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Cake day: March 13th, 2024

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  • Non-credible. Purpose-built mine flails are on the borderline of credibility already. In this configuration, you’d need at least a class IV hitch to handle the tongue weight, probably a class V when you factor in the force imparted by the motion of the flail. That’s not even taking into account how much power is needed to properly swing the chains with enough impact to detonate a significant portion of the mines.

    And if there happens to be an AT mine or two in the mix, the whole ill-advised experiment becomes an unappealing art installation.




  • “Landmine has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing…”

    I guess someone forgot to tell Metallica when they were writing the song that it wasn’t about a landmine.

    And I guess someone previously forgot to tell Dalton Trumbo when he wrote Johnny Got His Gun that it wasn’t an anti-war novel.

    And then they forgot to tell him again thirty-two years later when he directed the movie adaptation, Johnny Got His Gun.

    And then, worst of all, they forgot to tell the directors of the music video that “One” was anti-war and Johnny Got His Gun was about a landmine and that using scenes from the film in the music video wouldn’t be thematically appropriate.

    Damn, there were a lot of missteps! Good thing you set it all straight!



  • To add to your point regarding additional functions inherent in smartphones: pagers do one thing. They’re relatively simple devices. Simplicity means that there are fewer things that can cause the device to function incorrectly or fail to function altogether. In hospital communications use-cases, this is a huge benefit.

    Additionally, pagers are relatively inexpensive. Therefore, it’s much more effective to have multiple spares available for distribution compared to smartphones. If a pager is inoperable, it can quickly be swapped out with a backup while the original is repaired or replaced. Smartphones do not carry that benefit.