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This is bonkers. Video on GitHub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDO2EvXyncE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDO2EvXyncE I'm impressed by the kid's engineerin
by Mizza 7mo ago
This is bonkers. Video on GitHub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDO2EvXyncE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDO2EvXyncE
I'm impressed by the kid's engineering and gumption, but I think he's a bit.. misguided, if you'll pardon the pun. The video ends with shots of Russian drone war, and, bizarrely, photos of David Koresh.
I don't think this ends well.
- mikkupikku 7mo ago> The video ends with shots of Russian drone war, and, bizarrely, photos of David Koresh. You're omitting that the end of the video also features pictures of Martin Luther King, Vietnamese civilians during America's invasion of their country and Afghani Mujahideen freedom fighters during the Soviet Union's invasion of theirs; I think he's trying to make a point about technology enhancing the capabilities of people who are in any conflict with conventionally powerful forces, not an endorsement of David Koresh.
- radialstub 7mo ago> I think he's trying to make a point about technology enhancing the capabilities of people who are in any conflict with conventionally powerful forces Which is absurd, since all the technology he used was manufactured by the conventionally powerful forces and they can decide to not sell you their stuff.
- roysting 7mo ago[flagged]
- einpoklum 7mo agoI am completely against the US-Israeli war on Iran. That said, they are not carpet-bombing Iran. That is, they appear to be selecting individual targets rather than engaging in carpet bombing entire areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing The choice of targets is not legally legitimate (and the entire campaign is illegal AFAICT), and sometimes they used old/invalid intel, like what happened with that girls' school that's supposedly close to an IRGC base. Still, it is mostly individual buildings or installations rather than an attempt to flatten entire areas.
- srean 7mo agoThey are using white phosphorus on populated areas in South Lebanon. That's as vile as one can get.
- saati 7mo agoBe that as it may, carpet bombing has a specific meaning, and it's not bombing one's not on board with.
- srean 7mo agoIn the context of Iran I agree with you. Not so sure about South Lebanon. From whatever media coverage I saw, some look not that different from carpet bombing.
- victorbjorklund 7mo agoEvidence for the claim?
- srean 7mo agohttps://share.google/aimode/CoVNoZcR3YOotyg5o https://share.google/aimode/CoVNoZcR3YOotyg5o
- clort 7mo agoHuman Rights Watch claim it, and have analysed photographs put on social media https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfull... (they have also previously documented that Israel has done this in the past)
- NoMoreNicksLeft 7mo ago[flagged]
- srean 7mo ago
- huijzer 7mo agoI was reading your comment and thought you were a bit too extreme, but then I thought about it and was like "Hmmm. Yes. Sounds pretty accurate actually." So yes I agree.
- roysting 7mo ago[flagged]
- myko 7mo agoThe white washing of Koresh is sickening to see. Similar to how some in the US idolize the traitor Colonel Robert E Lee.
- roysting 7mo agoTry to pay attention please. Let’s try this; are you opposed to the government pumping 100 rounds into a person for some imagined “threat” they rationalize about after the fact? Koresh was not a great guy, kind of a piece of shit, just like the people the cops usually gun down, but that does not mean you need to take the low IQ government bait to excuse their lying and wanton murder and constant evil.
- myko 7mo agoI'm okay with criticizing the government response - they should have arrested him in town. But pretending he was not an awful person is beyond the pale, and I felt the comment I replied to came close to that line.
- mothballed 7mo agoMaybe he was an awful person, but their warrant was completely bogus. Legal inert grenade shells, legal black powder, and the "automatic gunfire" complete BS accusation that the government never provided evidence of was likely "hellfire triggers" at best.
- roysting 7mo agoI don’t think anyone claims he wasn’t and awful person, let alone some great person, but it all comes down to government installing the propaganda script in your mind likely all your life through “education” and “entertainment”. It’s amazing to me that people who complained about the government’s evils at various points or at the very least whine about how much of a meanie poopy-head the other team is, will just give the government a pass simply because they took the government propaganda bait; hook, line, and sinker.
- JKCalhoun 7mo agoWho knew there were war bros.
- tclancy 7mo agoWe might need them. Would be better than my theory that this country will recover at some point after they destroy the EPA and reintroduce leaded gas because that's what made this country great which leads to a generation of kids who are willing to throw bricks at cops again.
- laborcontract 7mo agosoo... i have no kept up with what's gone on in russia/ukraine. Are those drone videos what i think they are – drones sneaking up on humans and, presumably, ceasing them of life? edit: Ok, I googled the guy > I have read the works of authors such as Jean Baudrillard, Desmod Morris, and Ted Kaczynski who believe that technology is harming us and the world. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/User:Alisherkhojayev
- mikkupikku 7mo agoYes. Both sides are using explosive FPV drones, flown directly into soldiers (as well as other forms of drone warfare.)
- laborcontract 7mo agothank you. that was unnerving to watch.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoYeah, this genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
- sorenjan 7mo agoBoth Russia and Ukraine build millions of drones per year, most of them fpv drones that are basically remote controlled flying grenades. There's plenty of electronic warfare with radio jamming, so in some places they use drone mounted spools of fiber optic cable to control them. It's probably been the most impactful weapon type in the war for the past years.
- pjc50 7mo ago> have no kept up with what's gone on in russia/ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain... "between 400,000 and 1.5 million estimated casualties (killed and wounded) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to November 2025" Mostly due to artillery. Both sides are firing in the region of 10,000 155mm shells per day. For years.
- shrubble 7mo agoThe fact that Koresh and his group held off Federal officers who stormed their building with simple guns that anyone can buy, is likely the point. Out of five and a half minutes of video, David Koresh appears for perhaps three seconds. It does put a new twist on the recent controversy about 3d printers needing to be licensed, however.
- randomNumber7 7mo agoYeah the solution is simple. Just licence everything private people can buy except (healthy food). /S Microcontrollers and electric motors are too dangerous for the general public.
- steve-atx-7600 7mo agoI think this is within the intent of the 2nd amendment. Having groups of citizens check the power of their government by being armed comes with the the downside of abusive types forming cults. I think this tradeoff is worth it. Mass shooting evens and cults harming people are obviously terrible. But, I prefer living with some of that knowing that it provides recourse for becoming like the majority of Iranians that are so helpless that at least 10s of thousands were slaughtered in daylight by their government merely for protesting. It’s easy to discount the possibility of becoming an oppressed citizenry if you grew up in the US where the worst you’ve heard about is maybe Kent state or early 2026 ice murdering unarmed citizens. Armed citizens are not a guarantee from oppression, but I think it’s important insurance.
- NuclearPM 7mo agoThe problem is too many of these small government libertarian 2nd amendment people are fascism lovers.
- phplovesong 7mo agoWhat started in Ukraine, this is modern warfare. Like most "consumer" goods that are mass produced, you can now get a capable strike force for peanuts. The russians have taken close to 1.5 million casulties because ukraine engineering for cheap drones. Putin really, really f-ed up his "3 day military operation".