Numbers stations, as they’re known, have been used by intelligence services since World War I to communicate with agents in the field, but have become increasingly rare in the digital age. With the Internet shut down by authorities in Iran, this Cold War relic has found new life. According to one group of aficionados that tracks these age-old spy tools, it’s the first new numbers station in years.
What does that god damned slop image add to the article? Fuck I hate sloppers, whenever I see someone slopping I instantly become about a million times less trusting of them since apparently they can’t perceive detail and/or distinguish good and bad things.
Put it much more eloquently than I could’ve. Just makes them seem lazy, which calls into question the amount of effort they put into research.
Considering I heard about this in Feb on some ham radio YT channel, and I am not all connected to that community, i doubt these people know much
“the easiest possible thing is good enough. my brain doesn’t spend more than 0.3 seconds looking at something before accepting it as good and moving on, so neither does anyone else probably”
I love the term “slopper” and I will use it at every opportunity.