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Cake day: February 6th, 2021

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  • https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-army-have-video-game-like-digital-weapons-store-deadly-realistic/

    Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians

    The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units.

    The program assigns points for each type of kill: 20 points for damaging and 40 for destroying a tank; up to 50 points for destroying a mobile rocket system, depending on the caliber; and six points for killing an enemy soldier.

    Units will soon be able to use the special digital points they’ve been getting since last year by trading them in for new weapons. A Vampire drone, for example, costs 43 points. The drone, nicknamed Baba Yaga, or witch, is a large multi-rotor drone able to carry a 15-kilogram warhead. The Ukrainian government will pay for the drones that are ordered and will deliver them to the front-line unit within a week.

    The scheme is aimed at directing more equipment to the most effective units.

    Soldiers will be able to leave reviews on the site to guide future purchases.

    “For example, we have increased the number of points for infantry elimination from two to six, and that has doubled the number of destroyed enemies in one month,” Fedorov said. “This is not just a system of motivation, this is a mechanism that changes the rules of war.”

















  • Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest
    Eight hours for what we will;
    Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest
    Eight hours for what we will.

    The beasts that graze the hillside,
    And the birds that wander free,
    In the life that God has meted,
    Have a better life than we.
    Oh, hands and hearts are weary,
    And homes are heavy with dole;
    If our life’s to be filled with drudg’ry,
    What need of a human soul?
    Shout, shout the lusty rally,
    From shipyard, shop, and mill.

    Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest
    Eight hours for what we will;
    Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest
    Eight hours for what we will.


  • Ukraine was already at war with the Donbas republics when Russia intervened. The order is events is as follows. Russia recognizes Donbas republics --> Ukraine massively escalates the shelling of the Donbas republics --> Russia invades Ukraine. The central Ukrainian government repeatedly refused to actually abide by any of the ceasefires it had signed and was shelling its separatist regions on-and-off for eight years while Putin stood around with his thumb up his ass.

    The animals in Chernobyl seem to still be doing fine as far as I can tell. Scientists are still studying them and publishing papers. There were was some extra radiation revealed by the dust being kicked up but animals don’t really care about that, it’s why Chernobyl became a wildlife haven in the first place.

    We don’t have downvotes here.