Nice!

However, it’s something circumstantial. I don’t see it as something I’m constantly seeking, like a fetish. It’s more like a personal trait—something that’s very much a part of me and makes me feel really good.

Hey I don’t want to get too personal, but have you tried exploring this with a consenting partner? There might be a whole part to yourself you haven’t explored.

You do you, just sayin.

Like… obviously a lot of people’s kneejerk reaction is going to be “why would I ever say that to you???” but people kind of tend to love acting turns out so in a bubble of consent suddenly…

No, Trump is too stupid and selfish to admit that, rather I think Trump realizes Ukraine is now decisively winning, Russia is falling apart and it makes him look weak to be alone in backing the losing side so he flip flopped to Ukraine.

There is no other reasonable explanation that makes sense, Trump jumped ship on Putin because Trump is a coward, end of story.

I can’t decide if this is more pathetic or more predictable.

It is this pokemon I can’t remember name

No polling indicated public opinion shifted on this and we are being adaptive!

It seems to be working but none of the thinktanks we work with can identify why yet, we suspect an influencer on a social media platform we haven’t discovered yet is spreading these ideas.

People CRAVE big tech. They’re not victims of abuse or ignorance, they’re willing participants that would rather be enslaved by a corporation than use any collaborative effort.

I don’t disagree, but this is why I find it so exasperating how so much of the tech world, including the open source community in general, refuses to understand this in terms other than a nihilistic distaste for human beings in general.

What you are saying is that the tech specs that bluesky defenders listed in my face from the beginning, all along the continuum of bluesky diehards to people on the fence considering the tech… all of that was NONSENSE from the perspective of evaluating the impact that the technology would have because the problem is political not technological.

I need to emphasize, that from the beginning most of the Bluesky support I saw was from technology minded people who are VERY smart at engineering systems and software but have the political awareness of an overconfident baby and refused to at the time look squarely in the eyes of what makes silicon such a globally hurtful force.

Now I am left wondering, as I thought I would from the beginning, why we wasted all that time on handwringing about how maybe this abusive relationship could work out with Bluesky. This time it will be different I swear I changed I won’t abuse you for profits now I promise…

Look I am glad y’all learned your lessons… hopefully you did? This isn’t just about useful idiots learning way too late into the game that Bluesky was always going to turn out like Twitter though, this is about why the tech community at large refuses to address political questions in an adult and mature manner that doesn’t sweep anything that can’t be easily categorized in digital, binary terms under the rug because it is uncomfortable to talk about in a professional environment.

Your nihilism is part of the same coin that has allowed companies like Microsoft to profit off genocide in Gaza while only a meager handful of Microsoft employees speak up and are thrown out and ostracized for their unprofessional behavior.

Stand up for your beliefs, stand up for humanity, don’t cede a narrative that this universe is cynical to them without contesting it and demanding more evidence. I will not be convinced people are as generally bad as the ruling class wants me to believe, it is always a lie. Part of that for me is not letting them convince me people want this suffering because you can twist people’s intentions, fears and motivations so easily into destructive ends… evidence you hold in front of me of people behaving in evil ways only illuminates the capacity of violence to spread like a contagion, it doesn’t convince me humanity at large desires the state it is being subjected to.

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who could have forseen this?

Maybe we can make a deal. Maybe together we can get somewhere. Any place is better.

Starting from zero, got nothing to lose :) Maybe we’ll make something. Me, myself, I got nothing to prove!

You got a fast car. I got a plan to get us out of here. I been working at the convenience store. Managed to save just a little bit of money! Won’t have to drive too far… Just 'cross the border and into the city. You and I can both get jobs… And finally see what it means to be living!

Fibre optic drones hard-counter EW. They are literally immune to jamming, and have grown quite prevalent. The only way to stop them is to shoot them down or cut the wire (short of a massive EMP).

From the perspective of the person developing the fiber optic drone in an office… yes.

To the soldiers at the frontline, no a fiber optic drone is NOT a hard counter to EW it is a reaction to it which then leads to a different tactical situation that infantry may be better able to exploit (or may not, it of course depends).

Do you know what the very first extremely effective guided antitank weapons used as a method for guidance?

https://history.redstone.army.mil/miss-tow.html

This isn’t a new development, yes fiber optic drones are evolution of drone warfare, but they have a number of significant limitations that wireless drones do not. Forcing Russians to use fiber optic drones severly limits the effectiveness of their drone tactics even if the actual fiber optic drones they are turning to using are technically resistant to EW warfare in most respects.

Thus, the use of fiber optics has to be seen as a defensive evolution that is unfavorable for the attacker that has had to evolve and use much more limited control options.

https://warontherocks.com/2025/06/i-fought-in-ukraine-and-heres-why-fpv-drones-kind-of-suck/

Fiber optic drones do, however, have a number of drawbacks that mean they might not fully replace radio-controlled drones. The wire that connects the drone to the operator limits the maneuverability of the drone. Snagging it on any kind of obstacle can result in a loss of control. Fiber-optic drones cannot really double back over their route or circle a target, as this could tangle their control wire and also result in a loss of control. As a result, fiber-optic drones are said to be even more difficult to fly than radio-controlled drones. Because of these limitations, several drone operators I spoke to actively resist using fiber-optic drones. Furthermore, though cost will probably come down, at present the cost of the cable means that a fiber-optic drone with 10 kilometers of cable costs about twice as much as a radio-controlled model of similar range. Finally, production capacities available to Ukraine for fiber-optic cables are, at present, fairly limited compared to radio-controlled drones, meaning they are chronically in short supply.

I don’t necessarily agree with all of the points in this article, but I do think this evaluation of fiber optic drones is spot on and is a much needed douse of cold water on the general terror around this weapons development. It is scary, it is new, technically, but is also an entirely expected defensive evolution that introduces a number of other vulnerabilities to a process that before the enemy could accomplish without, not the least of which is a literal wire has to connect the drone to the operator’s equipment… See this as a defensive evolution, the kind of step a defending enemy takes when you are successfully throwing their strategy off and beginning to turn their operation into a defensive, reactive one rather than an offensive one that demands you respond to them.

This is really my same point about shahed flying bombs having to be developed with more sophisticated electronics and sensors to negate the new electronics warfare jamming methods Ukraine has been using to mess with simpler shaheds equipped with very cheap, affordable, mass producable GPS guidance equipment. The headlines and imagery are scary because yes the weapon has become more scary, but understand this is a defensive evolution that the enemy did not and does not want to have to pay the continuing price for otherwise they would have already done it almost by definition.

damn

What are you some kind of bird expert?

I think there are some layers to this question.

First yes Ukraine and militaries around the world are investigating this kind of counter to FPV drones.

Second, if you are standing out in the middle of the open firing wildly at a pack of FPV drones that are attacking you, you are already in a position you shouldn’t have placed yourself into. This doesn’t mean that the drones aren’t a cause of the danger, but consider how a squad of confused, untrained Russia soldiers could easily stumble into the kill zone of a Ukrainian infantry squad set up for an ambush with normal assault rifles and experience a similarly brutal end to their lives.

Third at a squad level and above what primarily deflects the threat of FPV drone attacks are jamming and electronics warfare equipment, which is where most of the focus will be for militaries that are smart. The job of the infantry might to be to attempt to shoot down an enemy FPV drone, but that means that the infantry was not able to do their original job of setting up the drone jamming equipment or putting pressure on enemy positions so that the FPV drones wouldn’t have the operational freedom to be able to roam deep through their territory to find targets.

So yes, I think you will definitely see more of this technology developed but consider that the first response military experts are going to be thinking who understand small unit infantry tactics… is those drone operators are somewhere… why aren’t we putting pressure on where they are so that they don’t have the initiative to reach out and attack us like this? If you start hitting them back, they are going to eventually have to take off the drone goggles and reach for an assault rifle to defend their trench themselves…

ok but when it is a duck the gesture just doesn’t hit the same

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Lazy antihomeless crap

I used to think “how does Russia have ANY artillery left?” and now I think “how does North Korea have ANY artillery left?”.

Ukraine is tearing through their artillery like a hot knife through butter.