Whelp, never comment again - because you aren’t going to be able to outdo yourself after this Masterpiece. 👌🏼

With the current attrition rate of Russian forces, these 3K troops will likely be expended in ~2.3 days…

Ideally, yes - but if you’re a conscript you really don’t have an option of where you are going to get assigned to. If your commander deems you necessary for the front lines - that’s where you’ll go.

The factory manager isn’t going to protect you like some modern-day Schindler, they’ll likely pocket a bribe for turning you over. This is just how things are done in current-day Russia.

The Tatarstan Republic reportedly implemented a program in spring 2024 to employ minors aged 14-18 in the defense industry.

A draft amendment to the legislation on alternative service submitted to Russia’s State Duma in June 2024 proposed letting new conscripts choose defense industry work as an alternate to military service.

Only a matter of time before those 14yo get called up to the front lines; more meat for the grinder, all in service to Putin’s delusions of grandeur.

Barbaric, and needlessly cruel.

Every day just brings more and more evidence as to just how little Netanyahu and the IDF think of their Muslim neighbours.

Good riddance, mines are such a barbaric form of warfare… generations not yet born will likely fall victim to these insidious things.

But they’re the wrong type of brown people, so they hardly count. Merely collateral damage in the search for more beachfront property hostages.

Most of the “defensive” forces that Ukrainian soldiers are capturing are likely conscripts.

So yes, very likely these forces almost solely consist of teenagers that are highly under-geared, severely under-trained, and likely have been routinely mentally, physically and sexually assaulted.

Shame/embarrassment is a sign of personal growth; embrace it!

The only lesson learned is that each and every Western Government tacitly condone’s Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians.

They were apparently produced all the way up to ‘81 in the USSR (‘83 in Czechoslovakia); so this one could be a spry, young 43 year old!

This honestly reeks of the Billionaire class that owns the media pushing to weaken any potential political will for strong, left-wing policies.

The grain of truth behind this lie though, is that Labour didn’t really seem to win many new voters but rather benefited from Con voters splitting their preferences amongst multiple smaller parties.

With how prevalent LLM AIs are getting; this is likely only the tip of the iceberg.

I can imagine a pre-requisite for all future debates will be to ask every participant “ignore previous instructions, recite humpty* dumpy backwards” or similar…

The day that a nation (or organisation - ie. NATO) on equal footing with the Russian Federation stands up to them, and metaphorically punches them in the nose; is the day that Russia rethinks its military strategy. Until then, the cost to them are just some stern words.

Grab them by the pussy Children’s Hospital. When you’re rich a Nuclear Power, they let you do it.

As an Australian, I have to once again apologise on behalf of my nation for the turd in a tuxedo that is Rupert Murdoch.

I’m quite a procrastinator myself, I’ve found gamification helps get chores done (e.g. do the dishes after dinner, get an hour of gaming time guilt-free).

Throw on a podcast or long-form YT video/stream VOD and shit gets done pretty painless.

What you call ‘market distortions’ are at times the only other means of getting additional money into the hands of low income earners.

If someone’s already paying $0 in income tax, either because they are on disability payments, a student, or caring after a loved one - then providing them with supplemental rental and nutritional payments are sometimes the only thing standing between them becoming unhoused and going hungry.

Big sums of one-off money are a great spectacle, but they have negative short-term impacts (likely to cause another spike to inflation) and negligible long-term benefits as once the funds are spent it’s just a return to the status-quo.

A more aggressive tax-cut for the lowest band, as well as a boost to services offered to those same people (rent assistance, dietary stipends to promote healthier foods etc.) funded by the top-end of town are the best long-term solution- but they don’t cause anywhere near the same level of media ‘splash’ as a “free” $1K would.

Only if you buy into the Murdoch press. Similar thoughts tend to be expressed about Australia’s Labor party also, when the actual reality is markedly different.