What I love about HN is that you can get from 'a plane went missing' to a thread that cites every plane loss since 1999 followed by a counterargument citing a downed MIG.

Like, how the heck do you all know so much? The demographics of this site are unreal

You've never been in an internet argument yourself? You don't need to know shit, just google stuff to support your views which you had already formed without evidence and post it to prove whatever you need to support your case.

Well, one of those guys was just flexing/lying tbf ...

Nah, I read every incident report for military in the US because it was part of my job. Since we were talking about US military aviation I felt that was the avenue. I have read every incident report for Russia, not that I even could.

*have not

Always the straight man, I asked, what’s your job? It sounds unreasonably interesting to me.

I have a strange feeling that Mark was a Marine.

Once a Marine, always a Marine, I believe.

I always wonder if (ex)Marines can ever relax on a beach holiday.

As long as you remember some ice so the crayons don't melt.

It's the long tail of the Internet, but with humans' knowledge.

This encapsulates HN very well :-)

You might also consider there is probably some cross-pollination with r/NonCredibleDefense, which has a lot of military intelligence people and analysts (the Yeysk crash got a lot of memes on there)