"There are credible reports of some commanders allegedly using apocalyptic religious rhetoric. But there is no evidence that the U.S. government or military officially says the war is to bring about the “end of days." https://chatgpt.com/share/69aa...

In all seriousness, the war is seriously worrisome.

Iran is literally a theocracy.

We'll be lucky if we avoid WW3 in the next six months.

Targeting might be tough with artillery but it's around 30miles wide at the narrowest. Recently Iran released some sea mines into the area.

Which US commander did that?

It would seem they want to teach the kids of the military members. America has schools on military bases, too; along with housing.

It's kind of hard to believe it's not ideology. They could have been sane and stopped chanting "death to America."

They're using laser to shoot down drones. The Shahed drones come in low and slow, which makes them relatively hard to see on radar. Almost all of them have been shot down, but you need a wide distributed array of AA to get the best coverage. They aren't using THAAD to shoot down Shahed drones.

Very few people have spare money.

Make the refund big enough to encourage returns but not big enough to be worth stealing for.

lol that's how you defend your aesthetic sense? You don't have one.

If they are focused on getting batteries, they probably already have shelter and food.

I'm thinking sub-Saharan Africa, but that's just based on the summary. I've never been there.

Adding a "refund" for returning used batteries, like we used to do for cans, would effectively solve the problem. Just make the "refund" big enough (it's not big enough for cans in America anymore).

So your idea is that lead acid batteries are not a huge source of toxic lead poisoning in Africa, even though the summary and story provide evidence that it is?

For a while IBM was trying to push blockchain in manufacturing, too.

You claim to care about aesthetics, but you use Microsoft Word on Windows. You don't actually care about aesthetics.