Dan Ports@dev this may be the best slide deck of all time
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!
Jesse Spielman@dan @steve @dev this reminds me of one of my favorite internet essays of all time: https://medium.com/message/amazing-military-infographics-1ba60bdc32e7
SnoopJ@heavyimage @dan @steve @dev also putting in a good word for the episode of Well There's Your Problem on military powerpoint, which has some real goodies in it and plenty of context from a service member about the sort of environment that creates some of them (while still being baffled at a few of their specimens)
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 84: Military PowerPoints
Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse@SnoopJ @heavyimage @dan @steve @dev back in the day there was the DefenseCharts (?) account on Twitter, regularly posting gems of the highest quality
@heavyimage @SnoopJ @dan @steve @dev oh hey it still exists (but has stopped posting) so get inspired/entertained 😅⬇️
@heavyimage sign me up!
@heavyimage @steve @dev yes, this must be where I got the idea!
Like the article says, the best is when they start trying to explain and analyze purely abstract concepts. I remember reading one about “commander’s intent”. Not any specific commander’s intent, but the very idea of intent itself.
They are truly powerpointing at a level the rest of us cannot even comprehend.
Bimbo@heavyimage so this is what british far right politicians mean when they say 'small boats'
@BigTittyBimbo once you truly have awareness of the battlespace, all becomes clear.
@BigTittyBimbo Another amazing thing I just realized about this image is that each kind of troop appears to be rendered using the technology of a different generation of home video game console
@BigTittyBimbo like you'd think the military's clip art gallery would be be updated every few years
@heavyimage the more i look at it the more i see, I simply cannot, i think I'm gonna have an aneurism
@BigTittyBimbo my god its full of stars
@BigTittyBimbo also please do not have an aneurysm
@heavyimage It's my party, I'll die if i want to
@BigTittyBimbo spiritspace awareness