Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65

Re:Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russi... by ThePadawan on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:47PM (#32929568)

(Please allow this light-hearted deviation which might be considered in poor taste)

Or we could build giant dueling death robots who decide wars 1-on-1 instead of pointlessly wasting human lives like in classic Sci-Fi schlock Robot Jox [0]:

> Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations—the American western-influenced Market and the Soviet-Russian-influenced Confederation—have agreed to outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disputes are settled with gladiator-style matches between giant robots operated by pilots called "robot jox" [...]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Jox

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Re:Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russi... by daveevad on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:57PM (#32929759)

Surely if we made it that far, it wouldn't even be necessary.

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Re:Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russi... by ThePadawan on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:28AM (#32936591)

I think the point of "humanity will always have a desire and/or find reasons to want to go to war with itself, and the only way we can at least slightly stop that is because it gets too expensive" is quite poignant.

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