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Friday Fun Thread for July 25, 2025

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I saw a /r/combatfootage video in which a Russian wearing a large poncho was blown apart by a drone. The commenters speculated it was meant to make it harder to spot him in IR by spreading out the heat more evenly. But like many Russian soldiers he was wandering around by himself during the day and was clearly visible in regular light.

like many Russian soldiers he was wandering around by himself during the day

I know you said "many", not "most", so I'm not really contradicting you, but I still can't resist the traditional reply image.

Even if it's almost a tautology that the Russian soldiers we see are the ones we can see, though, you've got to wonder why those ones didn't learn better. My theory is perhaps a stupid one, too informed by my having tried out Project Zomboid recently: you make what seems like a little mistake or you get a little unlucky, your position is revealed, and you find yourself someplace that seems (and probably is) too unsafe to stay, no matter how unsafe it also is to try to carry too much equipment somewhere else while there's a horde right outside. Then you take what turns out to be the last walk of your life, but it's not the walk that killed you, it's the circumstances that pushed you to it.