This sort of trick is exactly the sort of thing I hope I'd be doing in their position, and it's simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking. What a dystopian reality Ukrainians have to live in....
This sort of trick is exactly the sort of thing I hope I'd be doing in their position, and it's simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking. What a dystopian reality Ukrainians have to live in. You're at war, but don't forget there's work in the morning. Safety or sleep.
The absolute waste of such ingeneous minds - whether to combat, to Russian missiles targeting civilians while they visit a hardware store, or to the effects of PTSD long after they defeat Russia... and it's being prolonged by our obsession in the west with escalation management, tiptoeing around hoping Russia doesn't escalate to nuclear war just because they got punched in the nose for the first time and don't get to add yet more territory to their failure of an empire.
...On a lighter note, I couldn't help but think of this XKCD when reading the scraper configuration https://xkcd.com/208/
I can really emphasize with this first hand. I was on an airbase in the desert for a year months on a military deployment in a place that was regularly attacked by missiles. The first few times...
I can really emphasize with this first hand. I was on an airbase in the desert for a year months on a military deployment in a place that was regularly attacked by missiles. The first few times the missile attack alarms sound, you're scared shitless, you scramble to put everything you're supposed to have together in case of attack and run as fast as humanly possible to a bunker. You're constantly stressed out about the next attack, that a ballistic missile will land a few feet from you and they won't even have anything left of your body to identify.
After the 12th time it just becomes routine, you accept that you may die at some point, and you're a lot more lackadaisical about it. The alarms very quickly just became annoying interruptions to a very busy work day, rare periods of relaxation, or much needed sleep.
By the end of the deployment, I very often had to check all of the tents because a few soldiers would still be trying to nap through the alarms instead of bothering to go to the bunkers.
Luckily no one on the base was ever hurt while I was there. Maybe if they were the attitude would be different, but at the time, and even now it really amazes me how quickly people can get used to just about anything.
Had I been a civilian, and thus not bound by orders to do the "by the book" thing and take shelter at every missile warning, I could see a system like this being extremely useful.
Sometimes I would have rather had a few more hours of sleep versus reduce my risk of dying in a specific, low threat missile attack from 0.01% to 0.005%. I also run home assistant at home, love it and use it every day. Kinda weird seeing it being used in this context.
This sort of trick is exactly the sort of thing I hope I'd be doing in their position, and it's simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking. What a dystopian reality Ukrainians have to live in. You're at war, but don't forget there's work in the morning. Safety or sleep.
The absolute waste of such ingeneous minds - whether to combat, to Russian missiles targeting civilians while they visit a hardware store, or to the effects of PTSD long after they defeat Russia... and it's being prolonged by our obsession in the west with escalation management, tiptoeing around hoping Russia doesn't escalate to nuclear war just because they got punched in the nose for the first time and don't get to add yet more territory to their failure of an empire.
...On a lighter note, I couldn't help but think of this XKCD when reading the scraper configuration https://xkcd.com/208/
I can really emphasize with this first hand. I was on an airbase in the desert for a year months on a military deployment in a place that was regularly attacked by missiles. The first few times the missile attack alarms sound, you're scared shitless, you scramble to put everything you're supposed to have together in case of attack and run as fast as humanly possible to a bunker. You're constantly stressed out about the next attack, that a ballistic missile will land a few feet from you and they won't even have anything left of your body to identify.
After the 12th time it just becomes routine, you accept that you may die at some point, and you're a lot more lackadaisical about it. The alarms very quickly just became annoying interruptions to a very busy work day, rare periods of relaxation, or much needed sleep.
By the end of the deployment, I very often had to check all of the tents because a few soldiers would still be trying to nap through the alarms instead of bothering to go to the bunkers.
Luckily no one on the base was ever hurt while I was there. Maybe if they were the attitude would be different, but at the time, and even now it really amazes me how quickly people can get used to just about anything.
Had I been a civilian, and thus not bound by orders to do the "by the book" thing and take shelter at every missile warning, I could see a system like this being extremely useful.
Sometimes I would have rather had a few more hours of sleep versus reduce my risk of dying in a specific, low threat missile attack from 0.01% to 0.005%. I also run home assistant at home, love it and use it every day. Kinda weird seeing it being used in this context.