• REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    And one — a 19-year-old private — began to fall quickly when his chute did not open.

    Yeah… That’s just regular falling. That’s what happens when you step outside a flying machine.

    I know this is pedantic, but I dunno that sentence just tickled my funny bone. I’m imagining some sergeant explaining the incident with tactical words “Well uh the private - that is to say the individual soldier who was at the rank of PV1 - initiated a maneuver without previously ascertaining wether he was correctly equipped for the task. Upon succesfully completing several stages of the maneuver he began to experience a negative result of his lacking equipment - That is to say he began to increase his downwards velocity at an accelerating pace.”

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      There’s a metaphor here for what the US is going through. I would almost argue the writer intends it too.