• Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      The meme term has influenced the fabric of reality yet again

    • muelltonne@feddit.deEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      It should be the opposite: The design of the delta class submarines is older than Star Wars and it would make sense that George Lucas took some design inspiration from soviet russia. He did take a lot of inspiration from Nazi Germany and it would make sense that he also did take a look at the USSR as America’s cold war enemy.

  • Blackout@kbin.run
    19·
    9 months ago

    I think they learned this trick from Californians trying to protect their catalytic converter.

    • Boris NotTooBadinov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      Perhaps it’s to stop an aerial drone from dropping munitions down an open hatch, the way they’ve been dropping them on tanks and IFVs, rather than a drone just smashing into the conning tower…maybe someone else has a better explanation

    • kokopelli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      They need to make contact to really do damage, this detonates them before they can get close to anything important. I think that’s the idea.

      Edit: the other person seems more correct with the whole dropping things down the hatch idea, for my idea to work they’d have to cover everything

    • wieson@feddit.de
      English
      45·
      9 months ago

      How do you not know the antichrist himself - who briefly carried our hope of Putin’s regime collapsing into civil war?

      That is the torturer and killer of children and other innocents, the nazi, fascist, genocider, the hot dog salesman and Putin’s personal chef who became the owner and leader of the mercenary company Wagner. He laid siege to bakhmut for a year and burned through countless of his mercenaries and other convict battalions as cannon fodder. He then complained to the ministry of defence about getting inferior treatment and deliveries then other battalions, he started to march on Moscow, throwing all of Russia into panic and despair, stopped his march, asked for forgiveness, was exiled to Belarus and later invited back to Moscow and killed in a helicopter explosion.

      Now I kinda forgot his name. Which is not worth remembering anyway. Ok, I looked it up, it’s yevgeny prigozhin.

        • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
          29·
          9 months ago

          It was so fucking weird. I mean yeah, it was nice to see someone marching straight to Moscow basically unopposed. With whatever forces Putin had left in the area destroying the roads and digging trenches in full panic mode. All the while I was thinking “Of all the Russians, Pringles is probably the last person that should sit in the Kremlin?”

          The only good thing that came out of all this shit was the cycling Russian who blasted “Because I got high” by Afroman while the rest of the country tried to cope with the situation.

          Edit: Found him.