GTA 2 was also about multiple schlubs, one of whom was even a lady!

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-army-have-video-game-like-digital-weapons-store-deadly-realistic/

Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians

The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units.

The program assigns points for each type of kill: 20 points for damaging and 40 for destroying a tank; up to 50 points for destroying a mobile rocket system, depending on the caliber; and six points for killing an enemy soldier.

Units will soon be able to use the special digital points they’ve been getting since last year by trading them in for new weapons. A Vampire drone, for example, costs 43 points. The drone, nicknamed Baba Yaga, or witch, is a large multi-rotor drone able to carry a 15-kilogram warhead. The Ukrainian government will pay for the drones that are ordered and will deliver them to the front-line unit within a week.

The scheme is aimed at directing more equipment to the most effective units.

Soldiers will be able to leave reviews on the site to guide future purchases.

“For example, we have increased the number of points for infantry elimination from two to six, and that has doubled the number of destroyed enemies in one month,” Fedorov said. “This is not just a system of motivation, this is a mechanism that changes the rules of war.”

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1915866000777675043

Trump was informed of the assassination of Russian General Moskalyk: The U.S. president said he would review the information.

“No, I just heard… You’re just telling me that for the first time. That’s a big one. I’ll look at it,”

Minsk 3 hours, who’s up!

You can’t argue with results

Reposting this.

Orwell had an excellent understanding of what living in a modern empire was like; He was a colonial cop in occupied India after all. He saw and participated in the British oppression of India and, like all good liberals, he took the things he saw there and sublimated it onto the Enemy. When he was writing the Enemy was the Soviet Union but he could have just as easily written it about France, Germany, Japan, America, or any other state that the British propaganda apparatus was designating as the Enemy when he was writing his book.

Don’t feel bad about quoting Orwell to describe the sort of state he lived in. That’s what he was taking inspiration from, even if he didn’t realize it. He certainly wasn’t inspired by the Soviet Union, how could he be? He had never even been there, he had only had it described to him.

“War is politics by other means” so actually all POWs are political prisoners.

This one’s not appropriated. It’s called the Black Sun and the Nazis invented it. Don’t let anybody tell you that people using it don’t know what it means.

It doesn’t go anywhere because it never existed in the first place.

It’s like when it’s the day after Easter and all the Easter candy gets discounted. If you took the previous total price of all the candy and figured out how much it went down after the discounts, then you could figure out how much the Easter candy market “dropped” but it’s not a meaningful measure for anything.

Why we treat it as a meangingful measurement and base our society around it…, that’s beyond me.

Doesn’t Look So Sharp

Is there any historical parallel to something as large and complex as the United States trying to run on its own momentum while all the essential bureaucrats and government funding are being purged on a whim?

There certainly is!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika

And where did that bring you? Back to me.

“As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”

-Commissioner Pravin Lal, “U.N. Declaration of Rights”

The DNC motto is “Better things aren’t possible” so it’s just surprising to see.

Was his organization still called “The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants” at this point?

She’s going to crash her mcdonalds into another restaurant?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

Incredible bag fumbling on the USA’s part. Total Chinese Cultural victory, Alpha Centauri launch by end of year.

“As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”

-Commissioner Pravin Lal, “U.N. Declaration of Rights”

Can’t wait to pick up my prescription for hyperactivated antibiotics.

https://www.cio.com/article/3593403/patients-may-suffer-from-hallucinations-of-ai-medical-transcription-tools.html

How often do you think use of AI improves medical outcomes vs makes them worse? It’s always super-effective in the advertising but when used in real life it seems to be below 50%. So we’re boiling the oceans to make medical outcomes worse.

To answer your question, AI would need to demonstrate improved medical outcomes at least 50% of the time (in actual use) for me to even consider looking at it being useful.

This will help the Russians fight Ukraine’s Khorne group.