Kaputnik [he/him]

It is interesting to see how much more vulnerable top military leaders are in modern conflicts. In past conflicts it seems generals and top command were often kept far away from battlefields to protect them, but that does not work anymore. I wonder how militaries will respond to this, keeping generals confined in bunkers, or spreading out command between more people to prevent a single death being devastating.

Shoulda swallowed a spider to catch the bee smh

IR lasers can cause eye damage without triggering a blink reflex

American cops are so trigger happy if they see a red dot they’ll assume it’s from a sight and might just start shooting at anything nearby

Xiaomi phones are really cheap and work well as a basic smart phone, unless you’re buying it for the camera. If you’re in the US you may need to get it drop shipped and I’m not sure how the tariffs would affect it

Sekiro is my favorite game that Fromsoft has made. The gameplay is hard but I actually find it easier than the hardest parts of Dark Souls/ Elden Ring because so much is about learning patterns. Outside of one or two bosses they are easier to see and you can track their arm movements so you can tell which attacks are coming. Compared to Elden Ring where bosses are causing so much on screen visual noise that I can’t tell what’s going on.

The environments in Sekiro are also beautiful. Its less gloomy than Dark Souls so many of the areas are very vibrant. I love spending time in many of the more fantastical areas of the game.

Teen kills parents in attempt to gain funds to assassinate Trump. The teen was linked to the Order of Nine Angels, a neo-nazi/pedophile group originating in the UK. (Huge CW for looking up this group or any related groups for violence, pedophilia, animal cruelty, suicide)

Anyone have any thoughts on ONA or related groups like 764 and terrorgram? They feel very parapolitical to me in a strategy of tension kind of way. They’ve been linked to multiple terror attacks across Europe and the Americas, oftentimes carried out by people as young as 14. Right wing accelerationism seems to be on an upswing since COVID.

Are we going to get an East and West Syria? One an Israeli proxy, the other a Turkish proxy.