I saw a similar video a couple weeks ago. The bridge was mined but the Russians had apparently strung up anti-drone netting all around it as well. Watching the drone maneuver around to find a clear path to reach & detonate the explosives really made me think it was some sort of modern day 3D video game…

Only difference is Costco has plenty of gas for everybody.

So when are they going to launch a dozen or so of these at the Kerch bridge?

Reminds me of the estimated 3,000 pairs of shoes that Imelda Marcos reportedly had.

His boyfriend Putin says it’s a bad idea. That’s enough for Trump.

ISIS has/had for a while a really good recruitment program that identified and groomed Muslim ideologists. I have a distant relative that was married to such a Muslim man. He was recruited by them, eventually proclaimed himself a member, and to make a long story short will now spend most of the rest of his life in jail.

That coordinated remote attack a couple months ago against parked bombers has got to be a huge wake-up call that’s giving military leaders around the world nightmares. I can’t wait to see what way-outside-the-box tactic they dream up next.

I’d be wary of one or more colors fading over time unless you are VERY careful with how you print these. Being monochromatic, QR codes don’t have such issues. It would likely also be easier to recover a faded QR code than a colored bar code.

Yuck. Makes me glad ours are in our relatively dry basement. But with them down there we used to forget about loads we started until I set up the notifications.

Same. Ours also uses a timer to re-check in 15 minutes if nobody is home. That way one of us gets alerted when we’re actually home and can do something about it.

It also doesn’t alert us between 11pm and 8am so we don’t get woken up if we start a late night load.

Them!

I’m by no means an expert in the oil refinery process, or in modern warfare techniques, but my understanding is that Ukrainian drones largely target what is called the Fractionating column, which is the heart of a refinery.

In a nutshell, oil is refined by heating crude oil and drawing off liquids at different temperatures. Fuel oil liquifies at one temperature, lubricating oil at another, kerosene at another, etc. The fractionating column is where all of this takes place. You can see a simplified graphic here.

Since that’s the key component of a refinery it’s obviously a prime target for drone attacks etc. And if the refinery is in active operation then it means there’s plenty of volatile fuel around to create a fireball like this.

Except the cops will argue there’s no actual proof that the bills with dye on them are the same bills you took out of the ATM or got from a bank teller. It’s not like the serial numbers are recorded. So they’ll just claim the most likely scenario is that the cash is indeed stolen and confiscate it. And for good measure they could also charge you with receiving stolen property.

Russia just cutting out the middleman?

Or at least “no unapproved outside assistance of any sort”.

I saw Christmas supplies at Costco a couple days ago…

Watch it be a “redacted” PDF file you can just copy & paste…

They’ll drag out any legal challenge in hopes you won’t want to pay for months of legal fees fighting it, on top of whatever legal fees are incurred that caused you to challenge it in the first place…

Can I use your phone to view the menu? The camera in my phone is broken.

Must capitalize Every other Word in Every run-On sentence.