We seem to be in need of a mercenary Uber, where individual mercenaries will hav...

red_admiral · 2026-09-11T16:33:26

In the past you could just hire Swiss.

MBCook · 2026-09-11T15:45:11

Please stop trying to design the torment nexus.

jurgenburgen · 2026-09-11T16:01:17

You joke but even though there’s not an app per se, Russia is using the “gig economy” to run sabotage ops in Europe.

mitxela · 2026-09-11T16:12:11

How do they do that?

throwaway85825 · 2026-09-11T18:06:53

They find telegram channels where people ask for jobs and offer them $500-2k to light a fire. There's millions of people who can't find jobs.

culi · 2026-09-11T22:45:55

Damn I bet that would work well in the US too. That's actually mind-blowing

zippothrowaway · 2026-09-11T15:37:15

One of the later, not as good, seasons of Westworld has that as an app

random3 · 2026-09-11T15:30:10

Likely Palantir built it already

lbreakjai · 2026-09-11T19:41:27

Isn't it just blackwater, or whatever it's been renamed as?

hn993302 · 2026-09-11T17:31:10

That's so 2009. What we need is mercenary Tinder.

dgellow · 2026-09-11T15:47:07

I would bet that already exists since a while

tfigueroa · 2026-09-11T15:33:23

Hideo Kojima intensifies

sorushn · 2026-09-11T16:14:08

It's called Blackwater.

rxyz · 2026-09-11T16:00:47

you just described a fixer

Apocryphon · 2026-09-11T15:37:20

Xe Services rebrands yet again to eXe