew around with bullets whizzing all around him, and then he showed them to me. Even if someone's not an expert writer, if they were there, then they can tell you. Someone who just works in an office in Hollywood probably can't tell you shit.
I can hear from someone who worked in a hospital ER, someone who survived a concentration camp, someone who lived in the boonies in Africa and got out and yelled at the giraffes and had scares with lions and poisonous snakes. Redmond O'Hanlon took me up the river in Borneo and we ate cooked worms together and the guides had a little celebration because they thought we'd never make it through the jungle because we're old and fat and white. I saw Gene Kranz walk outside the building and cry, because in one of the simulations he fucked up and killed the whole crew, and he couldn't handle thinking of it if it had been real. I was there the night that Elie Wiesel's father died in the camps.
JRR Tolkien learned the secrets of life and death in the worst places in the world and he told them to me, the best he could put them together. Richard Adams too, and Harlan Ellison.
Is it the same as being there? Not even close. Is it better than just going to the store and talking with my coworkers? Fuck yeah it is.
It also got people thinking in a different direction than "I agree with this" and "I disagree with this" as the main meaning of the vote.
At this point, I think most mainstream social media is corrupted enough by the dopamine loop that it's fairly predictable that most of the comments would be taken over by it as well. Reddit comments used to be more informative than the article a lot of the time.
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He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
(www.propublica.org)
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Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
(www.propublica.org)
Think of all the stuff they are breathing...
In the span of nearly a week, from June 30 to July 7, Russian forces launched five strikes on enlistment offices in the cities of Kryvyi Rih, Poltava, Kremenchuk, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, damaging infrastructure and causing civilian and military casualties.
An attack on a Poltava enlistment center killed four, while another on Kharkiv left one dead. In Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv a combined 118 people were injured. Each attack damaged several residential buildings, businesses, government offices, and educational institutions.
While Russia has targeted Ukraine's enlistment centers throughout the war, the recent attacks represent a more brazen shift in tactics aimed at disrupting Ukraine's mobilization efforts and sowing discord in society.
In the first months of 2025, Russian intelligence operatives reportedly orchestrated three terrorist attacks on enlistment centers in Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytskyi, and Rivne oblasts by recruiting local residents. Ukrainian authorities say they successfully foiled about a dozen additional plots in other regions.
"These attacks are aimed at disrupting mobilization and reducing the flow of recruits to the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
"Enlistment offices are primarily of interest to Russia because they store documentation and handle all the organizational processes of mobilization," Andrii Osadchuk, the first deputy head of the parliament's Law Enforcement Committee, told the Kyiv Independent.
"That is why these attacks are aimed at disrupting mobilization and reducing the flow of recruits to the Ukrainian Armed Forces," Osadchuk added.
Enlistment offices are responsible for organizing mobilization and maintaining military records, but they also serve as hubs for delivering social services to veterans, active-duty personnel, and their families. This dual role makes them one of Ukraine's key institutions during wartime, and attacks on them pose serious risks to both service members and civilians.
Mobilization push continues despite Russian countermeasures
Ukraine has been working steadily to grow its ranks throughout the full-scale war, announcing multiple mobilization drives and updates to enlistment procedures.
On July 16, the Ukrainian parliament further expanded eligibility by allowing individuals over 60 to sign military service contracts. Four months earlier, Ukraine also launched an initiative aimed at encouraging people aged 18 to 24 — those below the conscription age — to enlist.
Vitalii Sarantsev, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ground Forces, told the Kyiv Independent that Russia is closely monitoring Ukraine's mobilization process and that the surge in attacks on recruitment centers in July was "no coincidence."
Recruiters check documents of men eligible for conscription in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 8, 2024. (Narciso Contreras / Anadolu via Getty Images)
A residential building is destroyed after a Russian drone strike targeting a military enlistment center in Poltava, Ukraine, on July 4, 2025. (Mykola Yeremenko / Suspilne Ukraine / JSC "UA:PBC" / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
The wave of Russian attacks on enlistment offices has also sparked questions about Ukraine's preparedness and whether current security measures are sufficient to protect the recruitment network.
Following the recent strikes, the Vinnytsia regional enlistment office announced that it would temporarily suspend operations and relocate its services to different areas for security reasons.
According to Sarantsev, relocation is not the only measure Ukraine is taking to enhance the security of its enlistment offices. Equally important is the ongoing effort to move as many services as possible online, the spokesperson added.
"This is the responsibility not only of enlistment offices, but also of other ministries, including the Defense Ministry," Sarantsev said.
After lowering the conscription age from 27 to 25 in 2023 and passing a revised mobilization bill in 2024, aimed in part at updating the records of those eligible for service and transferring them to enlistment offices, Ukraine has taken several steps toward digitalizing its military.
Still, much work remains to be done, Sarantsev added.
"Transitioning to electronic services also requires security measures to protect online information. Enlistment offices currently do not have full access to all state registers and databases. So, this process will take time, but it is already in progress," he said.
Lawmaker Osadchuk also confirmed to the Kyiv Independent that enlistment offices across Ukraine have already received guidance on operating under heightened security conditions and have taken steps to respond accordingly.
He warned that while Russia is unlikely to stop its attacks and attempts to disrupt Ukraine's mobilization efforts, he believes that with the new security measures, they are "unlikely to significantly disrupt the ongoing mobilization process."
Note from the author:
Hi, this is Kateryna Hodunova. I wrote this story for you. Despite ongoing fatigue and the strain of prolonged war, Ukrainians continue to resist a Russian army that holds a numerical advantage. The key distinction remains: While Russian forces are conducting an invasion, Ukrainians are defending their home. That's a difference that matters — and one we shouldn't forget.
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Read also: Facing manpower shortage, Ukrainian brigade turns to women in first-ever female recruitment drive
I would have thought that that applied to the Uber wrongful death suit also, but at least one court decided that type of click-through terms were binding even though it was clearly a bunch of shit.
Although, it was overturned later because it's a bunch of shit. But it was at least a debate.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
It gets worse after that. Mercifully, they don't really go into the details in the article, which mainly involved the bats either still being hibernating or else with the bomb part too heavy, basically they were just dropping innocent bats out of planes to splat onto the ground in big numbers like Wile E. Coyote until someone put a stop to it all.