Sorry for Reddit watermark… couldn’t quickly find it elsewhere.
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that is literally the worst watermark I've ever seen in my entire time on the internet, more than a quarter century now.
Why is there a Reddit watermark at all!? They didn't create the content, and I doubt Mr. Watterson would want it to be hosted there. Did a redditor go out of their way to slap that over the last panel? Like you said, the absolute worst...
I made this.jpg
You've obviously not seen some of the footage coming out of Ukraine war. They watermark over the entire video
don't you know how much bank CNN made out of the gulf war? gotta protect the copyrights of war footage
Well that's an M109 Paladin. It weighs about half as much as an actual tank. But if it was fully loaded there's a pretty good chance nobody wins because it's an artillery system and it carries a lot of stuff that goes boom.
I don't care to speculate on who wins between a 70 ton tank and a train. It probably depends on what the train is pulling.
Edit to add - also we need pictures from different angles. From this angle it looks like the Paladin might have simply been de-tracked. But I'm pretty sure there's more damage as it's armor is actually comparatively light, rated for small arms and shrapnel.
So it's more self-propelled artillery?
Technically yeah, colloquially no sane person would judge another for calling such a thing a tank
It's only a tank if it comes from the Tankeshire region of England, otherwise it's just sparkling armoured vehicle.
Nah, I don't judge people for being wrong or inaccurate, particularly when the colloquial use of a term is as firmly established. Ideally, people would still know the distinction, and I'd prefer to have journalists be accurate at least, but mostly I care about knowing what's technically correct myself. I don't need to be a pedant, I just don't want to be ignorant.
That's exactly what it is.
🇺🇸This is America🇺🇸
Attention dispatch... There has been a mass shooting at the site of the Tank Train collision, but thankfully all victims have successfully had their medical claims for woundcare denied. Time to go home...
Top Gun theme blares as the Police Mustang drives off into the sunset. And... scene.
Worthy of a South Park bit
tank looks like missing parts of the bottom part, train is uhh 🥭
Just skirts and detracted, the hull is probably intact but likely cracked enough it will need refurb at the factory. Also it probably fell off the train rather than ran into it.
That train will just keep coming. Once such a freight train is going you better get out of the way. The amount of kinetic energy that's coming towards you is dwarfing compared to a measly tank.
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