An ounce of high explosive won't take down a plane. Even at cruising altitude.

Apparently, the solution to this is retrorockets -

Once clear of the plane a single large main chute opens. The deployment of the main chute triggers the deployment of four long rods which hang beneath the pallet. As soon as the rods touch the ground fires, slowing the BMD to a descending speed between 6 m/s and 7 m/s and giving it a relatively soft landing. This system entered service in 1975 and allows a BMD to be relatively safely parachuted with both the driver and the gunner.

Fuck off right off with that briefcase shit, the only non-cringe nuke is the Davy Crockett. Russia's got fuck all to say to the atomic recoilless rifle of freedom.

This comment managed to age poorly really fast.

Shorts and crocs. All he needed was a cigarette in his mouth while he did it.

Yo, the mods here are all big jerks

Say what you will about the guy, he's got more experience shooting down civilian jets than almost anyone.

he was on a plane that crashed in Russia today, possibly because it collided with a a2a missile.

Air defense was also active around Moscow, where it allegedly shot down a plane full of mercenaries.

Hahaha.

Also, per the BBC's reporting:

Earlier, a Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported that the jet was shot down by air defences in Tver region, north of Moscow.

Surprisingly not surprising.

Garbage propaganda community

A W54 warhead is only 60-70 pounds (30ish kg). Not quite a letter bomb, but you could play a pretty funny prank on someone for relatively modest shipping costs.

I like that they didn't even try to translate boy kisser into Russian

Nah

He's a private citizen at this point, he can go meet politicians in other countries if he wants.

Thanks for keeping me honest!

Ok, but that caption is completely wrong about what, "the dictatorship of the proletariat," means.

I like that they had to bring Ukraine into it for no apparent reason.

Jeez, now everyone's gonna want to glass a city in Russia.

Ok, ok - just for you we'll glass Moscow.

Nukes are cringe af. We seek conventional annihilation of the Russian state.

Good point, a nuclear holocaust can only improve the economy of Russia.

Pringlecan's head really does look a big ol' testicle

Probably because adapting a boat is easier and cheaper.

trust me bro

credible af

This place needs some posts, yo

Genocides are ok if they’re “domestic affairs”? That’s a bad case of brainworms, kid.

Edit: more accurate quote

Too dangerous for use? So, probably already deployed in Ukraine.

If you put that in ammo storage, it'd probably do some damage. Plus, they apparently locked down most of the firefighting equipment on the Moskva to prevent theft, so any emergencies are likely to get craptastic responses.

But, really, we should do an experiment.

You’re looking too narrowly. By getting devs to cater to whatever gets rolled out in Blink and v8, google extends the power they have over the whole ecosystem by making any browser that doesn’t follow them look “broken” (as opposed to, not slavishly following everything google does).

It also increases the difficulty of making a competing browser engine by adding tons of complexity (for questionable value), only further entrenching google’s dominance. But at least you get some stupid new CSS3 behaviors (that people will removed about not working in Firefox or Safari) so I guess it’s worth it.

China's system led to invasions, wars, and mass murder. China's system has no way for the citizens to do anything about it. The US system does, and citizens have forced change repeatedly throughout US history.

And to reiterate, the US government is not perfect and still does bad things. But it's entirely better than China's.

The US didn't take over Tibet and resettle Han Chinese there (that's genocide, deliberately destroying a culture ). The US isn't committing a genocide on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The US isn't imprisoning and executing Falun Dafa adherents.

The US allows us to make changes for the better. We can stand for office and become ta source of change, we can band together as citizens to make change. Our system isn't perfect, but it is dramatically better than China's, all your cynicism aside.

I have free speech rights under the constitution. That's not the case in China.

Don't shift the goal posts - there's a huge difference between the countries, and China is strictly worse.

Yeah, also maybe we could get rid of election apps.

FWIW, this isn't the first mention I've heard of Ukraine using S-200s for ground targets. See here. It's certainly plausible.

I wonder what that building is.

I'm interested to see how they react if Putin doesn't resume the grain deal, or undermines it by "accidentally" hitting grain storage and/or cargo ships.

Everyone who uses Chrome (or Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, or anything else that uses Chromium as a base) - you're helping google extend their power over the open web, and those helping them do this.

It's a small thing, but Google's power over the web derives from each of the the millions of people who continue to make Chrome the standard that webdevs cater to.

As an American, I can say that my government sucks for invading Iraq and Afghanistan and face no repercussions. I did so before those wars and have done so repeatedly since.

As a Chinese citizen, I can be arrested for singing a song about Hong Kong. Or saying that Tibet isn't China, or that Taiwan should be left alone. God forbid I ask about what's happening in Xinjiang. Or what happened in Beijing in 1989, or why the Great Leap Forward resulted in so many deaths of my countrymen. Or practicing Flaun Dafa, or whatever else.

Nobody is saying the US is perfect: the US has its problems, we can and should be better. But China is never honest about their shit and punishes people who are. China's markedly worse than the US.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

China is markedly worse than the US, though.