It’s better to have a plan and not have to use it than the other way around.

As a pioneer I’m quite certain that the explosive you’re supposed to hang from there is just a plain anti-tank mine or few. It’s basically just a 10kg chunk of TNT - even has a handle.

I struggle to understand why you oppose this so much. You already confirmed that they indeed leave charge pits on bridges for the exact same reason. Why don’t you want to accept that these hooks serve the same purpose, but they’re used when a charge pit is inconvenient - like on the support pillars in the middle?

I just got back from a 100 km trip, and I paid extra attention to this. These hooks were on every single bridge pillar I saw. There are charge pits at each end and hooks on the support pillars. It’s not rebar either, but prefabricated hooks that are clearly put there for a purpose.

I’m really tempted to just email Destia and ask for a confirmation but I feel like asking stuff like that might sound a bit suspicious so I hesitate.

Exposed rebar is a big nono in construction. It lets water in which causes rusting and eventually chunks of concrete start falling off.

Drilling is slow. Efficiency isn’t the point here, speed is.

This isn’t exactly a regular road either but highway number four which leads straight to Helsinki.

You can see these same hooks on the support pillars of most bridges as well. Once you start paying attention to it you can’t really unsee it.

I’m not sure if this is something you’ll find an official source for as FDF isn’t known for openly sharing information regarding national defence.

However, you can find plenty of discussion about it online and for example on this video it’s mentioned around the 1:25 mark.

Payload only accounts for a small part of the missile’s cost. It’s still going to be really expensive for both parties.

Locals don’t seem to mind. At least this one. Just filming and unable to contain her laughter.

Here’s a nearby railroad bridge with an opening left for the explosives instead of hooks. Different bridges use different methods.

Oh, c’mon now. People are individuals. You’re not really doing anyone any favors with these broad generalizations. Not all non-straight men are interesting, and not everyone who joined a fraternity is an NPC incapable of thinking for themselves. You can’t just take a massive group of people like that and treat them as if they’re all the same.

Which of those vehicles don’t even need to exist?

Waking up at 7am on weekends?

This is genuinely so strange to me. I wouldn’t generally mind that one has to somehow prove themselves to be able to join but just to humiliate other because it’s something you had to endure few years earlier makes no sense to me and I don’t want anything to do with a club that does that. I’m far more likely to find likeminded people within the group who chose not to join for the same reason.

Why would you assume they’re all straight?

As with most things like this it’s probably a spectrum rather than something you either are or are not. It’s easy to tell when someone is in the far end of that spectrum but the line where it officially crosses into psychopathy is always going to be arbitrary.

I never claimed it will.

I’d imagine the core idea is to try and limit investing for individuals only - not organizations.

Couldn’t we all just get along…?

You don’t seem very interested in sticking to the topic, do you? This conversation has been all over the place, complete with ad-hominems, concern-trolling, red herrings, strawmen, gish galloping - as if you’re trying to break some kind of record.

It’s pretty clear you’ve built up a cartoon-villain version of me in your head and now you’re fighting that imagined version like it’s real. I made a pretty simple claim about AGI, you’ve piled an entire story on top of it, and now you’re demanding I defend views I don’t even hold.

I’ve been trying to have a good-faith conversation here, but if this is what you’re going to keep doing, then I’ll just move on.

That doesn’t have anything to do with my claim about the inevitability of AGI.