Dinosaur toys make everything better.

Damn that puts a big ass smile on my face, congrats for getting a new awesome instrument and composition tool!

Practical robotics has never been this cool.

Also losing the air war becomes a very slippery slope very quickly, the basic strategic mechanisms at play heavily favor the winner winning even harder the more they win.

A lone air defense system is just a target, it only becomes a counter when it is integrated in a network of supporting air defenses and other elements.

Once the sky is full of Ukrainian drones hunting down anything that dares to turn on a radar or present itself as an obstacle to Ukraine’s relentless long range drone strikes, from directions Russia cannot even begin to predict where from… not only has Russia fallen behind in a crucial element of the fight, they have been kicked out of the air war and had the door locked behind them so they can’t get back in.

Another point, the more that drones are used to take out air defenses, the closer Ukrainian aviation can get to lob glide bombs on Russian positions, which also has a massive non-linear effect upon the frontline calculus.

I did not know about the cancer and that genuinely sucks, it gives me some context at least I guess.

That headline me for a second

office nerds

Yeah I wouldn’t be upset about that if when I did some research I didn’t find that Jordan Lund has a well documented extremely concerning pattern of silencing Palestinian voices and criticism of Israel. Ok a mod made a snap decision and it was wrong, that isn’t really a problem in isolation but what is a problem is this isn’t in isolation and it is in regards to a vitally important political topic for the US and the entire world. When you search for Jordan Lund you will find post after post talking about being censored for concerning or frivolous reasons as others have abundantly pointed out on this thread.

Fuck antisemitism, but those are bombs from my damn country being dropped on Palestinians, I have a right to talk about it, to make a stink about it, and to raise awareness about it. Similarly Lemmy.World has a RESPONSIBILITY to not just wave their hands and say “I don’t like talking about this can’t we all just be friends!”.

Below use of “you” is meant generally, I realize I may have accidentally made it look like this was all meant in response to Wren, I did not intend that.

If you do not know how to handle this situation and feel like you are out of your depth of understanding on the Palestinian Genocide to the point where you realllllly can’t see how toxic Jordan Lund’s world views are and don’t know what to do because you like sharing memes with Jordan on Discord/Matrix but also there are all these angry shrill people yelling about Palestine that don’t seem to like him, you should not be in a position of power over the largest political community on the Fediverse. Grow up and take an adult responsibility over understanding the world you inhabit and impact, this is one of the most serious human rights violations in our lifetime and it is unfolding as we speak even still.

This is a not a time where innocently banning posts around this topic because you were going too fast can really be considered an innocent mistake, this is far too meaningful and impactful of a discussion and I am sorry but I just don’t see any lighthearted instance mod thing happening here where all Jordan Lund did was see the word “Blog”.

Jordan Lund clearly used it as an excuse to ban an article he did not like, consciously or subconsciously I don’t really care, the evidence doesn’t point in the way of this being a non-political accident regardless.

When people in the future look back and ask what Jordan was doing during the Palestinian Genocide, he will only be able to say he spent all of his time cynically calling into the question the motivations of people who were scared, emotionally impacted and alarmed by the mass murder of innocent children. He will only be able to say that he didn’t believe it, he thought people were whining about it too much. He will not be able to say there was no way he could have known the violence was as real and as horrifying as everyone was saying it was, particularly because he has repeatedly participated in silencing discussion about it as a mod.

Do you think it is a good idea to be Jordan Lund’s friend? Do you think it is good for your soul? Can you harmlessly interface with someone who uses their position in such a toxic way?

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Void are you ok though?

duh nuh duh nuh duh nuh

in a lower voice

duh nuh duh nuh duh nuh

Democratic leadership did NOTHING to stop this war, they wanted it too.

Cool the words are the same, do you think this source is really honestly a “blog” under any meaningful definition that would exclude it from high quality politics and defense discussion?

Is your position that the moderation of that community has a vendetta against the world “blog” but otherwise does not care about the quality of articles submitted?

I wish it was that innocent but I see a clear pattern of censorship of criticism of Zionism and Israel and a pattern of burying news about the Palestinian Genocide. To ignore that in your framing is at best naive.

This isn’t a joke, this isn’t abstract, the Palestinian Genocide is roaring along as we speak, choices have consequences.

Cite your sources or stop casually spreading misinformation.

I know, I partially made this post as a collation of the most obvious stuff because the more research I did the more worrying this got for me.

Thank you

I mean sure, whether it is a truth or a lie it will be used as justification for our new war in Iran, that is kinda my point but yeah I don’t trust anything they say either to be clear.

Though it must be emphasized that these actions consume a huge amount of planning, logistics and focus from the people doing it, it is easy to react and think attacks like this can come from any direction… and they could theoretically but they also by their very nature take an insane amount of careful planning and execution to work, so there is a very high cost associated with these kinds of attacks that naturally limits their potential frequency.

Geographically, I think the US military and allies pretty much have the Atlantic buttoned up (the Arctic aside) compared to the vastness of the Pacific along with its many potentially opposing powers with long reaches on the other side of it.

Politically, Big Tech is in California.

No, I am talking about a “happy coincidence” for rightwing religious extremism on both sides.

The attack would very likely be Iranian though maybe as an extra middle finger they might build it out of western components for the political symbolism, but no I don’t think the current US regime is competent enough to do such an act of treason behind the backs of all of the different surveillance agencies and branches of military in the US.

It would stink of very bad shit from miles away in the US, thankfully I don’t see that as likely for many different reasons. Everybody worth a damn in the periphery or that was leaned on to do the grunt work by dumb fascists for the actual implementation of the plan would leak the shit out of the details of such a heinous thing.