Random Thoughts Thread

[Skull]

Bruh, this was way more epic than it had any right to be...

[LegalLoliLover]

Apparently, the easiest way to win a war is to use plainclothes guerillas because, unless your enemy is super lucky or super insightful, they will either:
a) miss those disguised soldiers allowing for much easier infiltration
b) end up killing civilians thinking that they are disguised troops, resulting in war crimes.

[Nikiri]

c) arrest everyone for "interrogation"

[LegalLoliLover]

Which is just b-lite.

[Deathhappens]

Apparently, the easiest way to win a war is to use plainclothes guerillas because, unless your enemy is super lucky or super insightful, they will either:
a) miss those disguised soldiers allowing for much easier infiltration
b) end up killing civilians thinking that they are disguised troops, resulting in war crimes.

Which is why disguising your soldiers as civilians or part of the enemy army has been forbidden by every war treaty under the sun and soldiers caught under such circumstances are treated as spies rather than POW's. Which is another way to say "summarily executed".

relevant Geneva Convention

Article 37. – Prohibition of perfidy

1. It is prohibited to kill, injure or capture an adversary by resort to perfidy. Acts inviting the confidence of an adversary to lead him to believe that he is entitled to, or is obliged to accord, protection under the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, with intent to betray that confidence, shall constitute perfidy. The following acts are examples of perfidy:

(a) The feigning of an intent to negotiate under a flag of truce or of a surrender;
(b) The feigning of an incapacitation by wounds or sickness;
(c) The feigning of civilian, non-combatant status; and
(d) The feigning of protected status by the use of signs, emblems or uniforms of the United Nations or of neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict.
2. Ruses of war are not prohibited. Such ruses are acts which are intended to mislead an adversary or to induce him to act recklessly but which infringe no rule of international law applicable in armed conflict and which are not perfidious because they do not invite the confidence of an adversary with respect to protection under that law. The following are examples of such ruses: the use of camouflage, decoys, mock operations and misinformation.

Article 38. – Recognized emblems

1. It is prohibited to make improper use of the distinctive emblem of the red cross, red crescent or red lion and sun or of other emblems, signs or signals provided for by the Conventions or by this Protocol. It is also prohibited to misuse deliberately in an armed conflict other internationally recognized protective emblems, signs or signals, including the flag of truce, and the protective emblem of cultural property.

2. It is prohibited to make use of the distinctive emblem of the United Nations, except as authorized by that Organization.

Article 39. – Emblems of nationality

1. It is prohibited to make use in an armed conflict of the flags or military emblems, insignia or uniforms of neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict.

2. It is prohibited to make use of the flags or military emblems, insignia or uniforms of adverse Parties while engaging in attacks or to shield, favour, protect or impede military operations.

3. Nothing in this Article or in Article 37, paragraph 1(d), shall affect the existing generally recognized rules of international law applicable to espionage or to the use of flags in the conduct of armed conflict at sea.

[LegalLoliLover]

As well they should, but the question is not what to do with them afterwards, but how to catch them to begin with. In terms of executing spies, does that mean that it's OK to kill this guy?

[Deathhappens]

Not unless there was a war declared while I was in the bathroom,espionage only carries the death penalty during wartime AFAIK.

[LegalLoliLover]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius...thel_Rosenberg This was during the Cold War, right?

[Deathhappens]

1951, so yeah, smack dab in the middle of the Red Scare and peak McCarthyism. The Rosenberg case was one of the most famous exhibits of it (although the Rosenbergs really were spies, as it turned out).

[LegalLoliLover]

My point was whether Cold War counts the war that you are referring to because apparently China is literally challenged the US to Mortal Kombat:

[Deathhappens]

The Chinese cheat, I wouldn't play them.

[Mattias]

It's Mortal Kombat. Just spam high punch to stunlock them.

[LegalLoliLover]

Remind me again why obsession with racial purity is a far-right thing again?

This is literally the worst aspects of Nazism with none of the Hugo Boss style. Though, I do feel like playing Nioh, as William Adams, to cut down Yasuke.

[weeblord]

Tough times for Elijah Wood if he has to appear in youtube ads for some shit phone game

[LegalLoliLover]

This trend of changing usually white (or even just non-black) literary characters to black reminds me of something:

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century predicted this correctly, except for black people, instead of redheads.

[OverMaster]

Of late I've been actually depressed as hell about the collapse of bookstores and the printed press.

I like the Internet, but it's not a replacement for physical books and magazines. I don't want to live in a world where they won't exist anymore and so I'm forced to rely exclusively on digital media. That's not a world I ever wanted.

I've been a bookworm all through my life.

[LegalLoliLover]

Well, for Dies Irae Song to the Witch, I literally printed out the whole thing.

[Nikiri]

ozone has an interesting smell

[Mattias]

I hate having to choose between a streaming site that has a player that fails to load half of the time but has no ads, or one that always loads but spawns 3-4 pop-ups on every page.

[Zurvan]

Yarhar.