mandate of heaven moment

camera is set at a low and to your left angle, showing the side of your head and your arm lazily scrolling through the official IDF twitter account on a smartphone with the underside of the desk out of focus in the background. after a few moments of this the you suddenly freeze, but your expression isn't visible so we don't know why. focus slowly shifts to the background as a dark blob against the desk becomes clear. a stamp reading "MADE IN PALESTINE". cut to camera from the stamp's POV, showing your pupils dilating as you stare up into the camera for just a couple silent seconds. explosion. end scene.

i loved welcome to the nhk back when it came out but it kind of fucked me up and i'm not allowed to watch it again

i still love it and miss it sometimes but it would push some trauma buttons in me that i know not to push to see it again

good soundtrack too!

israel pioneering new techniques in war crime cultivation

the idea was pipes like this throughout the tunnels that you can affix the traditional mortar to the underside of and launch a shell timed to explode at whatever the optimal airburst altitude is to hit troops above you, like mortar extension tubes so to speak. i don't really know why you would put this much work into it when you could just have the mortar team use the tunnels to fire from an advantageous position above ground, or just plant the explosives above ground beforehand, or do almost anything else. but to my critics I say this: It would be funny.

i'll have to scrap this design, but i'm not giving up on my IED dumb waiter idea

folks who know military stuff better than I do: i had a funny idea the other day where a guerilla force that made extensive use of tunnels could place vertical pipes leading up to the surface which one could secure a mortar to and launch it to the surface. is something like this possible?

i would usually agree with you - I think most of the concerns I see in leftist spaces about nuclear armageddon are overblown. but we have never seen a nuclear armed state faced with imminent defeat in an existential war. a nuclear strike from israel is not an unreasonable thing to be concerned about.

i don't particularly think a nuclear first strike, for purposes of an emp or annihilation, is a realistic way to avoid MAD. i have a hard time believing emp-shielding your nukes wasn't already thoroughly figured out by the soviets and americans in like the 60s - and even if it wasn't the US will still nuke you back if israel's arsenal is disabled. while you might theoretically be able to execute a first strike on israel before they could detect you and retaliate, a gamble for the world all on its own, you're not going to be able to hit america without your launches being detected and being subject to MAD all the same.

you would be better off just conventionally invading and hoping the human mind just isn't capable of pushing the big red button than proving it can by pressing it yourself and assuring a response.

i mean we know al-aqsa flood was planned for quite some time and almost certainly supported by iran so i would say no, this is not a coincidence

thank god i was wearing my explosive reactive armor vest

i mean what the fuck else are they there for. they have to go in

if it was really driven by greed they'd release the old versions too

from watching interviews and behind the scenes stuff with george i get the impression that he is both obsessively perfectionistic about his work and obsessively interested in visual effects. i truly believe he has spent nights awake thinking about how, now that technology has progressed, he could probably fix whatever weird alien or prop or whatever that didn't quite live up to his expectations