About half the inhabitants of Gaza are under 18 years old, so 1/3 of the dead being children corresponds to a ratio of two civilians killed for every combatant. This is not out of the ordinary for urban warfare conducted in a manner intended to reduce civilian casualties.
What about the lower-profile Warsaw Pact tanks? Are they safer to drive around small children?
Even Master Chief’s Mjolnir armor from Halo wouldn’t pass. (It would stop one bullet but not three in a row without time to recharge the shield.)
There are also anti-materiel rifles (generally bolt-action) which use that ammunition.
The fact that it won’t have any record of calls I missed while the phone was off or didn’t have reception, although actually that’s probably the fault of the service provider. They can send me texts I missed. Why can’t they send me a list of missed calls?
I don’t understand why browsers support this “functionality”.
The soldier has a blank shoulder patch even in the original photo. Odd.
The railing in the photo has blue and yellow stripes, which is unlikely in Russia, but I don’t see anything about the soldier himself that makes him obviously Ukrainian. (Maybe experts can distinguish by camo patterns?) The comments in Russian on that Reddit thread are ridiculing the use of this photo on a Russian poster but provide no further information.
3 point blank shots from 14.5×114mm rounds
How is that something a person could wear? Those bullets penetrate light vehicle armor.
mostly useful for suppressive fire
I think the concern is about a shooter firing into a dense crowd (like the Las Vegas attack) which is generally an application that would not come up during military use.
My worst review said that my paper was technically sound but my entire specialty was a “cottage industry” generating computational models with no real-world relevance and therefore the paper should be rejected. The editor offered the opportunity to rebut but what could I say to something like that?
(The reviewer still lives, as far as I know.)
On the plus side, this meant that I was rejected by PNAS but then published in BJ.
The lie:
When the attack began, Carter said she initially told the students it was just a drill in order to keep students calm.
How long do I have to wait until they can make an ultra-baby for me? There’s no reason to have a kid now if I could have a much better kid instead in a just few years…
Why do people do that? I mean, if they intend to abandon the dog poop, why would they bag it first?
Shhh, you’re ruining my fun.
I can’t find the source of the photo although I did find artistic interpretations of it from both the Ukrainian and Russian sides, with the corresponding patches on the soldier’s shoulder.
But note that the image on the billboard has the patch on the soldier’s shoulder replaced with a gray rectangle. (It’s easier to see in the full-size image.) Someone didn’t like the soldier’s nationality…
worships Fortune
becomes extremely wealthy
Time to impugn her reputation! Wait, hold on…
Who is more pitiable? Him or the woman who dated him?
I can’t listen to an hour-long podcast right now, but I want to clarify that by “mistake” I mean a war of choice that that USA started but did not win. I think this is a definition that does not require subjective judgements of intent or justification, because if future defeat had been common knowledge then the public and the government as a whole would not have chosen to go to war. (There may have been those who wanted war for their own reasons which did not depend on victory, but their ability to steer the country towards war depended on convincing others that the war could be won.)
A shared commitment to American supremacy.
They say that like it’s a bad thing. Obviously American voters would be fools to oppose it, but even for the third world the alternative to Pax Americana has never been local self-determination and economic success. In the past, it was dominance by the Soviet Union. Now there is no other country able to exert power on a global scale (although China is working hard to get there) but still plenty of tyrants capable of dominating their region of the globe. The USA does not always act to prevent that. When it does, it usually acts in its own self-interest. It has made serious mistakes. (Thanks for that, Cheney.) The alternative is worse.
Many people seem to think so but the evidence doesn’t support their argument. A 2:1 ratio of civilians to combatants killed isn’t particularly low but it is far closer to the best that Western armies have been able to accomplish than it is to the ratio seen from armies that are not trying to reduce civilian casualties. For example, Russia’s ratio in Mariupol is approximately 8:1 and that was against Ukrainian soldiers in uniform who weren’t deliberately hiding among civilians. Urban warfare always involves heavy civilian casualties.