• towerful@programming.dev
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    Oh, actual horses.
    I was thinking the title was wrong. Or maybe that cavalry is a modern warfare term for something.
    The thumbnail is a bit hard to see.

    Nope.
    Clicked through, and there it is. A picture of a soldier riding a horse. Like, full on galloping.
    And the picture is clearly from a drone that is very very close.

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      Holy shit I thought for sure this wasn’t a headline referencing literal horse cavalry.

      This might be one of the stupidest ways to throw a human life away I have ever seen.

      I bet horses are SUPER difficult to see on thermal cameras! They don’t have an internal combustion engine so they are veryyy stealthy…

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    When I read stuff like this, my hope surges again that Russia is not far from a collapse, but they still hang on. It’s the only thing that impresses me about Russia.