Youtube comments of Laird Cummings (@lairdcummings9092).

  1. Capone knew the power of having the masses on his side; if the people like you, they're unlikely to rat on you.
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  2. My grandmother had a near-fetish for canning. She raised three boys through the Depression as a single mother, and growing & preserving her own food was their saving grace. Up to the time my father was in his 70s, he grew truck gardens and harvested mass quantities of base staple foods. Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, pole beans, peas, peaches and grapes, and squash of multiple types. While she lived, my grandmother marshalled my siblings and myself as her minions, canning and pickling and preserving. Peach preserves, grape jelly, canned marinara sauce and tomatoes, even pickled watermelon rind - we had literally years-worth of such 'put up' when she passed. More than two years after she passed, we still had a few jars in the pantry. And yes, it was still good. She had mad skills at canning.
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  3. It wasn't a explosion, it was a special fireworks display.
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  4. One of the goals of civil engineers and architects is to never become a classroom example.
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  5. I have to say, I really like title of this cookbook. It's straight to the point, and is completely non-bullshit: "I'm a famous chef, and here are things I think you'll like."
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  6. It's a hidden-in-plain-sight supervillain lair, complete with heat ray.
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  7. Honestly, considering this was his first bath, he handled this extremely well; very courageous and forgiving. It's clear that he's using his brains to think through the process, and making good decisions.
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  8. Leave it to Aussies to weaponize paper airplanes. Leave it to Ukraine to prove they work.
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  9.  @TastingHistory  'Cause the IRS doesn't take soup in lieu of dollars.
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  10. Dr. Kellogg was more than a bit of a freak - a prurient weirdo. But his brother had some solid business sense.
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  11. Beer is proof that Zoroaster loves us, and wants us to be happy.
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  12. I suspect sexism, as well as anti-proffesionalism.
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  13. Design considerations and compromises... The bane of engineers the world over.
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  14. Imagine a well stocked tomb, and you're rockin' the afterlife, then tomb robbers raid your goods... And there you are in the afterlife, suddenly destitute.
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  15. Lots of complications involved in reverse engineering, much harder than it seems on the surface. Stacking tolerances alone can screw things up.
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  16. This failure was heavily discussed amongst my friends; mostly engineers or former engineering types, this kind of maintenance and design failure is fascinating to us.
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  17. Interesting related note - if you look at maps of the United States displaying urban violent crime vs. automotive road traffic with an eye to the range of time when tetraethyl lead was used as a fuel additive, you will see an extremely strong correlation. More damning, if you look at those same areas post the ban of tetraethyl lead, you will see a gradually declining level of violent crime. Extremely suggestive, if not absolutely conclusive. Correlation is not causation, after all. Still gives one fuel (heh) for thought.
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  18. When you're late to the party, and all the potential dance partners are taken...
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  19. I'm impressed by the discipline involved in avoiding all the name-based puns.
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  20. Not only three generations flying the B-52, but there are cases of pilots and crew flying the exact same B-52 aircraft their fathers and grandfathers flew. The tradition is going to continue...
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  21. The advantages of being a Francophile AND an acknowledged expert; the French government lets you play with their toys.
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  22. Engineering excellence: stripped down to the barest essentials, with nothing left to take away. Simplicity exemplified.
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  23. The VHS2 is showing up in a lot of my YT feeds... Lots of excitement about this rifle. Edit: That cam pin is a brilliant bit of simple-but-efficient engineering.
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  24. The classic hardtack 'clack-clack.' 😎 Max Miller is giggling.
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  25. Once again, the autocaptions interpret gunfire as "applause." We are amused.
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  26. A man of rare moral courage, caught in one hell of a tight spot.
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  27. Not so much preventing ice, as keeping the crystals very fine, to preserve the smooth, creamy mouth feel.
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  28. Amusing that Kellgren's first product was so sane and normal. He's certainly let his firearms freak flag fly since this rifle!
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  29. Despite the complexity, there is something that just looks right about the Luger pistols.
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  30. Imagine being in a fleet so incompetent that you're losing a naval war to a nation that has no navy.
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  31. I'd been wondering. Thank you for filling us in.
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  32. Serbians make excellent weapons; they know a good idea when they see one.
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  33. "Lot of effort into something that doesn't have all that much effect." The history of firearms development, right there.
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  34. Looks like a Ruger 10/22's bigger brother.
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  35. And THAT is the reason the Pentagon is a hell-hole crypt of undead to this very day. Nixon couldn't hit shit with these things.
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  36. Dude. You get to meet the best people. This man is beyond legendary. Revolver: Because France does their own thing, rather than follow anyone else's trends.
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  37. "Moved the sheep..?" Bullshit. That's an ENORMOUS effort, and no crop duster has the capacity for that much effort. Never mind that sheep died where the ranchers put them to graze, thus had obviously never been moved. The espionage claim is likewise obviously lies and bullshit, to anyone who knows ANYTHING about chemical weapons and their employment. Not a chance in hell that the Soviets could have managed to make such a dispersal of THAT much chemical agent over that large an area, without having made themselves incredibly visible and obvious. Nope, just the Army lying through their teeth. Again.
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  38. I own a couple of these. Expensive to fuel, but great fun to shoot. Surprisingly heavy, it has effectively zero recoil.
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  39. Zelenski showing up in public in Kherson, with Russian strangers still in the city, and only 3km of Russian lines across the river, was an utter power flex. Total Chad move. Glory to Zelenski. Glory to the Heroes. Slava Ukraini!
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  40. Ah, yes: GWACS. The clown shoes of the firearms world.
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  41. Yeah, remember this one quite clearly. "Accelerated Bridge Construction.' Accelerated Bridge Collapse. When cracks propagate in a key support mechanism, it's time to make urgent safety precautions. Blocking the highway during re-tensioning would have been the minimum safety step.
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  42. My sister speaks Mandarin; her explanation of the issues of translating to English warped my mind rather badly.
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  43. Been seriously anticipating this video. The attire is seriously 'old Chinese Mystery Detective' movie getup. Nice!
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  44. Dogfish Head Brewery makes "Midas Touch" beer, based on archaeological discovery from said Monarch's palace. That's right: King Midas's beer lives on, thanks to academic delving!
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  45. Sometimes, the obvious choice can be very hard to make; it takes real courage to leap away from the safe and known; we're all glad you had that courage.
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  46. Oui, oui, you naughty french chef, show us the way to the decadent dishes of la Belle Epoque.
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  47. In a riot or crowd control situation, lacking better equipment, I could see this little spike might have some limited utility. Of course, a good old-fashioned truncheon would have been more useful.
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  48. Anyone who has participated in underway replenishment (UNREP) has seen a line-throwing gun in action; cool stuff.
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  49. I've handled a PPS-43. Heavier than it looks; probably helps to keep recoil down.
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  50. Trapdoor conversions are probably the most efficient - and useful - fate for surplus muzzleloaders.
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  51. We really owe France a debt of gratitude. They try so many odd "what if" ideas, such that no one else has to bother. Mad respect to their creativity, and their willingness to dive down strange rabbit holes.
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  52. Pretty sure that Amazon can boot anyone who violates the Terms and Conditions. Parler built a virtual trainwreck, and died of a self-inflicted wound.
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  53. Oh, yeah... This is going to be a VERY popular rifle. Edit: Clearly NOT a Hollywood weapon - no bottomless magazines.
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  54. This looks like what you'd feed an invalid, or someone recovering from nasty wounds. Protein, carbohydrates, sugar, in a reasonably sterile suspension - in an easily digested form. Proof that hospital food has always sucked.
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  55. Fun and games with "stacking tolerances."
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  56. I'm sure, after the .30sc match, the Usual Crew are relieved to see Ian show up with something obviously weird. No problems with the steel this time...
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  57. Electrician here; pleased to see that you're adhering to code, and doing a neat, non-lashup job. Attention to detail saves MANY problems down the road. Next: Battery bank + Inverter. Two reasons: 1) initial switchover on power loss is marginally faster, especially if your generator is cold or the outage is a short one, and 2) (more important) You can load up your generator recharging the bank, and prevent carbon depositing in the cylinders - Need to periodically run a generator under heavy load to keep it clean. Downside of a bank + inverter is more cost and more maintenance. If you're NOT getting a bank, consider getting a dummy load that can artificially load up the generator.
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  58. "Stupid o' Clock." Oh, yeah. Been there. We've got some stretches of road that are notorious for heavy fog, and high-speed roads. Tennessee, especially, is subject to that unfortunate combination. Horrible weather-related vast piles-up have been fairly frequent. Should you wish to do another video on this subject, southern Appalachia has what you need.
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  59. Gallant of the Germans. Sad that the gallantry did not last.
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  60. Demonstrating that my friends and I were just idiots when we were young. Either that, or we had lemons. Naaah. We were idiots.
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  61. The real Rasputin was a very hard man to kill. Perhaps if instead they'd lured him to complacency with a tart, he'd have been easier to put down...
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  62. Someone strapped a pair of barrels to a perfectly good pocket knife.
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  63. Reed Knight made some amazing gear. I own a Knight's Armament customized 1911, and it is amazing.
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  64. At 3800 meters, it is extremely unlikely that the targets ever understood they were hearing someone shooting at them, specifically - it would have sounded like background noise.
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  65.  @TrevorSmithy  there is a button. It's automated - their transponder. Which worked as intended. The problem lies in RIMCAS programming, and the decisions and assumptions made in programming it.
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  66. Ian: Confesses to not owning any blackout weapons. Blackout fanboys: Heretic! Outcast, Unclean!
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  67. Full dress parade with those rifles, with bayonets fixed, must have been a truly impressive sight.
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  68. When someone takes Looney Tunes cartoon physics seriously.
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  69. Ok... I didn't see anyone else saying it: "That's a lot of damage!" Edit: Someone simulposted with me. Dammit.
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  70. History doesn't actually repeat, but it does rhyme... Witness, the moral panic around marijuana. "Reefer Madness," anyone?
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  71. Rube Goldberg, Weapons Engineer, strikes again!
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  72. Derringer has become like Xerox or Asprin... A proper name that became genericised to the point that most folks don't realize they're appropriating.
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  73. Considering the highly common inhumane,brutal, and duplicitous behaviors of the IJA, brutal measures by allied soldiers is extremely understandable. Not laudable at all, but war often sinks to the lowest common denominator.
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  74. The lesson here: do your due diligence. Bannerman would have been far more successful in collaborating with Winchester, instead of tackling them.
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  75. Lots of intricate machining in this weapon, probably fairly expensive to make. Lots of thoughtful bits and safety measures, and a straightforward design, I'd expect it was popular with the troops.
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  76. Yeah, entirely predictable. Each step along the way follows the old script. This is why environmental regulation AND enforcement must be protected.
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  77. Also: Some clerk saw a chance to get unwanted surplus stock off the books: "I'll just shuffle this lot off to the colonials; they're all the same anyway, right?"
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  78. Oh, look! Ian shows up with a normal-looking gun... Everyone has to have a closer look to see what makes it weird. Edit: also, muzzle blast!
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  79. The numbers have been running north like there was free beer at the top.
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  80. This piece has been through the war. Literally.
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  81. Interesting that you mention Guys and Dolls, which musical features a considerable mention of one of the towns in which I grew up: Havre de Grace, aka 'The Graw' (from the French pronunciation of 'Grace.'). Meyer Lansky featured heavily in the gambling activities there, and some of the old timers remembered him and his peers. The National Guard Armory is placed on the old race track grounds, and remnants of the racing, gambling, and criminal heyday still linger; the rail line that brought New York City gamblers in and out of town still lies under Juniata Street, and my neighbors across the road had and used one of the race track's old stables - relocated entirely and intact - from after when the track closed. A VERY fine stable it is, too. Havre de Grace is a small town, but it's crazy how it connects to a much larger (and criminal) world.
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  82. My daughter loves her old police surplus High Power. She doesn't have a problem with 'biting,' but that might be due to the size of her hands (very small). I'm glad this pistol has been rebooted.
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  83. Hot coffee, anyone? Pass me a belt of ammo... But seriously now, that thing is a monster.
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  84. The Kabul Arsenal continues to astound.
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  85. This one strikes very close to home. As an American Submariner, the loss of the USS Thresher is fundamental to the way we look at the world. SUBSAFE engineering and the Controlled Work Packages that support SUBSAFE are a fundamental way of life. It tends to make us very intolerant of the kinds of slack corner-cutting that underlies the subject of most your videos.
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  86. Likewise, I don't give a shit about Cardi B, per se, but seeing a vicious parasite taken to school, well, that's awesome.
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  87. Yes, it is a Christmas movie. Proof: "Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho." Clearly, Santa give John just what he wanted.
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  88. You introduced me to Long Pepper, and it has become part of my routine palette of spices. Thank you.
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  89. But Oof forget, club isn't colored black. So sales were slow, and Oog's business went extinct.
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  90. Those spruce trees are amazing. Cutting one down is a real project, it takes a lot of skill. When the trees get cold, the outside can freeze, and the sitka trees, especially, change their nature and behave like freekin' huge stalks of celery. They lose the elastic behavior and become shockingly brittle. Imagine cutting through a couple hundred tons tree when it suddenly snaps and kicks at you. Those troops? They were doing danger duty.
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  91. Looked like Ian was developing some hesitation. Can't blame him; all three cartridges are stout.
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  92. That could explain a lot. People don't realize how important the feed lips are, and gunk can gum up anything. I know when my friends and I were young, none of those ideas crossed our sunny, empty brains.
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  93. If you manage that, best go buy a lottery ticket.
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  94. I have a container of 'Xioc,' a dark, unsweetened, heavily peppered chocolate beverage powder. It's mixed into hot water, no dairy, and is SPICY. I'm going through it rather slowly, because despite liking hot spices, this is a bit much even for me. Dunno if it's historically accurate, but it's VERY different from the traditional western hot chocolate!
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  95. Clear Ballistics: "You want HOW much ballistic gel..?!" Scott: "Yes."
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  96. I've picked up bits of a motorcyclist @ 2AM. You're not wrong.
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  97. "If you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss also stares back into you."
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  98. Me likes. Controllable, and the rate of fire is low enough you can easily get double taps (in .45acp).
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  99. I've never heard of a YT content creator getting municipal sponsorship... Truly a landmark achievement!
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  100. Big fan of CZ firearms. I really don't have any familiarity with Makarov but this pistol looks very handy and capable.
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  101. John Browning was dead right on the Auto-5. It was, and is, a fine weapon. The Winchester 1911? Not nearly so much. Winchester really screwed the pooch, and in the process changed firearms history forever.
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  102. "Alien Thumb" The new shooting injury.
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  103. When your auto mechanic doubles as your gunsmith...
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  104. They took their perfectly fine shotgun, cut off the stock, and wrapped it in shitty bull-pup furniture. If you look closely, you can see the original receiver hiding in shame up inside the shell.
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  105. Clever and effective. Movie prop masters have two imperatives: "Make it look good," and "Keep the budget down." Mission accomplished.
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  106. When I hear "highly optimized," I think "cut corners" and "minimum redundancy." In short, very little error trapping, and not rubust.
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  107.  @uclajd  again, you underestimate the power of social pressure. It's easy, not being in the space, to say what "should" have been done. Yes, that would have made things better, but then it could just as easily further confused the pilot flying, as the configuration of the aircraft would be changing without warning. It is pounded HARD into the flight crew to NOT make unrequested changes to the aircraft configuration. In this, she was following her training.
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  108. The practical CEP of the whichever weapons system is being used is very impressive. Hitting a bridge at any range is very difficult; the tightly grouped hits speaks extremely loudly. If Russia has any awareness at all, it should be utterly terrifying to them.
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  109. Don't feel alone - YouTube isn't sure what the rules are, either.
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  110. Spartan reccy vehicles have a solid reputation amongst my UK Army friends.
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  111. .32acp with a shoulder stock seems... Ambitious. Especially considering the minimalist sights.
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  112. Very clean-looking, rather pretty rifle.
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  113.  @Psiberzerker  that's a gross misstatement. In America, we have those great numbers of guns as a cultural artifact, and the stability of the country allows us to indulge in our fetish without destabilizing the country.
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  114. You can see how this revolver feed is purely bolt-on to the base design; brilliant.
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  115. "Bullet hole." Very technical term of the technology.
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  116. Amazon's platform. Amazon's rules apply.
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  117. The thing that constantly blows my mind is how much actionable intelligence these calls are delivering. This caller has completely revealed unit location and probably unit identity as well. Reconnaissance will be incoming immediately to fine-tune for final artillery target registration.
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  118.  @negritotenfold Dude. That was utterly unnecessary and wrong. You are a bad person, and should FEEL bad.
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  119. Damn. It seems - if we're willing to spend enough money - that there is no end to the nifty goodies we can have!
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  120. ​ @krissteel4074 a close friend lost her husband to AIDS via contaminated blood products; he crashed his motorcycle and required a lot of blood during the aftermath and reconstructive surgery. An ugly way to live, and to die.
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  121. Yeah... Completely ineffectually. Killed some picnickers and I think a forest ranger. Set a couple minor wildfires, too. Complete waste of time, resources, and ingenuity.
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  122.  @TastingHistory  is his cookbook still in print? I want a copy.
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  123. I own a particularly nice, probably never-issued, M-48. Blonde stock, bright clean finish. Easily the best condition Mauser I own.
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  124. See also: Ian McCollum's vids on Khyber Pass.
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  125. An elegant weapon from a more civilized age. A freaking HUGE one. Damn, that's big. Recoil? What's that?
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  126. It's like someone actually thought this freak through before setting up the pieces. Go figure.
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  127.  @gplor5259  dude had gone up a ramp at speed, hit some gravel. His bike went straight into the Jersey Rail, and stopped instantly. He didn't. Long and short of it; open-face helmets will not save you if your face comes down hard enough into a concrete rail.
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  128. "Match" in naval parlance is not a wooden lucifer, but rather a length of slim rope or cord, impregnated with potassium nitrate, producing a long length of slow-smoldering, long-burning, but very hot ember. It would be manipulated by a slender length of wood with a notch or cleft at the end, called a 'linstock.' Lit match or matchcord would be coiled very carefully in the inside of a bucket such that the burning end would depend over the center of the bucket, which would be partially filled with sand. The buckets themselves had a base wider than the mouth, being very stable by this design. Thus arrayed, it's fairly safe. Unless someone should upset the bucket, say, by stumbling over it. Even then, kicking a bucket (pun deliberate) isn't much of a risk - seasoned wooden decks are not much likely to take flame. A scorch mark, quickly to be holystoned out, would likely be the only result. Unless there's a secondary source of kindling - such as bundles of bedding straw. This straw would be the Devil's very workshop, and a terrible blaze is sure to follow.
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  129. I imagine that when first placed in production, the plant's operators were better trained. It's been my experience that complacency grows as time between failures increases, which leads to corresponding reduction in the urgency to train and maintain - a nasty degenerative feedback loop.
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  130. Yay! Blatant commercial content! Timely logistics warning, yep. Cool list of loots.
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  131. Soldiers and sailors have long passed dead time with whittling and carving. Scrimshaw is the naval version, and it continues to this day, albeit no longer done in ivory or whalebone. Even today, soldiers pass time altering cartridge cases, or working on anything else they can lay hands on. Rifles are pretty much a no-no these days, of course.
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  132. "When you can use yourself as an authoritative reference..."
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  133. Many moons ago, when I was in high school, we still had a mandatory, class; American Government. One of the requirements was to spend a class day observing the county court. The one case that has ALWAYS stuck with me was a DWI case, where the defendant pled guilty. The Judge sentenced him to two months, each Sunday (i.e. 8 days) pushing a wheelbarrow ten times around the courthouse with a load of gravel, and a sign detailing his offense. Seems to me that it was a brilliant sentence - The courthouse was, in those days, in between two heavily trafficked roads. The convict was not removed from work or his home, the county didn't have to pay for incarceration, he got a physically demanding reminder of his crime and was subjected to humiliation - I'll note that I personally think some levels of humiliation can be a very useful thing, depending on context. Also, EVERYONE who saw him - and that would be a lot pf people! - has a visceral reminder that there are some rules you ought not break.
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  134. I used to drive the rescue truck for a volunteer fire company, new guy. Then we had a bad night where we responded to a single vehicle incident. Both front occupants were obviously deceased on our arrival. A young girl was in the back seat, responsive and somewhat alert. She passed while the crew were extracting her. I'm not the only one who resigned. Let someone who can cope with those events do the job.
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  135. The shed is the key. You can build a decent lathe from scrap; you need the shed to store the lathe.
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  136. Look up in orbit...
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  137. My heart breaks for the child in the bathroom - the look of anxiety and fear on his face is shattering.
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  138. Small incidents can precipitate large events. It's important to always remember this.
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  139. The blast fragmentation warhead on a SAM is absolutely devastating. As an example, the radius of lethal effect on an SA-2 SAM is 65 meters. That's a lethal zone of 426 feet from the near side to the far side. There are literally thousands of pre-formed fragments in a warhead. If the tail looks like a colander, you can be certain that the main cabin will be perfectly useful for straining your pasta.
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  140. Sadly, this is chambered for a smokeless cartridge... Still, need to see it in action!
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  141. Another surplus US Civil War conversion - I find these fascinating; reusing existing hardware in innovative ways. So much better than tossing them away. Remarkably simple, so few moving parts. I especially appreciate the 'out of battery' safety.
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  142. Important note on SOSUS: The data is not listened to in real time. It is recorded and analyzed by computer or manually at a later time. At the time of Titan's destruction, the Navy did NOT know something had happened - it was only upon directed review that they learned about an anomaly in the region of the wreck. This is suggestive, but in no manner is it definitive.
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  143. My uncle flew B-25s. He and he crew were credited with the destruction of an IJN destroyer, broken in two by a successful skip-bomb attack.
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  144. Two of my favorite Ukrainian / Putin's War Reporters. Artur's status is pretty much what the US would call 'Ready Reserve.'
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  145. I Used to work in a warehouse environment - Fire suppression systems are ABSOLUTELY mandatory. But in Russia - if such a rule was in fact was in place - there's no telling what might have been its material condition. Maybe not connected? Maybe frozen lines? Who knows? If Wildberries is anything like Amazon, the disgruntled employee theory absolutely holds water - Unlike their sprinkler systems.
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  146. When "Tacti-Cool" gets dialed up to "WTF."
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  147. Many mock the IJA tanks, but for the places and opponents they fought, and the logistics issues they faced, they were proper and appropriate. Not the best designs, but fit for purpose. Until they were met by armor that was designed to fight in Europe.
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  148. Surprising to learn the people you admire are merely human. Though it makes him more relatable.
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  149. Practices for Finnish Brutality. In 108°f heat. Yeah, about those temperatures...
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  150. Or a parlor pistol.
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  151. Hoover was a weird character - simultaneously incredibly useful, and yet destructive as hell. His legacy is a real smoking grenade.
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  152. "Moderate property damage to the surrounding buildings, too."
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  153.  @shadominx3696  One bad breeder does not an entire program condemn. If that were so, no breed would be allowed.
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  154. Not just you. Case lengths seem extremely inconsistent.
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  155. Never underestimate the perversity of aero engineers. My father was one, and he came up with damnedest ideas.
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  156.  @andrewamann2821  the attempted bombing does not justify live fire on an unarmed crowd in an entirely separate incident. Excessive force. Period. Dot.
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  157. Precision, durable, optics and highly engineered mounts are NOT cheap; I'm surprised the combination unit is that inexpensive.
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  158. Casual/self-centered behavior on the part of departing passengers seems insane, but it's well documented elsewhere. People can be completely oblivious idiots.
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  159. Sure, do the elephant rifle. I want to see paraffin entering low earth orbit.
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  160. We can certainly conclude that the RSF has a fairly accomplished media team.
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  161. Real magazines have the shape that best suits the weapon and ammunition being used.
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  162.  @thesmallestminorityisthein4045  properly tuned and maintained (kept out of the mud!), the Chauchat isn't horrible.
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  163. Community-owned "Service Human." Provides scritches to emotionally-fragile cockatoos.
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  164. I eat a lot of Asian noodles, especially Udon. This is going into the rotation immediately.
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  165.  @Matt-xc6sp  pawl systems are much lighter and more compact. What Shpaghin did here was create a feed system that wouldn't mess with an already completed design, using the existing mechanism with extremely limited modification. It's brilliant in its simplicity.
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  166. Florida has an extremely unfortunate history in pre-cast concrete construction.
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  167. Krag mags.
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  168. Lovely example. Not at all surprised that Germany was so well organized for the Italian surrender. When left to their own devices, German staff work was generally excellent. And, of course, they had an extensive history (in WWII) of repurposing other nations' armaments.
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  169. Nine year old: "I've seen this before." That is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever heard.
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  170. That was my first reaction when I saw one in a gun shop: "WTF is up with the charging rods..?!" I don't know if they managed to sell it, or sent it back to the distributor, but it didn't attract any positive comments that saw.
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  171. Not surprised; the ZB machine guns were excellent, and well ahead of their time.
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  172. Damn. Sweet handgun. This is one weapon that is unlikely to be forgotten.
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  173. Once again, Mark shows why and how he's the best guy on the internet.
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  174. Additive printing is just entering its sophomore stage; what was once inconceivable is now barely possible, and huge steps forward are already visible in the near distance. For under US$5000, you can get into carbon fiber-reenforced nylon structural printing. Sintered metal and weldment buildup printing are dropping in price too. Like other recent technology leaps, additive printing has huge implications on how life will look in the future.
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  175. Pretty sure the T-54/55 tanks are being sent to serve as stop-gap SP Artillery. The older tanks have mounting points for gunner's quadrants milled into the receiver. All it takes is a quadrant and a bit of math to turn these tanks into artillery. More modern tanks may also have these points, I don't know for sure, but these old tanks absolutely do have them. Russian artillery is on its last legs, with the tubes shot out with the huge volume of fire. Refurbishing the mounts and re-sleeving the tubes takes time. With thousands of guns needing refurbishing, well, off Russia needs a substitute. The T-54/55 has a 100mm gun, basically equivalent to the Western 105mm. Russia has a LOT of 100mm ammo, including new manufacture. Acting as SP artillery, the T-54/55 will NOT be subject to direct anti-tank fire, so their age and vulnerability to modern AT weapons is a moot point. Is this a good solution for Russia? Not really, but they don't have anything else, and it's not a totally stupid idea.
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  176. ​ @fensterlips because his history is an open book. Musk has a background in "wealthy family." He buys companies, then takes credit for their work. Musk's actual skill is in recognizing companies with potential.
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  177. Pilots would also report encountering icing conditions and inform the ground that they were activating de-ice, but in reality, they were siphoning off the deice fluid when they return to base - the flip side of that same coin.
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  178.  @BillyBoze  Don't be an ass. It's much more "I censor nude history because I like my job." And if they get fired - which would be a black-ball for education in general - who will teach ancient history, then?
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  179. Soviet version of 'Development Hell,' a project that never seems to end, and yet never quite manages to produce a suitable product, but gets forced into production anyway.
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  180. The classic Mounties revolver! That's the profile I remember from my childhood movies.
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  181. And this is one of the points the Hoplophobes try to ignore... More times than not, just having a weapon stops the crime. Three times in my life, just displaying the butt of my weapon stopped a mugging. No one got hurt, everyone went on about their day, legally.
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  182. I had a Division Officer from Mississippi. His accent was so thick, we had to have a Filipino Senior Chief translate his direction into standard American English. Your choice of Mississippi as an exemplar of the difference between written language and spoken language really hit home.
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  183. The Romans were nothing if not highly organized. It was their mastery of logistics that made the empire so potent and long-lasting. Yes, the legions were ferocious, but that very capability was based on... Being organized.
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  184. Dystopian hell. 😕
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  185. I've fired a Thompson M1A1; I'm going to have to agree.
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  186. Russia has some serious problems with assessing reality. Fantasy and wish-fulfillment seems to be given more weight than honest observation.
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  187. Yep. 'Zero Tolerance' rules don't allow for learning, and encourages fraud, or indecision. Never thought those were a good idea.
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  188. Nice features. Lots of people love, and have become very involved in, tinkering with their firearms. Extremely smart to cater to the 'Home Brew' crew right from the beginning.
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  189. Aztec Chocolate would be an excellent episode; please do it!
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  190.  @Psiberzerker  again, another misstatement. The cultural artifact comes directly from the conditions of our revolution, and the political philosophy of our founders. Which, I might point out, were educated and grew up as UK subjects. I get that you don't like America, but please do educate yourself on the facts.
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  191.  @PovidisII  Nitrates. Nitrate chemical bonds are simultaneously strong, and yet easily disrupted, releasing a tremendous amount of energy when they break.
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  192.  @Shadowstrom  the Zip 22 shooters all DNF'd.
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  193. French firearms companies really love you, don't they? Not surprising, considering your love for French firearms.
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  194. History repeats...
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  195. Reportedly, Otto Skorzeny fired a supressed STEN behind the backs of a senior collection of Nazis, including Hitler and Goering, to demonstrate how effective it was - he was, supposedly, trying to get the weapon copied for German use.
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  196. But this one is light and simple enough to make the carrying and cleaning less of a chore...
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  197. To be a full auto gun, it has to actually fire, extract, and feed. Not gunna happen.
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  198. Plus they look good.
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  199.  @TastingHistory  oh, excellent! I hadn't dug into the description yet, as I was still watching you chow down on fried chicken. ;-) Also: Love your food, Kiki!
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  200.  @charliem989  that's demonstrably untrue. In fact, a number of public figures have specifically stated that they want your guns.
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  201. @SykesFW Almost correct; the correct statement is "The Lowest bidder that can meet the specification." It's the specification that makes the difference.
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  202. I took a crappy magazine, removed the follower and spring, and opened up the feed lips. Instant brass catcher! (Only mildly useful, though)
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  203. Better performance and lighter weight? Sold!
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  204. Wow. That trigger reset is quite loud.
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  205.  @Psiberzerker  quit. You've got a bias. We understand. But you're embarasing yourself trying to shoe-horn the world to fit inside your hate-box. There are plenty of things you could point at, but you keep chosing things which do not fit. Stop.
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  206. the Zaluzhny trolling was epic. I love the Ukrainian sense of wicked humor
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  207. ​ @muhammadnursyahmi9440  similarly, the 106mm recoilless rifle, which was actually 105mm, but uses a radically different case from the well-known howitzer.
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  208. This. The loss of the USS Scorpion was Part II of the seismic shift in US Submarine design and operations policy.
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  209. This is the kind of history that doesn't get adequate coverage; thank you for the detailed work.
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  210.  @terribleauthority  Winchester drove Browning into FN's arms. Belgium was already known for great firearms, but after this, they had John Browning working with them.
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  211. WOW! Totally did not expect this - and I'm in on the ground floor of a show on one of my favorite foods! Juneteenth is brand new as a national holiday, making this a perfect "early release" show for an ethnic foundation of American food.
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  212. Time in type counts.
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  213. Absolutely lovely. I do love a nice rare Mauser.
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  214. Honestly, properly developed, this would still be a useful sporting rifle.
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  215. That, and so many things were cooking at once; the kitchen must've been sweltering..
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  216. Growing up, we had very little money, but raised ducks and geese, and often ate better than our more well-off neighbors. Dutch ovens were our primary cooking tool for poultry and served very well. To crisp the skin, just remove the lid for the last ten or so minutes. To this day, I cook my turkey this way. Oh, and I live a long rifle-shot from the Brandywine battlefield. You might wish to take a look at the history of the Brandywine Creek; it was (is) an ideal stream for driving mills, and Brandywine milled flour was sent all over the world during the colonial era. Also, the origin of the duPont family wealth, in powder mills.
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  217. Noble ambition.
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  218.  @30cal23  inter-personal feuding and bureaucratic politics probably did more harm. There's no lack of engineering brilliance in Mexico, and cartels weren't an issue in the early 20th century, but bureaucrats are eternal, and everywhere.
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  219.  Montgomery Wenis  found the native Chicagoan.
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  220. #BrandonHerrera #cursedgunimages
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  221. Either will do, thank you very much. But, if pressed, biscuit please.
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  222. Oooh, obscure malfunction details! My inner engineer is fascinated.
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  223. Ok, Goldie's fate: Ship her off to the "How Ridiculous" guys, for them to drop her on their giant axe blade.
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  224. "Nothing is difficult to the man who doesn't have to do it."
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  225. I grew up exploring the Armor Display & Collection at the Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, before it was packed up and moved away. I love these kinds of places, and will always take a chance to explore them. Thank you for showing me this museum I will likely never have a chance to explore in person.
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  226. Someone on the shop floor had a bright idea, and the foreman was willing to give it a chance, perhaps?
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  227. Have done, and it works. You need to open the feed lips, too, wrecking the magazine - use a cheap one. Not super useful, but it is a cute party trick. Spent brass has a habit of lodging in the catcher.
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  228. All is necessary is to open the range, turn, and re-engage. Lather, rinse, repeat every time the prop aircraft evades. The jet pilot only needs to get it right once; the prop pilot has to get it right every time; so long as the jet has fuel and ammo, the odds are infinitely on the jet's side.
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  229.  @leroyjenkins4811  to be fair, Ian has become a published, professional historian. Also a technical subject matter expert.
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  230. Might cause some concern, yes.
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  231. Oh, they controlled the riots alright. That excessive force though...
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  232.  @Hollandsemum2  in my experience, your observation is true for every genre of cookery. Once you have a solid grasp of method, spices, and expected outcome, most dishes are variations on the core recipes.
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  233. Destructive testing can be very informative. When dealing with nuclear power, more knowledge is always better.
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  234. Gotta get back on that horse...
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  235. The Napoleonic era Redcoat had a perfectly serviceable and reliable weapon. This? It's not even a good paperweight.
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  236. I've been lying in wait for this episode. 🙂 I studied dirigibles at some depth, and have an affection for lighter-than-air flight, however impractical it might be. I've read Dan's book; it is gorgeous.
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  237. A fit and young 50, maybe.
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  238.  @Stettafire  in practical terms, yes, but in strict definition, no. "To optimize" means to make something more optimum, or closer to perfect. "Highly optimized" means very efficient. But in reality, pushing busy, intricate actions closer to 'perfect' when human actions and interpretation is highly involved quickly reaches the point of work overload and conflicting, simultaneous, even out of sequence, actions. In short, if everything goes exactly right, then no problem. But any hiccup means the whole thing collapses.
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  239. Even "junk" can have a history, and history is Ian's forte.
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  240. Gonzolo Lira was, for all intents and purposes, an unregistered agent of a hostle foreign power. Thats a crime.
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  241. Good magazines can be expensive. I like to have five magazines for each weapon I own - saves time on the range, leaves me still equipped if one gets damaged or lost. That habit can add up $$, fast. If I can save by using common magazines, it makes sense to so do.
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  242. Now if only you lived 600 years ago, you'd have a golden career! 😁
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  243. It is weird, just not obviously so. Sure that when Ian shows up with something that looks normal, the regulars will be looking closer.
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  244.  @andrewamann2821  actually, I was specifically trained on the incident as part of my crowd control training in the service. The Nav's conclusion? Grossly excessive force. Complicating factors: shitty leadership, shitty training, and completely inappropriate unit selection, all leading to escalation of force out of line with the 'threat.' So, yes: Excessive force. Period. Dot.
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  245. Here, in Exhibit 'A,' we see the pernicious impact of Absinthe on the mind of the absinthist...
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  246.  @duanehirini2078  the general concept you described is called catharsis. It's well-enough known, but very poorly observed in "western" cultures. The Maori are wise.
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  247. Lots of damn fine engineers down there in the Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean states.
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  248. When you said "By the Power of Gravity," I heard that in He Man's voice... "By the Power of Greyskull!" Edit: Rules are written in blood - except that good rules were in place. This man died of greed - the unwillingness of the owner/management to pay for a full translation, pay for installing the shroud, and unwillingness to pay to properly train the operator.
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  249. Let us assume, for just a minute, that Zelensky does have a double. So what? Who gives a shit? It's not like Russia doesn't employ assassins - a body double only makes good security sense. So. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. It's a non-story, with Russia trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
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  250. Brilliant comment. Yes, you have the absolute right to live, be free, and improve your own country in your own way, in your own time. Slava Ukraini
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  251.  @ab-ul1yz  not all of them, no. And there are living examples of the primitive cereals available, so even the evolved cereals are available in their primitive forms.
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  252. Moscow is claiming that they were outnumbered 8-1 in the Kharkiv Oblast. Given the usual Russian propaganda practice, that probably means that the Ukrainians had about 80% of the Russian forces, but concentrated those forces heavily to obtain local superiority. Or, alternatively, they stupidly pulled SO many troops that they emptied their positions. This is, oddly, not an indictment of the Russian forces - the soldiers, at least - once a rout starts, you either must contain it immediately, or you must get EVERYONE out as fast as possible. Cascade failure is a pernicious thing, and if you want to save anything, you need to step sharply back and get to a stable condition. Of course, that means you wind up surrendering a LOT of your gains and goods. No, the indictment here is against the Russian leadership. First, they fell for the Ukrainian's brilliant bit of theater in Kherson - A real counter offensive, not just a pretend one, but a real offensive also designed to lure Russian forces out of position. EVERYONE fell for that - Western Analysts, media, and most certainly Russia. Western high military leaders probably knew it was coming, and it's known that the US War College has been helping game the counter offensive, so certainly, high US, and probably NATO commanders as well, knew what to expect. Security on this? IMPRESSIVE! Because of the bizarre nature of Putin's War, it is an undeclared war, and Russia cannot actually - legally - fully mobilize. So, to gain reserves and reinforcements, it's faster and easier to shift troops from elsewhere on the front lines. Ukraine understood this, and exploited it brilliantly. Second, the Russian leadership has done a shit job of motivating their troops. This goes all the way back to Putin, and his attempt to destroy Ukraine 'on the cheap.' When the Russian command re-organized their troops, they pulled their best and sent them to Kherson. Left behind were the second raters, the unreliable mercenaries, and only in just a fraction of their original numbers. Un-motivated troops will crack when presented with the kind of conditions that a terrifying combined arms assault presents. When the front lines begin to crumble, un-engaged units will crack and run too, to avoid being overrun. A small crack and an unexpected advance is bad enough, but when a primary defense line that the soldiers are relying upon to hold gets flanked and rolled up, confidence shatters, and then so do the units. Third, Russian command and control SUCKS. So does their ability to act flexibly in the face of change. Initiative is almost entirely lacking. Contrary-wise, Ukrainian forces have a very much more 'Western' outlook, with initiative encouraged and flexible response as a key concept. Rigid command and control is VERY bad at dealing with rapid changes,* and the failure of the defense lines outside Balakliya is exactly the kind of thing that Russian-style leadership handles worst. Additionally, looking at the defense lines seen in aerial footage shows clear signs of unskilled low-level leadership; straight trench lines, poor camouflage, squalid conditions in base camps, and generally bad fieldcraft** tells me that the local NCOs are just not up to the task. *As an example, the failure of Russia's open air-mobile opening gambit on 02-24-2022 was just a tragedy. Once the attempt to seize deep airfields failed, the assaults should have been cancelled and recalled. Instead, transport after transport filled with some of Russia's most elite soldiers were fed into the teeth of an active and alert Ukrainian defense - to die in flaming wrecks, never having even got out of the aircraft. All those bright young men, dead and lost to an inflexible command structure. Russia is throwing its future into the fires; a bloody human sacrifice for no gain. **Honestly, an average US Boy Scout troop has vastly better camp discipline, sanitation, hygiene, and fieldcraft than most of these camps seen on video.
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  253.  @istvanglock7445  sadly, true. Russia remains an insular population and a rather primitive society. Infrastructure, especially education and information is radically unequal across the country. Most citizens will never actually meet a foreigner, and Moscow appears to like it this way. Coercion, repression, and violence is all they know; they think 'if it works for them, it works for everyone.'
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  254.  @SergeantSquared  no, no, not OAL; actual case length. I'm looking at the case lengths in the first row, and there appears to be at LEAST 5mm difference from case to case. Not impossible that they've mixed up a batch of 12.7x108 in with the .50 BMG.
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  255. Submersible DBP vet; this is now canon.
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  256. Criminal Negligence is s a tough one in Florida; money talks loudly in that state.
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  257.  @rogersmith7396  the Luftwaffe wasn't going to get first-line aircraft, absent the HUGE push to justify and pay for the 104. Honestly, they'd have done better to transition to the F100; enough similarities to the 84 that transition would have been straightforward, but a major leap in capability.
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  258. Your speculation seems sound. The currents in the Gate are crazy, swirling and shifting as the tides change. Having sailed that patch of water many times, it's very easy to believe that currents could have misdirected a torpedo.
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  259. The Shockwave is really just not for hardly anyone. If someone can figure out a niche way to make it work, more power to them. Still not impressed by it.
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  260. Slop is good.
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  261. Well, of course.
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  262. Another "back corner of the armory" find. It's like a treasure hunt, but more productive.
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  263. Even walking your fire, full-auto is enormously wasteful. Trigger-discipline bursts are your best bet. I'm frankly very impressed with Ian's performance here.
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  264.  @Psiberzerker  now you're full of shit. And a liar. I never made ANY statement about my feelings for Somalia. Shut up, or at least stop lying.
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  265.  @Psiberzerker  oh, and I'll also point out that Somalia was stable LONG past European colonialism; Somalia did just fine for itself until internal decisions and disentions created the conditions for collapse.
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  266.  @ForgottenWeapons  class act.
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  267. I have experienced an out-of-battery fire one of my AR57s. Instead of launching my magazine, it blew out the charging handle blanking plate (Gen 2), shearing the front screw, and bending the plate sharply. No injuries, but a bit of a startlement by everyone nearby.
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  268. Down they go, rapid-fire, like a chain of dominos!
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  269. The most important bit here is the destruction of transportation. Those trucks are more important than the cargo they're carrying, and harder to replace. Slava Ukraini!
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  270.  @Cybonator  yes, the reports were suppressed. They were still ridiculously ineffectual.
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  271. It seems that the PDW, and PDW-adjacent weapon, type is perennially open for debate. Long arms are easy enough to settle within general type, and side arms likewise, but that intermediate weapon just can't gel.
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  272.  @southw1nd  even so, a good copy is a good weapon. Sorry to hear that quality is slipping.
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  273. If it's as fragile as my great grandmother, it's indestructible. She was one TOUGH old bird. Don't mess with elderly Scotswomen.
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  274. Now THAT is a collection of anti-eggplant weapons!
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  275.  @FullOilBarrel  surprisingly, not really. Basic but functional rifling jigs can be made with basic tools, some steel rods, and a bit of welding. If you've ever been to Colonial Williamsburg, and looked in at their gunsmithing shop, the rifling jig there is extremely basic, but works very well.
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  276.  @ginacirelli1581  try it a few times. You may be surprised to learn that you get a feel for how much, very quickly. Start small, and add in small trickles. You might wreck a batch or two, but before long, you'll have cookies, and sweet memories of your Nana.
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  277. Auto mortars throw a huge amount of hate. I bet the Orcs aren't loving that.
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  278. Apparently, even Romans had "Joe jobs."
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  279. Ah, the Guide Michelin. I've dined in a few rated restaurants, and let me tell you, they were spot-on in the recommendations.
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  280. Interesting rifle. My M44 throws HUGE fireballs; I can see where their thinking was going. I'd like to shoot a mid-length Mosin, see how much it changes / tames the flamethrower effect.
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  281.  @darwinism8181  stewed greens. Yuk. 🤢 Moldy foods. Double yuk. 🤢🤢 My grandmother was a nurse; that's how she paid the bills, and her fridge, kitchen, and utensils were all surgical scrub clean. She double-boiled all her jar, tools, and lids, and kept large bottles of concentrated vinegar on hand for wiping down. So, we were spared 'fuzzy food.'
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  282. Asking for consistency from a Russian leader is always a waste of time.
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  283. Wow. That's a great red-neck garage build.
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  284. Wondering more than a bit at the decision to permanently afix the sight or mounting blocks. The G3 style claw mount seems to offer greater flexibility and utility.
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  285. 20 minutes old, over 5k 'Likes.' Something right in this world. I've seen some very nice 'sporterized' weapons; they're the exception, though. Generally, they look like hell, no utility added, and often much utility taken away, along with any beauty that had been present.
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  286. THIS.
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  287.  @ohlordy2042  pretty sure. There are stalagmites of melted metal hanging off the rail bridge. That was a HOT fire. Certainly enough to warrant a very thorough inspection - probably more than sufficient to warrant just straight up replacing the segments. At those temperatures, concrete denatures, cracks, spalls, and crumbles. The heat treatment on the rails is shot, the rails themselves likely warped, and the sleepers under the rails likely need replacement now as they're certainly damaged
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  288. The sarcasm is strong with this one...
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  289. Pulled pork and crabapple jelly sandwich.
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  290. Malta has a long and glorious history of withstanding sieges. Assaulting Malta would have been much bloodier for the Germans than the assault and capture of Crete.
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  291. Ukraine has mastered the art and science of "Compact Dispersal." This skill preserves their forces, whilst leaving them close enough in time to converge and attack wherever and whenever needed. This is not an easy skill, but it is crucial in an environment where a high volume of fire (or worse, a potential TacNuke!) might arrive without warning.
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  292. Not only did my parents know Paterson well enough to let him sleep on the sofa when he was passing through town, but also one of my older cousins - Everett Garnsey - was deeply involved in implementing ethyl lead. Everett worked for the Ethyl Corporation most of his life. It's VERY weird to know how intimately my family has been involved with the worldwide lead poisoning of humanity.
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  293. It's almost certainly from the White Russian army; those were imperial nobles. Nobles don't execute peasants; it's beneath them, and peasants are expensive. You need them to work the land. The shooting peasants thing was a communist thing. Amusingly (or not) the most brutal communists were largely peasants themselves.
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  294.  @abrunosON  she didn't have any other children.
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  295. Amen.
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  296. Always screwing up? Clearly you are an accomplished scientist. For, everyone knows, scientific discovery sounds like "Huh. That's odd..."
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  297. The US has a long history of slapping guidance systems on existing 'dumb' munitions and creating extremely lethal new hybrid weapons. More importantly, rearming is much less costly, as packaging and shipping the necessary sub-components is vastly less expensive than shipping the entire missile. Once they arrive in Ukraine, they can be mated with Hydra rockets already in inventory - and Hydra rockets are everywhere, being one of the most common free-flight aerial rockets on the planet. As you note, cost per shot is out of line with the cost of the target, but not even remotely as costly as other systems, and drones are just too dangerous to be allowed free-reign over the battlefield.
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  298. In my experience, many Micro 9s are highly selective of the ammunition they'll eat; maneuvering a 9mm cartridge into the chamber, in the space which is comfortable for .380, is a non-trivial challenge; the shape of the bullet matters, and can be limiting. If it's going to be 'micro,' .380 is more reliable, in my experience.
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  299. Seems legit. And The Court agrees.
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  300.  @krissteel4074  "Tribal Knowledge" - Unofficial unexamined processes based on experience. If a process is useful, get it documented - don't just wing it.
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  301. Well, I'll be damned. That's a very different result from what my friends and I experienced back in the day. I suspect that your comment about user error is very much on point. We were just dumb kids, when you get down to it. I owe the Calico an apology.
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  302.  @StephanieCholensky_spusa  yes and no. The 1" plates were more than needed at the time of design. But the 0.5" plates were under-spec. At the time of design, 0.75" gussets would have been the medium choice. But none of those considerations looked forward to increased usage and static loads. In part, the design failure was a failure of imagination - no one considered that future maintenance and upgrades might increase static loads. Edit: in short, the bridge was not "Future Proof."
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  303. "The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat." Not at all surprised by the philosophy - this man's life mission was to save as many lives as he could.
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  304. I'd never really considered the implications of German access to the channel coast in WWI. Eye-opening!
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  305. I prefer the older "REM" - Roentgen Equivalent Man, or the equivalent dose a man would receive from one Roentgen of Cobalt-60 gamma rays; it's easier to say, and calibrated for equivalent biological damage, no matter the radiosource, be it neutrons, gamma, beta, or alpha rays. These days it's all about Seiverts and Grays. Gimme the old-school measures, thank you.
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  306. Firefighting foam, absolutely. Being used in the incorrect manner, of course.
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  307. It wasn't technical limits that argued against breechloaders - it was machining capacity - not enough factories of the right type available. Well, that, and military conservatism; no need to train new drill, no need to stock new spare parts, etc.
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  308. Elisjsha needs an AK build named for him. Something mundane-looking, but highly portable, and super accurate. That seems to actually be a fairly high bar to clear, but I have faith! #akgnotificationsquad
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  309. Once again, Headstamp Printing kicks the daylights out of Kickstarter.
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  310.  @tylerboyce4081  I'd judge that he was actually one of the more shrewd gangsters. Meyer Lansky, he was not, but not as dim as many of the others.
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  311. She sounds like a tough and courageous woman.
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  312. It's really hard to have too much nutmeg.
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  313. Local gunshop had one of these for sale on consignment; semi-auto modified. The biggest part of the deal was the full case of magazines. No, I didn't buy it. I could have, but too bloody expensive.
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  314.  @Hack_The_Planet_  yep. And the design vs. cost considerations played a big part in those design decisions. Engineers and architects love dissecting these failures, in large part because it helps increase awareness of the ways 'mundane' factors can have fatal consequences. Plus, there's always schadenfreude.
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  315. :: Looks at my lentil soup ... :: Hmmmm.
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  316. The Finns know weapons, and like them tuned to their finest potential.
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  317.  @EpicAMV911  my uncles fought; Army Air Corps, Pacific Theater of Operations. One was a B-25 pilot, the other a B-25 navigator. Different squadrons, but usually within a few hundred miles of each other. My father was too young, but was USAF during Korea, F-86 pilot. All of them survived their wars. And then came home and went right back to planting truck gardens in their back yards. 😛
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  318. The RCMP has a towering reputation; on a par with the Texas Rangers.
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  319.  @frankcommatobe8009  eh. Cops gotta enforce the law. Blame politicians, if you must.
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  320.  @nagoogle8542  look at the various knurling, ridges, and fins on the barrel. Then think about just how damned hot a machine gun barrel can get during high-rate fire (German MG gunners were issued asbestos(!) gloves for barrel changes in WWII). A carelessly-placed hand could get you quite the interesting burn scar.
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  321. Say what you will about Italy, they know how to market fine firearms.
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  322. And OF COURSE Ian has an FR-F1 ready to-hand for comparison.
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  323. When I was growing up, you could tell which houses were owned by serious farmers; very small lawn, and an absolutely tiny - but very well kept - flower bed. Farmers didn't have time to be tending non-cash foliage.
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  324.  @iforgotmyusername0  that was a very dumb statement. It was suppressed THEN. It is not suppressed now, and we can make an informed assessment. The purpose was two fold: to cause psychological impact - morale damage- and to hold US resources at home. Neither happened. Why? Because the attempt was pathetic. Widescale success of the bombs would have been impossible to suppress even at the time. They weren't effective. A handful of deaths and a handful of fires dies NOT a successful campaign make.
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  325. HIMARS has fully lived up to the hype; a rarity in any weapons system.
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  326. A case study in ergonomics. Ergonomics don't just mean "making it comfortable to use;" they're also important in making it so that the equipment is used correctly. Bad ergonomics can make otherwise well-crafted equipment effectively useless.
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  327. Classic example of why you need to "Get it in writing." Also, why you want a lawyer to write the contract, and a second, not interested, lawyer to check the contract. Good contracts save friendships.
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  328. What the heck..?! Now you see it, now you don't, now you do again? Edit: Explained in Description. Anyway, my previous comment was easy to remember: Looks stone-axe simple on the outside, but rather more sophisticated on the inside. The "Tru-Flight" projectiles are rather scary; wouldn't want one of those headed my way. Well, none of them, but those in particular.
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  329. Brass' resistance to corrosion is always a virtue in military service.
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  330. Stupid is, as stupid does. Tasha? As stupid as you can get. It's HARD to lose a defamation suit, but she managed it quite handily.
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  331. Legendary. Beyond legendary.
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  332. That's a proper doorstop of a manual.
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  333. During a rejected takeoff, the FO is kinda busy to be repeating calls. He's got a checklist that needs to be executed correctly, right now. What's needed is a more effective ground communication system that is robust to this kind of interference. Not at all sure how that would be done, unless they went to some kind of digital system that both preserved communication even under low signal strength, and inserted key action words into the ground traffic management system display.
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  334. Again, the era's excessively optimistic sights, but a legit, high-quality bit of work, and I'm sure with a stock, it would be effective out to 150 meters or so - not at all shabby. I wonder if the long-range on the sights were an advertising gimmick?
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  335. Dude. You take on huge tasks... No one out here is complaining.
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  336. That would be so VERY German.
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  337. Also: "When your auto mechanic doubles as a gunsmith."
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  338. @FBG KOut no, war is the destruction of value on a grand scale. SUPPLYING in preparation for war, THAT is the racket.
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  339. Could be worse. Someone might cross it with a Khyber Pass pistol. 😱
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  340. Those Ukrainian soldiers executed extremely well. They've rescued three Russians from Putin's War. This is how combat should always end - with everyone going home safely.
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  341. Be amazed by the win. Human nature ALWAYS encourages gossip, trashy talk, and schadenfreude.
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  342. Brilliantly simple, yet touching all the important points. Well done! Also: a horrifying tale of corruption and privilege gone utterly out of control.
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  343. That's almost German in complexity. Rather brilliant; definitely not intuitive, but seeing the guts... Wow.
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  344. Effectively, they are. Bear that big, locking up your garbage isn't going to do squat to slow him down.
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  345. These were a BIG deal amongst my social group when they first came out. Mostly because of the 'cool' factor. They were NOT reliably accurate.
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  346.  @abracadaverous  yeah, that last connection was a bit... Tender. Chutney wasn't in her repertoire; no doubt had she turned her hand to it, it would have been excellent. Hang on to those memories, though. So long as those live, so does she.
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  347.  @Shayna11NM  it's rare, probably because it's so much work. We grew a LOT of watermelon because watermelon is a great bribe to get kids to work the garden. We busted our butts, all for the anticipated reward. Which, to be fair, was every bit as good as we hoped. Plus, watermelon pickles after. So, next year, even more enthusiasm.
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  348. Mauser fans loading the Schnitzel cannon...
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  349. Might wish to save it for especially elderly rats with heart issues. Just to be sure.
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  350. The fact that Russia has been forced to shift tactics is - alone - sufficient evidence that UAF air defense is increasingly effective. This is the inverse of the last time Nazis went to war against a small, theoretically weaker, nation. The last time, the fascists targeted air defense first (and almost succeeded in breaking them) before shifting to civilian terror bombing. This time around, the fascists targeted civilians, before shifting to the air defenses. Too late, though. The UAF defense network has firmed up and is survivable - and getting stronger every day.
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  351. Amicus Curiae deposition asserts that indeed, had Tasha used Skill Share, she would have been equipped to present a better defense.
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  352.  @starkparker16  Trust me - as iconic as Ian's facial adornment may be, BritishMuzleloaders' 'stach is the mustache equivalent of The One Ring. It rules them all.
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  353. Actually, it's the tool room that impresses me most. They have (almost) full control over product from the most basic steps to finishing.
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  354. Pretty damn clear that the issues of intent and cooperation makes the respective cases VERY different.
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  355. As impressive as the defence of Bastogne was, the key defences took place at St. Vith and the northern shoulder of the breach. Those critical actions rarely get mention.
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  356. 😂 All those Privates and Lances are now rolling their eyes as they slope off to their hiding spots...
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  357.  @travisjohnson1225  yes. I delivered for Dominos back in the '30 minutes or free' days, and it was insane. Real 'wild west' stuff going down.
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  358. For safety, consistency of process is important.
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  359. Somewhere along the line, Tasha started believing her own press. Narcissism is a hell of a drug.
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  360. Ian has long been known - admits! - to being a Francophile; with the large number of interesting and strange French weapons, he could hardly have avoided it.
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  361. As I recall, AMT had a problem for being a bit finicky about ammunition choices. I don't think they got the feed ramp right.
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  362. Not just a 'bloop' and a flop on the grass. Excellent.
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  363. I would be unsurprised to learn that they were using the same system; the patent on these has to have long expired.
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  364.  @tarmaque  halfway between; the choice of the M1 carbine basis was very smart - simple and proven. The ergonomics of the M1 carbine and the 10/22 are quite similar.
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  365.  @realulli  Skill at picking companies isn't engineering or technical skill. It's reading reports and financials skill. Which is just what you'd expect from "rich family" background. Reading a spreadsheet and analyzing the markets does not in any way, shape, or form, make you an engineer or scientist. Then we take a look at Musk's "Hyperloop" 'revolutionary' transport system - which was a shitty copy of a lame theme park ride, which, by Musk's own admission was intended to scupper high-speed rail in California, and you can see that he's absolutely CRAP as an engineer - and an anti-environmentalist, working to line his own pockets - AGAIN, what you'd expect from 'rich family' background. So three successes? Yeah, if you throw enough shit at the wall, some of it will stick. As for the game, Pffft. THAT is the hook you're going to use? Please. Amateur programming of a crap game doesn't make you even a software engineer, much less an electrical, mechanical, or aeronautical one - Hell, I have have done - and can still do - programming, and I wrote a game too - TRS-80, but back then, that made me one of the elite. That said, I sure as hell wouldn't claim credit outside my area of knowledge, and neither should you, for Musk. Face it, Musk is just a somewhat less crap version of Donald Trump. More power to him, for actually doing something with the family money, but don't worship him - he hasn't earned it.
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  366. The bitterly amusing bit here is that Allianz probably paid more to defend their stance than the actual costs on payout would have been.
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  367. Opening line: Automag investors flinch. 😁
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  368. Alpha emitters are hugely dangerous, taken internally. You cover that quite nicely. But do not also discount the heavy metal poisoning aspect; heavy metals such as plutonium or arsenic can cause lethal intoxication in quite small concentrations.
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  369. "Cheaper to pay off the victims" is a common industrial decision, hardly limited to Boeing, unfortunately.
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  370. Mine Augen! Say, do I hear something over the sound of my eyes exploding? Naaaaah.
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  371.  @masterimbecile  she tried to teach me about tone-based puns; where shifting tone changed meaning, and gave rise to the joke. Intellectually, I get the concept. It just hurts my head trying to internalize it.
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  372. Looks useful, in its niche.
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  373. Thank you. 🙂 We work hard at it.
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  374. Don't tell General George Patton that competition doesn't play in military activities: Scored a Fifth Place in the Olympic Pentathlon; would have medalled if not for a scoring failure by the judges. The controversy centered on the Pistol competition.
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  375. When Rube Goldberg designs submachine guns...
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  376. ​ @kittytrail  never hire Florida Man as a civil engineer.
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  377. One of the oldest GPMGs still in service. Basically an MG34 with refinements. #akgnotificationsquad
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  378. "...well, seeing as this is an anemic 6.35mm cartridge, I guess it doesn't matter... You are lucky today."
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  379. "Swingline." A stapler. Office Space reference.
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  380. Got up to use the facilities, but saw this... I can sleep later.
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  381. This is an mildly witty response to a positive comment. Additional sentence to increase rating via YouTube algorithm.
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  382.  @davidbowman2001  technically, yes, but it's a pain. You need to scrub the brass clean, using a tumbler. That, and it is super sensitive to seating depth. Also, the crimp is critical and very easy to get wrong - too tight, and you risk bursting the case. Too loose, and the magazine will wreck the cartridge. It's way more trouble than I care for, so I don't.
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  383.  @AnnhilateTheNihilist  meh. They can still look.
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  384. Ukrainian artillerymen are probably the best-trained and most experienced in the world, right now. That's some FINE shooting! Also: I love secondaries.
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  385. Yeah, German engineers were creative. Creativity isn't always a virtue.
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  386. With that long barrel exposed free of the stock, it looks really odd to my eyes. Very nice detail and finish.
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  387. More than anything else, America's mastery of logistics is what makes us win.
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  388. Absolutely preventable. But, to prevent it would have required a smarter design and maintenance evaluation regime. Third-party review of the initial design, at the very least, would have been necessary. Likewise, external review of maintenance processes and thei consequences would likely have been required. All of that is expensive, and it's clear that cost-savings was always at the core of discussion around the design and maintenance of this (and many other) bridges.
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  389. Probably. Of course, that magazine probably isn't super-reliable.
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  390. Minor public relations issue, that.
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  391.  @aleksazunjic9672  and yet he had the moral courage to thwart the SS and Hitler, on the subject of Jews, to their faces.
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  392. I could see Russia destroying the dam out of spite if they felt they were about to lose the Crimea.
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  393. Ah. I was hoping you'd choose this event. Truly horrifying, and utterly preventable.
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  394. Small arms have been studied in great depth by folks with LOTS of resources; there's not much revolutionary to learn, right now. A fundamental technological breakthrough needs to happen before we see a new wave of wild invention.
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  395. To be fair, Arado found a lot of their industrial capacity sidelined after bombing raids wrecked production pipelines; their machine shops certainly would have had capacity to turn out a few dozen suppressors.
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  396. White gravy is about as southern as it gets. This? It's white gravy. 😝
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  397. Yeah, we had a sailor stress-fail on the ship. They lost it, started screaming, and sprinted for the fantail. If an alert bosun hadn't clotheslined them, they'd have run straight off the ship into the ocean.
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  398. While in Scotland, do take in as many distilleries as you can. You could easily start a side series on the history of fermented beverages.
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  399. Standard business tactics.
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  400. The solution - at the time - to the mag issue would be either a shorter magazine with an insert in the mag well, or just putting an insert in the back of the magazine.
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  401. Or as a saw...
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  402. Learned more about the markings; always nice, especially with Mausers.
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  403. This publishing business must be much more complicated than it seems on the surface.
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  404. Everyone learned this lesson in Guernica. And again in London. And in Bremen. And Tokyo. Don't bother pointing out Nagasaki and Hiroshima; the Empire of Japan used those as an excuse to sideline the hardliners and end a war they'd already lost.
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  405.  @arteljus983  nope. Ukraine hasn't received any ATACMS yet. Further, there is zero evidence of blast fragmentation. Third, that was a low-brisance explosion of VAST volume; far more than you'd ever cram into a missile, which uses high-brisance explosives anyway.
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  406. Genius modification, chameleon receiver!
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  407. Never figured my collection as a source of wealth. I'd expect that, because it's a complete series, they're more valuable as a group than individually, but really, I only have them because of my interest in Mausers.
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  408. It presumes the shooter isn't an idiot; that assumption no longer applies in this imperfect world.
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  409.  @gunfighterfd  or enormous racks of .50 caliber machine guns... Absolutely devastating in the surface attack role.
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  410.  @crispy1660  get off my lawn!
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  411.  @hotstepper887  wow. Russian propaganda, much?
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  412. Like The Simpsons, the Romans did it first. Whatever "It" was.
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  413. I thought his circulatory system pumps pure Boudreaux wine..?
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  414. "'Tis the Empire. The sun is over the yardarm somewhere."
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  415. The Mondragon was also a very nice piece of engineering.
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  416. The magazine on the prototype design was more of a big drum atop the gun, not the pan magazine.
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  417.  @thesmallestminorityisthein4045  all of which puts it under the simple phrase 'not horrible.' 'Not horrible' is hardly high praise. 😉
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  418. Hypersonic missiles are extremely poor at attacking moving targets. Army units are too small, too mobile to be efficient targets for these missiles. The Khinzal missiles should be targeted at strategic targets, such as munitions factories, energy generation facilities, fuel depots, etc. Please note that Russia is targeting substations and civilians - terror targets. It may mean that Russian intelligence on strategic Ukrainian assets is utter crap, or that they want to hurt civilians, or that their targeting on their very expensive missiles is completely shitty. Or some combination of the above.
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  419. The Stuarts were designed with reliability and ease of maintenance in mind; that design priority pays off. If you're not facing a lavishly-equipped foe, the ease of logistics outweighs other priorities.
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  420.  @imxploring  it's what one of my supervisors called an "empathy/sympathy problem." If you're empathetic, you understand and grasp the horror. If you're sympathetic, you feel the horror. I'm inherently more sympathetic than empathetic. Shrug Guess I'll leave the horrific stuff to those that don't follow it down the hole.
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  421. It's back! Iceland isn't a common name when one thinks of firearms.
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  422. The IL-22M is a generational peer to the P-3 Orion/Lockheed Electra. These aircraft were built by designs made with paper, pencil, and slide rules. Knowing there were unknown factors, the engineers put in huge safety factors; the results are that the aircraft are far more robust than you would expect. Still, this aircraft is unlikely to ever fly again. If it does, it will cost stupidly huge amounts of treasure.
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  423. Ian's a notorious Francophile, when it comes to weapons. I'm sure he knows.
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  424. Refined 1911. Unicorn gun. Barter arrangements for the win.
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  425. In a suit. I think ALL people should wear a suit when shooting a FAMAS. The rifle deserves it.
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  426.  @piatpotatopeon8305  someone asked him in a Q&A what weapons he would choose for Elbonia, especially with a view to sabotaging the Elbonian military. Ian ran with it, hard.
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  427. Carl Gustav launcher...
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  428. The German battleships loomed excessively large in British Admiralty's mind. They became great huge Boogeymen that terrified the Sea Lords entirely out of proportion to their numbers or capabilities. I often wonder at the mindset of the Sea Lords, that the paper tigers of the German High Fleet so made them wet their trousers.
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  429. Glory to the hero. May he be remembered with love and pride.
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  430. A different form of the 'Hot Brass Dance.'
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  431. Picasso, gunsmith?
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  432. You're right. Never heard of it. Interesting as heck.
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  433. It's that ability to educate that makes him so good.
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  434. Ah, the hubris of the 60's nuclear industry. "HEY! I've got a GREAT idea! Let's build a reactor in the most difficult-to-access location possible!" Yeah, NO way THAT could go wrong.
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  435. Oi! You! I see what you did there!
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  436. Germans and Austrians famously eat a lot of pork; the Styer is the perfect gun for taking pig.
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  437. Perfect!
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  438. Never discount the effect of Ego in firearms industry.
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  439. Like a Mauser version of The Great Escape or Von Ryan's Express.
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  440. Reserve met immediately.
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  441. @N Fels especially when large volumes of it have been pre-warmed to near ignition in a nice kiln-like flue.
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  442. Brilliant. The depth of knowledge present amongst Ian's viewers is amazing.
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  443. "Three on the tree" 😁
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  444.  @connahjones8178  actually, no it wasn't originally intended for trench warfare. It was intended for what was expected to be a war of movement, especially the (later discredited) "walking fire" tactic. It was never intended to be mud-soaked; the French are eccentric - they're not, however, stupid. Putting the Chauchat in the trenches was more of a "this is what we have" situation.
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  445. Full auto always puts that grin on my face. But what do you have against butterflies..? :-D
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  446. Masterful. Brilliantly done, and well-deserved.
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  447.  @Cybonator  not true. Not even remotely true. One: squadrons were already patrolling home airspace; retasking didn't change costs, nor availablity of deployed aircraft. As for effect of bombs falling, we know EXACTLY how many people were killed. We know EXACTLY how many fires required firefighting response. It doesn't matter in the least how many balloons made it across, we know the EXACT impact on our end (hint: if a bomb blows up and there's no one around to be hurt, does anyone give a shit?). Japan launched thousands of those balloons, each and every one a skilled work consuming man (or woman) hours, materials, and resources, for dick-all impact on the other end. They didn't stave off the end of Japan's empire for even a single second. Utterly wasted and useless effort, despite your fantasies. That wasted effort and those resources would have been much more effectively used fighting fires, or repairing buildings, or manufacturing local defenses, or even put to work making aircraft or aerial bombs. THOSE efforts might have made some kind of difference. Instead, it was all thrown down a rat hole.
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  448. Connery had it exactly backwards; the US military has long held to a somewhat counter-productive cult of marksmanship; the UK military was very much into volley fire, and very rapid fire. The British doctrine was rather more practical in the field, but Connery got it wrong.
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  449. Feeding my dogs, when suddenly my radioactive spider senses* tingled... Plainly Difficult has uploaded! *Or maybe I glanced at my phone.
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  450. The seller updated his entry with an acknowledgement of Ian's review. Pretty classy, even if it was in SHOUTY FONT.
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  451. Well, it is true. Look what Procopius did to Justinian and his Empress.
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  452. He's not wrong. I'm a big fan of .38 Super, but even I know it's an oddball round.
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  453. Student: You're going to shoot me! Instructor: I won't! Student: You shot Feydor. Instructor: He was attacking me with a saber. Student: You told him to!
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  454. Typical cat.
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  455. The Germans had a weird mix of extreme civil, and extreme evil. Yes, I know, most were somewhere in the middle. But, when presented with "outside the box" problems, they frequently reverted to almost archaic chivalrous behavior.
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  456. The unicorn of unicorns... Vastly desirable. The angle of the pistol grip messes with my head, though. I've never held one, but it looks awkward.
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  457. Or any other of the serious hunting calibers. Alternatively, .22lr or another plinking / small game caliber. Really, unless you need a fast following shot, this rifle would do just fine.
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  458. ​ @MarkJoseph81  I'm a retired career NCO; I've seen young men fall in love with, and get horribly used by, unstable women more times than I can count. It's unfortunately common, especially with sheltered or naive young men. To be fair, I've seen it go wrong the other way, too.
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  459. Thank you for addressing the handling - that was the first question that popped into my head.
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  460. For when you want the muzzle blast to rearrange your furniture...
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  461. Who says children can't be firearms enthusiasts? I know my daughter certainly was (is).
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  462. This rifle, very functional as it is, really serves to show the genius of the Mauser system. Extremely cool to see a very early bolt action rifle, especially in such excellent condition
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  463. Simple, straight-foreward, and with some thoughtful features. Nice!
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  464. Early access via Patreon or other.
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  465. I, too, had never thought to ask this question. Cool - I learned something I didn't know I didn't know.
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  466. No personal use for this book. It WILL find its way to my library.
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  467. The top Nazis remind me of high school and collegiate athletes, trying to recapture their past glories, or make good on youthful disappointments. How many lives might have been saved, had they just managed to get over themselves and grow up?
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  468. Pretty sure it was actually Cato the Elder. The sourpuss to end all sourpusses.
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  469. You get to directly contribute to the happiness of literally millions of people. You're a superhero. How amazing is that? 🙂
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  470. Keep off'n me lawn!
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  471. That thing is stupid huge.* I want one. *For a derringer.
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  472. He doesn't forget his roots.
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  473. I have an engineering brain, and things like bottomless magazines wreck my suspension of disbelief.
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  474. To be a submarine, it has to be able to surface. No, Russian ships are the next evolution in ecological reconstruction: self-propelled reefs!
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  475.  @perfectlynormalhuman5473  could stain one's hunting jacket. Quite the faux pas.
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  476.  @monyclair5357  I'm a little less convinced that every firearm needs a safety mechanism. In the case of many firearms, the act of opening the action is entirely sufficient. Of course, I was raised to believe that the operator is the ultimate safety device.
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  477. The French still harvest hundreds of artillery shells every year from WWI.
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  478. Sharing is caring! :D
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  479. Yeah, ok. Went over my head... Can't always be on top of my game. :-p
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  480.  @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980  judge probably wanted a slice, too. For evidentiary purposes, of course.
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  481. And now you know why they drank so much at feasts... To get past the weird food.
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  482. Pretty much exactly what his response meant, in polite words.
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  483. The gun leather is in amazing condition.
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  484.  @GrigoriZhukov  junior officers are notorious for getting lost, no matter which maps they're using.
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  485. "Prompt Critical." A phrase that makes this old Reactor Operator cringe, even when done 'responsibly' and deliberately.
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  486. Which is why Ukraine is stacking Orcs like cordwood; they are defending their nation with courage, intelligence, and raw determination. Sucks to be an Orc - they should have stayed home. Slava Ukraine!
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  487.  @Vivi2372  much like the Texas Rangers to which I compared them, earlier. Again, though: the police are a tool of their masters; they implement policy - they don't set it. Don't blame the tool; blame the hand that wields it.
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  488. Pretty much, yeah
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  489. I use a child's model shotgun for my "bedside" shotgun. All the power of a 20 gage,* with the compactness I want for moving freely, all without having to fuss with the NFA. The Shockwave strikes me as an "ego" solution to a problem that's already been solved. *Don't scoff. 20 gage will do the job just fine, at 'house distance.' It's also much more manageable for those whom aren't as strong, or as well-trained.
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  490.  @charlesadams1721  brilliantly said, Sir.
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  491. Naaah - quarter keg should be enough.
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  492. Another antique space gun. It's a real boat-anchor of a weapon.
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  493.  @rogerstarkey5390  10% charge is still a LOT of energy. Add in that metals involved are, in and of themselves, extremely reactive - lithium basically auto-combusts when exposed to water - and the minimal charge is no comfort.
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  494. I commonly see busloads of Chinese tourists getting out at the local Cabela's, where they invade the gun library to fondle the weapons and take selfies with them. Pretty normal behavior when presented with the opportunity to touch the forbidden fruit. Can't blame the desire, though I would appreciate a bit more courtesy - it is fairly clear no one briefs the tourists on local etiquette - especially not, where it concerns firearms!
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  495.  @Juggernautdemon  yeah, no. Because no one mining in any useful quantities because... Afghanistan. Unless you think a single regiment worth of troops is going to pacify the country. In which case, I suggest you go read your Kipling. Same as when Russia was there. Same as when the Brits were there. There are much easier, much cheaper places to get valuable commodities.
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  496. I enjoy cucumber-mint beverages, so I wasn't perplexed, per se. It is, however, unexpected. Definitely NOT an American staple - more of an Indian kind of thing. Cucumber-mint is a very subtle but very refreshing combination, and I'm willing to bet would make a suitable variation on this treat. I'm going have to try making both, now. 😁
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  497. Add some onion paper to go with the mushroom cutout sauce; it's epic.
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  498. Not quite. That's only true if you're hitting exactly normal to the surface, which can only happen if your trajectory is exactly on line to the geometric center of the sphere. ANY other angle of impact is going to ricochet away from the line of fire.
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  499. Toxic off-gassing would also like a word.
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  500.  @bryanstephens4800  it takes extremely sophisticated process thinking to deliberately accept and embrace some levels of inefficiency in the service of redundancy and safety. It can be very difficult to convince budget accountants of the need, especially when under cost pressures as huge as those seen in the air transport world.
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  501. Also: "Smells like Wolf ammo..." Hah! True facts.
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  502. It's got a "James Bond Villain" vibe to it. Very cool. 😎
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  503.  @mortisCZ  it makes a difference. Poor, if you're thoughtful, doesn't mean deprived. We also raised cull lambs from local farms, again for the food. Between the fowl and the sheep, and the large truck garden we kept, we actually ate pretty well. No new clothing, lots of second-hand shop purchases, but we had full bellies. We all learned to cook, and cook well. No store-bought bread, when the base ingredients were so much cheaper. Which meant that sourdough pancakes and sourdough bread were common. Duck stops laying eggs? Roast duck, home-made Peking duck, etc. Goose for holiday meals. Lamb in many forms... There were a lot of us kids (part of the reason money was so tight), but that also means a lot of free labor tending the garden and livestock.
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  504. Clock Glock: "Sad trombone"
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  505. Or Ruger's Patrol Rifle, which is my favorite bolt gun right now.
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  506.  @JustaGuy1250  only smart - put their equipment in the hands of the guy who will lovingly demonstrate to the best effect.
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  507. Basically, yes.
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  508. My mother was a number-cruncher on the Ryan Verti-Jet; a successor to this project. Realistically, in the Ryan design, the test pilot was the program - only a few highly gifted pilots could manage the transition from horizontal to vertical flight when landing (vertical to horizontal was much easier). Some were so gifted that they could literally waltz the aircraft in ground effect; but that was an incredibly rare skill set.
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  509.  @Lemon_Inspector  Colonial Marines have entered the chat.
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  510. Reusing their sets, just like Hollywood.
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  511. Probably involving dodgy meat and excessively hot spices.
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  512. Trust me, there will be plenty of thieves who won't get the message in time.
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  513. Deagles aren't that bad. S&W .500 Magnum? THAT is serious business!
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  514. This is disruptive, but not definitive. Russia will repair the bridge. What is more important is that it will crimp Russian logistics at a crucial time, distract Russian attention, create an ongoing logistics bottleneck as Russia attempts to prevent a second such attack, re-rout forces to increase the defense of the bridge, and ultimately, it has an enormous psychological effect.
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  515. Damn, those are cute little menaces.
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  516. La Marseillaise intensifies
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  517. My 24 year old daughter could have run that set's weapons just fine. She could have done so at age 12. The age of the Armorer isn't the issue; it's the skills which were lacking. What I have a hard time wrapping my head around is that Reed is the daughter of a legendary Hollywood Armorer; how the hell was she this unprepared..?! She literally grew up in the care of a man who teaches armorers how to do their job!
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  518. The bicycle mission seems to have been conducted with great scientific and practical rigor - including organic logistical and medical support. They even included non-standard sized riders - Because you can guarantee that the Army will always break their own rules and assign soldiers that don't fit the regulations. Choosing varied terrain, ground conditions, and weather only increased the validity of the test.
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  519. I also have a Shiloh named Sadie. She's a Black & Tan plush coat, also running ~ 100lbm. She's aging, and a bit arthritic, but still sassy and sweet. Also have a Buff & Cream smooth-coat named Idgie.
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  520. Looks to me like she is running the courtroom.
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  521. Yes. Agree. Jake basically enabled Vlad to express and expand on his thinking, giving Vlad. Broad slope down which his thinking can flow as it will.
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  522. Have to admit, you hooked me with the lead. Jerk. Heh! 😁
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  523. @disistheway2679 if true, THIS facility isn't that place, and theses guys aren't the actual gunsmiths.
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  524. @disistheway2679 yeah, yeah, not arguing that point. THIS video, though, is a fake - that is the point here.
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  525.  @marcpeterson1092  it's not for everyone, sure. But you get used to it - think of it as working in a small crowded building. That you can't leave. 😁 But even claustrophobes can hack it - we had a guy on the Russell who was severely claustrophobic. He didn't care - he wanted to be a submariner, and By God, his phobia would just have to sit in the corner and sulk. Here's to you, Roger, wherever you are; you're a nut, but you're still entertaining as hell!
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  526. Operator Starsky is an amazing guy; very funny, very careful to be accurate in his information.
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  527.  @theenzoferrari458  in a large number of cases, large companies need formal repair request mechanisms, because the person who can order the repair (and resultant costs) is well-sperated from the problem that needs fixing. And this isn't even bad design; take a large warehousing operation, for instance. You've got, say, a half dozen forklifts, a score of power jacks, a couple trailer tugs, and maybe a couple score power lifts, and a hundred or more employees, all in a 200,000 square foot facility. Letting the maintenance manager know that a tug failed on the swing shift means that you either rely on the person you tell about a problem remembers to pass it on to the night shift, who remembers to pass it on to the maintenance manager in the morning, or you call it in when you wake up, if you remember, or you submit a trouble ticket. Easy to guess which method is the least painful and most reliable. And that's just for one discreet location. What if it's four warehouses in three states? You probably only still need one maintenance manager, but now he's probably not even in the same state as you.
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  528. "Weird" keeps the lawyers at bay!
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  529.  @Whitpusmc  Bedside gun isn't a hunting gun. Neither is the shockwave. Birdshot has no business in a home defense gun. I load #4, which in home defense, in 20 ga, will absolutely do the job. I keep slugs in the side-saddle carrier. Just in case of bear. 😛
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  530. Easier to strap on a cheek pad. No need to muck up the rifle; works fine.
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  531. And, at least in this case, "How long can I sustain a high rate of fire?" Reloading spare turret discs is explicitly easy with this one.
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  532.  @johnanon6938  bayonets are basically for intimidation, these days. So yes, bayonet lugs are for crowd control. But there are much better tools.
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  533. Tteokguk (rice cake soup) has to be the best. First tried it at a little hidden restaurant just outside the Aberdeen Gate (one of three gates) of Aberdeen Proving Grounds, run by Korean expatriates. The place was only open during the hours the gate was open - just during the working hours. Many soldiers, who had gained a taste for Korean food whilst stationed overseas, frequented the place. My father taught me to add a bit of kimchi to spice the flavors up. I would dearly love it if you were to do a video on tteokguk.
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  534. I like long eye-relief scopes. They work better for me and the way I shoot.
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  535.  @cheyannei5983  you could very much clear jams in aircraft weapons; they pretty much universally had accessable charging mechanisms. BUT if cycling the charging handle couldn't solve your problem, it was time to break contact and go home.
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  536. ​ @thralldumehammer  Brandon Herrera is fully sponsored in-stream, but spends a tremendous amount of time chasing sponsors - Ian spends that same time producing vast amounts of content. Choose your poison - Ian chose content.
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  537. It seems to me that the need to restrike the primer means you've got crap ammo - which case, you've got bigger problems.
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  538.  @49525Bob  which would further explain Russian problems... Their NCO corps is notoriously weak.
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  539. That's the good kind of manager; he took the retribution in good grace.
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  540.  @markmacintyre3422  my first Shiloh, we nick-named "Lady Dignity." Because, yeah.
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  541. Yeah, that jumps out at you.
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  542. Works fine, lasts a long time, don't rust, don't bust, fails safe, and drains to the bilge. Except the magazine. 🤣
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  543. Nice to see the Ross getting some respect. Canadian marksmen have a world-class reputation, and they know the right tools for the job.
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  544. The disassembly process seems very well-thought. Simple, robust.
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  545. Calcium carbide tactical lamp, surely.
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  546. Harsh exit interview.
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  547. They're already stratospheric; don't think there's much room to go higher.
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  548. Clicked so fast that I actually scrambled several apps I had running. Just had to get the update! Take your necessary time to heal; don't 'hard-core' things; sternum injuries (including intentional surgical injuries) take time to heal right, and EVERYTHING connects to your sternum.
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  549. Glad you are able to continue contributing and visiting Ukraine.
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  550.  @suportbghelp4938  let's see... Ukraine has one battalion of domestic right wing mercenaries (Azov) and one brigade of foreigners fighting under Ukrainian pay and discipline (i.e. not mercenaries). How, exactly, is that NATO? I'm awaiting your masterful explanation. Meanwhile, Putin's best buddy Prigozhin is running a massive - illegal under Russian law - private military company (mercenaries) 8000 strong. Yeah, Russia can keep crying 'NATO' but if NATO were actually fighting, the front lines would be on the Belgorod-Rostov line.
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  551. "Useful Idiots" in the old Soviet phrase.
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  552.  xr7fan  because actual troopers that face those bears choose it. Oh, and I've seen 10mm take down a charging moose. You're not going to see 9mm do that, short of a massive magazine and a LOT of hits. Sure, massive magazines exist, but they're a pain in the ass to carry. 10mm does the job in a convenient sized package.
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  553. ​ @すどにむ to be fair to ArmaLite, the government monkeyed with their design for... Reasons.
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  554.  @heiner71  well, yes, them too. As a fifth-generation Native Son, my home state is a trainwreck. I will never live there again; none of my children were born there. I broke the chain.
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  555. Using a FAMAS, in a three-piece, with his signature facial hair grooming... La Marseillaise intensifies.
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  556. Nice parody of the "shoot my kid's computer" guy. NGL, the "FPSRussia" taunt made me wince. Talk about a low-blow!
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  557.  @brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407  I'm going to have to introduce my wife to the libation; she absolutely adores black licorice.
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  558. The spring cycling is louder than the report. I can literally pick out the sound of the spring.
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  559. Mr. Angus Podgorny would approve.
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  560. Ian's got the chops to say things like that, though. I mean, he is Gun Jesus.
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  561. 'Murica. Arms depot to the world.
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  562.  @emperorpalpatine1228  because you were shooting a Remington 597. Get yourself a Ruger 10/22. You'll change your opinion.
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  563. Perhaps Sir would care to employ this Tiffany engraved desk lighter...
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  564.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  the problem with this is that the admiralty had completely failed to consider that the exact factors that made convoys vulnerable also made the German High Fleet just as, if not more, vulnerable. Every time an overt German High Fleet surface warship broke out onto the high seas, it was hunted down and destroyed. Every. Time. Only the Q-ships and merchant cruisers had real successes. Hell, even the celebrated Graf Spee was essentially bluffed to death, after a merely modest success. Admiralty failed in their analysis.
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  565. The insulation properties of the treads undoubtedly allowed the fire to grow considerably before becoming noticable.
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  566.  @1buszybudy13  never doubt hat the IJA could fight. They fought with extreme courage, even when hopelessly overmatched. The problem wasn't their spine, or their dedication. It was their doctrine and their logistical hurdles that fucked them. The entire empire was running on a shoestring all along; their ambition exceeded their resources.
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  567. Not always. He's praised any number of innovative firearms over the years.
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  568. It will be, soon.
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  569. Amen. Empty ammunition crates are a valuable and flexible resource. They're well built, useful size, and abundant.
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  570. You're supposed to like the paintings, not lick them.
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  571. Facts.
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  572. Prigozhin drunk in public again? Such a Russian...
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  573.  @monyclair5357  from the era, safety mechanisms were not all that common a feature; if you wanted the weapon 'safe,' you just opened the action. That said, in a modern reproduction, a hammer-block safety would not be hard to add. You could also insert a transfer bar mechanism, without seriously gumming up the elegant simplicity of this rifle.
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  574. "Congratulations; your childhood has been cancelled."
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  575. "Win or die." "Die and lose." "Surrender and go to jail." Any way you slice it, it sux to be a Russian soldier.
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  576. Cannon shells for the gun, my guess based on size, number, and frequency. Could also be defensive flare canisters going off.
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  577. Nice victim-blaming. If you've got a problem with the edits Ian must make to keep his job earning, take it up with YouTube; they're the villains here.
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  578. A similar concept was the US Army m-16 varient weapon that was originally intended to fire through the ports of the Bradley IFV.
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  579. Oooh... Kay. Why?
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  580. "Embiggened"
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  581.  @Rabhadh  since those charges generally didn't succeed, yeah, they were. It was a very similar mindset to that of the French in the first months of WWI, where it was thought that elan, and a bayonet charge, was enough to carry the day. Machine guns were very, very rude to that outlook.
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  582.  @PlainlyDifficult  ouch!
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  583. Yeah, Ian always has something different, and it works more often than not.
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  584. Military Flyover: Good Training.
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  585. Ah. Facts, over the suppositions of a self-promoting adventurer.
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  586. A simple design, but it has all the features you want, excepting a drop safety. Actually, the charging handle notch can serve that role, so... Essentially complete.
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  587. I had NEVER heard that the Enfield action as being weak; that sounds like gunshop 'expert' FUD.
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  588.  @LUR1FAX  if it has seen significant sales outside Mexico, market feedback would have very likely resulted in both those changes. Another change I think would have happened is moving the bipod mount to the stock, making replacement barrels cheaper and lighter.
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  589. Interesting. Potentially a game changer in the trenches, given some simplification. Kind of a dead end in the air, like the magazine-fed Springfield.
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  590. Krazy Kats, one the places (they have since lost their rating, sadly) did not pull out any stops. Quiet, quirky, and out of the way, they were purely advertised by word of mouth - and were very busy for it. Understated, they were just simply excellent.
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  591. Welcome to American safety practices: deny, obfuscate, retaliate.
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  592.  @milliehaagen7526  she's got a jack knife; you'd best not be arguing with her! 😲
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  593. There are folks who deliberately collect fakes.
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  594. If nothing else, learning the local languages and culture makes it easier to be successful. If they don't want to be successful, well, buh-bye!
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  595. A couple things: The marks on the portside bow appear to be actual cuts, not just pre-cut marking, similar to cuts on the starboard bow, of which you have much closer images. It's clear that they're getting bow section ready to drop very quickly as soon as they're ready to start the bow section swap; when the time comes it will be very, very fast to complete the cuts. As you noted, time in drydock equals big money. Also, the cuts are very wide to prevent binding or interference once the section starts to drop. The section will twist to some degree as it is cut away, so the large relief of the cuts prevent problems in pulling it away. Second thing: the plastic deformation of the hull plates of the bow can, with a bit of metallurgy and math, give you a very close approximation of the energies involved (and actual speed) at the moment of collision. I'm flabbergasted. Excellent work, and keep it up!
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  596. I'll tell you one way the Russians are responding - they just moved all of their warships out of Sevastopol, as that city is in easy range of the extended range rockets. That means that not only do the Russians have the logistical challenge of supporting extra warships out of a port that wasn't supplied for them, but any mission conducted by them has extra distance to go, and will take extra time, thus reducing the warships' sortie rate. Oh, and that also means constructive loss of all the repair facilities at Sevastopol, because if you can't send a ship safely in for repairs, those facilities might as well not exist.
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  597. The point of a military is to apply violence at selected positions at a time of choice, in support of a nation's national objective(s). Large militaries tend to be cumbersome, reducing flexibility and response time. Command and control are also impacted. An efficient military needs to be only so large as to be able to meet the nation's needs, whilst retaining a reserve to both fill in for casualties, and deter second and third parties from getting adventurous. 'Human wave' militaries ceased being effective after the Korean War (and were arguably ineffective even then, as the Chinese learned to their bloody dismay).
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  598. Aplomb in the face of disaster... Those high-scoring aces had ice water in their veins.
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  599. Ian's a time traveler; that's how he gets his hands on so many obscure firearms
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  600.  @luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334  pontoon bridges across an active shipping lane? Unlikely. Not impossible, but extraordinarily difficult. To start, that's an extremely high-volume bridge link, and pontoon bridges don't handle high volume well. Second, it's 12 miles long. Not impossible, but supremely unlikely and expensive. Third, well, you'd need a swinging section of the bridge to deal with ship traffic, which adds immeasurably to the engineering challenge. Oh, and the pontoon bridge would need to be able to cope with sea ice. So: technically possible, but I don't think Russia can, nor will they try, to swing that. Faster and cheaper to replace the damaged spans.
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  601. ​​ @kane357lynch 1) the American Army fights with its wallet as much as with its men; so the casualty figures are going to be very different, and 2) Vietnam, Korea, WWII, and WWI; what were the American casualty figures? Don't let Vietnam and outdated Soviet propaganda fool you; given the right motive, America can and will bear extremely high casualties. Even in Vietnam, where - after more than a decade - America final did lose their motivation, they laid absolute waste to the North Vietnamese.
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  602. Important side fact - Joe Stalin is EXACTLY responsible for the title and imagery of the novel "1984" - In 1934, a reporter asked Stalin when there would be true communism* and Stalin replied "In fifty years." i,e. in 1984. *Communist ideology posits that society must pass through multiple stages - including monarchy and capitalism - before true communism can be achieved. Orwell was keenly aware of Stalin's behaviors and statements.
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  603.  @keithcarpenter5254  unless you win the auction.
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  604. This is cool; I never really knew anything on this. Thanks!
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  605. This pistol is very high on my "Want" list; thanks for the video!
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  606. Extremely chic - Ian's francophilia serves him well.
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  607.  @justindunlap1235  that would be an impressive wall-hanger, yes!
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  608. A design from an era where less was known about weather and environmental resistance, plus budget constraints and decades of casual neglect; the results are foregone. Italy has a bad habit of making criminal cases when public emotions are running high, even in the absence of actual observed criminal behavior, but in this case, there's good cause. Unfortunately, the common social habit of 'letting things slide' and 'eh, we'll pay for it later' cannot be put on trial - not in Italy, nor anywhere else.
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  609. I DARE you to waste ammunition, now!
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  610. If it's a very bad winter? Could happen. Probably not, though. What I do expect are lots of deaths by hypothermia and disfigurement by frostbite.
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  611. He's building an anti-eggplant fortress.
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  612. I hadn't considered the implications of German access to the channel coast during WWI before. Eye-opening!
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  613. As I understand, 80% hit rate at ~ 40 yards. Now, THAT is what I call Gun Control. #akgnotificationsquad
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  614. This makes sense. Telegraph wire has a steel core cable in it that's supposed to carry the weight of the wire between poles. Getting lengths of that tangled up in your running gear would be a stone bitch to correct under fire.
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  615. Hi-Point carbines are possibly the best things Hi-Point has to offer. Ugly as hell, but they work. Kinda like an old rusty utility truck - not fancy, but they get the job done.
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  616. Time travel via recipe!
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  617. That's how it's done: Logistics win wars. Denying the enemy control of their own logistics is how you make them lose the war.
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  618. Finland: Skis on everything.
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  619.  @jason200912  oooh, the Fanbois are going to come for you! 😁
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  620.  @andrewamann2821  that is the problem with Keltec; not knowing when to stop. This one is... Only just over-the-top. The rest of his catalog? Good Ideas Gone Wild. Yikes.
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  621. Rocket-ball chain-fed pistol..
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  622.  @Νικόλαος-ΡαφαήλΛασκαρίδης  good question. I guess I just get annoyed as hell at people who can't stop mixing fantasy with actual history. I think I'll go do something more productive, like beating my hand with a tack hammer.
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  623.  @Corvious  well, yes.
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  624. "potentially carrying nuclear weapons." Nazi Fantasy Baloney. The Third Reich's weapons plan was going down the wrong path; dead end. The best they might have managed is a working power plant. As for the efficacy of bombing NYC, well, clearly Hitler was doing some top-quality drugs. Oh, wait... He was.
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  625. The prototype Marlin Camp Carbine.
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  626. Special Ukrainian Rescue Operation. Such humane! So compassion! Slava Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes.
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  627. If the VDV units are back-filling with mercenaries, you can't call them 'elite' any longer.
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  628. 'Slow and steady' bleeds the orcs white. Ukraine controls the tempo now; Russia is reacting, instead of pro-acting.
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  629.  @nustada  none of those things exist without some form of governance. And taxes. The libertarian dream is a lie.
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  630. This. But he got served by his deal with S&W, so I'm kinda OK with it; dude paid dearly in time, stress, and lawyer bills for his trolling.
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  631. Xerescaping. Yes, and California needs to seriously needs to get into it.
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  632. Subscribed. Edit: you two are fun together. 🙂
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  633.  @Tainted_Muffin  hah. True. Busted by my own flex (seal). :-D
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  634. Watching your body reaction to recoil, yes, the LC has a sharper recoil impulse. Still well within reasonable limits. I'm amused to note that even in the 5.56 version, CETME family rifles still seriously hucks the brass. Do NOT spectate a CETME shooter from their right-hand side if you don't want to be ducking hot brass.
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  635.  @dystopianlucidity4448  "...one of the best service records on the planet." Fixed that for ya.
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  636.  @catherinewhite2943  I practice Yang and Dong Yue TaiJi, and also Xing Yi. My sifu will sometimes recites poetry in class. In English, much of the depth just vanishes. His serious students learn to at least understand spoken Mandarin, even if they never learn to read, write, or speak it. I'm not one of the serious students.
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  637. "Causing unreasonable suffering." Some snooty Swiss types want to know your location.
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  638. That's InRangeTV, not FW.
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  639.  @Cornerstanding  well, most medieval euro peasants wouldn't have had lentils. Peas, yes, and they certainly used those. Lentils were a domesticated crop in central asia, and were a late arrival in most of europe.
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  640. One of the long-term projects; been low key watching this series. Lots of fuel for thinking. I used to work with moulders; WAAAY more difficult than folks realize.
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  641. ​ @kenmore01 "Happy wife, happy life." Though putting this dish in the rotation as a nice surprise certainly won't hurt.
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  642. "Optics and magnification are nice." My aging eyes: "Oof, yes."
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  643. My scout troop and district did winter survival camping most winters - "Operation Icicle." Despite only mildly severe weather, excellent equipment, and experienced scout leaders, and minimal camp-keeping tasks only, we were, occasionally, forced to bail. One notably bad camp, it was barely below freezing, but a hard rain fell, and EVERYTHING froze - with running icy water flowing over everything. Even breaking camp was a nightmare, and getting our gear to the rally point took hours. So - even with all the right gear and skills, winter can still kick the best-prepared troops asses.
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  644.  @dawnjohnson7688  yep. We had garden patches running up to quarter acre, and the watermelon & pumpkin vines defined the outer perimeter. Loads of gourds and melons.
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  645.  @williamED15  none of those (and other crimes) change the physical reality of the link between competition and military activities.
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  646. JU-87 was comply obsolete and useless unless it had absolute air superiority. It has no place on this list.
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  647.  @walmorcarvalho2512  all true, and yet still wrong. The ability to refuse illegal orders requires that the troops are properly trained to recognize which orders are indeed illegal, AND to have the moral fibre to actually make that call. It is the duty of their officers to ensure that training happens. If leadership fails in its duty, you don't blame the followers, you blame the leaders. That is EXACTLY what happened at Kent State. A green, poorly-trained officer in charge of green, poorly-trained soldiers panicked. Indeed, its unclear if the officer panicked, or one of his troops did first. Those troops were not well-trained. It was their officer's duty to see to that. He was too green to do what was needed. It was the officer's leaders duty to make sure he was capable doing the necessary training - he wasn't, and they didn't. It was their superior's job to NOT place incapable troops in a fraught position, and he failed too. The fish rots from the head, and you clearly do not understand what happened, nor how it came to happen, and your simplistic answer shows your lack of knowledge and reflection.
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  648. With a blade like that, you didn't need to get all that close, either.
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  649.  @mohammadelhayek9155  you seem to think "Militia" == shoestring operation. Sometimes, that's true. HAMAS is not a shoe string operation. They're extremely well organized (Ryan McBeth has a couple of videos breaking down their logistics, documentation, and operation communications - it's impressive), and they have a national sponsor - Iran. Are they as strong as Israel? Not even remotely. Are they rinky-dink? ALSO not even remotely.
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  650.  @phillipfrancia7042  SU-34 carries 180 shells for its cannon. Much more likely that those are cooking off, than Russia had hidden a munitions stockpile in a residential complex.
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  651. Your #3 is is THE big point. Local services and shopping make a neighborhood livable. Especially so if you're trying to reduce traffic in and out of the area. #1 is rather a key point, too. The babushkas were the 'eyes on the street.' NOTHING escapes their attention - they know who is doing what, with whom, and to whom, and are NOT shy about making their opinions felt. The KGB was NEVER so effective as the grannies.
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  652.  @51WCDodge  or that international relationships are more complicated than they appear on the surface. Naaaah. Can't be anything nuanced like that...
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  653. I had a neighbor who did sex work. She was paying for college, had her head bolted on straight. Smart, clear-eyed, ambitious. She was completely unashamed. No, we never did.
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  654.  @john_michael97  imagine that!
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  655. ​ @z0phi3l do you actually live on this planet?
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  656.  @holo525  a fundamental technological breakthrough in energy storage would certainly do the trick.
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  657. Friction welding forms a solid, reliable join where there is no issue of adhesion, potential solvent or glue pockets, and it's cheaper & faster.
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  658. 130 to 180 ft-lbf or so, at the muzzle. Not super powerful, but nothing at which to sneeze.
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  659. Extremely simple - top notch engineering.
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  660. Well, technically, you can breathe carbon monoxide. You just shouldn't.
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  661.  @TheArklyte  adding expensive bits and/or additional manufacturing steps that are essentially non-productive is not an "improvement." I could see if it added intrinsic value, such as artistic or aesthetic improvement, but a 1-in-1000 benefit? No.
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  662.  @zvonkobogdan9634  Have you got your conscription notice yet? Don't worry - you'll get one soon, as you're about to be fired from the troll farm; you're no good at it.
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  663.  @Journey_to_who_knows  indeed. Ethiopia was really only one dedicated ally away from making the step to world player. African history would have been so much different.
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  664. ​ @xelac1334 Shiloh Shepherds are very commonly trained for Therapy Dog or Support Dog work. SAR work is also common. Some also do tracking work. ~ SSDCA Member
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  665.  @BruceLortzHI  start worrying now, then. Boston Dynamics has explored weaponizing their robots, in cooperation with the US Department of Defense. Special unit and bomb squad robots can already be equipped with shotguns and chemical weapons, and the US Army has played around with robots packing FN MAG (M-240) machine guns.
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  666.  @swagnut9864  an admirable ambition.
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  667.  @chasegorillaz69  Cosmoline. One of my more vile swear words. Heh. I got luckier than you know - I found it at a well-known 'big box' sporting goods store. It was innocently sitting in the rack, looking innocuous alongside some gnarly CAI-type semi-auto imports. I don't know what this lovely lady was doing, hanging out with that crowd, so I took her home immediately and gave her a warm, safe home.
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  668.  @nustada  So, you don't want or intend to use, say, roads, roads maintenance, firefighting services, and emergency medical services? Good to know - we'll tell them to ignore your needs.
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  669. It is difficult to bribe a volcano... Or abduct one.
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  670. 180 to 130 ft-lbf at the muzzle; not a show-stopper, but still good enough to do the job, in a pinch.
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  671. So far, as demonstrated by Ian (under, admittedly, ideal circumstances), setup and use do not appear to be any hassle at all.
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  672. Damn, clicked in as soon as the vid dropped, and already multiple comments ahead of me. 😛 Sneaky angry pipe is sneaky.
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  673. German rail maintenance technology is famous world-wide. Could it be made locally? Sure. But why bother when there's some quality kit to be rented, available right now? Not just maintenance equipment, either. I see Siemens control gear all the time - they've even got a manufacturing facility just a few miles down the road.
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  674. Former Navy Nuc... Hell. No. Not without backup, and a clear understanding of WHY there were conflicting indications. Indeed, a full safety brief and plan of action would be needed. Because that's how you do not wind up featured in a NRC Safety Bulletin.
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  675. Frustration is insidious; it robs you of sound judgement and prompts ill-considered actions. It sneaks up on you, and messes with your head.
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  676.  @Sanguinium  didn't know that. But that sounds an awful lot like they just re-invented the M1-A. Probably why it didn't go far.
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  677.  @ianfinrir8724 usually. Not always, though. I have a friend who collects fake Rolexes. He only buys the fakes that are billed as actual Rolexes - no replicas for him - only bona fide fakes.
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  678. I'm pretty sure it's a commercial attempt to wedge itself into the lucrative compact carry market, with an eye toward those places where 'military cartridges' are banned to civilians. That said, it seems competent for intended use.
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  679. Oh, and the 100 round magazines were known to be unreliable when fully charged. Loading up to about 75, you were OK. Beyond that, not so much.
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  680. Narcissism. She (Tasha) feels like the world owes her, when she's actually owed nothing.
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  681.  @anneharrison1849  exactly. Or the extensive continuing backlog of cargo vessels at the Port of Los Angeles.
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  682.  @ZGryphon  correct. Without proper tools, leadership, and training, they went directly to "kill." I don't actually much blame the troops for the excessive force. I blame their leadership, especially two and three levels up.
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  683. Sure, release flares if you know you need them. But if ambushed, release flares anyway, just in case there's a second missile. Which there very frequently is.
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  684. .300 Win Mag. For when you don't want to be tracking a wounded elk across a side.
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  685. Ferrari form, Ferrari complexity.
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  686. Dress like you've already won.
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  687.  @ddichny  perhaps. But "stepping over safety tape" doesn't seem consistent with that. That sounds more more like the kind of self-centered narcissistic behavior I see so often at work, where customers frequently ignore safety barriers during heavy equipment lifts of major loads of lumber and other heavy construction materials. (Seriously, what kind of pinhead plays chicken with a fork truck carrying concrete?)
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  688. My stepmother loves her .380 PPK. At ten yards, she can eat the heart out of a target; she's in her late 80s. Something about the PPK just works for her.
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  689. "Guntraption" Brilliant.
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  690. Not a exactly a featherweight, but it compares well to its contemporary, the Thompson. Given that this is a more useful design than the Thompson (yes, I've fired both), I'd happily take this into battle.
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  691. Same.
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  692. Greed drives many disasters. Greed was the whole point behind the weakening of the environmental laws; it follows the old script exactly, step-by-step.
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  693. I had wondered if a spring job might help it out.
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  694.  @LiveFreeOrDieDH  some were. I was driving a '69 Camero with the 327-cube engine some of the time. Another driver was driving a Pontiac Firebird. Still another was driving a souped-up dodge pickup. LOTS of motorheads in our crew. But the craziest SOB of the lot of us was driving a Pinto. And he used that beater to do things that make me wince to this day... Things like using an incomplete overpass as his own personal shortcut. Company cars were likewise abused mercilessly. One night, the gate guards at APG stopped me to tell me my company car was literally on fire; the alcohol gell that fueled our portable hotboxes had fallen out and set the back seat alight. I put out the seat, put the (still burning) gell back in the box, and sped off.
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  695. Even the down-graded ammunition is reasonably hot. The full-fat round is pretty stout; it'll bash a frame pretty hard. I'm a big fan of .38 Super; I use it in all my competition pistols. But if you're loading hot, you really need a heavy spring, and a solid pistol.
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  696. My grandmother raised three boys through the Depression as a single mother. Many decades later, pickling and canning was still a passion - we grew and canned so many tomatoes that even after she passed, we had two years worth of canned tomatoes remaining.
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  697.  @Desrtfox71  you may be a better reloader than I, too. My equipment is fairly basic.
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  698. Llamallamllamallama...
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  699. Not everyone gives much of a damn about China's prima donna attitude.
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  700.  @Gameprojordan  it was less the government, and VERY much more the concerted effort of a vast number of really dedicated blue-noses. Remember, it was a Constitutional Amendment that banned alcohol, which means that it had wide support across the country from the basic citizens. Banning alcohol was actually popular - in theory. Then the citizens saw just how harmful such a ban was, and popular opinion swung the other way. So never forget that - Prohibition came from the citizenry, not the government - the government was enacting the will of the people.
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  701. Yeah, I latched onto that immediately. I hadn't considered it before, but really, there's no reason a fairly modern fast food grille or hotpot, or such, couldn't be done with terracotta pots, wood or charcoal fires, bronze or even ceramic cook surfaces, amphorae, and a wood-fired oven. A Roman burger joint is entirely plausible.
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  702.  @Misericorde9  not an uncommon approach, back then. Ass-kickings like Bannerman received have taught later litigators (see you later, litigator..?) to be more selective.
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  703.  @emperorpalpatine1228  eh. Your list of manufactures is going to get very short - pretty much everyone is cutting deals with the Devil these days.
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  704.  @fabiovarra3698  inconsistent ammo in those early rimfires + light strikes would be my guess.
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  705.  @neutronalchemist3241  😁😂
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  706. Fatalism was extremely common. Amazingly, the majority of the soldiers' gloomy predictions did not come true.
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  707. Former USN RO (submarines). Yeah, the training materials were/are cheesey. They're still more than sufficient to scare the living crap out of you. The SL1 material, especially. Fear is a gift. It teaches you caution, and respect.
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  708. I know these as empanadas, too. SoCal boy, JFTR.
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  709. Willy Messerschmitt had one hell of a brilliant mind. Ironic (or maybe not?) That his last name means 'Blade Smith.' (Alternatively: knife or sword smith / maker)
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  710.  @Stevie-J  well, it's been done once... And anything that's done once can be done twice. 😛 Think I'll sell it as a "Door Breaching Standoff Device." Yeah, that's the ticket...
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  711.  @jacqdanieles  That would have been legendary! Russians would be shitting their pants about 'undead' invincible Ukrainians! 😁
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  712. Uzis: The poodles of the SMG world. Standard: Working dog that's a bit fancy; gets the job done. Relaxed, but good energy. Mini: Compact and convenient when you don't have room for the full-sized model. A bit bouncier. Micro: Mostly a fancy toy, but can still bite the hell out of you. Hyperactive.
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  713. Tonnage fairly equates to carrying capacity. Greater tonnage, more weapons, greater sensor capacity, greater endurance, and more crew to operate and maintain the above. Basically, more and bigger ships is equivalent to more lethal and more likely to be somewhere where that lethality is useful.
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  714. Sunny but cold Delaware also says good day!
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  715.  @fresatx  Can there be such a thing?
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  716. Likewise
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  717. @Jennifer you need to go back to your high school science teachers and either apologize for having failed to listen, or slap them for having failed to teach you. Yes, humans are animals.
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  718.  @kaiokenx20_  no, magic is trying, through means other than natural, to reorder the world to your own desires. Prayer is absolutely magic - you're trying manipulate GOD. Not only is that magic, but in most cases, blasphemy as well - unless you only pray that God does as God wills. And in that case, why bother?
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  719.  @resourcedragon  "... Roman slaves were able to save up to buy their freedom and didn't spend their entire lives enslaved..." Indeed, Roman slaves could even own slaves of their own. And they didn't care where you came from, so much - it was more important that you acted like a Roman - Wherever you came from, get educated, learn your declensions and conjugations, learn your classics, and your manners, and you were a Roman, no questions asked.
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  720.  @lelandgaunt9985  hey, you miss 100% of the chances you don't take... Heh.
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  721. Rainbows!
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  722. That's the nature of engineering: stacked tolerances matter. Eventually, one change too many will cause the whole thing to quit.
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  723. When the US Army Ordnance Museum was still in Aberdeen, they had several examples of the Krummlauf device. Testing reports that I saw suggested that 1) They were hideously impractical, 2) grossly inaccurate, and 3) tended to cause bullets to break up, flinging loosely-aimed fragments in the general direction you were aiming (for certain values of 'aim').
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  724. The barrel being mostly in-line with the stock, it's got nice linear recoil. Add the low rate of fire (big chonky bolt!). Very controllable. Yes, I've fired one. Loved it.
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  725. Nuclear-powered container ships? Those will be denied port access in MANY nations, whom by law deny such access.
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  726.  @charlesdada6434  "Fired first?" Are you on crack? Exactly one group was armed that day, and it wasn't the students. What, did they point their fingers and yell "Bang?!" Get your disgusting lies out of here.
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  727. I prefer the stronger ginger bite; I'm very much a 'by feel' cook, so this is exactly the kind of recipe that I prefer. But yeah, I'll be dialing up the ginger.
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  728.  @MrBlack1968  except that Parler is not in competition with Amazon. So your point is nonsense.
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  729. Yep. Heat stress monitoring is kinda critical.
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  730. Low boil. Just as someone whom is seething has not quite boiled over.
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  731. Fortunately for Rome, the Flavian Amphitheater is in a sub-tropical climate.
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  732. Owners: "We'll make bank on the ammo! No one else makes it, so we'll be rolling in the cash from selling ammo to our armies of loyal customers! Marketing Department: "Whoah, hol' up there a second..."
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  733. Guadalcanal tour? Sign me up! Not really - can't afford it, though at a tour price that amount to us$750 to ~ $500 a day, well, that's surprisingly affordable.
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  734.  @LilianTheNinkasi  yeah, so history. Thanks! I suppose I could say 'la Belle France,' instead. Seriously, living where I do, I can't go an hour without stumbling over a Lafayette, Pulaski, or Von Steuben reference or landmark. Heck, the town I grew up in (partly, at least) was named by one of Lafayette's aides (Havre de Grace).
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  735. The geezer was correct. And if you used the biceps brace position to fire, you would need to skip biceps day at the gym until the bruises faded.
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  736.  @memkiii  that is the goal, but the fun thing about that is that HARM can also be preprogrammed with targets. No radiation required.
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  737. Sam Cummings. Distant (not super distant) cousin of mine. Not exactly my favorite person.
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  738. He was avoiding the low-hanging (Heh!) fruit. I'll just get my coat then, and be on my way...
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  739.  @toxicmatrix1337  I thought about that, but haven't tried it. Easy enough to remove the floor plate on a mag, so shouldn't be hard to do.
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  740. The Soviet Union, and Putin later, have worked VERY hard to create political apathy in their subjects. It's worked.
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  741. God bless, and stay strong. Never forget to ask for help. I lost my best friend, mentor, and sister of my heart to heroin - she had been clean and sober for more than 20 years when she fell back into using. She fell so fast, in just six months, it killed her. Everyone thought she was 'cured,' her support network failed her.
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  742. Thinking a bit further, it would seem highly plausible that the Japanese skipper would be unfamiliar with the behavior of the waters in the "Potato Patch," as it is called, and would not know to close in much more closely to ensure an accurate shot.
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  743. But... I thought they were so MANLY! WAaaaaaa...
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  744.  @devileh  here's the Q&A where the Elbonian meme begins, time mark @ 54 minutes: https://youtu.be/_19y3ZWCbNc
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  745.  @Willon  have you ever watch a bush pilot land? With STOL capability, there are a LOT of spots open. Most common would be sand bars on rivers, but there are other areas as well.
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  746. Too much machining, trying to get into an under-perfoming marketing segment.
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  747. Grenfell Tower fire. It seems exactly the sort of thing that would benefit from your clear explanations.
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  748. By and large, the loathing for auto-loaders was based in two concepts: 1) New things break. When the cost of failure is losing a war, generals like 'old and proven.' 2) Auto-loaders consume ammunition at a fearsome rate, destroying budgets and require an expanded logistics train. General officers dislike having to beg for larger ammo budgets, and having buy additional transport to keep front line units supplied.
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  749. But what someone comes after you with a bunch of loganberries..?
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  750.  @eliz_scubavn  well, recall that Yakuza started from a community protection point of view, where similar services just weren't available from local government. They evolved into criminal organizations, but that community root was always there. Indeed, that's where the Mafia came from as well.
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  751. You win +1 Internets.
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  752. Recall the time frame from when the notebook was written - BEFORE The Great Kharkiv Rout. In short, they DID collapse like a house of cards.
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  753.  @jameshealy4594  that's the selectivity I'm talking about: deliberately targeting people with shallow pockets.
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  754. Space Orc Bolterz always bring da dakka. This 'weapon..?' Yeah, no.
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  755. That last plate? It died of fright.
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  756. Bollywood action movie
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  757. Ah, but there's this: Assassin: menace! Emperor: whips out magnificent art pistol Assassin: "Say, can I take a look at that?" Guards: "Ah ha!" Assassin: "Merde! Foiled!" Just a routine day in the adventures of Engraved Gun.
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  758.  @Lousasshol  no driver. It is common habit in all militaries to leave trucks in idle - other vehicles too - while loading or unloading. That was clearly seen going on, in the video. Fire destroys brake lines, truck rolls off on its own. That is ALSO a known failure mode. This meets all known facts, and is VASTLY more plausible than someone deciding to enter meter high flames on an already fully-on fire truck, operate the controls with his now-melting flesh, and attempt to drive away.
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  759. You could say Ryan is a counter-propagandist.
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  760. And the title of a cookbook, as well. "Max Miller Serves it Forth: A Collection of Ancient and Medieval Recipes from Around the Globe."
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  761. "Lady-boy got ya in the eye..." 😲
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  762. A bit of 'Buck Fever' there, but not too much; still a good clean shot.
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  763. When Rube Goldberg designs a weapon...
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  764. Not a mistake. Deliberate decision. They knew; they hid the problem. It's not like other choices in propellant weren't available; they went cheap, and stayed cheap once they knew it was problematic.
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  765.  @notahotshot  taking a dump isn't generally crucial to the plot - except when it is, they do show it (ref 'Lethal Weapon'). Shooting, on the other hand, is often central - and yeah, it's off-putting when they get it wrong, especially since they can and do get it right (ref 'Lethal Weapon,' 'John Wick,' 'Dirty Harry,' etc.). In fact, done right, reloading improves the story by adding tension, drama, and opportunities for plot development. It's lazy storytelling, and a failure of craft.
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  766. This is just good smart business. The client states get top-quality proven equipment, Ukraine gets the tools it needs to prosecute its self defense, and the US is less out of pocket whilst establishing credibility with Ukraine and the various clients.
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  767. Colin Furze agrees.
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  768. Love seeing a vicious parasite get squished.
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  769. Child's model shotgun. Yeah, I know, half of you are cringing at having to turn in your Man Card. Pfft. Don't care. I'm all about solving the actual problem, not my ego. Compact, maneuverable, lightweight, reliable. You can get them in 20 gage, which is plenty sufficient for 'house distances.' Oh, and they're inexpensive and you don't have to faff about with the NFA. There. Use case problem solved.
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  770.  @OttoVonGarfield  ok, that's frickin' HILARIOUS. "Nobody, the Minor Priest; Dinosaur Rider of the Afterlife."
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  771. The spring makes certain that the bolt locks back into position. Short-stroking the bolt on the forward part of the cycle in manual operation could have... Negative outcomes.
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  772. Ah. Troll AKs as opposed to Orc AKs
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  773. They're iconic for a the same reason - easy to conceptualize and design.
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  774. "Moderation" is all the diet most people need. Yeah, I know.
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  775. /. effect. It's real.
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  776.  @Nomozacc  🤣😂
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  777.  @Getpojke  a 'truck garden' is like a normal produce garden, but with an emphasis on produce that can be sold. Watermelon, squash, pumpkin, tomatoes, potatoes and sweet potatoes... You will find formal and informal roadside produce stands are extremely common in America, especially rural America. 'To truck' is to engage in commerce, business, or other advantageous interaction with another person. Hence 'truckers;' people whom move things from place to place for pay or barter. Whilst the UK has lorries, the US has trucks, those transports being the primary tool of people who move things, especially agricultural goods, from place to place. Hence also 'trucking companies,' larger formal organizations that do the same. Likewise, phrases like "I'll have no truck with that person;" to declare that you'll not work with or engage in commerce with a specific person or group of persons ("I have no truck with bigots," as an example). Thus, your question gets not just a definition, but also a language and culture lesson, too. 😉
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  778. Tteok Mandu Guk (Tteokguk with dumplings) would be an equal treat. Also with kimchi.
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  779. I've had the experience of handing a girl a gun... She's an outstanding shot, and better on safety than I am.
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  780.  @0neDoomedSpaceMarine  not a lot. By that point, you'd be mortaring the shots in. Probably still useful, but only just. Edit: Chuck Hawks has a chart showing an arc of +2.9 inches @ 50 yards, and -5.4 inches @ 100 yards, so you get the idea... Rainbow. Edit 2: Hornady charts show ~ 254 meters per second @ 100m. That's just under 790fps @ 100m, down from about 945fps at the muzzle. Pretty aenemic by 100 meters, so 150 meters is a LONG stretch.
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  781. They were called "Pig Boats" for a reason...
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  782.  @ulfpe  meh. They shouldn't be my neighbors if they can't take a joke. 😛
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  783. I have a sudden desire to posses a French rifle... And scope.
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  784. Surprised the story didn't turn into a manga, with the (p)lucky hero flying off to defend Japan from Kaiju or space aliens.
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  785.  @lizard944  I beg to differ. I reported to a Civil Engineer at NAVSTA Philly, and whilst technically I had a military superior, my civilian boss controlled my tasking, jobs, and and yes, my leave. Which made him my superior in every manner that mattered. Likewise, when my father was Chief Engineer, SPO, HEL, Aberdeen, he had not one, not two, but four NCOs working directly for him.
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  786.  @JETJOOBOY  this is a brilliant idea.
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  787. Ammunition shortage brings ALL the obscure ammo out of the closets.
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  788.  @exvaran  I like hardcopy. It doesn't time out on you while you're busy cooking.
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  789. There used to be "puzzle maps" of the United States for teaching children the shape and names of the various states. I don't recall ever seeing one made of chocolate, though.
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  790.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Bruce Clarke's brilliant ad-hoc defense was the thumb in the throat of the advance towards Antwerp - denying Germany the key road junction and rail line ended their ambitions. Even after being pushed out of St. Vith, the American defenses on the high ground to the west dominated the town and junction, still denying their use to the Germans. German forces never did gain functional control of the junction, and St. Vith was the functional high water mark of their offensive. Likewise, the northern shoulder continuously faced fresh German soldiers as each advancing unit slid past. Preventing the gap widening into a general breakout was absolutely critical. The brutal, heroic fight there is almost always never covered in any detail.
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  791. Fire degrades concrete and ruins steel beams' durability. Fire is not that surprising a cause.
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  792. I'm personally a big fan of.38 Super, but I readily admit I'm weird. The issue of legacy firearms that headspace on the rim presents a problem, mostly with Fud and mythical lore.
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  793. Spike bayonet, and it's short. Can't be Japanese.
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  794. Heritage means little; people will surprise you every time.
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  795. Quite a few monks were also incredibly corrupt. Getting paid to pray rich people into Heaven; gotta find something to do with all that money. Good food is only one of the things they bought.
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  796. .38 Super shooter here; hot cartridge, 'Major' loads need stiff springs, or it will bash itself apart in short order.
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  797. The captive main spring is pretty nifty.
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  798.  @LazykidsWorld  not terribly mobile, I fear. If you could arrange for the enemy to bivouac in a grove in mid-winter, you'd have a horrifying weapon to use. Otherwise... Well, yeah.
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  799.  @Boilerz1  which is as it should be. Seargeants are responsible for their troops and making certain their troops maintain their weapons and kit in top working condition, including cleanliness and physical soundness. Troops who muck with their gear are now non-standard, and make more work for their NCOs, not to mention their gear potentially failing at a crucial moment. Yes, scrimshawed rifle stocks don't seem that big a deal, but they represent extra time inspecting for function that could be more useful spent doing any of the other ten thousand things an NCO has to do. I'd be pissed off, too.
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  800. House of cards. Glory to the Heroes.
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  801. I've fired .45 derringers, and while stout, the recoil on those were entirely manageable. I would expect the experience with a Semmerling to be similar.
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  802.  @krankarvolund7771  you can sure as hell crush with one, though. And the motion is the same as if you were stabbing.
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  803. Moscow is claiming that they were outnumbered 8-1 in the Kharkiv Oblast. Given the usual Russian propaganda practice, that probably means that the Ukrainians had about 80% of the Russian forces, but concentrated those forces heavily to obtain local superiority. This is, oddly, not an indictment of the Russian forces - the soldiers, at least - once a rout starts, you either must contain it immediately, or you must get EVERYONE out as fast as possible. Cascade failure is a pernicious thing, and if you want to save anything, you need to step sharply back and get to a stable condition. Of course, that means you wind up surrendering a LOT of your gains and goods. No, the indictment here is against the Russian leadership. First, they fell for the Ukrainian's brilliant bit of theater in Kherson - A real counter offensive, not just a pretend one, but a real offensive also designed to lure Russian forces out of position. EVERYONE fell for that - Western Analysts, media, and most certainly Russia. Western high military leaders probably knew it was coming, and it's known that the US War College has been helping game the counter offensive, so certainly, high US, and probably NATO commanders as well, knew what to expect. Security on this? IMPRESSIVE! Because of the bizarre nature of Putin's War, it is an undeclared war, and Russia cannot actually - legally - fully mobilize. So, to gain reserves and reinforcements, it's faster and easier to shift troops from elsewhere on the front lines. Ukraine understood this, and exploited it brilliantly. Second, the Russian leadership has done a shit job of motivating their troops. This goes all the way back to Putin, and his attempt to destroy Ukraine 'on the cheap.' Un-motivated troops will crack when presented with the kind of conditions that a terrifying assault presents. When the front lines begin to crumble, un-engaged units will crack and run too, to avoid being overrun. a small crack, and an unexpected advance is bad enough, but when a primary defense line that the soldiers are relying upon to hold gets flanked and rolled up, confidence shatters, and then so do the units. Third, Russian command and control SUCKS. So does their ability to act flexibly in the face of change. Initiative is almost entirely lacking. Contrary-wise, Ukrainian forces have a very much more 'Western' outlook, with initiative encouraged and flexible response as a key concept. Rigid command and control is VERY bad at dealing with rapid changes, and the failure of the defense lines outside Balakliya is exactly the kind of thing that Russian-style leadership handles worst. Additionally, looking at the defense lines seen in aerial footage shows clear signs of unskilled low-level leadership; straight trench lines, poor camouflage, squalid conditions in base camps, and generally bad fieldcraft tells me that the local NCOs are just not up to the task.
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  804. It's no different for handguns; there is a minor but still thriving demand for top end engraving, and there are people who won't even blink at dropping thirty large for such a piece. The trick is putting the weapon together with a buyer.
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  805. Actual Mexican chili; not con carne, nor anything TexMex. A friend's wife made some for me once, but I cannot for the life of me find an authentic recipe that I'm able to read (my Spanish is weak). It was more soup than stew, though that might be a matter of definition. No beans. No meat.
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  806. Museum piece. That, plus the rarity, suggest 'No.'
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  807.  @scladoffle2472  which pretty much describes where we are with Absinthe, as well.
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  808. Arabesque is traditional, but I'm sure that if you've got the wallet, they have your pattern.
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  809.  @patron8597  the point is that alcohol stored calories. Shelf-stable calorie storage is critical to advancing civilization; it meant that food was available year 'round. Likewise, fermenting and pickling foods enhanced the ability to advance civilization. There's a reason for harvest festivals - it meant you had enough food put by that you would not starve to death before the first crops were harvested in late spring. Beer was absolutely part of that caloric storage.
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  810. I know, right? Said in that mellow calm voice of his.
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  811. HIMARS is living up to the hype, and then some. Fucking lethal, and a complete game-changer. The Orcs can still supply, but it must come from much further away, screwing up their logistics and resupply timelines. Not to mention, exposing their supply chain to that lethal Ukrainian tube artillery.
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  812. ​ @ratdude747 same as killed RFK, Jr.
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  813. He does seem kinda "Vault Corp."
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  814. Worcestershire sauce, usually, though sometimes soy. Also, mushroom spice - an umami-enhancing spice blend.
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  815. Bang-Fu
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  816.  @ryanmooney5758  blaming an individual for culpable negligence ABSOLUTELY makes for a healthy system. There is A REASON PEs sign for projects - it enforces accountability and dilligence. Allowing culpable negligence to go scott-free only encourages further negligence. You are EXACTLY wrong.
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  817. Gambler's gun.
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  818. Creole seasoning on your fried chicken is PERFECT. My late father's widow is Cajun. "Spicy" is a way of life. Punch it up!
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  819. I'm a simple man - Mark drops a video, I drop what I'm doing to click through and watch. It's ALWAYS worth it!
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  820. "Active tank forces." A hulk is a tank, but it isn't active. Russia counts hulks, including stored obsolete units like T-54/55 hulks. But Russia is dragging units out of parks and refurbishing them, so the "active" number isn't falling as fast as it might otherwise have done; and the losses aren't as impactful as they would have been if Russia weren't sitting on a heap of hulks. A T-64 or T-62 with decent optics and fire control is effective enough, in this war. If Russia ever gets reduced to overhauling T-54/55 tanks, THEN we can call their armor ineffective.
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  821. Yeah, I'd always thought that "Janjaweed" meant "rampant atrocity and abuse."
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  822.  @ronmorton4569  some German, Arabic, and especially Spanish (Iberian dialect). Tone languages aren't impossible for me, but more work than I want. German, especially, I find easy enough if you have a nimble tongue.
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  823.  @flannelpillowcase6475  Casualty rates were far lower than you'd expect, save for forces where everyone lives - or dies - together, such as submarines and bomber aircraft.
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  824. Medical services will need backup.
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  825.  @ironwolfF1  I just read that in Officer Barbrady voice...
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  826. UK personal kit has been one of the better contributions to Ukraine; a miserable soldier is ineffective. British kit is pretty damn good.
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  827. O'Douls ain't beer. No alcohol, it's got no claim to the fame. It's a Malt Beverage. Best it can claim is "Near Beer." But not damn near enough!
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  828. Making a virtue out of a vice. 👍
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  829.  @reekpeekseek  you can see the patterning. If there were a significant number of missed shots, the pattern would also stretch along the bridge. It doesn't. All hits fall within a 20 meter circle. If the CEP were greater, the footprint along the length of the bridge would be greater... But it isn't. Ipso facto, the CEP is ~10 meters. Or less.
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  830. It worked for the P-47; if it works once...
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  831. Proof against that charge. Even slightly larger, and it would have punched through. Still impressive as heck, though!
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  832. Depends on what you think of as "Sporting." 😛
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  833. "Who touched my gun?!"
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  834. .416 has a superior ballistic coefficient; heavy, skinny, long bullet retains energy better, and is usually more stable.
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  835. Damn you, now I need pizza. 😁 Sick burn on the 'Soviet food' crack. #akgnotificationsquad
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  836.  @LUR1FAX  "what might have been." No older phrase, in any language, anywhere.
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  837. Potentially could have worked. Zeppelins had the range... Just barely. Set a submarine at rendezvous for refuelling, and it's technically feasible. Of course, zeppelins were super vulnerable to the weather, were fragile, and prone to engine failure... It would have been an insanely expensive stunt, with incredible losses just from the inherent hazards. Basically, it would have been a one-shot deal, consuming most of Germany's Zeppelin force for a token result.
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  838. Well, he wasn't wrong.
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  839.  @naamadossantossilva4736  not entirely a myth; the Hindenburg needed the extra lift, yes, but also yes, the US government was embargoing helium to Germany.
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  840. 200 grains @ 600fps will kill you much faster than any infection will. Not at all hot, but definitely enough to wreck import body parts.
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  841. That's a double endorsement. I'm in.
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  842.  @trollmcclure1884  probably not, but would you want to be the one testing that theory?
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  843. Germany missed a bet on this one; this would have been useful as a mobile unit, mounted under light armor in a highly agile utility vehicle. Hit-and-run, with a higher rate of fire than a panzerschreck and greater mobility and survivability than an infantry team. Greater sustainable rate of fire, too, if you don't have to lug the ammunition about on your back.
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  844. "Crack" is what happens to your teeth when you bite into it.
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  845. This is brilliant news!
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  846. B-29 wasn't used in the Euro theater of operations; the Nazis never saw one.
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  847. Probably stuck in an armory somewhere and forgotten for 70 years.
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  848. Time to go digging through attics and estate sales... Belgium has some of the greatest firearms history; there have to be more than a few treasures looking to be found.
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  849.  Andrew Cummings  yeah, kinda. Like a lot with firearms, though, "it depends." Finding specific firearms in .25 cal can be hard, because it's an unpopular caliber; 'weak' is an understatement. Once, it was very much more popular, but that ship sailed long, long ago. GOOD quality .25 handguns are almost entirely antiques. You can get new guns in .25, but those are either rather spendy, or are mostly crap. So, if you want an obscure piece like a .25 Melior, well, it's a hunt. And that's a large part of the fun... Searching for a 'unicorn gun' can be like going detective and solving a mystery. I'm that way about Mausers - filling a gap in my collection is always a huge 'score!' moment for me.
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  850. Nice!
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  851. How does that happen? When the Defendant is a malicious narcissist, it's almost inevitable.
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  852. I remember when those were for sale - they showed up in the back of every gun rag out there, for stupid low prices. I saw a vid on these a couple years ago - I think it was Gun Jesus - and yeah, they sucked as bad as you'd expect.
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  853.  @Hidalguense  got a bit fed up with social media. I found myself turning into a butthead, so I took a lengthy break.
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  854. The primer flash ignited the paper.
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  855.  @mrdeun3655  yeah, receiver and fire control group mods. 7.62x54R has a stout recoil, but the DP-27 is heavy enough to tame it well enough. I just couldn't justify the 2800 Euro price tag. That might have been a good price, but I have better things to do with my money. Like buying more Mausers. 😁 The fact that it had an entire battle case of magazines was fairly astonishing, though.
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  856. Russia doesn't care if the conscripts starve. But starving soldiers do not fight well.
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  857.  @madkoala2130  did you seriously ask that, or are you being ironic? The international arms trade still thrives, and spares are the biggest part of it - everyone needs spares, even in times of peace. End User certificates aren't even needed for some parts, whilst any number of shady governments are willing to fudge one for a bit of cash on the side. That's not even counting out the straight up smugglers.
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  858. Local rules rule. If you're getting lots of tourist traffic, and the tourists are often entirely weapons-naive, precautions seems entirely correct.
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  859.  @alexander.Rainforest1987  it's a Ben Franklin paraphrase.
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  860.  @hessex1899  "flamethrower."
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  861.  @kariarabellalassauniere402  engineering as art. Pretty much the type definition for the concept.
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  862. 😂
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  863. How about the history of mayonnaise?
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  864.  @suchabadkitty1293  nope. And that's a bad misreading, trying make me 'wrong.' Don't go there; you'll lose.
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  865. Lots more time on our hands; kitchen experiments abound!
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  866.  @verdebusterAP  No. If you know anything about shooting, that cartridge, the 12.7x114, is a very clever adaptation of marrying a precision A-Max 12.7 bullet to the very high-capacity 14.5x114 case, producing a precise-shooting long range solution. It is in NO WAY 'cheaped out' - these guys knew exactly what they were doing. In a smaller format, look at the .416 Barrett - a .50 BMG case necked down to a .41 caliber bullet. In each case, you have an over-capacity case driving a smaller bullet which has better ballistic performance, producing a more accurate grouping at long range. As for the rifle itself, well - it may look like an angry tube, and that's because that's exactly what it is. It is designed very specifically to be a precise, low-rate-of-fire heavy rifle. Nothing fancy - everything that is needed, and nothing that is not.
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  867. It was inevitable that the ruling was going to change; it was such a blatant abuse of loopholes the BATFE had no choice. I'm just surprised it took this long.
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  868. Trying to pretend to be entirely self-sufficient, thus 'unconquerable.'
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  869. Yeah, I heard a bunch of "my product is superior because USA!" there. Not actually true, but not surprising he was bigging up his own products.
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  870.  @ntrf-xyz  in general, simplicity gets you the desired ease of assembly, maintenance, and operation. The more simple, the less opportunity for idiots to 'happen.'
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  871.  @sjtv6565  there was a radius; basically ten minutes out. Didn't stop drivers from taking "suicide runs" with late pies headed three different directions. We generally (~95+%) made them, too. Edit: Oh, and anything outside the radius lost the guarantee. It was a different era.
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  872.  @iwontliveinfear  don't forget "stabbed several times." The man was a beast.
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  873.  @GiselleMF  deep-fried cheese-dough on a stick? Pretty sure that's a staple at most county fairs. Frequently dipped in chocolate.
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  874. Pilot thought his own ego could intimidate the terrain into complying.
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  875. Former Navy Nuc here; trust me, SL-1 gets discussed PLENTY. Safety 'lessons learned" training based on SL-1 is a frequent event.
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  876. Ok, that intro made me laugh. 😁 Also: Bondo. Just sayin'
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  877. I'm willing to bet your, and Ian's, supporters would fund such an effort, should y'all ask.
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  878.  @Shadow_Hawk_Streaming  Desktop Organizers made from trunnions and such? I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Just make sure that Tariff & Revenue folks understand those desktop organizers are properly de-mil'd, else you might find yourself "assisting" some humorless lads with their "inquiries."
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  879. For an easily digestible demonstration of the pitfalls of high-durability 3DP, check out the videos on 3DP rocket motors from Integza.
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  880. "If the fight last more than 30 seconds, run like hell - you're losing." ~ wise old Master Chief.
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  881. I grew up with such crossings, several being on my route between my home, my place of work, and my girlfriend's house. You very quickly learned extreme caution on these humped, unguarded, deathtraps. The dump truck driver in this incident was likely NOT a local to this area, so didn't know the adaptations that locals would use to ensure safe crossing.
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  882. Double valve isolation is a key process in a large number of industrial applications. Was formerly a USN Nuc operator, and we routinely used double isolation, to the point where it was natural. At some times, double isolation required freeze seals, where a second valve wasn't present; freeze seals always made me paranoid.
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  883.  @murphy7801  it's also the nation of Notre Dame, Joan of Arc, the founder of the Jesuits, St. Frances de Sales, and St. Therese of Lisieux. Calling France not a Catholic nation would be absurd. It's just not a fanatic nation.
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  884.  @realnutteruk1  "mostly" doesn't eliminate the lead. Aluminum pewter is generally fine, but I avoid any antique pewter because it's hard to determine which is which.
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  885.  @johsiantorres8495  I'm American. It's my god-given right to screw with tradition. Aside from which, the Grinch is entirely a creation of Dr. Seuss, so has zip-point-diddly to do with Christian tradition anyway.
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  886. Maybe not even then. 😛
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  887. Took me a moment, but I understand the reference now; "Chinese" language is a regional grouping, and not a specific individual language. So saying "I speak Chinese" would be similar to saying "I speak European."
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  888. Writing vid titles for PornHub, eh?
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  889.  @vincentproud6589  no... He had to explain it - complete with Power Point slides - to senior officers. The enlisted already understood 'Naruto Run.'
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  890. That Stemple tube sure is versatile.
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  891. I often think of Florida as a giant sandbar, waiting for the right storm to come wash it away. Yes, I've lived in Florida.
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  892.  @Felice_Enellen  that's a red herring. Racial discrimination is specifically ruled out by law. No one is alleging racial discrimination here. That's not even a good try; if that's the best argument you've got, you've got absolutely nothing.
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  893. Long pepper is a fine gift; I use it fairly often when I make Indian dishes.
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  894. Facts. Surface fleet likes to pretend that Surface Warfare qualifications are the same as Dolphins. They are not. Fail to qualify Dolphins in a year, what happens? They send you to the surface fleet. Fail to qualify Surface Warfare in a year? No one even notices unless you're an officer. Even then, you just get yelled at a bit, and told to get hot. Enlisted sailors only just have to pretend to care. Submariners: I might not like you. I might hate your guts. But if you're wearing Dolphins, I know I can trust you with my life - you are my sibling.
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  895. AKA "The devil is in the details."
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  896. Cosmoline is a dirty word, not fit for polite company.
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  897. Fucking YT doesn't even know its own rules; it appears to be wildly subjective, depending on who you get as a reviewer.
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  898. My father was one of the supervisors of the camera range during the early testing of the lifting body tests.
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  899. "And verily, it was screwed." ~ Gospel of Gun Jesus, Book of SMGs, Chapter of the Finns, Line 63
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  900. Tension on the ammunition, combined with a tiny area lacking guidance allows the round to mis-align, and fail to feed. It only happens on the one side, with the clip loaded in the one orientation, because the milled-away bit is only on the one side.
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  901. "Time to have a good laugh..."
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  902.  @Juggernautdemon  because there are no US soldiers guarding the poppy fields. They're all guarding either Kabul safe zones, or airfields and support bases. Your assertions are fantasies. You're not just wrong, you're probably wrong. If you're going to invent a fantasy, at least try to make it plausible.
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  903.  @lushedleshen  interesting note on milk in coffee. That explains why half & half, or full fat cream work, while skim milk is a completely wasted effort. Thanks!
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  904. Ian being mean to small firearms, part II. 😛
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  905.  @jakehelfrich3756  you didn't fail to connect the dots, you made a factually incorrect statement. To which I provided the adjustment. Now, if you observe the stone, you'll see that he was indeed avoiding center mass hits.
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  906. Nice find!
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  907. Someone ate his Globi. I'd look like that too, if someone filched my Globi.
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  908.  @FerretKibble  it's the ever-endless quest for commercial advantage. Deliberately growing melons for thinner rinds means more weight of useable pith. Likewise, hybridization for fewer seeds. Current commercial watermelon is extremely sweet, tends towards seedlessness, and is unfortunately easy to accidentally split. I prefer heirloom 'sugar baby' melons, which are about cantaloupe-sized, or a bit smaller, intensely sweet, and have rind a bit over a half-inch (1.3 - 1.5 cm) thick. At that size, they don't split easy, are basically single-serving per melon, and the rinds are a good thickness for chopping into pickles. Larger, thicker-hulled melons are also good, if you plan on bigger chunks of pickle. Pickled watermelon rind is a translucent pale green, with an appearance similar to Turkish Delight, but with a crisp/firm tooth and a tart-sweet flavor.
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  909.  @dwaynewladyka577  true facts. "Fresh from the stalk" vegetables are THE best. My mother had us planting three times more peas than she expected to harvest/need. Why? Because we kids would randomly snack on them straight off the vine. Harvesting peas and pole beans meant that for every pod that went in the basket, another one went straight into someone's mouth. We were painfully tight on money, but we were well fed, and fed well none-the-less.
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  910.  @K-a-n-d-i-s  I usually just stab it out of the jar with a fork. The closest analog I can think of of is 'bread and butter' pickles. Sweet, savory, acidic. If I'm not just straight up raiding the jar, I put them alongside barbecue pork or pulled pork, with baked beans, chips (crisps), corn on the cob, and potato salad. Beverage? Usually beer.
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  911. That grip angle messes with my head.
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  912. Higher-pitched than I expected; it's such a big weapon I was expecting more of a canon-type 'boom!' 😎
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  913. How about a pointy stick..?
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  914.  @walmorcarvalho2512  class act, Sir. Thank you.
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  915.  @maitele  to this day, I can still repeat the Lethal Force Statement that I had to learn, from the very first day of my duties on Reaction Force. It was ground into us until we could state it verbatim, at any time. Proper training takes time, effort and skill, but it's still a damn sight cheaper than regret.
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  916.  @huichuanyang8105  yes. Good single-malt at the finish line (wherever that might be).
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  917. Well, yeah. There's a reason why it's "backup" and not primary.
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  918. Make it last your whole life long...
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  919.  @isthisshabab4561  almost certainly false. Military trucks are often left in idle when loading or unloading, as was clearly the activity seen. Fire destroys the brake lines, truck rolls away under idle. Matches all observed facts, and FAR more plausible than some soldier sat in meter-high flames while trying to drive.
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  920.  @JanTuts  😁
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  921.  @avlawns3037  ah, so Ian should run his business to your taste. I see. How VERY entitled of you; I'm sure he'll get right on that, Your Majesty.
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  922. "Brisance" or "brightness" refers to the detonation velocity of an explosion. High brisance explosives tend to shatter things, where low brisance explosives tend to 'heave' or move things around. To shatter the concrete pilings, for instance, you'd want high brisance. But to distort and destroy the road bed, you're going to want lower brisance - and evidence is clear, that's what happened.
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  923.  Graf von Losinj  it's like the Pentathlon, in that respect. The Modern Pentathlon has a hard-core military application that was deadly serious.
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  924. The strike hit the gun system, which would not necessarily have wrecked the truck underneath. Even if the chassis underneath had ultimately survived, it would still have been a mission kill. But the truck eventually burned anyway.
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  925. 😂🤣😂
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  926.  @shiroamakusa8075  true enough... And Russia has been under authoritarian rule... Well, pretty much forever. This problem is literally baked into Russian culture.
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  927. Knowledge!
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  928.  @craigh5236  yep. I use the 'Nothing in life is free' approach. Dog gives me a behavior, they get a treat. Dog wants out to pee, they give me a behavior (generally a 'Sit.'). Dog performs as expected, they get praise. It's all give-and-take, transactions between behaviors and rewards. I don't need to raise my voice, or threaten. My dogs do what I ask because they know doing so will get them something nice - treat, affection, interesting experiences, etc. And yes, I've seen dog people raise their children in quite a similar manner. It works nearly as well with children as it does with dogs.
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  929. Recall that for a long time, the written language was the province of a well-educated bureaucracy, which highly valued poetry as a sign and trapping of their education. That kind of influence sticks.
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  930.  @housemana  I know about fear. I face it every day I work. It doesn't stop me from doing what needs to be done, but I sweat bullets every time I go above about twelve feet. But that's the job, and I do it. But fear and horror, well, horror adds emotional pain. The price of too much of an imagination, I guess - not only do I see the pain, but I feel it too.
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  931.  @sealove79able  it was an exact duplicate. Same virtues, same vices. Even the instrument labels were copied. The Soviets even built an entire mill to roll out aluminum sheeting in the correct (SAE) guage. Edit: Stalin was terribly frightening; Tupelov had to appeal directly to the Politburo and eventually Stalin, to get permission to substitute superior Soviet 23mm cannon in the turrets.
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  932.  @Cybonator  nope. On a cost-benefit basis they were a complete waste.
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  933.  @jeromethiel4323  Not really. If you don't need fanciest, then inexpensive surplus, upgraded, makes absolute sense - especially if you're budget-constrained. This is a historical observation, born out over centuries of practice.
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  934.  @saabaton169  fact is, Ukraine is NOT part of NATO. Imagine that... You political leaders not going to war over a country to which they have no obligations. Almost like they're trying to NOT make a terrible situation even worse... 🙄
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  935. Grew up in Havre de Grace, Maryland - Right next to Aberdeen, and Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG). It was modestly common for Russian 'Trawlers' to transit the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which would dump them into the Susquehanna river and Chesapeake Bay just north of APG. Exiting the canal, these 'trawlers' would suddenly grow a forest of antennae as they headed south down the bay, passing APG. It was always a bit amusing to see them - They were desperately trying to intercept telemetry on the various testing programs ongoing. The joke was on them - At that time, APG used hard-wired data transmission, and their efforts were wasted.
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  936. In WWII, General (then Colonel) Bruce Clarke at the head of Combat Command B demonstrated the explosively disruptive effect of a relatively small but very fast armored unit can have when deep in the enemy rear. Clarke 'out-blitzkrieged' the Germans, and routinely wrecked German defense efforts. The Ukrainian offensive looks very similar to Clarke's operations.
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  937.  @dscrappygolani7981  France does their own thing.
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  938.  James  nice looney theory. I bet you sucker a lot of idiots with that insane bit of paranoia.
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  939.  @Vivi2372  yeah, you go on thinking like that. I recognize that kind of thinking, and you're welcome to be that way if it makes you feel righteous.
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  940. It seems highly variable, depending on region. In the north, for instance, after the rout it looks like some professional officers have taken over, conducting intelligent defense and counter-offensive actions in the face superior Ukrainian firepower. They're still losing, but losing in the most conservative manner they can manage. By comparison, in the Wagner Group area of operations, near Bakhmut, they appear to be running purely caveman tactics. Consequently, massive casualties and gratuitous destruction are order of the day. This says some damning things about Russian officer corps and their training, and treatment - punishing officers for sensible conservation of their troops is how you get rid of competence.
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  941. It's uncommon, but it makes for a really solid lock-up, with no vertical wiggle at all. Nice, secure platform for the sights.
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  942. Ian doesn't need the shower of lawyers that would cause.
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  943. You would think that the Russians would have learned from the UK's experience in WWI with the Pal's Brigades - recruiting a unit from the local community risks horrible results if that unit gets caught in a bad spot in combat. Entire communities can lose their future. I guess desperation is its own justification.
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  944.  @tordsteiro9838  and that's why the orcs are losing, and will continue to lose. They tried doing this 'on the cheap,' not respecting Ukraine at all. They don't have the necessary resources to properly cover every angle, so every threat they respond to makes them weak somewhere else. Ukraine has the inside line, and jab Russia wherever, whenever, they expose a weakness.
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  945.  @krankarvolund7771  when she was still teaching, my stepmother used a cane, too. Old school cool.
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  946.  @vysharra  my grandmother used lemon juice.
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  947. Common enough objects; look up 9mm Flobert for the kind of cartridge this weapon would have used. Or .22 shot cartridge for the modern variation.
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  948.  @weldonwin  an issue of timing; before, but not much before.
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  949. @Got It Article 5 absolutely scares Putin; why do you think he was so terrified about NATO accepting new members? Article 5 means he can't intimidate or annex members any longer. It puts a sharp limit on his territorial ambition.
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  950.  @hashteraksgage3281  U-boats were always compromised in the rescue department.
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  951. It wouldn't have been "lost." The US explicitly intended to destroy the boat.
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  952. For drones, shotguns. Though honestly, that's a VERY short range solution, and I don't think Russia issues many of those.
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  953. I love secondaries.
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  954. It's literally been through the war.
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  955. Sippy cups for beer...
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  956. The greater drop at the heel of the stock might actually make me take a closer look; I don't like the ergonomics of the more common AK-style rifle. They don't fit my body correctly - I have to hunch over hard to get a good sight picture. A greater drop might put the sights where I can use them comfortably.
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  957.  @chubbycatfish4573  oddly, your lock drawer is half full of socks...
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  958. I honestly feared Ukraine would fall. I have rarely been so happy to be completely wrong.
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  959.  @peterresetz1960  if they picked the firearms Ian suggested, the slingshots would be more effective.
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  960. Almost no one around here, in the American Mid-Atlantic region, bothers recording their hunts; they go out, fill their ticket, clean, butcher, and eat their kills in a very matter-of-fact manner. The deer population is HUGE, and hunting for the table is completely unremarkable. Any recorded hunts from America are deliberately done, and have extra drama built-in. Bear that in mind when watching them.
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  961. Yep. Also from anecdotal reports by users who were mis-using them. Such as my friends and I.
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  962.  @jlex1049  "... in typical human fashion..." Fixed that for you. BTW: Bigotry isn't a good look.
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  963.  @konzetsu6068  minimum changes mean minimum cost, time, effort. That's all to the good for the Property Master.
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  964. Mulholland knew in advance something was wrong. He was TOLD something was wrong. He had TIME to cause an evacuation. Never mind his cack-handed engineering, he could STILL have alleviated the risk and prevented the death toll. And he did NOTHING. Every. Single. Death. was on his head. Depraved negligence. Negligent Homicide. Mulholland gets ZERO respect from me; he should have faced criminal prosecution. ~ Fifth generation native of the Los Angeles basin.
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  965. The design should prevent feeding issues with exotic bullets.
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  966.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  bet you paid dearly, the morning after!
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  967. Crap guns are collectable. Just goes to show the variety and scope of human perversity.
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  968. I've done winter camping, more than a few times. But my camps were properly equipped. This camp is... Rudimentary. These are miserable conditions.
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  969. It's a very India kind of flavor treat; 'things Indian' always played well in English upper society.
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  970. At kissing range.
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  971. Indeed. He busted one of those in about 10 seconds.
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  972. Looks like a Barrett M107 rifle.
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  973.  @RyuusanFT86  there are a surprisingly large number of honorable, decent acts between foes. War doesn't automatically make people animals, though it does happen quite often.
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  974.  @ColdGhost01  US Armed Forces combat survivability in WWII (out of 1,000): 8.6 were killed in action, 3 died from other causes, and 17.7 received non-fatal combat wounds. Yes, as I stipulated, some combat formations suffered outrageous losses; paratrooper formations absolutely suffered disproportionately. Checking my numbers, they did have a horrible survival rate, but they were also a very small percentage of the overall force - context matters. On the other hand, my thesis holds up: joining the military was in no way a death sentence. Joining a high-risk formation might be, but overall, no.
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  975. There will always be haters.
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  976. France. They do things their own way.
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  977. Not a huge difference. Just a change in doctrine, really.
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  978. Meh. Easy enough to figure; engine in idle - a common enough military habit - and the fire disables the brakes. That plenty to get it rolling, even with deflated tyres.
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  979.  @Stevie-J  matte black, tackytical green, day-glo orange, and fleshy pink. Other colors coming soon!
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  980. In the news, next week: "Local inventor sends tomato into low earth orbit."
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  981. Pilots' last instinct. Height == energy == options He didn't actually have any options, but his final instinctive act was in the correct direction. Sad, because this was clearly a capable pilot, which means a bright and educated mind - a mind that could have been a businessman, or an engineer, or an public servant... Instead, he's cold meat. Russia is eating its own future.
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  982.  @junichiroyamashita  the .22 lr is not contemptible, and it's cheap, and it's everywhere. The more capable rounds are rare, and much more costly. Even .22wmr is fairly rare, comparitively.
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  983. "Courageous 13." Because two months of playing hide-and-seek with determined foes through the Balkans is not for the faint of heart. Ask Captain O'Grady; it was tough, and he only had to evade for a week.
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  984. Yeah... Let me shuffle that down me trousers. No one will notice...
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  985. Dude was an artist at the controls. My parents knew him, though not closely. My father was in charge of the operation of the Askania cameras that tracked test flights; he was always blown away by Shock's ability to crash-land without completely destroying the aircraft.
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  986. That's some quality police work.
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  987. Head-to-head testing. With really fun weapons. Sucks to be you. 😝
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  988.  @anthonyhayes1267  Rule 34. There are no exceptions.
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  989. A PAK 38 might be easier on the wallet...
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  990.  @mage3690  which would be great, if they were installed, calibrated, and integrated into the programming. Unfortunately, what vector the signal came from isn't a very useful datum, especially on crowded and active airfields which might have 100 different aircraft moving and transmitting in a rather compact area. It is would add to the clutter of information without adding utility. Better to have a digital system that allows traffic control to know who is communicating, and plays the voice call so the ATC can hear the traffic getting stepped on - then he knows who to ask for a repeat transmission.
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  991.  @Juggernautdemon  "Saw." Past-tense. There are under 3000 US troops left in Afghanistan. As an Afghani, you're going to tell me that 3000 troops are sufficient to 1) guard Kabul 2) guard the air fields, 3) guard the support bases, and 4) guard poppy fields? BULL. SHIT. You're a liar.
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  992. And cheap brass knick-knacks.
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  993.  @PMMM9  Scarcity / novelty premium... Plus, it is an auction site. Be patient, the price will come down once the fanbois / early adopters get it out of their system.
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  994. Considering that the Spanish Modelo 58 was the G3's papa, the G3 family is CETME-style. All those HK roller-delayed rifles (and submachine guns) trace their ancestry through Spain. It's really quite an interesting story.
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  995.  @borntoclimb7116  anyone who builds an entire skyscraper just to prank someone, is DEFINITELY a supervillain.
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  996.  @stephenwoods4118  and forty five years too early for acetylene.
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  997.  @Poolboy001  part of what you're paying for is the name. But some of it is the refinement that makes the MP-5 such a slick-shooting weapon. It's expensive, but it routinely beats everything else. In those rare cases when it is matched, you find the prices aren't much different. If all you want to do is arm a buncha mooks, well, go cheap. If you need to arm operators, pay for the good stuff.
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  998. A veritable smorgasbord of nine millimeters. 😁 I'm a fan of .38 Super, the descendant of .38acp. The problem with .38acp and the early .38Supers was the semi-rimmed headspacing. Eventually they went to case mouth headspacing, and that solved the accuracy issues, but introduced issues with there being a bunch of legacy guns out there.
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  999. Pork adobo. I ate SO DAMN MUCH of it whilst in the Nav; pork adobo is practically the unofficial meal of the Pac Fleet. Many grew to hate it, but for me it became comfort food, along with pancit and lumpia.
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  1000.  @Uncle_Chag  Patreon members get early access.
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  1001.  @f.a.2115  you'd be surprised - Europe has a stronger firearms community than you'd expect. Nothing like the US, but still present, and still catered-to.
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  1002.  @georgesakellaropoulos8162  better, still! Of course, Eastern Europe has a much less happy recent history, and I'm sure that memories of fairly recent events have informed such enlightened updates. After all, what did Ukraine do when Russia invaded? They opened the armories to the citizenry.
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  1003.  @Isaac556x45  .30-30 is ballistically outdated and rather inefficient, but .45-70 or .44 magnum would work well. .220 Swift or other minor caliber varmint calibers would Excellent.
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  1004. Your year has been a great example of "adapt, improvise, and overcome."
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  1005.  @fredblonder7850  Wow. That's criminally lax.
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  1006. This really is a beautiful piece of optimization; Daewoo went above and beyond.
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  1007. Transformer explosion. Dramatic, noisy, and expensive, but ultimately not that big a deal.
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  1008. This wasn't the export version, either. That means it was probably equipped with higher-end sensors, so is very likely worth more than US$500M
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  1009. Watched this whilst making lunch... Tried to figure out how to make black egg burritos for my children, without ruining them. Fortunately for my kids, the eggs finished before I could begin experimenting.
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  1010. Ukraine President says you don't need to report captured, 'found,' or salvaged Russian military gear - INCLUDING TANKS - as income for tax purposes. Ukraine: No Fucks Given.
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  1011.  @howardwhite1507  armed with batons and fire hoses.
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  1012.  @loquat44-40  indeed, they are. I own one, and it is quite entertaining.
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  1013. OG Hi-Capacity For when you need that double-tap in the 19th century.
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  1014.  @Fugameister  the Army Ordnance Museum had one; since 9/11 and the move out of Aberdeen, I haven't seen their current display.
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  1015. Yeah, I was just about to unload on that, then I saw the correction. Your nest of wiring doesn't make me cringe from the load perspective, but rather more from cable management perspective. Cable nests are just bad - you either have to memorize the plugs, or label them, to know what you're plugging in, or unplugging. The NFP study is entirely clear - it's clear you are non-specialist. Electrical malfunction literally mean electrical equipment failing to function as designed - heater elements, cyclotrons, motors, etc.
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  1016. When jumping into the sea, even if trained properly, timing is crucial. Jump just as a wave is beginning to receed, and you can find yourself falling much further than intended. Hit the water wrong, you're going to get hurt. Get slapped against the hull, you're going to get hurt. Fall too far, you're at risk of getting hurt. Any or all of these can get you dead.
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  1017. That gas piston... 😮 Like they're trying to operate artillery.
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  1018. Double deck highways really are problematic. Especially in places subject to major forces of nature. The Cypress Freeway Collapse, as part of the whole Loma Prieta Quake disaster would attest. Speaking of which, the Loma Prieta Event likely has a plentitude of material for you to cover, all inked to one central event.
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  1019. Listen to me and I'm sure you'll agree The bravest man in history Was neither soldier or champion of law But the first to devour an oyster raw.
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  1020.  @BernardTheMandeville  yeah, I got the notification whilst re-watching this video. Coordinated!
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  1021.  @anastasiab8173  Robinhood CEO got a 3am call to deposit $3Bn to cover deposits on trades. I daresay he shit himself more than just a little - that was a bigger bill than Robinhood's entire capitalization. Yes, he managed to get that talked down by half, but that's still a scary-ass (literal) wake-up call. I can see why he panicked.
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  1022. The balance is amazing. The flinch ain't bad, either.
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  1023. Apt description.
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  1024. Finland is NATO. Putin is a master strategist. One of those two statements is true.
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  1025. Indeed. Brilliant turn of phrase.
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  1026. Meh. They were long out of inventory by then.
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  1027. Got a Colt Navy in the closet - don't get to shoot it much, but it sure is fun when I can.
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  1028.  @danrook5757  what? Have you become lost? What thread do you think you're commenting in?
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  1029.  @aker1993  a light, reliable, effective rifle is a soldier's best friend. Keep your friends close.
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  1030. When held standing vertical, can also serve as a flagstaff.
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  1031. BBs vs glass produces interesting conical sheer effects; HR demonstrated similar effects with glass spheres. I'm willing to bet high-power bullets, especially AP bullets, will produce some fascinating results...
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  1032. Being a Francophile, Ian would rather discuss someone else's humiliation.
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  1033.  @PauloGarcia-sp5ws  heh. Basic food transportation infrastructure in the USSR and successor states is so horribly bad that a planeload of watermelons, in the right market, could literally make your fortune.
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  1034. Sweet shooter. Hardly any recoil, and very controllable.
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  1035. Forward thinking!
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  1036. You, and people like you, give me some hope for Russia's future, post-Putin. Learn the lesson, and never let a despot rule you again. God Bless.
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  1037.  @sealove79able  actually, it was a precise reverse engineered B-29. It was designed in Seattle. The Russians had to literally build new tooling, as everything they had was Metric, and they had very little SAE standard tooling.
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  1038.  @sealove79able  they didn't avoid the bill. They paid for it in the costs to duplicate the tooling, disassemble and measure EVERYTHING, then assemble the clones. Engineering time, materials costs - including research into materials properties as well as development of tools, machines, foundries, and mills necessary to reproduce those materials - plus flight analysis and assessment - AND dealing with the overhead costs that Soviet bureaucracy inevitably involved, all that was one HELL of a bill. Truthfully, it was a MASTERFUL engineering accomplishment - and completely unnecessary. Soviet aircraft engineers were extremely capable. It would have made more sense, and cost much less, to have simply flown the B-29, noting its performance and capabilities, and build a new aircraft from scratch that could duplicate or exceed its accomplishments. Which, amusingly, is exactly what another design group did, producing a perfectly capable performance match for less cost.
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  1039.  @TheWolfsnack  and three healthy lads following to bear the ammunition.
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  1040. I've been there many times; it was - for that time - an unusually comprehensive collection, with advanced naturalistic displays.
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  1041. Not quite throwing rocks, but getting there...
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  1042.  @hedgeearthridge6807  the point of excellence isn't to design something broken; it's to design something that has no excess.
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  1043.  @sjtv6565  "exploited employee" is a constant thing. It's built into the very notion of employment. Only when there are no employees will there be no exploited employees. Customers can be incredibly toxic. But really, you're seeing the cross-section of humanity - in every group, there will always be a certain percentage of toxic assholes.
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  1044.  @martinn.6082  wow. That could have gone far worse. Super lucky dude. I knew a guy - a machinist - who ingested some chrome plating compound. Fatal, and not in a nice way. Took him several days to die; with much of his GI tract literally desolved.
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  1045.  @Al_Prazolamb  oh, no. Japanese submarine carriers were quite well-known even back when I was in high school; pictures, even, in our history books. Marginally useful, but a damn sight more useful than the balloon bombs. The most damage done to the mainland of America was by America - the so-called battle of Los Angeles - when someone panicked and started popping off anti-aircraft guns, leading to a cascade of panic-firing. A couple IJN submarines used deck guns to do minor damage, too - especially to a refinery. VASTLY more successful than the balloons.
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  1046. Clearly, the AK is the true basic form of the firearm, in all universes. That makes Mikhail a prophet. #akgnotificationsquad
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  1047.  @diamondvikingcrypto5369  about 60% more energy, which is significant. That's the civilian loading. Paired with an AP core and a more powerful charge - the NATO defense round - it's twice as potent as a WMR and defeats body armor reliably. It was designed and intended as a PDW cartridge, and as such is fairly capable. Within its niche, that is.
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  1048. Just chewing on a hunk of the cane is astonishingly good; growing up that was a special treat for us kids.
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  1049.  @dbmail545  also very excellent!
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  1050. Respect the Bear.
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  1051. ​ @matthewb3725 we can, and do it all too often. But ideally, we shouldn't.
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  1052.  @jasonshoemaker385  point is, this lock isn't tough. It's a marshmallow.
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  1053. I love making eggy toast. Now I can up my game!
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  1054. Completely agree on the 'not well trained' aspect. Career sailor, often issued a handgun for specific watch stations, without any serious training. Now, I am, and was, well-trained BUT that was not in connection with the watch station requirements. Had I NOT been well trained, I'd have still been issued the firearm. Minimum qualification standards were, and I believe still are, shockingly low. I'd LOVE to see a series of videos on the effectiveness of historical military handgun training programs and techniques.
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  1055.  @ЮрійЧертков-с8ь  from the context of the other translation; it seems he went out to buy some toiletries, and was shanghaied by a press gang. Ya know, I thought that kind of bullshit was a relict of history. Sadly, no.
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  1056. The "Be All That You Can Be" campaign resulted from a recruiting crisis. The Army, after failing to meet goal for a significant period of time, grabbed a bunch of promotable majors, put them in a room, and told them to come up with a good campaign or they'd fail to make grade. Well, they worked, and the campaign worked, too. Then the Marines trumped them, HARD. But that's not too big a deal - the Marines need far fewer bodies. (I'm a squid. But I've been a Recruiter, too.)
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  1057.  @jacquelyns9709  yep. It's good stuff!
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  1058. Max gives us a history of Medieval feasts, and an environmental contamination conversation with correlated sociological impact breaks out... Heh. Food for thought, indeed. :D
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  1059.  @octopussmasher2694  France always goes its own way. Never expect France to conform to anyone's standards but their own.
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  1060. It's a nearly bottomless well. Have fun!
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  1061. Yeah, uf-da oof. When the presiding justice gets done slapping GWACS about for that, there will deffo be marks left.
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  1062.  @saintsone7877  yep! Australia helped me conserve my cooking wine with the "wine-in-a-box" casks. Ain't fancy, but it's effective - no oxidation.
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  1063.  @magic_cfw  angry upvote, aye!
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  1064.  @pointdironie5832  my response is, a properly written and enforceable contract would have prevented things from going so far as to reveal just how mendacious he could be. Thus, he would never have known how deep his friend could go; character flaws remaining hidden. The point being: as things were, it was a REALLY expensive journey to the bottom, which could have been entirely prevented.
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  1065. Going to disagree that Americans "don't do military parades." We don't do Moscow or DPRK style parades, but I've attended more Memorial Day parades - both as a civilian and in uniform - than I can actually count. The last such parade I was at had more military hardware than was present at this year's May 9 parade.
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  1066. Extremely cursed. If I recall correctly, the rotating butt plate was there to allow you to use the weapon one-handed with two points of contact - one your trigger hand, the other, your biceps. 😮 Can you say 'contusion city..?'
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  1067. US Submarine design and construction had some major inadequacies at the time of the loss of the Thresher, concealed behind years of success. Technologies such as silver solder brazing of seawater piping exposed to full submergence pressure; oversights, such as inadequate anti-ice design for Main Ballast Tank (MBT) Blow and High Pressure Air (HP Air) piping; and design philosophies such as 'Reactor Protection above all;' leading to 'suicide steam stops' which slammed shut at reactor scram were major contributors to the loss, though there were other problems as well. Subsequent years would see such weaknesses ferreted out with extreme ruthlessness.
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  1068.  @jangamaster8677  that's hardly unique to America. The big difference, as much as there is one, is higher levels of general affluence allows for greater impact.
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  1069. Shiloh's are the very definition of 'snuggle bugs.'
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  1070. The Finns know good weapons design.
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  1071.  @5roundsrapid263  yep. Lt. Clarke had a speech impediment, effectively. Combine the odd archaic emphasis with back-bayou Cajun, and you had his accent. It took an English as a second language speaker to translate. His written instructions were entirely literate; he was neither dumb nor uneducated; Just handicapped by the language of his youth.
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  1072.  @JMM33RanMA  specifically, the "Hollow Force" of the 1970s. Reagan fucked up a lot of shit, but he did get our military back in shape. Problem is, politicians forget these hard, expensive lessons, and things drift off to hell again, after a while. A second-rate army is the most expensive thing in the world.
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  1073.  @yousifabdalhalim514  Yeah, but having money alone doesn't do the job; you need to be able to recognize skilled talent, too. I used to consult in the IT industry, and I can tell you, there are a LOT of well-funded idiots out there!
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  1074. Safety first! And second!
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  1075. Where there is a will, a way will be found. Sanctions are always more porous than intended.
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  1076. That's not so common, locally. Much more often I see Arisakas. I even saw an 03 Springfield that had been put into professional-made Mannlicher-style stock. Honestly, that was one I wouldn't change.
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  1077. This.
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  1078.  @ivareskesner2019  so... Wait... You've got to warm up and get limber before experiencing humor? Comedy really is hard! 😛
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  1079.  @nothanksplease  gotta get that message to the gods; add an extra sacrifice just to be certain!
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  1080.  @patrickseaman  in the submarines I sailed, we turned INCONEL nuts into patrol rings.
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  1081.  @JakeBroe  Operator Starsky has a particularly potent line of trolling. He's a gold mine.
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  1082. Fresh, tasty Tasting History, complete with beautiful flower-cakes. Yum!
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  1083.  @jameskazd9951  certainly. The ~180 (actually 177) ft-lbf ME number comes from a modern self-defense loading. Not my first choice of load or caliber, but - especially in countries which restrict 'military calibers' - it will serve well enough if nothing else is available. Certainly, I'd choose it over .25acp!
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  1084. ​ @exploatores no better than a printed gun, I bet. 😅
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  1085. Quite a number have popped out of the woodwork; most appear to be far behind the times on their talking points - looks like they've had to call out the reserve trolls.
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  1086. The Italian classic.
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  1087. Psychological preparation - more than anything, this kind of instruction is to prime the Boot to be aggressive. All other things being equal, the guy who doesn't hesitate is the one who wins. False confidence can lead to surprisingly effective action.
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  1088.  @SlavicCelery  not mention North American natives had pyramids, too. Mostly eroded to the point where you have to be a specialist to see them, but that's the result of building materials availability. Fact is, if you want a tall impressive structure, and are technologically limited, "pyramid" is your go-to choice. That applies the pretty much the entire planet.
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  1089. What kind of government minister would not ban imports after eleven different import outbreaks?
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  1090. Yep. The Smith Machine Group FG42 is another example.
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  1091.  @olivierpuyou3621  but of course. Because la Belle France does things her own way.
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  1092.  @sheevpalpatine7588  and there were damned few of those, anyway.
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  1093. Slava Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!
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  1094.  @miket2120  ooh, sexy! 😁
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  1095. The deadliest shot.
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  1096. Dude! Have you never heard of volcanic ash? Have you no idea what breathing a powdered glass aerosol does to your lungs..?!
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  1097. Nah, you just stick a BUNCH of extra plates in the ground, out of frame. 😁
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  1098.  @justcows7772  except for the ones whom aren't. Which, I will grant you, aren't as numerous as they should be.
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  1099. "For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! " But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An 'Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!" ~ "Tommy," Rudyard Kipling
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  1100. McDonald's got locked into a trap of a contract; they let the machines go broken - or pretend broken - because it's cheaper to not use the machines than to repair them.
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  1101.  Marty TrueRedblood  so, what's the weather like on your planet?
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  1102. "How many tacos?" Asking the important questions.
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  1103.  @namibjDerEchte  certainly not, but the crap that's in that mud, combined with an exothermic neutralization reaction WILL result in toxic off-gassing.
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  1104. Reportedly, recoil is quite manageable.
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  1105.  @patricksheehan764  which would go back to the Greek.
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  1106. Reduced honey is a key ingredient in a LOT of wonderful sauces and glazes. It takes on the character of the other ingredients and spices, so it's extremely flexible.
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  1107. It's the intellectual surrender that taints it. If Steyr had done any original work, if they could claim any intellectual capital here, then it would be praise-worthy. Put it this way: if you xeroxed a novel, would you be an author? Would your copy deserve praise? Nope.
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  1108. I hope we don't lose our heads over this desert. Too soon?
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  1109. Frog fur. Hen's teeth. Bittner clips.
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  1110.  @geodkyt  interesting. I don't recall getting bit by my daughter's High Power, but she's only let me fire it twice. Nor do most 1911s bite me, but I do, however, get a fair bit of bite from my ParaOrdnance 16-40. I'm actually looking for a custom beaver tail for it; I need one that's wider than the factory original (big hands).
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  1111.  @johnplaid648  yeah, no one told my daughter that. She's fskn' dangerous. Born scrappy, I've only encouraged and trained that up all her life; Not a 'fair fight' bone in her body; she's all about dirty tricks and nasty attacks.
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  1112.  @angelrivera2339  epic asschewing, followed by PT until the end of time, probably. NCOs have zero sense of humor about that stuff. Once saw a section of three infantrymen marching around the grinder at "present arms" for about three hours (I heard it went longer, but I can only confirm three) because one had used the Bellamy Salute (aka the Roman Salute, or the Nazi Salute), and the other two had laughed. Let me tell you, it sounds mild, but marching at present arms quickly comes to hurt. Pro tip: If you're in training, and you think you're funny; you're not.
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  1113. To be neutral, you need sufficient information on who is doing what, to whom, when. Since the truth is the first casualty of war, the information necessary for true neutrality is rather hard to come by.
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  1114. Commuter trains are scary; we just had a four car commuter train go up in flames, locally, last night. Fortunately, everyone got out - this time.
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  1115. Another cool angry pipe.
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  1116.  @monad_tcp  sadly, that level of awareness and moral courage is often hard to find. Working in ignorance makes it even harder to do, as the worker may not even know what is hazardous.
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  1117. I would expect the vehicles with the least damage to be in this yard; easier to recover, and containing greater quantity of useable parts to be scavenged. I expect the vehicles that suffered catastrophic damage will be elsewhere; probably still lying where they were destroyed.
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  1118. Yes. Monk food.
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  1119. Former USN submarine nuclear reactor operator here. Married to a former USN Reaction Force Team member, whom used to guard 'Special Weapons.' I guess we didn't do the things we did, in the places where we did them. Damn, so much of our lives is a government conspiracy! 🙄
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  1120. I still have box of paper hulled shot shells from my father; he bought them in the early 80s.
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  1121.  @shawnr771  that stage is coming fast.
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  1122.  @themeatpopsicle  my wife was, until recently, office manager for a large regional IP lawfirm. You barely even began to touch on just how huge and complex the IP factor is. This is part of the disruptive effect I was talking about earlier. Ideally, IP owners would license files for limited production runs, allowing engineers and designers to get paid, whilst the layman gets cheap repair parts. Open source, of course, is going to be a huge segment, and a lot of skilled designers, artists, and engineers who cannot currently break in to the money stream will get a chance to shine. Or flop. IP theft is already rampant, and copyright law is grossly inadequate and falling further behind every day. Many IP owners are digging in their heels, instead of seizing the opportunity. Wild is a massive understatement. We haven't even begun to see the way the world is going to change.
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  1123. SO MUCH to unpack here. I've watched this video three times over two days to digest everything going on. I'm sure I've still missed a few key points, and will have to watch it again.
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  1124. Also, duck eggs are delicious. As are goose eggs. Geese, however, are jerks.
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  1125.  @tenchraven  😂🤣 "Wrong bang in the hole" is why I don't have any, either.
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  1126.  @hmq31415  Social chaos in a nuclear-armed nation is too dangerous to allow.
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  1127.  @SteveMHN  yep. Or have done it purely out of basic stupidity. It is frightening just how often the untrained can manage to utterly fuck up even basic evolutions. Remove the live ammo during a VIP walk is a basic step. Even something as simple as standing still at Port Arms can get screwed up - once, the man standing immediately to my right ND'd his shotgun right over my head whilst listening to a freeking SAFETY BRIEF! Thank God he was significantly tall. All I got was ringing in my ears. He, on the other hand, became a "Special Project" for the Gunners' Mates. I wasn't even mad. He got mashed in ways I'd never before seen.
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  1128.  @patrickstrijker7574  nope. I meant MG34, because the MG-42 is essentially the same beast, but with a few updates to the OG Buzz saw. Pretty much how an M-1919 is just an updated M-1917.
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  1129. Weapons appear in a context. You need to know a bit about the context to understand the weapon. Ian does that for us.
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  1130. The conventions have been updated just as often world has been willing to accept self-limitation. I don't see major changes coming any time soon.
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  1131. Rube Goldberg, weapons designer.
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  1132.  @vigacska  trade routes from Egypt and Turkey through to Rome existed back to the early Roman Empire. Hungary was just a stop on the route. Exotic, but not impossible, especially if you were trying to impress someone with your wealth and connections.
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  1133. Crews, and tactics... An obsolescent platform, used correctly, does the job.
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  1134.  @Locahaskatexu  seriously doubt this is a false flag by Israel; it doesn't serve their mission needs.
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  1135.  @lisaalane7694  that is a courage of raw beauty. You may not truly understand how brightly you shine.
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  1136. Solid performance from a tiny little gun.
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  1137.  @se6369  agree; I've worked with Swedes a lot, and other than the 'lilt,' I've had little trouble with the language. Chinese, though? Ouch. That's tough.
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  1138.  @raz4371  not so much scared, as nihilistic and apathetic. They don't think they can make a difference, so they don't try. Self-fulfilling outlook, which further reenforces their behavior. It's a downward spiral they don't even see.
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  1139. "F4 Phantom II" Area Rule airframe isn't strictly required. The X3 primary failing is it's anemic engines.
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  1140. Yep. Every sailor is a firefighter. I've pushed a fire nozzle into a burning space more than once. Scary as hell - literally. But it must be done, so it IS done.
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  1141. Special Ukrainian Rescue Operation. Such humane! So compassion! Slava Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes.
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  1142. When they could, they did. They copied from observation, too. Bottom line, though, is that until mid-war, the Germans had little practical need to swipe much. Their technology was mature, and roughly comparable to their foes, where it wasn't actually superior. By the time the Germans needed to start swiping ideas, it was already much too late.
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  1143.  @davem2369  and, by your statement, it's clear you don't understand. No fault of yours, you understand - you're just not clued in to the context. America is a Federated Republic, meaning that it is a collection of what amounts to fifty co-equal mini-nations. Each one is largely self-soveriegn and both legally and traditionally responsible for their own affairs, save for foreign policy, defense, and interstate commerce. And indeed, many states maintain their own foreign affairs departments (usually called something else, usually, for legal reasons). The Federal Government is huge and intrusive, but would be MASSIVELY larger if they tried to take on state-level responsibilities. It's a trade-off between local autonomy and national cohesion. It necessarily introduces inefficiencies but that is part of the price we accept, almost unconsciously, to maintain our social contract. Let us add to the above, the fact that the US is VAST compared to European nations, basically as large as all of Europe combined. If you look at the EU, what do you have? Dozens of sub-states, each with their own policing systems and local solutions... Not all that different, in effect, from the US.
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  1144.  @davidjelescu7694  Holland and Holland would like a word...
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  1145.  @BigSwede7403  truth.
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  1146. There's no place like home...
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  1147. Never say never; the future may bring good things.
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  1148.  @stangryn4402  or a really good bedding and tuning job on the slide and action arm.
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  1149. There is absolutely no doubt that senior navy leadership knew LM was lying through their teeth. It's an incestuous relationship at the top, and everyone at the top knew the LCS concept was crap. The interpenetration of industry and leadership is old news, and they're very good at selling their bullshit to Congress, which also knew it was bull crap, but they wanted the power that creating local jobs gets them. It was a swindle from the beginning. I've been harshly critical of the LCS progress from the beginning. They're ego toys for Admirals, boondoggle for Congress, and a cash cow for LM.
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  1150. Cleanup of that kind of crap is hideously finicky and difficult.
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  1151. Trenches... In... Spaaaaaace..!
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  1152. ​ @TheRussianDude  😂
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  1153.  @frankcommatobe8009  by reputation, better by far than most American police forces. That may not actually be true, but they've managed to retain their shiny reputation.
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  1154. We had such crossings in areas where the population was fairly dense, too. The one near my girlfriend's house was very near a housing development that contained fairly well-off families, including the Ripkins of Baseball fame. The crossing was between the development and a four lane local highway, so wasn't even an obscure crossing.
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  1155. Heat treatment has been brought up (and some brilliant explanation of stacking tolerances - thank you!), But there are further fun and games when it comes to material selection as well. Metal choice, including which alloys of the metals, can play merry bugger in the reverse design. Some alloys flex more than others, some wear harder or softer, some behave differently when they change temperature, some have different friction coefficients! Are you plating metal? How thick? Which process? This isn't even remotely a comprehensive list; You have to get inside the heads of the original designers, using just the artefact you're copying as a guide.
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  1156. Yeah, I noticed his efficiency. Very smooth.
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  1157. Local Processes, 'tribal knowledge' (undocumented local processes), and expedient 'solutions' are ridiculously dangerous. ALWAYS ask for external review of any local or 'temporary' process deviations. Train EVERYONE to the necessary standards - And check that your standards are correct. (SUBSAFE and QC-qualified - Safety systemology written in the blood of dead sailors.)
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  1158. Not exactly something I'd ever thought about, but absolutely fascinating. Thank you.
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  1159. Monsters be lurking down here.
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  1160.  @vlados_logvinov  and Stalin, a peasant, who starved 20 million peasants to death says your example doesn't amount to much.
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  1161. OMG, these look awesome. MUST. MAKE. DELICIOUS! Edit: Confirm, Babbel is effective.
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  1162. Cool bit of esoterica.
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  1163. Sergio Argonne made these Westerners on a shoestring budget, thus the spare sets, lack of extras, and other cost savings measures. Budgetary necessity created the elements that defined a new genre - the Spaghetti Western.
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  1164.  @plugs313  yes, the exact same airframe.
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  1165. Also: Congratulations on your bouncy baby bundle of insomnia. 😉 Rest every chance you get, and do every nice thing you can for her mother.
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  1166.  @ProfessorxVile  yeah, we had that drill on the Tender. They had one of the Quartermaster's Mates pretend to go nutz. He knew ALL the MC circuit locations, and went from one to the next calling himself the Gingerbread Man. 😁 Yeah, it took a bit to track him down and apprehend him.
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  1167. Which makes it not actually a joke.
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  1168.  @TheDocPlatypus  no, they actually bought some recently for special use.
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  1169. Contract law is pretty much the same everywhere. Yes, I know, there are some major detail differences, but in the fundamentals, as discussed here, there's little variety.
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  1170. I think I'm going to agree. There are many excellent single-shot rifles in these videos, but the simple, practical efficiency of this one is tops.
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  1171. What you people have done, I see it. You have upheld the internet traditions.
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  1172.  @garypulliam3740  surf along that area is pretty loud; it could easily disguise a submerged explosion, even one as large as the Type 93 was capable of producing.
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  1173. Yep. Almost zero muzzle flip. Watching Ian shoot, it was almost like he had a .22 rimfire.
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  1174. You would be sooo at-home in the American Mid-West. 😉
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  1175.  @maudline  I think that was the reality, but the perception came more from the fact that tomatoes are of the Nightshade family.
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  1176. GWACS is reaping their own karma, and it is well-deserved.
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  1177.  @samholdsworth3957  that's been gone over repeatedly. And debunked at every step of the way. Go back and watch Ian's past videos on the subject.
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  1178. That Recruitment Advert? No one can mock it as hard as it mocks itself: "We need to get a new job" Yes, lads, yes you do.
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  1179. Did you cut & splice the video at 4:25? There's a narrative discontinuity there.
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  1180.  @PavewayJDAM  heh. I see what you did there.
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  1181.  @2Truth4Liberty  right up until the accumulated smoke became a defacto smoke screen, anyway.
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  1182. Experts? We don't need no stinkin' experts...
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  1183.  @Ozzymandius1  seasoned with lamentations?
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  1184.  @Felice_Enellen  political thought is not a protected category, nor should it be. That's the law. When (if) that changes, you'll have a leg to stand on. But right now, you've got nothing but a whinging demand for special protection. Considering your post, asking for special protection whilst decrying special protection, well, that's hypocrisy. And more than a bit hilarious.
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  1185. Wait... That's rare knowledge?
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  1186.  @arturbaluyev2873  the Nagant revolver is much more complicated to manufacture, which means more cost per gun. But you buy the weapon once, whereas you buy ammunition a lot. Cheaper ammo is a major selling point.
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  1187.  @sammitra  extra chunky!
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  1188. It could certainly serve that role.
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  1189. The configuration of the Volksjaeger puts a hard upper cap on performance. It's great for subsonic flight, but not so great facing second generation and above jet fighters. As a ground attack aircraft, it has potential, but realistically, it's done and buried.
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  1190.  @dav4x487  the mosquito also flew slower, and was MUCH heavier, and used proven, mature piston engines. Also, the mosquito had a very different role. Not really an apples-to-apples comparison.
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  1191. 110%..?! Weaker turnout than I anticipated.
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  1192. "Embuggered" What a cromulent word.
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  1193. Now EVERYONE is a redshirt.
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  1194.  @Syclone0044  surprise, surprise, I just so happen to be subscribed there. 😁 The USCSB videos are full of the OMG, WTF errors that make engineers cringe - excellent learning material.
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  1195. I owe Calico an apology; I suspect Ian's comment on user error is on-point. 'Way back when, we were basically just dumb kids.
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  1196. This was a big deal event; it wound up being a key example / point of discussion in several of my classes. It's been gone over many times, but it's one of those events that bears repeated scrutiny.
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  1197.  @stevenobrien557  so, how would you describe the careful handling she received? Instant medical care the moment she was discovered to be a woman? The housing and employment far above the demanded of the Geneva protocols? What label do you hang on the beyond-ethical handling she received?
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  1198. Third-world Dictatorship intensifies...
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  1199. No need to change the design; powdered ink is a thing. The glitter launcher will work just fine for that.
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  1200.  @fakjbf3129  that's not a balance I'm comfortable maintaining. All it takes is for judicial interpretation to shift just a little. But, meanwhile, yes, 'They' ARE coming for our guns - the fact that they've failed - so far - has not, and will not, stop them.
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  1201. In 1815, you've got two problems: First, people didn't yet know what was needed, and Second, work like this fowling piece are bleeding-edge technology for the time, requiring extraordinary effort and expense to realize. Even today, there are things we could do, that we don't, because it is economically infeasible, despite being technically possible. Things like metered liquid propellant to create much-desired caseless weapons, for instance.
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  1202. My education included a deep focus on the Eastern Front campaigns, including the massacres by various players, but the suffering of civilians was largely missed.
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  1203.  @nunyabidniz2868  well, sure, it's no Unabridged Oxford Dictionary, but it'll get the job done.
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  1204. Orcs continue to reap what they've sewn.
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  1205. Oh, and there were typically multiple cameras per mount; wide angle and extreme telephoto, and a duplicate camera of each type, so you could swap film magazines without losing coverage.
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  1206.  @moreparrotsmoredereks2275  I'm waiting for US Army camouflage made entirely of Safety Belts. I mean, they keep soldiers alive on base, right?
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  1207.  @shotforshot5983  dazzle effect camouflage? Or are you just taking the visual offensive?
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  1208. Excellent, diplomatic response from the soldier. Those civilians are going to remember these soldiers with pride and love.
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  1209.  @gunther2555  iteration is the answer. Lots of cycles of testing with real troops. The man who led the development of the US Army kevlar helmet worked for my father at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, in the Human Engineering Lab - they iterated the living hell out of that helmet, got field soldiers' input and opinions, and tested all manner of hearing protection, communications connectivity, and communications intelligibly. I mean, they went NUTS on the testing. The Army didn't approve everything they wanted, nor did the Army buy everything that was approved, but it wasn't from a lack of thought and trial.
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  1210. I don't much care for gin, but my sister... Well, the link to this video is already in her inbox.
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  1211.  @blank557  context, dude. Do you understand it? The book. Quit knee-jerking.
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  1212.  @ADUSN  the cartridge is where the real money lies; arms sales make money, but ammunition sales make stupid huge money.
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  1213. Damn, that's a cute little weapon!
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  1214. Now that you've teased us, make a vid series on the collecting of yeast! I'd watch that.
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  1215. Considering the things Ian has fired, such as the Solothurn, and the big ol' .950, and yeah, this doesn't seem that big a deal. More of a hard shove than a real kick.
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  1216.  @AUmarcus  there's at least one John Deere harvester in that yard. In fact, it's the one right next to the exploded vehicle. Use your eyes, not your prejudices.
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  1217. That is the nature of being poor, yes. Poor == lack of resources. Lack of resources == suffering. Kinda obvious, really.
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  1218. Way bigger than any nuke - no nuke ever made that could produce a tsunami wave two feet tall, 2000 miles away. Not even the Tsar Bomba could have done that. Mother Nature dwarfs anything man could ever manage.
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  1219.  @harryhewitt6795  NOT true. Look up the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, and get eductated.
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  1220.  Faget Niggar  mentally ill people judge others by superficial traits.
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  1221. You might have to wear slightly baggy clothes to avoid 'printing.'
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  1222.  @thomasbecker9676  that's more than sufficient training in how to maintain an open mind. I rest my case.
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  1223. @J Republican here. Be careful of generalization.
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  1224. I've experienced four... No, five fires in port. Arson, every one of them. Not the same arsonist, nor even under the same skipper. Also, one fire at sea, at depth. That one was a materiel failure in a high energy system.
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  1225.  @jameshealy4594  Hi-Points work. They're ugly as sin, but tougher than you would expect. So... Yeah.
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  1226.  @justindunlap1235  Ma Deuce was more of a dialed-up M1919; this weapon is more of a close cousin to the M2.
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  1227.  @ksp-crafter5907  'bruh' yourself. You failed geometry and physics, didn't you?
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  1228. Exactly. The good doctor's theories are entirely quaint, but his prescribed course is not too far out - balanced diet, good sleep, moderate exercise, and avoiding stress.
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  1229. My wife is a lithographer. Roller presses terrify me. She just shrugs.
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  1230.  @DerPolygonianer  look up the YouTube channel "LockPickingLawyer." He tears through these cheesy locks with incredible ease. Hell, as a novice-level picker, I can pop one open in under a minute with very basic tools; a couple bent paper clips will do the job.
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  1231. Standard Soviet... Er, Russian response: When you have nothing, lie like a cheap rug.
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  1232. Brilliant. I love making Chana Aloo Masala; this is right in my wheelhouse. Going to extract a few tips here, for my own use.
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  1233.  @rogainegaming6924  thank you, Sir.
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  1234. Dude noped right the hell out of there.
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  1235.  @nialltomy15  didn't say they were better. Just said that was the best use.
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  1236. Most sailors, if issued a weapon, will be issued a long arm, either rifle or shotgun. The sidearm is an officer's weapon, more a badge of rank or duty. Enlisted sailors are expected to carry the effective fighting weapons. Since it's not there to be combat effective, a lighter weapon will serve just fine. Sometimes, the pistol is literally there to let people know who is in charge; pulling Officer of the Deck watch, even as a senior enlisted, I was issued a pistol. My Petty Officer of the Watch got a shotgun, as did the Messenger of the Watch. But those were tucked up in a locker unless and until needed. That pistol sat on my hip all watch long, so people could tell at a glance who was in charge, and yeah, a lighter pistol would have been nice (duty weapon was a 1911 + two spare magazines).
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  1237. Oooh... Antique comfort food! I tend to au gratin cream over a blonde roux, adding shredded cheese in limited quantity. And yes, cayenne pepper is included. Also a bit of white pepper and some paprika, but no mace. So, I guess I'm already fairly close to the old-school Mac&Cheese.
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  1238. More fun than is strictly allowed. I guess I'll grant a 'pass,' this time, though.
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  1239. Putin is high-rank ex-KGB. He knows how the game plays, and he's very good at it. Prigozhin will last just as long as he keeps his ambitions in-check. Soon as he forgets his place, he's DONE.
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  1240. The seasons in California: Fire, Flood, Mudslide, Drought, with the occasional Riot and Earthquake thrown in for spice. ~ Fifth Generation Native Son of the Bear Republic
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  1241. It's not that Russia CANNOT build high-tech; they can. They just can't do so efficiently, nor does that really match their doctrine.
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  1242. The lost EW suites aren't particularly sophisticated or expensive, but Russia doesn't have any just sitting on a shelf. New systems will have to be built, installed, and tested - in an environment where technical resources are already stretched to the limit.
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  1243. Rule #1: EVERY weapon is loaded until YOU prove otherwise. Violated. Rule #2: NEVER point a weapon at anything you're not willing to destroy. Violated. That said, I want to know: What a fucking live round was doing on set?; why was an AD and NOT the Armorer handling weapons?; WHY they were not using Simunitions-type weapons?; WHO THE FUCK was the safety manager, and why did they let that shit show continue? Also: #akgnotificationsquad
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  1244. Browning could be pretty stiff-necked, himself. This breakup was pretty much pre-ordained.
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  1245. Great timing; I have the necessary ingredients already - soak the beans tonight, French slop tomorrow evening!
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  1246. @The Infidel actually, early exposure AND training is demonstrably the best way to produce responsible, non-obsessed people. Young children are like sponges; what you teach, they retain. You teach safety and responsibility, they remember. Once upon a time, shooting sports were a routine element of primary education in this country, and we did NOT have a kids-shooting-kids problem then.
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  1247. Clair Paterson occasional slept on our sofa when he was passing through town. He was a fairly close acquaintance of my parents.
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  1248. Moar DAKKA!
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  1249. Fiscal chaos for fun and profit! (i.e. business as usual, with new players)
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  1250. Or maybe just didn't care?
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  1251. Hi-Points are actually solid performers, and very robust. They're just ugly as hell, awkward to carry and hold, and a pain to strip & clean.
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  1252.  @abrahamlincoln9758  reparations are not justice. They apply injustice to individuals whom have committed no wrong. Los Angeles, as the corporate entity whom contracted Mulholland might bear some fiscal liability to this day, but probably not. Justice delayed is justice denied, and in this case, there was damned little justice to be found.
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  1253.  @JohnDoe-pv2iu  the feed system on the magazine is too harsh for .22 rimfire. The 5.7 bullet is effectively the same size as a .22 (.224) and has the same (roughly) overall case length as a .22 WMR, but it is fatter, and has roughly 60% more energy than the WMR. The rounds are not interchangeable, and magazine would wreck the thinner rimfire cases. The AR-57 is not available in any rimfire configuration.
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  1254. I am constantly impressed with your detailed research and clear narrative & explanations.
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  1255. Except that he'd already stated that he was going to be test firing remotely, so his being hale and healthy tells us... Nothing.
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  1256. My father's, and those of his brothers, records were lost in this fire. Likewise, my Father-in-Law and his brothers, lost theirs as well. Pettyfogging by the archivists that were scared of water basically wiped out generations of service records.
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  1257.  @andersonrobotics5608  I anticipate that it'll become routine to scan and print replacement parts for, and even build from scratch, household appliances and automotive parts. Hell, I just replaced a fairing on my car that could easily enough have been printed overnight - if I had a printer capable of the size - instead of waiting three days for it to ship in. And that is a major change from when I would have been going to a scrap yard to search for the part, or wait a couple weeks for it to arrive at an auto parts shop. The world is getting faster and faster, and additive manufacturing will only press the accelerator harder.
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  1258.  @moosemaimer  metal printer prices are dropping fast. Structural plastics such as carbon-fibre re-enforced nylon can do most of the tasks where metal is traditional (Glock, anyone?), and I've personally built-up glass fibre and kevlar fabric GRP for use where metal cannot do the job, but high durability is absolutely mandatory, such as mast ice caps and acoustic windows for hydrophones on submarines. There is absolutely no reason those parts could not be printed, instead. I'm proud of my skills in that area, but it is a somewhat artisanal effort. Repairing such parts is even more artisanal, and requires uncommon skills and is subject to a lot of potential failure points. Having a printer able to produce the parts at the intermediate repair facility would make for more reliable, faster, and less costly repairs. That's just one example.
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  1259.  @HumorousCarnage  Bobcat seats are... Basic. And Bobcats have crap - essentially none - for suspension. Every jolt that machine experiences - and they DO jolt hard! - goes right into your spine. Been there, done that.
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  1260.  @danielsurvivor1372  yeah, we've got a few of those 'Useful Idiots' in the US Congress. 🙄
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  1261.  @Koushakur  it'd be a three ring circus. Highly entertaining, but not something you'd want to try at home. Ian ought do it.
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  1262. Add to this that the US has a substantial fleet of legacy Soviet and Russian aircraft, flying for the Aggressor training squadron. Those aircraft cannot rely on Russia for parts, reloads, and maintenance, so America will have at least some experience integrating US weapons with Russian designs.
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  1263. Could be a patent issue, could be market differentiation, could be that some engineer legitimately thought this was a better way to do things.
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  1264. A shame my daughter can't handle cow dairy; I'll have to see if I can find goat or sheep milk/cream. Because I'm definitely going to want to try this.
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  1265. I've handled an M-80; haven't had the pleasure of shooting one. It felt a bit odd, but it settled very deeply and comfortably into my hand.
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  1266. Dang. This is a very well-thought, user-friendly weapon.
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  1267.  @michaeldice7459  not the best food - we use the same supply system as the rest of the fleet - just better prepared with much more attention to detail.
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  1268. FR-8 likes to punch me extra hard
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  1269. I'll add to the above, this: The 'local autonomy' issue continues downwards; American government is highly distributed and decentralized. Anything that can be delegated generally is delegated to the lowest practical level. And, again, sometimes duplicated. This delegation and local autonomy are why we have almost 20k policing agencies. Coordinating all that, as you can guess, is a nightmare. But I'd rather have my own, local, county police and sheriff (two different agencies, same territory, different sets of responsibilities) than one, say, run from New Jersey. I know the local guys, and if they make a habit of pissing us off, we can replace them. Without having to cross the damn river. 😝
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  1270. Thank you. I just found your channel, and the first vid had you talking about making this vid.
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  1271.  @Ghastly_Grinner  Seriously , it's clear you're not a firefighter, nor have sailed a wooden vessel. Those fire buckets are good for only putting out a blaze in the very instant it started. True, large, heavy structures of seasoned wood take some time to catch, but with the addition of bundles of bedding straw, you've got a conflagration. Lighter stores, such as canvas and tarred line would catch light quite easily, being resistant to being extinguished. These would convey the fire to heavier wood, which would be VERY resistant to being extinguished (try throwing a bucket of water into a large bonfire, see what happens). Meanwhile, the burning straw would make close approach to the fire impossible, and throwing buckets of water onto blazing straw tends to cause the straw to scatter, sending fire and embers everywhere (I have thrown water into burning straw - NOT the best idea!). Now add the fact that the pine tar used as a preservative and caulking agent EVERYWHERE on the vessel would be melting and running like water in every direction - whilst burning. It's like liquid napalm. The fire is not surprising. The loss is not surprising. It's the extended defense of the lower decks and powder room that are astonishing - I've fought fires on naval vessels, and they're TERRIFYING. Leading a body of men into such a conflagration, using primitive tools, and inspiring them to stay is an act of unimaginable courage and leadership. Every man jack who went below and stayed were heroes of towering stature.
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  1272. We appreciate all you've done for us; carry on as you see fit, and works best for you.
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  1273. Eh. Ticketmaster is just another scalper, writ large. The Romans had those, too. You can be CERTAIN that they had large-scale brokers, grabbing up as many tesserae as possible, and probably had strong-arm crews to intimate other brokers.
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  1274. Underrated comment
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  1275.  @TheArklyte  whilst Ian did indeed note those items, I'm not convinced that they're improvements at all. The lock on open is a work-around for the absence of the charging handle, so is unnecessary, and the Auto-5 does NOT have a reputation for weakness, so again, unnecessary. Changes to get around a patent do not improvements make. There has to be a functional need.
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  1276.  @andrewshaw1571  Spencer Rifles were available and quite favored by the Union Cavalry during the American Civil War; there was nothing problematic about the rifles, their parts, or their ammunition. The technology was more than mature enough for military application. The problem was, because they were the contemporary equivalent of 'high tech,' they were both expensive and difficult to source in large numbers, even for the superior Union industry. Confederate soldiers had a fear/respect attitude towards the Spenser, calling "the rifle you load on Sunday, then shoot all week." The .58 caliber rimfire ammunition was reliable and man-killing potent to any reasonable combat range of the era.
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  1277. * rimshot *
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  1278. Two of the greats, all in one place. Plus tanks! And guns?! Huzzah! It's a great day!
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  1279. Not impossible. AR-57 is a thing (I own one).
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  1280. I use a dry white wine, too. It offsets the sweetness of the cooked onion.
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  1281. The Italian navy produced some of the scariest small unit forces in WWII, from frogmen to small craft operations. Whilst their major combatants did not have great success, the allies were justifiably worried about Italian torpedo boats, swimmers, and special ops units in the Mediterranean. Did they fail a lot? Yes, but they were doing extremely dangerous things against well-defended, important targets.
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  1282. One could argue that as human constructs, ALL sentences are arbitrary to some degree.
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  1283. Here, a selection of BFGs, including the .700 NE, a 4-Bore stopping rifle, and the .950 JDJ. All in one video, no less You're welcome. https://youtu.be/ROd1_S-4c6Q
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  1284. And sausage. Everyone has some form of sausage.
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  1285. Brandon will drag your brain through the gutter. Which is fine; 'tis warm and friendly there, and you find all manner of interesting people there. #akgnotificationsquad
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  1286.  @MrDdaland  Russian is a great language for poetry - and it requires the soul of a poet to REALLY rip off a truly epic stream of invective. Arabic, too.
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  1287. Hours and hours of boredom, followed by seconds of terror. Been there, experienced that. No one shooting at me, mind you, but dealing with an unexpected fire or flooding on a submerged submarine carries a similar flavor.
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  1288. Desert Rat Patrol! Favorite topic of my youthful history reading & viewing.
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  1289.  @tordsteiro9838  the classic "damned if you do, damned if you don't" strategy. The only correct response is to pack up the battery and move. And even that response creates a hole in the air defenses during the pack up, move, and reset time.
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  1290. Fun times. The magazine really does have an unreasonably super-stiff follower.
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  1291. I would argue that the VDV units can no longer be described as 'elite.' After all their losses, they're mostly composed conscripted replacements without proper training and experience.
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  1292. Getting forensic! Bold, heroic journey...
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  1293.  @Smytjf11  oh, HELL NO! Submarines are BOATS. Period.
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  1294.  @cottagebob2551  check out the Blue Monster in San Diego, or the Delaware Memorial Bridge, or... If you REALLY need a fright, the Mackinac Bridge (pronounced 'Makinaw') in Michigan.
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  1295. Probably thinks he likes eggplant. How wrong she is...
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  1296.  @iggbowmon3171  an' don'cha fergettit either! 😁
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  1297.  @bubba200874426  it's a very fast, very light round. It's not intended to be a main battle round. It's essentially the same role the .30 carbine was intended for - and while the .30 is no .30-06, it turned out to be vastly useful. 5.7x28 upsets very quickly in flesh, doing ugly damage. It's not 5.56x45, but then it's not supposed to be, either. 9mm doesn't do shit against the armored 5.7 was supposed to defeat and 5.7 NATO loading is actually more lethal than 9mm anyway, but, as we've seen in Ukraine, the armor it was intended to defeat is mostly a fiction anyway. The biggest reason that armies are sticking with 9mm is that 5.7 is a logistical digression - it's an extra expense and complication not needed. Why buy an exotic new round when we already have a shitton of adequate weapons and ammo already? Especially since it's a distinctly secondary role? (This was, by the way, the successful argument against .45ACP) I shoot 5.7x28 entirely for the fun of it. It has exactly zero place in my home defense planning. I don't care if it's not a wunderwaffe.
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  1298. Well, he's not wrong, if you have a dark sense of humor.
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  1299. My father was involved. He never trusted 7.62x39; not ever.
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  1300.  @Drizzit57  I'm going to hard disagree with you there. I've lived there, and in a great number of other places. The only place I've lived in the US that's more attuned to the sweet song of money would be Louisiana. Florida is institutionally corrupt at a fundamental level.
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  1301.  @stormywindmill  ah. Thank you; the story is semi-legendary, and subject to distortion / changes.
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  1302.  @leegrande8226  specifically said it wasn't a good option - but it seems to be Russia's least bad option.
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  1303.  @anonimus370  exactly. Ian won't hesitate to call out shoddy workmanship or bad design. Inviting Ian to try your product, even if he is predisposed to a favorable opinion, is pretty much a hard flex. To their credit, they've proven their point.
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  1304. Tapestries. Just sayin.' Wall hangings will damp out the echoes. Plus, you can hang them out of frame.
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  1305. ​ @MonkeyJedi99 also: M2 combat car - quite shit. M2 carbine - rather shit, but not entirely useless.
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  1306. Eggs are insanely versatile. I love me some deviled eggs, and must now make some. Cayenne is my signature spice; it shows up in a vast percentage of what I cook. Another 'Deviled' food I haven't heard much of lately: Deviled Ham.
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  1307.  @TastingHistory  even if it's just a quick dash in, it's worth the effort. Each distillery has a distinct style and profile family to their beverages. Treasures await in hidden locations; if possible, target the smaller distilleries as you're far less likely to find their products in the US, and this might be your only chance to sample their products.
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  1308. I like my civilian Sig 320; I can get behind the raffle.
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  1309. Almost certainly the Romans did exactly that; nosh on sausage during the games.
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  1310.  @g-low6365  By and large, yes. Suppressors are only really needed for people whom are close to the muzzle.
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  1311. The barrel is obstructed, you say? Do tell...
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  1312. Bit of a frankengun, with interesting history on the bits & parts.
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  1313. There's nothing 'odd' about shortbread. 😛
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  1314. Never say the cats have done you no favors.
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  1315.  @wingracer1614  yep! LPL tears through these cheesy locks like a toddler going through wrapping paper on Christmas morning.
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  1316.  @elund408  OUCH! Getting hit by one of those would HURT.
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  1317. Recall that Putin's fate is tied to the success of his gamble. He MUST win in Ukraine, at least at some plausible level, or he's done. So doubling down is his only choice. It's completely predictable.
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  1318. Honestly, I would buy an "Oddities From Around The World" firearms book.
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  1319. Blood as an ingredient is on my "do not want" list. Pigs feet. I'll give them to my dogs, but for me? NO. Same with most 'feet,' including chicken feet. Tripe. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Yes, I've tried it. No thank you. Liver is on my "maybe" list. Done right, it's excellent. But it's hard to do it 'right,' and done wrong it's just nasty. Brains. Just No. Eyeballs. Eeeeeew..!
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  1320. How about the series of Lockheed bribery scandals running from the 50s through the 70s? For a long time, "Lockheed" was synonymous with "corrupt," with scandals in Italy, Japan, West Germany, and beyond.
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  1321. Anyone with access to a hardware store can obtain the materials and tools to assemble a basic, functional submachine gun. You don't even really need access to the simple plans on the Internet; a bit of thinking, some paper, and a pencil is enough to figure it out.
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  1322. Hadrian.
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  1323. Putin really IS a master strategist - if your goal is defeating Putin.
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  1324. ​ @louisgordon-415  just so! Look at how brilliantly he's destroyed the prestige and capabilities of his own military! Genius!
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  1325. "Unlike SOME Robins Hood, I can speak with an English accent."
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  1326. Any number of Auxiliary System - such as ballast control or depth control (planes) - failures may also have caused the loss. An Auxiliary System failure is every bit as lethal as a pressure hull failure - you can't simply get out and fix it. Source: Qualified in Submarines.
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  1327.  @patriotenfield3276  no, no... I've heard and seen many such, but they all (mostly) follow a definite development track. France, on the other hand, pulls weird crap out of nowhere, and then run with it - hard - to destinations unimaginable.
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  1328. Whups... How did I get in here so early?
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  1329.  @nucleargrizzly1776  that presents other issues - like a frame not meant for those energy levels. I like 10mm, but I've standardized on .40 Smith; I don't mind the 'snappiness' of .40 - practice is all it takes to master the round - and it's lethally effective.
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  1330. Pork or cheese. Mostly pork.
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  1331. Technically, they worked. As a warship, though, they were an utter clownshoe flop.
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  1332. Ah, yes. All hail the king
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  1333. Yeah, not at all surprised that this came up. Very much appreciate your academic approach to the subject, as opposed to... Less rigorous commentary.
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  1334. "You don't. You leave it behind."
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  1335. Great size creates an apparent slow airspeed illusion; watching C-5s and C-17s flying in and out of Dover AFB, at a distance they seem like airships, floating slowly in the sky. That is, until they get close, and the illusion is wiped away by the aluminum overcast roaring overhead.
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  1336.  @3000BETA  cucumber-mint beverages are popular in India and surrounding areas, and are very refreshing. They're very light, vaguely floral, and satisfying without the heavy western emphasis on sugar. I grew to enjoy them when in the Persian Gulf, and seek out local Asian groceries to stock up.
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  1337.    frequently. Othias and Mae are a brilliant team. Where Ian goes wide and about, those two focus and dig. As a pair of teams, they synergize brilliantly.
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  1338.  @Felice_Enellen  your ignorance of the provisions of the First Amendment is stunning. Legal Eagle himself has stated it very clearly, but obviously you cannot hear what he so plainly stated: the First Amendment only applies to government suppression of free speech. Last time I checked AWS is a private entity. Oh, wait, I just checked again. Yep, still a private entity. Shut up. You're too ignorant to have an opinion. (No, I'm not the government, either)
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  1339. This has been a great series; the core of what Ian does best; bringing us the history and obscure details of firearms.
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  1340.  @MostlyPennyCat  America has, by far, the most vast, sprawling roadway infrastructure in the world, so even ignoring other factors, by sheer sample size you're going to get a preponderance of cases in the US. Edit: oh, and cases in the US are generally have better documentation than many other locales, making it much easier to create a succinct, accurate documentary.
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  1341. Germany notoriously chased every rabbit it could even think of; catching very few. They suffered from completely irrational resource management. Even the few completed projects were mostly wasted resources - costing far more than they returned in utility.
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  1342. ​​ @craigrussell3062 shush, ignorant civilian - people who actually care about their country are talking.
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  1343. BTW: the price you moot for the combined unit seems actually kinda low; I expect quality optics and precision mounts to be spendy. That's a pretty decent price.
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  1344. The communication lag between event and home was so long that it was easy to censor out the horror. The public only knew what the government wanted to them to know.
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  1345.  @detol8  Heh!
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  1346. Yes, do this.
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  1347. Well, you said it, so, yeah, it's been said. 😛
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  1348. Russian army; second best army in Russia.
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  1349. Heh. Yes, those are the proper Freedom Units.
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  1350. My father worked as a roughneck in the oilfields of California, in the 1940s. Based on the stories he told, everything you've said lines up exactly right.
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  1351. With a bit of refinement on the lock-up, a perfectly useful plinker today.
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  1352.  @humansvd3269  well, yes. But there are chores, and then there worse chores. Agreed on the RPK. Side note: I've fired and cleaned an M-60. Not my favorite thing.
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  1353.  @blackterminal  the wheels are deflecting due to irregular ground surface. No human being would have remained conscious in that fire for longer than a couple seconds. Occam's Razor: No driver.
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  1354.  @stevenobrien557  well, of course. That's what made her an 'outside the box' problem. Or, more formally, an "out of context" problem. Had their been more need, the Germans would have created a protocol from sheer necessity. To be honest, they were very close to having made the necessary context, and their solution was both ethical and effective - by putting her to work tending allied POWs, they avoided a bunch of nasty 'no-no' situations, AND improved (by a very small vue) their own manning situation, while on the gripping hand increased their compliance with the Geneva protocols.
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  1355. In QA, it is generally accepted that 10% checks will find 90% of errors. That rule of thumb falls apart when you're dealing with "zero defect" requirements - such as in an application where lives are at stake.
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  1356.  @SS-dh4dq  :: Brandon gets >triggered.< :: Heh.
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  1357. Very sci-fi. Much magic. So wooo.
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  1358.  @charlesmoss8119  "Ferret Herding" is a job. A rather important one, especially within budget lines.
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  1359.  @mathewkelly9968  as a former submariner, I feel your pain. Fortunately, someone in the design stages must've been a working sailor, because there was always a way, even if it wasn't immediately obvious. My father's 'specialty' was designing processes and equipment with the maintainer in mind - speed, convenience, ease of operation - that terrified bureaucrats.
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  1360. Wheel lock muzzleloaders have entered chat...
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  1361.  @aleksazunjic9672  do also recall that he had no means of protecting said "acquired" Jews, but tried anyway. Yes, he failed, but not for lack effort.
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  1362.  @justforever96  talk to the Browning Auto 5 about the reliability of old semi-autos. In production for 96 years, and in military service for 70 of those years. Designed in 1898, produced from 1902 to 1998. It doesn't get any more dependable than that, and it was a 19th Century design.
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  1363. Golden Gun...
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  1364. Looks very like a metal potato.
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  1365. THAT is sinfull.
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  1366.  @skoshman1  cherry picking. I understand why, but absolutely cherry picking.
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  1367. Mashing the "Like" button as hard as I can, to hurry up the range day.
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  1368. Ooooh... Another Mauser I want to add to my Wall o' Mausers...
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  1369. Looks like today's loss numbers are lower than many days. I wonder if the weather is slowing the tempo of operations. Funny ass meme. Well-played.
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  1370. I get your sacrifice, and thank you. I was a sailor - I was on duty, or underway, for eight Christmases and New Years Eves in a row.
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  1371. The "Soon-to-be-Obscure" weapon.
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  1372. "Kinda huge." Ya think..?
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  1373. Tijuana.
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  1374. Interesting. It looked to me like a bomb suit helmet - heavy, minimum mobility, restricted peripheral vision, but very durable (under design conditions). It seems to me that, yes, there is room for additional development.
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  1375. Major material loss to Russia; lost all the hours and rubles to train one, maybe two pilots, plus all the cost of the equipment - an expensive and sophisticated aircraft that will be very difficult to replace, as access to the necessary microchips has become quite restricted. P.lus the loss of one or maybe two bright minds that could have contributed to Russian industry or commerce in the future. Russia is consuming its own future in this war.
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  1376. Don't like anise? Heretic! Of course, that might be the Swede part of my heritage speaking.
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  1377. When your party attracts the po-po for all the wrong reasons...
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  1378. Inquiring minds want to know...
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  1379. Every mess section needs one!
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  1380. Somewhat surprised that Germany didn't just straight-up copy captured Soviet operating systems.
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  1381. Not if Ian has anything to say about it.
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  1382. Turns out, the Kurgan was the hero, and MacLeod was the final boss. All that work, only to fail in hard mode.
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  1383.  @NoThisIsRyan  Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifles. Literally a design more than 130 years old.
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  1384. Ian gets out plenty, and has seen true abominations. This thing just invented a whole new level of 'Bad.'
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  1385.  @LynxSnowCat  high-traction beach-shoe-flippers? There might be a niche market there...
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  1386.  @Ryan_D1994  although, it was NOT used outside the UK, or allied controlled airspace, so my point stands.
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  1387. @Jordan Berry Navy Nuc here. Most of their big brains had escaped. They were following a technical path that would never have produced a working nuclear bomb. Doesn't matter that they had Heisenberg; they wandered down a blind alley and never bothered to look back. It's not enough to know nuclear physics; you also need to apply that knowledge in a very specific way.
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  1388. Count Von Count: "One Dead Russian. Ah Ah! Two Dead Russians. Three Hundred Dead Russians. Ah haaa haa! Forty thousand Dead Russians... One hundred fifty thousand Dead Russians...! AHHH ah ah ah ah ahhh... Whew. Dammit." "Could someone get the Russians to take a break? I can't count any faster..."
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  1389. Former US service member, grew up in the shadows of Aberdeen Proving Grounds; "Cowboy Army:" nodding in non-ironic agreement.
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  1390. One-off moulds are one thing; series production is an entire new deal. Incredibly frustrating as you go through iteration after iteration, especially when someone wants a new feature added.
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  1391. There's this really ugly bit of ordnance WAY the heck over there. I want to break it.
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  1392.  @viking1236  yes, but "acetylene" lamps as such weren't available until commercial acetylene production began around the end of the century. Prior to that, you used calcium carbide as your chemical precursor.
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  1393. He is a trained engineer. It shows.
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  1394. Zombie soldiers show an outstanding grasp of the uses of social media.
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  1395.  @ChristopherHallett  meh. Not really; at least not in an infantry role. That rate of fire is actually wasteful and inefficient when gunning down grunts. 700-900 is plenty enough.
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  1396.  @georgesakellaropoulos8162  good to know. Of course, one might expect that the home of CZ, one of my favorite gun makers, to have a fairly enlightened culture. I think that CZ could very easily set up a compact CZ 75/85 model in .30sc; the frame already easily lends itself to multi-caliber conversions. Because, let's be honest, no firearm in a single specific caliber will last unless there's general uptake of the cartridge.
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  1397. Theme: Rocket-powered airplanes. Many of them.
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  1398. In my experience, no. Once you're familiarized with a weapon, a grip safety becomes just part of the experience - you don't even really think about it.
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  1399. Just to be clear, a couple of my circle bought the pistols, and one bought a carbine. We shot them for a while, but were soon back to simpler firearms.
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  1400. "You went to war with that..?! You're braver than you look."
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  1401.  @terabiman  yeah, that's the line I'm missing.
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  1402. Thank YOU, (and Jose!) for continuing to educate and entertain us.
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  1403. Hang around. He will do it again.
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  1404. There's little pressure to change the chassis or power plant - there's been no failure of performance there. Turret, electronics, and weapons are where the pressure is being felt.
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  1405. That trench line? It's suicidally bad. A straight trench like that is begging for artillery to sweep the trench. Likewise, in the era of 3- and 4-meter CEP heavy artillery, some plywood and a bit of dirt overhead will NOT save you or your vehicle. The M-777 howitzer CEP is even less than that, even without the special fire control computers. Whoever designed the fortification was criminally negligent. He killed those troops as surely as if he'd blown them up himself.
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  1406. Whales and potted petunias fly better than the Christmas Bullet.
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  1407. Howard Taylor of the webcomic "Schlock Mercenary" did an "unofficial anecdotal history of challenge coins;" link to the PDF can be found on the Schlock Mercenary home page.
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  1408. I love my Ithaca 37.
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  1409.  @dwaynewladyka577  honestly, more soldiers 'came back,' than didn't. But the more family you sent to war, the worse the odds become that someone won't make it. My father carried some nasty scars; he came home, but only just.
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  1410. Ok, that's an original bit of insanity.
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  1411. Or worse, a battery of them.
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  1412.  @scottmccrea1873  to an engineering type such as myself, it's breathtaking. It uses the simplest means to achieve the goal, without any fundamental alterations to the host design. It makes innate sense.
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  1413. Basically, a potato gun. Efficient, much less costly to operate.
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  1414.  @FelixWheatfield  I'm in retail right now, and I have to say that the Christmas music selection is actually really good, with many obscure artists and various takes on the genre. Of course, that means some really odd selections are creeping in, including one mega-depressing take on "Christmas Time Is Here Again." I mean, a real suicide-triggering song. Shrug Still better than Mariah Carey on endless loop.
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  1415.  @christophersanders3252  Monty Python; "Self Defense Against Fresh Fruit."
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  1416.  @lloydtucker5647  he's so big, the usual security features won't work with him. The locals don't have to try to feed him; he's just taking whatever he wants.
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  1417. At the time the building was designed and built, that was NOT the case. This was big enough a tragedy already, without adding scurrilous and ignorant accusations.
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  1418. Considering the condition, I'd hesitate to assume much history from this specific piece - its very nearly "unissued" condition suggests a long stint on an armory rack rather.
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  1419.  @jonathanbailey1597  indeed. That's why I distrust that phrase.
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  1420. I have two cleavers; I use them for splitting chicken or goose carcases. The rest of the time, they sit, unused.
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  1421. Well, you need big pockets. I have them.
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  1422.  @BarnDoorProductions  Ah! I'd forgotten about the Feniains. Thank you!
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  1423. ...target practice. On each other.
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  1424.  No Fuckingway  prepare to carpet bomb in fries!
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  1425.  @Willy_Tepes  😮😥
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  1426. Additive printing goes places we don't even grasp yet.
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  1427. Let the Big Box Hardware Wars commence!
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  1428. Ok, this is right up there with the bean-eater scene in Blazing Saddles...
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  1429.  @JoeRocket-sf6qs  spammers like use 'bots to drop links into popular video comment streams. It's a cheap way of generating many, many hits. Revenue farming, and relevance farming.
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  1430. What, illegal..?! NOOOOOO!
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  1431. Same.
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  1432.  @roboticrebel4092  if brass count + turned in count == issued count, then you known, absolutely, that no one is smuggling live rounds into the barracks. Because a disgruntled recruit with live ammo is everyone's nightmare.
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  1433. How many goal posts? ALL of them.
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  1434.  Max William Lauf  the Sig P320 absolutely makes sense. Without the fire control group, all you have are interchangable accessories. None of those parts can make a cartridge go 'bang' without the fire control group. My Sig has many accessories, but only one serialized fire control group. It can be a concealed carry, or a duty carry, or a full-sized, or any of a number of calibers, but it can only be one of those at a time. Thus, the trigger group is the weapon.
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  1435.  @Oblithian  well, I presume that Ian uses the same equipment most of the time, and similar mic placement most of the time, and yet I don't normally hear the trigger reset, so, I'm presuming this one is much louder than normal.
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  1436.  @justme_gb  heh. Fair. In my case, the sticker shock was so bad I'll have PTSD nightmares about it for the rest of my life.
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  1437.  @thechonkersking2647  through-and-through wound, gravely injuring the man behind her. That was not a blank.
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  1438. Being a Delawarean, this is a wonderful video. That is all.
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  1439. ANYTHING fires more reliably than a Zip22.
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  1440. "... he's had some medical issues..." ... ... Well, he's not wrong.
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  1441. That lever is more than just a charging handle - it's also part of the locking mechanism, and thus: 'Yes,' transformative.
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  1442.  @chrthiel  survivorship is a test of virtue, though. Sure, random chance will see some oddballs survive, but to survive in this condition? That's a testament to being valued and well-built.
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  1443. That open milling atop the bolt seems to beg to invite foreign material, which could lock the bolt forward in battery. No doubt that would have been refined in a production weapon.
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  1444. Seriously, 'Slice of life' conversations from The Gulf counted for a LOT.
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  1445.  @thedude7726  it can be done. Saw a numbers-matching, with a nice crisp Mum and dust cover, Arisaka in a lovely gloss stock with ebony end cap on the fore end of the stock. The beauty of it was, other than the drill & tap for the scope, nothing else had been done to the rifle; sights still present, bolt left unmolested, dust cover left in place... Oh, the 'drill and tap' job was a shame, but the overall effect was very easy on the eyes.
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  1446. Brilliant and efficient!
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  1447. @seanbigay1042  in the GREEK Navy, there was the Helenic Navy Gato-class submarine 'Poseidon.' Diesel boat from WWII. NOT a class-name. Later, the Germans built a series of diesel boats for the Hellenic Navy under the class name 'Poseidon.' STILL not boomers, and they've never been to Hawaii. The UK had a Poseidon boat, too - but that was a Parthian-class boat. But in the US Navy? Nope. First: No class name of that sort in the USN. Second, "Boomer" is an unofficial nickname for a Fleet Ballistic Missile ('FBM') submarine - there is no actual "Boomer" class, and the entire category are "FBMs." Fourth, boomers launch SLICBMs, of which the Greek Navy has exactly Zero. Lastly, every American FBM submarine is nuclear, and not a tiny 1200 ton diesel boat. So, NO.
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  1448. Strap-hanger on the Saturday AM Train Crash Train...
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  1449. Low recoil, very much straight back into the shoulder - highly controlible.
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  1450.  @arteljus983  I do know what ATACMS warhead detonation looks like. None of them are that large. And no, the secondary effect was not another explosive; the train fire is what you get when you break equipment full of flammables in the presence of great heat. Highly predictable, especially considering the massive primary explosion, which looks like ANFO enhanced - probably - with aluminum powder.
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  1451.  @kariarabellalassauniere402  just so. Just exactly so.
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  1452.  @Lillireify  The negligence kills innocents. That's unfortunate. Learn your definitions.
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  1453. Great buy! You hit the mother lode.
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  1454.  @Privat2840  the US has already developed and deployed the VAMPIRE (an actual acronym - go, Army bureaucrats!), which takes existing and relatively cheap Hydra rockets, puts a seeker guidance unit in the fuse well, and pairs a box launcher of four with a tracking laser and a guidance unit, all of which are on a pallet that you can stick in the bed of a full-size pickup truck. Still more expensive than a drone, but considering the operational risk of drones, extremely cheap at the price. Several such pallets have already been delivered to Ukraine. Perfect for drones, slow-flying helicopters, and random ground targets of opportunity. Basically, it's a Bubba SAM.
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  1455. USN Reactor Operator, submarine fleet. "Seven Seas" was good fuel for one of the epic endless bull sessions. Conversations could literally last days, even a week - participants changing with the watches, and participants sometimes shifting position and take on the subject at hand, and the subject also morphing before returning to the 'original' subject.
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  1456.  @grmpEqweer  yeah, you'd think so. Sadly, that phrase is immensely popular with people who want quick solutions without having to think. Like, for example, American voters.
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  1457. When the ship of state founders, the rats will desert, scurrying with whatever they can grab.
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  1458. "Little Crappy Ships." Bathtub toys for admiral's egos. They were shit from the conception. EVERYONE who did not want to retire to a comfy defense contractor job warned EVERYONE that the design was utterly shit. "Modularity" is the problem from the beginning; it doesn't fucking work on naval vessels. The built-in requirement for heavy dependence on civilian maintenance crews is one of the stupidest misunderstandings of naval war fighting needs, ever. The Cole bombing and the Roberts mine strike highlight exactly why warships need large crews - to combat battle damage. Without those large, well-trained crews, those ships would both have sunk. The LCS is specifically designed to reduce crew size. They're cockleshells that cannot take a hit, and cannot fight back. There are a number of admirals that should be in prison for culpable stupidity. Yes, I'm a squid, and I've been to The Gulf.
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  1459. One would think that to become senior officers, they must have been competent junior- and mid-rank officers first. Junior officers deal with facts, physics, and reality. Mid-rank officers deal with logistics, maintenance, and similar reality-based programs. How does becoming a senior officer cause all that knowledge and capability to fall out of their heads..?!
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  1460.  @davebruneau6068  you REALLY don't read for comprehension, do you? 1st: I DID NOT weigh in on whether the story was true, or not - I merely had the HORRIFIC temerity to suggest that you a) have zero evidence for your negative stance, and b) pointed out factors and possibilities to consider, that neither of us know. 2nd: having failed to comprehend or appreciate the point I made, you invented a story in your mind about what I really said, and posted as if that lie were a fact, despite evidence present that demonstrates it to be a lie. 3rd: I assess you to be one of those folks that think unfounded skepticism is a virtue; it isn't - no more than unfounded credulity is. 4th: you then invented more lies, ad hominem, to create a strawman that has zero foundation in ANYTHING. In short: you are a liar, and a fool. Oh, and you argue... Badly.
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  1461. All the best weapons in the world are useless without trained soldiers to use them. Glory to Canada! Glory to the heroes!
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  1462. Russia is a land of evil.
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  1463. A literal pin-fire weapon.
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  1464.  @Shelby-Ecoboost-Raptor-550hp  considering the horrific casualties of the various bomber commands, your statement takes on an air of legendary sacrifice.
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  1465. That's playing 4-D chess.
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  1466.  xr7fan  they do carry heavy full-caliber rifles, when they can. But for backup, when the long gun isn't immediately available, they go with 10mm - because in an emergency, it'll still do the job.
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  1467.  xr7fan  never argued otherwise. But when you need to back up a heavy game rifle, you choose a pistol that can do the job. Unless you're an idiot, or a bureaucrat. Oh, wait - those two are the same thing.
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  1468. I like this!
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  1469.  @ushankaman6143  minor correction: Tanks perform terribly in urban terrain without infantry support. With proper infantry support, tanks are absolute monsters in urban terrain. WWII experience, and US experience post WWII bears this out. This applies to APCs, as well. Infantry inside an APC cannot fight, cannot suppress enemy infantry, and cannot survive Anti-Armor weapons. Where Russia is really screwing up is that they've forgotten the absolute requirement of dismounted infantry support in urban warfare. They keep running buttoned-up armored vehicles into natural ambush zones. Yes, infantry move slow. Too bad. Slow your roll, and win. Speed about, and die.
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  1470.  @sealove79able  the ANT-64. Had it been allowed to continue development (Stalin again!) it would have been designated "TU-10." Instead, a different aircraft was given the TU-10 designation. There's very little Western documentation on the ANT-64. Edit: Development on the ANT-64 was halted in '47, simultaneously with the completion of the TU-4; a shame, as the 64 looks to have been a somewhat superior aircraft, based on what is known.
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  1471.  @davem2369  defensive? I suppose, if you call trying to get you some understanding where you were missing not just the point, but unaware why you were missing the point 'defensive,' then, sure. Guilty. But if you consider trying to introduce you to context as defensive, then it's clear you're not at all interested in actual discourse, but merely interested in 'Being Right.' Which means there's no point in discussion, because your mind is already closed. Have a nice life, with your self assurance and certitude.
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  1472. I've had Cream Stout (beer) ice cream. It's surprisingly good. Likewise, garlic ice cream is pretty good. Haven't tried Wassabi ice cream, but I'd give it a try. I'd give this parmesan cheese ice cream a try, too. When we were kids, we'd play a game of imagining the worst ice cream flavors. Cream corn, green bean, Brussels Sprouts, etc. "Cough Syrup Cherry" is still the worst idea.
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  1473.  @dillonandrews8970  and that is WHY the assumption no longer applies.
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  1474. Absolutely gaskets. I worked alongside Navy Moulders for a while; they did small part casting, including some rather precise work. Pump housings, impellers, small boat screws, and other more intricate cast parts. They used gasket-like material of a similar nature.
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  1475. Or like the French, you could 'wow' your friends by offering tiny birds, whole, cooked with their feathers on. I swear, not even the wealthiest, most snooty people are immune to the "hold my wine while I do this insane thing" type of one-upmanship.
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  1476.  @TheDocPlatypus  Patreon early access.
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  1477. Just lugging this to the match would be brutal.
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  1478.  @Dave5843-d9m  not likely. Japanese submarines used deck guns on several occasions, with MUCH more capable shells, and did very little. Launching balloons takes time, which surfaced submarines off the heavily-patrolled coast didn't have. The boldest attack by Japanese submarines lasted twenty minutes. You might have gotten two balloons off in the same time that the gun delivered dozens of shells.
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  1479.  @Jinx1337x  damn. That's perfect!
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  1480.  @felczak2  and that is why they will win.
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  1481.  @friedtomatoes4946  initially, many many volunteers knew nothing, and they suffered viciously for it. But they helped slow the Russians enough for a better trained cadre to muster and solidify. The Ukrainians have a three tier force, and only the top tier are truly professional. Of course, there's nothing like being in combat to sharpen your skills. By now, even the volunteers are getting pretty good.
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  1482. Non-sequitur, much?
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  1483. Today I learned...
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  1484. Ian knows all the secrets.
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  1485.  James  you calling Rupert Murdoch & crew Zionist? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1486. Saw that report - Excellent reporting. I feel very badly for the families of these formations; they were told that their men were special, and a national treasure, only to have them thrown away by use outside their specialty.
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  1487. Most of those murdered by the Soviet Union were killed with rifles, starvation, over-work, and exposure. But yeah, these ugly little revolvers were in the pockets of many whom oversaw those crimes.
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  1488. Pound knew he had the tumor. Lacking the courage to resign, he should have been forced out. His decision-making capacity was seriously compromised, and PQ17 should have been the last straw.
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  1489. "Giant Eddy" is baloney, and anyone spending any time on it, other than to utterly dismiss it, is a crank. ~ Qualified in Submarines
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  1490. "I went to Liege, and all I got was these ticket stubs to a museum, and scar on my lower back..."
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  1491.  Bob Luke  are you on drugs?
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  1492.  @hanshazlitt4535  so, here's the problem: First, are you using the same metals and alloys? Different materials have different properties - steel isn't just steel; some steels are harder, more wear-resistent, but they also might be more rigid - too rigid, bashing against other parts - or more brittle and prone to breakage, or too springy and prone to giving inadequate support. That's just the start of it, too. Use the wrong material, and a part might bend, or stick, or warp under temperature changes. It goes deeper than that, too. Now, dimensions; how precise are the parts in your sample? Are they worn? Are they maximum tolerance, or minimum? Or a mix of both? When measuring, where do you choose as your starting point? Which dimensions are critical, and which can afford a bit of slop? Remember, the copies of the sample parts will, themselves, suffer some variation. Adding variation on top of variation, you get important changes to the final dimensions, to the point where key parts no longer fit where they belong. 0.001 here, plus 0.001 there, all in random directions, and suddenly you've go parts that interfere with each other, or don't reach where they're supposed to reach... It's all highly frustrating, and much harder than it looks - kinda like a xerox of a xerox is never as crisp as the original.
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  1493.  @MrYfrank14  yeah, well that California for ya.
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  1494. Because of the Kentucky Ballistics event.
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  1495. A brilliant bit of viewer-friendly work.
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  1496. Huh. I never knew that the molasses was industrial grade. I also did not know about the corner-cutting, but I'm not at all surprised. The paint dodge is just jaw-droppingly stupid. 😮 Well done, Max, I learned several new things.
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  1497.  Slim Dim  you have no soul.
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  1498.  @LTPottenger  there is a school of architecture that is deliberately ugly, called - amusingly - "Brutalist." It was popular with government for a while, but has since lost favor.
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  1499. The Modelo 58b was solid. Spain produced some fine firearms for a long time. Star and Astra gave up nothing to anyone. The Eibar region was once well-known for its firearms.
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  1500.  @ivan5604  as opposed to, say, turning useless crap into perfectly fine guns?
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  1501. Essentially, it was a solution looking for a problem that needing solving. VERY expensive for what it did, with small capacity, there was no economical use case.
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  1502.  @Desrtfox71  honestly, the laundry bag is something I've never heard of. So you definitely know some things I don't.
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  1503.  @PureCountryof91  that is its prime purpose - self defense for troops whom usually don't shoot for a living. The HP loads available to civilians are down-rated, but still effective. Recoil is quite mild, compared to some of the fire-breathing calibers out there.
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  1504. I'm happy... Sad... Uh... I'm here?
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  1505. I typically use a German brown mustard.
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  1506.  @briancavanagh7048  they do. You are utterly wrong in your assertion. The Russian Federation has four ranks of NCO. They also have two ranks of private soldier. Starshina - First Sergeant Starshiy Serzhant - Senior or Staff Sergeant Serzhant - Sergeant Mladshiy Serzhant - Junior Sergeant These ranks are drawn from RF Law 293 2010
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  1507. Too late. That (pirate) ship has already sailed.
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  1508.  @junioraltamontent.7582  the losing side always gets a bad rap, and Skorzeny was indeed a terrifying spectre, both from an operational perspective, and in-person.
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  1509.  @stevebengel1346  three days in the movie, six days in the book.
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  1510.  @olafsigursons  well, that does seem to be the Russian way of war, yeah.
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  1511.  @antonniedersteiner4377  15km, yeah, that's about right. Closer than would be comfortable, but they're armored better than a typical SP gun, built to take near misses from artillery, and pretty small and mobile. They're not on a suicide mission, though it will be a very dangerous one. Not as dangerous as being frontline Russian infantry, though.
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  1512. Obsidian has been used as a tool material pretty much everywhere you find it. As noted above, it's been used as a scalpel for optical surgery.
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  1513. Probably an ammunition transport vehicle. Look at the blocky vehicle without a gun; that was the source of the explosion.
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  1514.  @frozenhorse8695  that's a sign that an ammo resupply is ongoing; the ammo is crated as it's transported, then the crates are unshipped, opened, and their contents stowed in the SPG. Just the basic load for an SPG, especially unconfined and in the open, wouldn't make that big a BOOM! No, that's a small depot worth of ammo, as contained in a transporter or truck. No trucks visible, but a transporter is visible. Catching a transporter in the middle of a resupply is a dream for the attackers, and the worst possible nightmare for the defenders.
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  1515. Mad engineering
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  1516. The strip feed doesn't look to be a high tension process; if anything breaks you're not going to get a lot of 'razor whip,' and the one corner where you might does have a guard.
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  1517. ​ @Albinospenguin Triumph of the Bureaucracy!
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  1518. If there was any significant amount of arsenic in the clothing, then absolutely there was body absorbtion.
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  1519. Here's where the fun is! (9mm flex!)
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  1520. This was obvious, back when Russia annexed Crimea.
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  1521. Good find. Yes, they were quite impressive when in full turnout.
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  1522. Russian artillery is on its collective last legs, having shot their tubes out. Re-sleeving a howitzer takes a fair bit of time, and there are thousands in need of repair. T-54/55 makes a perfectly viable SP Artillery Gun. There is a LOT of 100mm ammo out there, including modern munitions. I have little doubt that the Russians are going to be using these as stop-gap SP Artillery, a role in which they're perfectly capable, and generally safe from direct anti-tank fire. At least, until these, too, wear out.
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  1523.  @AshleyPomeroy  that was particularly good.
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  1524.  @derricklarsen2919  centuries of consistency; from the Boyars and Tsars, through to the modern day.
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  1525.  @antoniograncino3506  yes. I bet it was a block of rust.
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  1526. A shotgun that would not be out of place at a range today.* Thoroughly modern! *With updated metallurgy, of course.
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  1527. I never thought you would back such a bullshit obvious scam. I just report them and move on.
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  1528.  @murphy7801  so, what happened when Notre Dame burned? Tens of thousands turned out, without prompt, and sang hymns of comfort and hope, together. That speaks all that anyone needs to know about the soul of France.
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  1529.  @myparceltape1169  and for holding up one's pants.
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  1530. The ride is very popular with your average .50 BMG.
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  1531. Yep. Frustration is the enemy of economy and precision.
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  1532. Dude. That had to be painful to do.
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  1533. "Over engineered." It's German, innit?
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  1534. It's exotic, which means probably doomed.
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  1535.  @cleoharper1842  the amount of things you don't like suggests that you've tried a lot of things. Though I'll definitely disagree with you on some of your list.
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  1536. Do not ask a question, if the answer might be something you REALLY don't want.
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  1537.  @snek9353  yeah, well, I'm not made of money.
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  1538.  @pootthatbak2578  Bad enough. Gusting up to 30 knots, depending on time of day and day of the week. A large vessel has an enormous effective sail area; even a fairly weak wind can have a major impact. Wind at the time of the grounding? More than sufficient to complicate navigation.
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  1539. Additive printing is incredibly disruptive, pollitically, socially, and economically. Oh, it's not a revolution - yet - but it will be. It's going to change the way the world works, and a LOT of the existing economic power players are extremely worried about it.
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  1540.  @patrickkelly6691  Cannot dip into the strategic war reserve; that's law. But US is rapidly increasing its 155 production capacity, tripling or more by years end.
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  1541. Of course he's on the range... Because who could refuse the chance at so much DAKKA..?
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  1542. Also, they should not drink any tea they didn't brew themselves.
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  1543. This is straight out of the Fallujah playbook. US forces there used Javelins to deal with well-fortified firing positions. Expensive, but very effective.
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  1544. The wild scattering of resources on myriad designs and plans is a classic symptom of moral panic. The hierarchy was literally scrambling for something, anything, that would save them.
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  1545.  @TWBarb  sadly, it is NOT a guaranteed painless death. IF the pressure hull imploded, then yes, but there are MANY modes of failure that could be quite prolonged and quite painful, such as an electrical fire aboard. Source: Qualified in Submarines.
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  1546.  @rjkyle  Absent a very distinctive sound transient, I doubt an implosion. Submarine hull implosions are very distinctive sounds, and one of the saddest sounds you'll ever regret hearing. Electrical fire, electronics failure, and atmospheric contamination are actually more likely causes of a silent loss. A pinhole leak around the the observation window or the hatch are also possibilities. I've experienced both fire AND leaks (ruptured sight glass) at-depth, and they're much more serious casualties than folks realize.
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  1547. Orbital 'Rods from God.'
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  1548.  @romanova-9682  ah, I see you, too, are a person of culture!
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  1549.  @tstststs  anyone have a 16-ton weight handy?
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  1550.  @GiselleMF  yep! Home of the Ingens Cibum!
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  1551.  @TastingHistory  yes! I want to see that!
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  1552. Damn. That's bizarre. Effective, but wow...
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  1553. Caesar Salad is great, but I prefer a Greek salad.
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  1554. Hah. Nice observation; agreed.
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  1555. Submariner here. May the Lord Almighty take them in loving arms, for they are lost to us. Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm does bind the restless wave, Who bids the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.
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  1556. It's good enough for internet purposes.
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  1557. Technique matters.
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  1558.  @Intelwinsbigly  😁
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  1559. I suspect it's a /. effect - everyone is jamming the site right now.
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  1560. Extremely Gallic.
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  1561. No, it's a mini-gun because 1) that's what manufacturer call it, 2) that's what the military calls it, and 3) it's a miniature version of the 20mm weapon that proceeded it.
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  1562.  @rubiconnn  oh, I'm very much aware of those facts. Political reality is that 1) the agricultural lobby in California is immensely powerful, and 2) irrigation of lawns, despite being a minor impact, is all almost entirely waste, which can be eliminated. Edit: just you understand that I know of which I speak; I'm a fifth generation native Californian. I grew up in the culture, including the water waste.
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  1563.  @vincentproud6589  he also had to explain "Incels."
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  1564. Tech 9 is semi-auto only.
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  1565. - Russia - China
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  1566. Adorable success! Such a good mother, such fierce little kittens.
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  1567. Yep. Forgotten Weapons - and history - indeed!
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  1568.  @demonprinces17  flight characteristics of an ME109 are radically different from a mid-engined jet.
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  1569. The restrained attire and accoutrement of Attila was a hard power move. He's saying "yes, I could live in luxury, but I'm too badass to bother."
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  1570. Some major misconceptions on the part of quite a few of the German soldiers interviewed. If you cross-reference the stated opinions vs. allied doctrine, you'll discover that the Western allies proceeded in line with their doctrine. Where they didn't, it was a disaster for the allies - Hurtgen Forest comedy to mind immediately. Some soldier whinging that they were defeated by materiel mismatch? Well, Duh! That was Western allied doctrine. In other words, he's bitching because the enemy successful executed, and his side didn't.
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  1571. To people who don't know how things work, everything is a conspiracy. Not knowing how the Chinese business models work, people will naturally assume things, including the myth of the "One Big Factory."
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  1572.  @daszieher  yes. What you said. Exactly so.
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  1573. Extremely informative. Thank you!
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  1574. Modern .32acp defense loads run around 300 meters per second, up to 370 for some REALLY hot loads. That's from standard length test barrels, roughly half the length of this pistol. You're going to get more - I'm NOT sure how much more - here. GUESSING, I'd suggest maybe 20% more - but you sacrifice bullet mass in the faster rounds. Not a lot of literature out there on long-range, or long barrel, ballistics in .32acp. One thing is certainly true though; low bullet mass - even for the heavier, slower loads - will mean a rapid fall-off in performance. What data that is out there suggests that you should respect the terminal ballistics, especially at close range. At any reasonable self-defense range, .32acp will leave you hurting. On the positive side, recoil is minor, and as a fairly small cartridge, it can go in small guns. What's the first rule of the gunfight? Have a gun. So... Not my first choice, but if you choose it, I'm not going to sneer.
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  1575. Lithium Bromide refrigeration plants would seriously screw you up, then.
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  1576. He didn't try for a cheek weld. Those sharp thin bars can bite. That might have changed his opinion just a bit.
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  1577.  @Taihouchan  no doubt!
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  1578.  @worldtraveler930  heh. Yeah, that's... Entertaining. 😉
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  1579. Can I move to Texas now?
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  1580. Certainly the Aggressor training squadrons will have been integrated - can't count on Russia to supply spare parts and reloads, so it only makes sense to use equivalent Western systems, parts, and weapons. That would give a big leg up in integration development.
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  1581. That was NOT a "hunting rifle." It was a variation of a Mosin-Nagant rifle; the one in the picture is complete with a stowed bayonet - VERY much a military weapon, and probably contemporary to the uniform the old man was wearing. The base Mosin rifle was type-standardized in 1891, and made - in various forms - up into the 1950s.
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  1582. Got your message across; your English is fine. And yes, it's fun to blow things up like that. :-)
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  1583. BTW: the soviets made actual thermobaric hand grenades for bunker clearance; equally useful in clearing caves and sewers.
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  1584.  @Trve_Kvlt  they're handy tools, when you absolutely have to delete the occupants of an enclosed space.
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  1585. Only thing is the general external look. Internally, very different. Frankly, for a pocket pistol, I like the Melior's design better.
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  1586.  @XtreeM_FaiL  the number of axis available hasn't changed any. The only real improvements are that you need fewer machines, and you can go much faster. Oh, and there's less emphasis on operator skill. I still remember the day my father showed a machinist that the complex part he called 'impossible' was just an issue of skill and training. Said machinist was less pleased - he had to stop bitching, and up his game.
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  1587. YES! I love Tamales.
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  1588.  @adenkyramud5005  divide KPH by "Bacon Cheeseburger." Not an exact conversion, but it's a useful working approximation.
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  1589. It's a straight up power flex.
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  1590.  @8zzzzzd79  it's partly due to supply chain disruptions, and partly due to panic buying. Panic buying is related to politics, but it's basically an over reaction, than based on rational needs.
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  1591.  @senounatsuru6453  nope. And neither have you. There are a LOT of paranoid fantasies floating around out there, but yanno? I just bought a handgun earlier this morning. Walked in, did my 4473, paid, and walked out with it. While I was in there, a shotgun and black rifle were also sold. We (customers and shop workers I've known for literally decades) went over the ammunition situation. It's VERY similar to the rimfire panic of a few years ago. And that was panic-driven, too. Cool yer jets; no one is coming for your guns today. Not tomorrow, either.
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  1592.  @benthomson1132  there's a majesty, grace, and elegance to airships you just don't find in other transport aircraft.
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  1593.  Ima Goodtime  I should care what a self-righteous self-appointed prig thinks? You are a wannabee internet warrior, and you're very bad at it. You should feel bad. Now, bugger off.
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  1594.  @connclark2154  there are ways around that, such as making the rod not continuously threaded, but only threading the connection points - taper out to make those slightly fatter, and thread there only, and you can slide the nuts over most of the rod without issue. There are other ways, but that one pops to mind immediately.
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  1595.  @gabbyb9418  it isn't the lack of sugar. It's the sheer scovil loading; extremely high.
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  1596.  @hershdawgmusic  I was just thinking about getting some Midas Touch...
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  1597. The Chinese, even back then, were entirely capable of solid engineering - IF it was important to someone who mattered. The problem was that while the ability existed, it was regionally VERY expensive, compared to what the economy could support. So, where the economy could support it (rare spots), the know-how was there. Where the economy couldn't support it (most everywhere else!), you had to make do with second or third (or worse!) best.
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  1598. To have shining moments, you have to spend time at sea - the more, the better. Russia has never really grasped that. To be fair, Russia is mostly a land empire, and only really need a coastal defense.
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  1599.  @brianreddeman951  maybe apocryphal, but entirely plausible. There's no real limiting factor except one's tolerance for the smell of burnt hair.
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  1600.  @stevemcgowen  by that math, tiny Ukraine outnumbers the orcs by scores to one! (You're not wrong)
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  1601.  @jubuttib  heh. Finland, going its own way. Because that's what Finns do.
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  1602. In the real world, they DO happen. Rarely. In any case, convenient happenstance should always be investigated sharply.
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  1603. Yeah, those aren't for everyone. Nor even for most folks.
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  1604.  @johnslugger  Russia - higher wages? I'd like to see some evidence of that assertion, because that smells extremely fishy. Anyway, 35% ethnic Russian means 65% ethnic Ukrainian, and I don't see that ratio working in Russia's favor. But ultimately, it's only what Russia can hold, militarily, that counts. They've already retreated all their warships from Sevastopol - not a strong showing. And yes, I would expect Putin to wreck everything he can if forced to retreat. He seems to be just exactly that kind of temper-tantrum throwing little child. Really, the comparisons between Putin and Adolf Hitler grow stronger every day.
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  1605.  @Getpojke  punt guns are notoriously slow to load; not very efficient. Machine guns did a bloodily effective job - no need for exotics.
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  1606.  @SpecialEDy  agreed. He violated Rules One and Two (and arguably Rule Four). That said, there were a lot of links in the chain of events, any one of which, had they been properly observed, would have prevented the tragedy.
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  1607.  @SlavicCelery  not mention North American natives had pyramids, too. Mostly eroded to the point where you have to be a specialist to see them, but that's the result of building materials availability. Fact is, if you want a tall impressive structure, and are technologically limited, "pyramid" is your go-to choice. That applies the pretty much the entire planet.
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  1608. Reliable as a sewing machine.
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  1609. Nah, bro. Amine is bad, but venting SANs is the absolute worst. No competition.
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  1610.  @dbrown51967  there's that problem of another 2500 miles... One way. Bombing London was already a technical challenge due to the afore-mentioned mechanical failures and weather. Weather over the Atlantic is MUCH worse than over London. Another 5000 miles of it, round-trip? Suicidal. Witness the challenges of post-war lighter than air flight; Hindenburg disaster. USS Macon disaster. USS Shenandoah disaster... And these were with vastly improved designs, metallurgy, and engineering. WWI zeppelins might have pulled it off, but they were going to take hideous losses.
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  1611. Probably NOT actually first. But close enough. Even the notoriously 'Not invented here' prone American military will make use of capable foreign designs when there is no better domestic design available.
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  1612. Throwing high-skill troops into a meat grinder is so typically Russian.
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  1613.  @BeardedFrog  without Shock, there was no program. He was the only pilot they found who could make it work. Similarly, the X-13 Ryan VertiJet was utterly dependant on the pilots; Pete Girard and Lou Everett. Those two were the only two who could transition and maneuver the aircraft. Everett, especially, was a genius at "waltzing" the aircraft in a vertical attitude around the landing area. My mother was working for Ryan at this time, and was one of the number-crunchers assigned (her job title was "Computer," because that's what she did - compute data. Yes, she was a 'Hidden Figure.').
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  1614. You would prefer Mssr. Feathers, perhaps..? 😁
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  1615. Are we sure it wasn't Russian dolphins smoking carelessly?
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  1616. The "not-so-fickle finger of fate."
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  1617. Extreme fire risk in the immediate Phily area, and severe risk in surrounding areas - people need to stay off their barbequing.
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  1618. I'm a simple man - I see "AK-50," I click through immediately.
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  1619. "Cry "HAVOC!" and let slip the dog of war!" Yeah, not exactly what the Bard had meant, but, it fits.
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  1620. Using your platform to big-up a small shop with cool ideas: Quite the flex. 👍
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  1621.  @craigsteinkamp12  that's true of any startup firearms company; the barrier to entry is high. Showing up here, though, is neither a plus or a minus.
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  1622. Watching you choke down the absinthe provides a brief moment of humorous schadenfreude. 😁
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  1623.  @0x73V14  that would be nice, yes.
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  1624. Monkeying with a critical design... Multiple times. There's NO way that could turn out wrong. 🙄
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  1625. So... Whichever wins, you're a shill. 😁
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  1626.  @sharonrigs7999  we had two on the Tender; '89-'93. One was a modified '03 Springfield, the other a modified M-14. Lots of shotguns in the Armory, but not a one of them rigged as a line thrower.
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  1627. This would be a great idea.
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  1628. Oh No! Ian is threatening us with a good time! 😁
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  1629. For that art? About right.
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  1630. Rate of rotation and other chaotic effects will alter observed results. Mostly, what you tested was the range of imprecision in your testing apparatus. Which is still valid science, of course.
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  1631. Pistachio. Failing that, butter pecan.
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  1632.  @rogersmith7396  102's were crap,* too, and killed many pilots as well. The learning curve was much steeper than that of the 100, putting you right back in the seat of the problem. *There's a reason the 106 came out - it was a 102 with the pilot-killers designed out of it. Changes were so great, they gave it a new number.
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  1633.  @tarmaque  which is why I specified "looks."
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  1634. Before watching the video, my guess: Russia is hedging its resources in advance of the collapse of the Ruble. They're buying while the Ruble still has value, so they can buy stuff when their cash becomes worthless.
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  1635.  @wadewilson8303  excellent point.
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  1636.  @gavinlee6196  the central government (pre-warlord) had started the push for simplicity; the bureaucracy wanted it as an efficiency measure. The CCP continued the move, seeing it as a good idea for their own ends (efficiency, ease of communication, ease of control, reduced cost, etc.).
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  1637. MP-5 is a fine weapon, but it's also pretty old - it's not surprising that a much more modern weapon out-performs it. The genius of the MP-5 is that despite its age, it remains competitive at all.
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  1638. Not only are you passionate about your subject matter, but you inspire passion in others; your enthusiasm is contagious.
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  1639.  @andersjjensen  denying Pvt. Spade his coffee makes him cranky, which makes him eager to spot enemies to be punished, thus making for automatic (heh) temperature regulation.
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  1640.  @guts-141  I'll grant that; a lot more allies would have died. End result would have been the same, though. The engineering hoops through which the Germans leapt is astonishing. Someone once said that "supreme excellence in engineering is not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away." In that respect, Germany managed to embrace both ends of the spectrum.
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  1641. Honestly, the only part of the Russian fleet I ever worried about was their later-era fast attack boats. A few of those guys knew what they were about. Submarines will apply some serious darwinian pressure. Either you know what you're doing, or you're dead. Sometimes, even when you know what you're doing, you're dead anyway. (Kursk)
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  1642. What about the Scooby Van? It had a scooter to support!
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  1643. Time for Ian to get involved in Sporting Clays. It's a fun afternoon!
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  1644. A shame... It's absolutely lovely.
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  1645. I live not far from Dover. There has been a visible up-tick in flight activity out of Joint Base Dover.
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  1646. Surprisingly efficacious, actually. Not terribly expensive, though a poorer working class family would struggle a bit. Once ice factories became common, you could order up block ice, just like you had your milk delivered, and it would be brought to your home or business. Ice wagons were a common sight at one time. Everyone, pretty much, had an ice box (proto-refrigerator) and ice pick, which you would use to 'chip one off the ol' block' (ice being usually delivered in block form) for use. I'm fortunate to have known my grandmother, who was born in the 19th century; lots of her old turns of phrase lead to questions, which lead to informative stories. To her dying day, refrigerators were 'ice boxes' to her.
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  1647.  @tacticalgreengecko7369  not even remotely the only one! I'd even accept it in .32acp.
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  1648. Yep. Following on the AC-47, the AC119 was a cheaper version of the AC-130. Money is always a concern.
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  1649.    you're not wrong. Lots of "un-educated" gun inventors out there in history, but if you look into their background, you'll find huge levels of appropriate skills and training development. The skills just don't come easy; you have to earn them.
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  1650. The MP-5 has the advantage of decades of continual refinement. It shows.
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  1651. It's full of stuff that would be good for the body, especially if recovering blood loss.
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  1652.  @sheenachristina2385  I'm not, but if I were, I'd be in Caer Adamant. I get around a lot on the internets. You'll find me in the oddest corners.
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  1653.  @sheenachristina2385  yep! Mostly PacFleet; submarines. But also Recruiter in Florida and some time at NAVSTA PHILLY.
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  1654.  @daniels5780  Agreed. But just how often are prayers that pure? You know as well as I that impure prayer is terribly common.
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  1655.  @itself227  pretty much the mental image I have, as well. 😁
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  1656. Bad cooks learn to be good, or at least tolerable, else they're not going to be around the sub fleet for long.
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  1657.  @TheAndi073  no time soon, yes. But eventually.
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  1658.  @robderich8533  and wouldn't it be nice if combat could be reduced to a sporting event, eh?
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  1659. The Ram tank was a solid enough design, other than the obsolete bow MG mini-turret. It certainly deserved a better look, but, well... Things happen.
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  1660. Talk about big iron! That's one freekin' huge-ass hunk of steel.
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  1661. Who knows what might get added. Air defense lasers are a thing already. Now, they need to mature enough to be stuffed in an aircraft. The 52 has an advantage, in that it's got LOTS of room and load capacity for an early development system.
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  1662. 🤣
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  1663. Nevermind. The haters have arrived.
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  1664. I've done enough UnReps to have real respect for Bernoulli. Bernoulli WILL screw you if do not respect him. Add in the huge sail area of a large, fully-laden container ship, and you have a very challenging maneuvering problem. Wind on the stern quarter, especially, is problematic in this scenario, as the stern is the biggest point of leverage, center of leeway resistance-wise. A couple ounces of force per square foot doesn't sound like much, but multiply that across the tens (hundreds!) of thousands of square feet, and you've got a powerful enemy. Add in the suction from Bernoulli, and well, yer right proper fooked, ain'cha?
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  1665.  @mh518  they paid their lawyers a LOT of money. Defense against litigation is NOT inexpensive; this is why often companies will settle - it's cheaper in the long run.
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  1666.  @Isaac556x45  well, to be fair, this system is robust enough to handle whatever you like... And easily adaptable. So, sure, have .30-30, too.
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  1667. US Submarine fleet used to have special forms for 'Family Grams' to radio private messages to sailors on the boats out to sea - If your family didn't send one often enough, the command ombudsman would contact your family to ask them to get hot with the notes. These days, I believe its done via e-mail.
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  1668.  @draconightwalker4964  guy in my case? Yeah, I expect the judge got his attention.
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  1669.  @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980  no doubt.
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  1670. Hamas uses Alamy Stock videos and images, too? 😮🙄😂
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  1671. But... Did he get his mother's earrings back once he became emperor?
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  1672. Milt. Yeah... Not a choice ingredient.
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  1673.  @s-man5647  yeah, pretty much. Ammunition is heavy. Trying to put too much of it in a magazine is asking for trouble.
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  1674. No, he didn't; you are correct. He claimed credit for the necessary funding and enabling legislation. Which was also not true.
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  1675.  @lowandslow3939  the Japanese in WWII demonstrated effective use of lumber and dirt. It's not a difficult concept; you just need to be willing to work at it. But then, the lazy SOBs that dug a straight trench line clearly couldn't be bothered. Edit: to be clear: fell trees, or tear apart buildings to obtain the necessary lumber. They're already wrecking Ukraine on a systematic level - driving an AFV through a barn to 'liberate' some timber is well within their wheelhouse.
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  1676. Indeed so!
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  1677. The original killer drones are Automobile Torpedoes. Programed before launch, autonomous after launch, and specifically intended to self navigate to their target via depth regulation and course maintenance features, the earliest torpedos were simple and crude, but still killer robots. Since the advent of homing torpedos in WWII, they've even become self-guiding. Automobile Torpedoes have been killing humans since the 19th Century. Anti-drone warfare is probably the "killer app" for lasers. Laser tech is powerful enough to down most drones, and more than sufficiently agile to track and engage even the most erratically-evading drone.
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  1678. Even if he wasn't going to check the chamber, fucking Rule #1 would have saved the cinematographer's life: NEVER POINT A WEAPON AT SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY. Then, if gun go 'BANG' - for whatever reason - you still won't suffer a life of regrets.
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  1679. @Alyn Hill Well sure. But even if you manage to somehow mess one or more of the other rules up, Rule #1 still means not having to apologize to a grieving family member. That's why it's rule #1.
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  1680. Pretty cool. 😎 Needs some refinement, but still the coolest gun on the firing line.
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  1681.  @rabbit0664  true enough.
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  1682. :: Raises hand ::
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  1683. Here; public service: https://youtu.be/jEKvMBRe_nU
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  1684. Cool find!
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  1685.  @Merilix2  optimization is a process. There is absolutely zero requirement to use it intelligently. In my experience, it's more often used blindly than it is intelligently.
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  1686.  @nevilleneville6518  exactly. Failure is ALWAYS an option. ANY human-designed or human-operated system has error built into it; it's inevitable. The trick is to 1) make sure failure is not the default option, and 2) design the system so that when something goes wrong, the system doesn't break or kill anyone.
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  1687.  @Psiberzerker  to correct myself, yes, the M1A1; for some reason I'm always forgetting that terminal "1" in the designation.
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  1688.  @leiaorgana5098  nothing wrong with a nice dirty grease gun...
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  1689.  @shawnr771  I think of those more as screw-starting awls. All it needs is a screwdriver blade...
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  1690. Just what kind of civil unrest were they expecting in the 19th century..? That seems massive overkill.
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  1691.  @troy9477  thank you.
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  1692. It is not at all impossible that the Empress had her own personal military units; she had a power base, and personal forces would support that. Especially so when she was the only effective sovereign.
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  1693. Fudd Busters is a new one to me; will definitely follow up!
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  1694. Project Paperclip was quite the vacuum cleaner.
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  1695. More crude than the Cobray Terminator..?
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  1696. The Border Patrol could make good use of these...
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  1697. bold move. :D
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  1698.  @southw1nd  my Yugo M48 is an absolute delight, and is honestly my second favorite of the Mauser family, right behind my Swedish M38.
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  1699. Exactly. Old ideas, in novel forms. I was thinking of the Fairbanks-Morse dual-opposed piston diesel generators used on my old submarines. Compact torque monsters - But not nearly as compact as this beast. On the other hand, they had - and needed - torque for weeks.
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  1700.  @johnplaid648  ah. You stumped me. Well played!
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  1701. Mr. Black is quite nice. Not my usual, but very pleasant.
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  1702.  @TastingHistory  Irish Coffee with Mr. Black. Perfect after an evening meal. (Substitute a dash of Mr. Black for some of the whiskey)
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  1703. Yeah, that early model profile looks like they didn't even try.
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  1704. Watching the Kickstarter numbers ratcheting up was entertaining. Fun!
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  1705. Ahead of its time and yet, behind the times; in the 80s, firearms conservatism worked against wide take-up of bullpups, and the market for SMGs were mostly out of fashion except for niche purposes. So, not much market, and it was competing against H&K.
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  1706.  @Kingwoodish  very sensitive mic, then.
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  1707. When Airsoft players grow up...
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  1708.  @TheArklyte  if he hadn't been in other movies handling guns, I'd agree. But he has, so I don't.
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  1709. Earthen gravity dam. What could possibly go wrong..?
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  1710. Johnny is a rockstar.
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  1711.  @banan4990  nope. Father Christmas. Yes, I actually do 'Father Christmas' for a couple of churches. Although, to one particularly annoying jerk, I told him I was a Born Again French Lumberjack. I expect he's still scratching his head over that one.
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  1712.  @raifsevrence  pretty sure that most of their monitors don't actually know - because the strikes and bans are all over the map. They're far too inconsistent to be part of a well-trained force.
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  1713. Heh. I posted before I saw that you beat me to the punch. 😛
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  1714. Also a good door knocker.
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  1715.  @danielgloyd4529  Well, they were extremely shocking. It normally took a week of concentrated firebombing to affect similar damage. The nukes did it, one plane, one mission, one bomb. Never the less, a determined population with a reasonable amount of remaining resources could have dragged things out, for many months, probably. The nukes drew a line under the situation that could not be ignored.
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  1716. This presupposes an effective Reserve formation or an extremely efficient conscription and training system. Modern war is (potentially) much too fast to allow traditional mobilization of the population. Ukraine benefitted from an incompetent Russian military. Had they faced a well-drilled, well-led enemy - even with Russia's crap hardware - we'd be looking at a post-independent Ukraine. As it was, the emergency arming of the population, whilst (just barely) adequate, led to enormous casualties amongst the volunteers.
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  1717.  @warhorse03826  in effect, they did, upon invasion, opening the armories to anyone who showed up. Ad-hoc arming of the citizenry though, does not an effective Reserve make. When Russia invaded, it was years too late to go 'Swiss.' Recall that all Swiss Reserves are trained, are required to stay in practice, and are subject to periodic refresher training. Undoubtedly, had Ukraine possessed such a system, it would have been extremely helpful, but that's wishful thinking and water under the bridge.
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  1718. Waiting for Matt to score a 40mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannon. FPSRussia showed the way, but couldn't seal the deal on ownership.
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  1719. Correction: SIX cars. Ridley Park, Pennsylvania - en route from Philadelphia to Wilmington. 350+ souls on board, all evacuated with no loss of life or serious injury. I've ridden this route, and experienced a few scary moments. This is not terribly far from the place on the same line that had a fatal over-speed derailment a few years back.
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  1720.  @KeterMalkuth  I'm thinking more from an armorer and logistics point of view. Multiple supply streams, and being locked in to a single, or set of, optics. It limits your future options, too. I have a claw mount, and have had no issues with zero retention; the trick is to not be mounting and dismounting you optics as a habitual thing. When you dismount the optics, yes, you will need to check your zero. But that's kinda normal. I'll grant that the claw mount does encourage that behavior, but that's a training issue.
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  1721.  @يوسفالقرعان-ب3ج  thank you for sharing your faith; extremely generous of you. That said, I will stick with the faith of my father.
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  1722. Do not get in the path of a woman on her way to those she loves. She will find a way.
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  1723. Take some time for self-care. Looking at, and analyzing this kind of horror is hard on you - watch out your mental health. Thank you for handling this, so we don't have to.
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  1724. I don't doubt that game designers are subscribed. Good odds it'll show up at some point.
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  1725. Yeah, I had a car with a Takata airbag. Took them practically forever to reach out to me. Good choice for starting the new series.
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  1726.  @hensonlaura  you misspelled 'paraphrase.' ~ God
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  1727. A very nice, completely reasonable rifle. It's a treat to see a weapon where the "more, more, more" mindset is avoided. Just competent, thoughtful choices, leading to a solid, simple, effective weapon.
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  1728. Might have been a bit of pucker factor, there... I mean, that's one HUGE black bear.
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  1729. @Glostahdude  nope. The world will still be here, right where it always was. PEOPLE might not be here, but extinctions happen. 😛
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  1730. @seanbigay1042  now, Poseidon missile?! THAT exists. Existed. Past tense. Out of service in 1992. You don't call the FBM by the missile payload, because that changes. You could call the FBMs "Tridents," because that's the current family of SLBMs, but it would be like calling a tank "APDSFS" because it fires armor-piercing discarding-sabot fin-stabilized ammunition.
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  1731. Ah. Yes, let's ignore basic seamanship and design safety in the pursuit of profit. 😡
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  1732. Ah, yes, yet another reason I don't like to take public transit - you never know what environmental menace your seatmate might have trousered. Never mind their unwashed stench.
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  1733. And yet, clear it he does. Which begs the question: what's Brandon going to do to top it? It'll have to be beyond epic.
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  1734. Yep. Even on a submarine, fire is a worse threat than flooding.
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  1735. There were a lot of engineers with nifty ideas, straight from the Good Idea Fairy, in those days. We all know the Good Idea Fairy isn't our friend.
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  1736.  @arteljus983  even if you are correct (and I'm pretty sure you're not), that was no ATACMS warhead.
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  1737.  @george2113  what would be truly a waste would be if the judge allows room for an appeal - which would extend the waste for years more.
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  1738.  @Transit_Biker  Brine is preventative before the storm, rock salt is for during and after a storm. Brining the roads is extremely effective in keeping roads free of ice and slush during the early part of a storm, or through shorter snow events. Because brining is much less disruptive, compared to salt spreader trucks, and because you can lay it down many hours before snowfall starts, it's become very popular. It also requires less sophisticated and less specialized equipment to lay down.
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  1739. Amen.
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  1740. They were basically were caught behind the budgetary power curve; their government kept trying to do things on the cheap because their economy couldn't support modernization and conduct operations at the same time.
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  1741. Someone did a lot of improvising.
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  1742. Had the Nazis managed to mas-produce the Fliegerfaust, it could have been very problematic for Allied tactical air, which basically had free-reign over Europe. Interestingly, it seems that they'd have a useful secondary role as anti-materiel and anti-personnel weapons, as well.
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  1743.  @Shep01  yep. Yer thinking straight.
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  1744.  @Shep01  in my experience, Murphy loves situations like that. I try not to feed Murphy more than necessary.
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  1745. Good talk. Thanks for the details!
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  1746. I get the distinct impression that the parts that didn't fall were only because of luck. 'Construction safety by random chance' doesn't seem a good idea.
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  1747. Getting such sophisticated tools into the hands of Russian soldiers, then training them on proper use... Not a trivial challenge; the war will have to go on MUCH longer before Russian troops see them.
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  1748.  @owlsayssouth  that's a fair view, but recall that folding, takedown, and collapsing weapons were not unheard of back then. It's only the addition of the Sako action and the Zytel material that is unusual.
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  1749.  @aaronkong8393  I find that not at all surprising.
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  1750. Interesting. "Green" == "Uncured" makes sense.
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  1751. Good discipline and technique, keeping the rocketeer out of the room, and out of line of fire, until just before firing. Likewise, he un-asses the space immediately after firing. None of the grand-standing you see from irregular forces elsewhere in the world. Sadly, that looked like a classroom. What a poor state of the world, that lessons are replaced with war.
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  1752. Putin is a criminal - he understands criminals, and is comfortable with them - so of course he taps them to serve his monarchy.
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  1753.  @chetpomeroy1399  and which high Russian officials will deny Putin? Saying "No" to Putin seems like a good way to fall out of a window.
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  1754. Run out of wild Haggis, have ya? 😁
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  1755.  @magnusquercu9905  don't count on it then, either.
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  1756. Calendar with 12 or 13 featured recipes and images of the dishes.
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  1757. I wasn't sure you could use "British" and "Chassepot" in the same sentence...
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  1758. Not only forgotten, but completely unknown...
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  1759.  @Bonypart  the story doesn't give sufficient information to determine the plausibility; degree of loss of stability, altitude, attitude, etc. It's possible they had enough time, especially if the cargo started spilling as soon as the ramps were open even slightly. Remember, they weren't containerized.
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  1760. That's a lovely piece of shooting hardware. Real artistry like you rarely see from any age.
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  1761. That looks mechanically pretty straight-forward and efficient. I'm a bit surprised it took so long to get into a completed state; it's not like Poland lacked for skilled gunsmiths. I'm guessing it was bureaucracy.
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  1762. Also madness and revenge.
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  1763. Indeed.
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  1764. @kerry-j4m  you called it in one. He was bound and determined to show that his willpower was stronger than his fears. For the most part, it was.
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  1765.  @Sashazur  could be; particular supervisor had some very precise and archaic definitions for things - entirely possible I transposed connotation for denotation.
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  1766. Holy God, that looks AMAZING - and so easy!
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  1767. I'm a simple (minded) man: I see 'cursed gun images,' I click. #akgnotificationsquad
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  1768. Riding along without a helmet, at the time of the movie, would also have been a violation of a lawful regulation; regulations at that time required the use of helmets. Indeed, helmet use was line-of-duty determining. Should you wreck without helmets (or seatbelts!), you could potentially be liable for medical treatment on your own hook.
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  1769.  @richmeisterradio  my woods-walking gun is a Ruger Alaskan in .454. One heckuva recoil, but a documented bearkiller. Not that I've ever needed to use it, opting instead for the usual tactics of being loud, looking big, and backing away. Which works. But it's nice to have, if things should ever go sideways.
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  1770.  @10mikemike89  .44 Auto-Mag would like you to subscribe to its newsletter... Of course, those are rare as hen's teeth, these days. But there's always the Deagle, if you have a fat wallet and a big ego.... 😁
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  1771.  xr7fan  still mis-reading me. Pay attention: "Do the job as a backup." You DO know what a backup gun is, right? As in "the gun you use when your primary isn't available." As in, "if I can't use a rifle, I can still expect to save my life with this gun;" as in: "a barrage of 10mm bullets has a decent chance of stopping that bear that's right up in my face." Are you paying attention now? Do you finally understand what I've been saying? Is it clear, now?
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  1772. Boo to YT! Boo, I say!
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  1773.  @marcusott2973  it's illustrative, and informative. Who cares if it's not breaking news? It still shows the attitudes and capabilities of the Ukrainian soldier.
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  1774.  @kkrummelrhs  so it's a blursed gun image, then?
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  1775. As a weapon for dealing with woodchucks and other similar varmints, it has potential.
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  1776. My wife pulled duty in the Watch Center back in the 90s. She clued me in immediately that there was something very rotten about this story. I have ZERO idea who this bit of shenanigans serves, but someone is playing games.
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  1777. Take about "shooting over bait"
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  1778.  @Lukos0036  aircraft equivalent of "belly up." Or 'tits up.'
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  1779. This thing won't knock down plates. You may get hits on target, but the target won't notice.
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  1780.  @GrigoriZhukov  heartbreaking.
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  1781.  @sealove79able  propeller-driven, radial engines. Not directly a predecessor to the TU-95, but lessons and skills learned definitely contributed to the Bear.
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  1782.  @joz6683  the UK training is likewise covering the basics - Same as SEALs, or SAS, or whichever special unit you care to name. Bottom line: They'll learn enough to be competent on a modern battlefield, then go forth to polish their trade in combat. That alone puts them head and shoulders above most militaries in the world - Maybe not above European, Australian, or other developed nations, but above all the others.
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  1783.  @scipio10000  see my comments about decentralization and size. Switzerland, for instance, would make one middling-sized state in the US. But you'll note they don't do things the way, say, the Italians - right next door - do them. Thus, my point.
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  1784.  @shaggnar2014  well, now we know: excellently.
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  1785. Reminiscent of WWII C and K rations. In the early 80s, as a Boy Scout, we had stores of C and K rations from the early 1950s, and yes, they were still edible. For certain values of 'edible.' They would, at least, fill your belly and not actually poison you.
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  1786.  @jaybelle1909  how much did Putin pay you?
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  1787.  @justindunlap1235  yep. I have some old surplus leather - some is incredibly good, other stuff needed detailed care, and will still never be the same.
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  1788. Sydney Powell is such an idiot. She just argued that she's an unreasonable person.
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  1789. Budget issues have killed more aircraft than enemy fire... 😛
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  1790. Yes, very important to specify what one is making... Mead is more... Family friendly? Yeah. I went with that double entendre. 😛
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  1791. ​ @srinitaaigaura so... If the hijacker refuses the warrant fee, they get away scott-free?
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  1792. My wife used to print the "Early Bird" President's Daily Brief. Her print shop in the DIA was in utter lockdown during the process until all the (limited, counted, verified) copies had left the building.
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  1793. Lack of training is often a result of complacency, too.
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  1794. Probably because it's easier to make only a few changes on a production line.
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  1795. "Are NATO forces in direct conflict with Russia?" Short answer: "No." Long answer: "Nooooooooooo."
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  1796.  @sakelaine2953  except for those drivers named "motherfskr."
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  1797.  @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus  records give the facts. They're readily available from any decent library, and on line. Also observe; I said "Quite a few." If you're going to quibble, get it right.
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  1798. "Prussian Blue."
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  1799.  @aaronbaker2186  ha! 😁 Well, they do exist. They just don't really have professional skills as found in other nation's forces. It basically like an appendix - it's there, but nobody knows why.
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  1800. Yeah, seriously. It's weird, and it works. ❤️ Has Ian done a video on it yet?
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  1801. "This is not safe." Continues adding more peroxide. At least it didn't turn yellow.
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  1802. That heavy-ass trigger is no friend to accuracy. But I love the shirt. Heh.
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  1803.  @ayebraine  brilliant. Thank you!
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  1804. I also love the FR-8. Lovely weird conversion, confuses the hell out of folks at the range. I'll sometimes troll folks and tell them it's a rare bolt-action Garand.
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  1805. Popping the third guy in line is psychological damage, above and beyond the actual death. It reenforces the idea that nowhere is safe; existential dread is a useful weapon.
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  1806. How to motivate student snipers...
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  1807. @tokul76 yah, no. The OKW, and the Reich in general, kept pretty solid records, not to mention the rather exhaustive investigations, interviews, and cross-checking conducted by the victors. Hitler & friends (Goering, Goebbels, et al) really did play silly buggers. Not to mention, there was the constant scheming by various industrial favorites (Porsche comes immediately to mind) messing things up. When allowed to do their job by the politicians and political flag officers, the command staff were well-trained and capable.
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  1808.  @no1DdC  I'm not talking about brilliance; please go back and re-read my OP. I'm talking about general staff being good at their job - which is to, yes, make plans - not strategy, but plan to execute the orders they're given, and plans for contingencies. Which they did, and frankly, did do better than most other armies. But that's not brilliance, that's attention to detail. Frankly, most of the allied armies were rather spotty at that.
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  1809. Occam's Razor. Which is simpler? Fly a drone via its built-in camera into a structure, or sneak an entire team of demolition experts through enemy lines, across an enemy frontier, into the enemy interior, place a small charge, then exfiltrate said team back out across all those barriers, without getting detected.?! Nope. Drone strike.
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  1810. ​​ @johndrennan5933 same cook school, same food sources, but submarine cooks CARE about the outcome of their cooking. It's a huge morale item, and gets intense scrutiny from all levels. The Supply Officer cares. The XO cares. The Skipper cares. And oh shit yeah, the Chief of the Boat cares! Piss off the COB, and your life is the definition of misery. So, no, not a myth. Just the product of good training, and extremely high motivation.
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  1811. The West is full of what Soviet leadership referred to as "Useful Idiots." One leader commented that "a capitalist will sell you the rope you'll use to hang him."
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  1812. Not sold in any store!
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  1813.  @BeeWhistler  you get a feel for some people. Yeah, I stomped down pretty hard, harder than I normally do. I'm in a cranky mood, what with a bunch of dirt bags attacking my integrity and service elsewhere in these threads. Probably shouldn't take it out on damaged people like him, but... shrug I said what I said, and I'll stand by it.
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  1814. Quite a little less 'oomph' than I expected. Way more gross than I expected, too. Still lethal, though not instantly - Lincoln lingered for some time after taking a heavy bullet to the brain. #akgnotificationsquad
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  1815. Easy; get someone to pay you to shoot lawn equipment; congrats! Yer a pro!
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  1816. That's a beast of a weapon.
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  1817. As the POWs were shown roadside, not yet transported, yes, this had to have happened in close temporal proximity to combat.
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  1818. Almost a sensible use of resources - cheap and easy to convert, using existing magazines. Except for being an addition to an already stressed logistics system.
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  1819. Insight to the mind of the most dangerous asshole currently alive.
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  1820.  @emersonschwarz1364  the Carcano rifles were sold on the US surplus market. The Machine Guns were shopped around to various governments and agencies in pretty much every corner of the world.
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  1821. It's the support vehicles that give me hope - logistics support tells me that this is meaningful help, and not cosmetic.
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  1822. Breakfast solid enough to sink a ship...
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  1823. I've been drydocked a good number of times while in the USN. Every time, in the US. Every time, the contract (or procedure, for USN-owned drydocks) specified cribbing as well as keelson blocks. Yes, that's a belt-and-suspenders approach, but not one of the ships I was drydocked with suffered even a hint of instability - not even during earthquakes in quake-prone California. Not even during the huge Loma Prieta quake. A few more thousand dollars spent on cribbing would have prevented this event quite easily. Cheap insurance, at the price. Drydocks in question: Mare Island Naval Shipyard, NASSCO San Diego, ARDM-5 ARCO (floating drydock, SUBASE San Diego).
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  1824. Yeah, but the Japanese had the excuse of being on the losing end of a war. The Spanish have no such excuse.
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  1825.  @MarkFeltonProductions  at the time when Penn Station was sold, such laws were not yet on the books. Later, yes, some protections were emplaced, but they're still difficult to use. Also: MSG is hideous.
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  1826.  @SynchroScore  whatever the French called it, "Brutalist" is what stuck. Though, honestly, raw concrete is both brutal and ugly, so... Whichever.
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  1827. So steam-punk! Freekin' adorable, but really niche utility. I WANT one! :D
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  1828.  @magikclown  hey, Ivan Vodkavich, you got your conscription notice yet? Don't worry - you'll get it soon.
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  1829. The beverage (?) contains things which are good for a body recovering from bloody wounds, in a form that would be easy to administer to someone whom was semi-conscious. Basically, invalid food.
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  1830. This is a remarkably clean and simple rifle. For minor caliber cartridges, this would still viable today, were it still in production. Of course, you'd need to shroud the striker tailpiece somehow.
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  1831.  @TheEDFLegacy  Oi, you! Get yer coat! 😛
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  1832.  @cottagebob2551  that's fine. Those bridges have scared me enough for at least three other people.
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  1833.  @InvidiousIgnoramus  that should certainly have the needed volume!
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  1834. So... This pistol killed the line?
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  1835. Yes. Do this. But not too many per stream, or you'll experience drunken commentary, en mass.
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  1836.  @RJM1011  and bunch of other things. Like medical supplies that were being sold off on the black market.
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  1837. Feral hog cause huge agricultural damage; hunting is a great way to protect the environment and feed yourself and your family. Also: Nice brush gun. Probably the best use for a Steyr Scout.
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  1838.  @Drizzit57  and guess what is different about Florida? Yes, that's right: They'll do more and go further than most, and for less.
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  1839. The American classic! Part of the international problem is that in many places when we say 'jelly,' they think 'gelatin.' Eww.
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  1840.  @joshuagibson2520  why thank you. 😎
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  1841.  @FortuneZer0  pffft. That's not a dynasty. That's an anecdote.
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  1842.  @Mr.Robert1  there are always outliers - I put enough of their butts on the bus. Or you have families like mine; Father and Sister-in-Law were USAF, Uncles were Army Air Corps, Father- and Uncle-in-Law, plus my wife and myself, were Navy. Not one of the next generation are serving at all. Two-generation cluster, I guess you could call it.
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  1843. I would think Terries would be more useful like that. If it was a two seater, he could have three Terries at once.
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  1844. Growing up, my family made candy very much like this, save we used toasted sesame seeds in place of almonds or pistachios. Lots and LOTS of sesame seeds. So much that the results were solidly packed with the seeds. We'd pour the molten candy onto a buttered parchment sheet in a buttered cookie tray, smooth it flat, and score the candy to provide shear lines, then freeze it for a couple hours. Pop it out, break it along the score lines, and you had perfect home-made candy.
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  1845. G11 is the spacemagic gun.
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  1846. Pizza, without a doubt.
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  1847. @Colt Sassoon would have improved the world, yes.
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  1848. Proper history SHOULD be disturbing; it's full of humans doing disturbing things
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  1849.  @jd_99  heh. You're not wrong.
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  1850. More like 1/10
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  1851. In a truly frictionless environment, recoil will push you... Forever.
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  1852. Use a Halal or Kosher butcher, and you're safe.
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  1853.  @karllydolly  very likely you're close. Greenish in color, no tomatoes, beans, or meat. VERY spicy, and quite delicious. The evolution of chili from its roots to what we know now would be interesting, and full of opportunity for history.
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  1854. Why are you making Deviled Eggs despite your albumin allergy? Easy answer: Because Deviled Eggs.
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  1855. Hah! There it is; Deviled Ham! 😁
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  1856.  @thomaslunde5014  yeah, but a little less specific would be smart. The kind of information he was giving is how he (and his buddies) guarantee they're not coming back.
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  1857.  @petergerdes1094  intelligence is intelligence, and the more, and more specific, the better. This is immediately actionable intelligence, the most dangerous kind. This is exactly the kind of intelligence that about two months ago allowed Ukraine to directly target and utterly destroy a Wagner group headquarters. They should know better.
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  1858. I know, right?
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  1859.  @ScottKenny1978  usually, yes. But that can be swapped (depending on design) with shotguns for door breaching and disrupting bombs than cannot be reliably serviced by a disrupter.
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  1860.  @erikarneberg11  I should note that I possess all items listed in my Manifesto. So there will be no impending doom. I'll just sit here and stare into the fire, scritch my dogs, and contemplate The Universe whilst sipping a fine Speyside Scotch. All is in proper order, and the World Is Safe.
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  1861. The courageous Ukrainian soldier knows how to fight All they needed were the means, and they're getting just exactly that.
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  1862. Yes.
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  1863. "Regiment of Bubba." 😁
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  1864. Tubby thing. Blackburn just couldn't be bothered to be normal, could they? The British answer to Blohm & Voss.
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  1865.  @brianmccarthy5557  as I recall, the Quartermasters applied that term to the waters that straddled the Gate. Yes, more inside, but enough outside to easily scramble a torpedo before it reached the bridge piers.
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  1866.  @murphy7801  you define a nation's soul by stats and figures? You really are without a soul. I'll happily accept that you are an atheist, but I also know no one individual speaks for anyone but themselves. I'll trust the evidence of my eyes.
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  1867.  @azraelf.6287  indeed. Or the Evil Devil-worshipping Childcare panic, a variation on the RPG scare. How many innocent providers had their lives ruined?
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  1868. What might have been...
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  1869. At the time these trophies were being brought home, there were so many being brought home, there was no thought to preservation or historical context. To be honest, I doubt even one in a thousand soldiers bringing a weapon home cared about anything more than having a momento of some of the worst years their lives.
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  1870. From the consumer (Local or national government) point of view, that would be sensible. Except for the sin of getting in the way of corrupt practices.
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  1871. "Leaner"
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  1872. Heh. Auto-alarm goof. Paying for looks with pain... The fashion industry has found its way to the firearms world.
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  1873. Would have liked to see a hard-cast lead or a FMJ .44
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  1874. No. Range and response time issues make that not worth the trouble. Machine guns do not do well with frangible ammunition, and have very strictly limited range. Auto shotguns are far worse. Then, recall the footage of Baghdad in the Gulf Wars: great, wasteful hoses of fire sweeping across the sky trying - and failing - to hit full-sized aircraft. Even radar-guided autocannon have trouble scoring direct hits and still must carry loads of heavy ammunition, with limited range. Lasers are fast and precise to aim, the 'ammunition' comes as liquid fuel and arrives by tanker instead of great big cans that are 50% brass and propellant, and are very quiet and unlikely to generate any significant firing signature (which means limited counter-batter response.)
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  1875.  @nottheoneyourelookingfor0504  huh. Didn't know this; not much into sniffing random metal objects. Thanks!
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  1876.  @nottheoneyourelookingfor0504  nope. Not a loss. Former Naval Reactor Operator; qualified as Micro/Mini Soldering Tech. Also a long time shooter and reloader. I've worked with lead for decades - but I wear my proper PPE, so don't end up snorting lead fumes.
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  1877.  @DIEGhostfish  like I said, correlation is not causation. The evidence, however is very strong - there's no other single connecting factor.
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  1878. Chalk River donated a name to the industry - "Crud." AKA "Chalk River, Unidentified Deposit." Radioactive rust and corrosion products found in the cooling system, mostly consisting of radiocobalt. Crud remains one of, if not the, most common forms of radioactive waste material.
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  1879. Thing is, there is an AR for every purpose. The platform is very nearly infinitely flexible.
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  1880.  @samholdsworth3957  yeah anecdotal evidence is how it got that reputation. Actual testing (facts vs stories) demonstrates conclusively that the anecdotes were based on rumors, slanders, and shitty training. Yes, there was a specific design feature that would allow a poorly trained soldier to reassemble it wrong, but that was also corrected. So yeah, I'm not putting ANY weight on your anecdote.
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  1881. Essentially an updated clone of the harpoon. But that actually sets up a situation where both Ukraine and Russia can be speaking literal truth; yes, it was hit by the Ukrainian missiles, and yes, the resulting fire lead to fatal magazine detonations.
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  1882. The wing panels? Just call them "carbon composite laminate."
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  1883. Of course Eva had a vest pocket pistol. More of a security blanket, than anything else.
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  1884. IF they could have prevented the drone from reporting, the expenditure would have been worth it. But they didn't, so it wasn't.
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  1885.  @joshuagibson2520  could be worse. I could be in Maryland, or worse, across the river in New Jersey
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  1886.  @cplpuddingpop  I was fortunate enough to test fire a prototype M4 carbine with fully integrated barrel-length suppressor; literally the loudest noise of firing it was the recoil spring in the buffer tube. Even the bolt cycling wasn't as loud. The 'scrunching' sound of a spring compressing inside a metal tube is unmistakable. Edit: When your father works for ARPA, BRL, and HEL at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, interesting opportunities come your way. Add that one of my girlfriends' fathers was a senior driver at Deer Creek (tank chassis testing facility, nearby to Aberdeen), and, well, cool shit can happen.
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  1887.  @ScottKenny1978  pretty sure you could sell at that price at the Big Sandy shoot...
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  1888. Cucumber, you say? That sounds unexpectedly refreshing.
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  1889.  @johsiantorres8495  no, it just predates Christmas, and in roughly the same calendar slot. So it'll have to do, for Grinching.
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  1890. Liege is on my bucket list, should I ever get to europe.
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  1891. New firearms book review! Not quite a proper doorstop, but it's headed that way... 😉
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  1892.  @thomasbecker9676  yep. I was born in the heart of Hollywood territory; my grandmother had supporting cast roles in a few DeMille's movies, and my parents went to school with the children of major actors and directors; Hollywood once had a much higher average level of professionalism. These days, it still exists, but it's much more random.
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  1893.  @thomasbecker9676  yep. The movie moguls were both very bad, and very good, for the quality of the product. They were often tyrannical, vicious, and despotic, but they could also dictate the quality of a production, and damn the accountants!
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  1894. Putin is in NO WAY serious about peace - except peace by Russian victory.
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  1895.  @sarahevans7937  nice variation.
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  1896. The current advertising situation is getting annoying. I'm glad you're getting paid, but commercials breaking in to the stream one minute after it starts..? Also frequently breaking in at key narrative points - several times per video in some cases (not even four minutes into this video and you've been interrupted twice already). Does YT allow you fine control of commercial content placement?
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  1897.  @warmesuppe  so noted, and will investigate. Thing is, I don't mind leading and ending commercials outside of the main video... Watched commercials are how content creators get paid; I'm happy to contribute there. It's the main body interruptions, frequently at key narrative points, that irritate.
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  1898. Mostly a security blanket, but in theory, helpful when clearing the weapon; drop the magazine and you can't accidentally fire the weapon whilst clearing the chambered round.
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  1899.  @lightweight1974  didn't Janet tell ya, offer her old man a beer and he gets... distracted.
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  1900. Hah. The thumbnail cracks me up. Dad is checking out the waitress's cleavage, and Mom is NOT happy about it.
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  1901. Always.
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  1902. Secondaries on that last tank. FSB goons will be thinking twice about standing around coking and smoking - well, they're certainly smoking after the switchblade visit!
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  1903.  @mrkeogh  I'd much prefer a 20" barrel, personally. Even an 18". All that weight hanging out on the end doesn't do all that much for performance, and lighter weight means less fatigue at the end of a day of hunting, and less snagging in brushy conditions. Bottom line, a carbine-length stock looks odd to me with a rifle-length barrel.
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  1904. In a modern reproduction, inserting a transfer bar and hammer-block safety would be easy, and not even seriously complicate the action. If anyone wanted to reproduce this rifle, it would be rather easy. Hint, hint!
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  1905.  @5roundsrapid263  Hah! So completely correct! Look at Gaelic; those letters and combinations have fuck-all sounds relationship to English, despite using latinate letters. I tried learning Scots Gaelic - Nope! And don't even start on Welsh Gaelic!
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  1906. Not terribly complicated; the extractor is very modern, and the twist-lock is basically threading & cam.
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  1907.  @azalkathegunpowderdragon9439  ah. I don't play TF2, so it went over my head.
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  1908. Once, Rudi was actually very good. Those days are long gone; he's well past his 'sell by' date.
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  1909. "Bore Obstruction." Yes, absolutely, a bullet is a bore obstruction... Until it leaves the bore. If pressure exceeds the mechanical strength of the breach fast enough, the bullet literally doesn't have time to exit before BOOM.
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  1910.  @jeromebarry1741  pfft. Almost NO ONE paid us, entirely. It was still a good deal on our part. And yes, we absolutely will do it again, when the time and conditions are right.
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  1911. I ignore the popcorn button, as it's never accurate. Not even the sensor-equipped units. I calibrate every microwave I own for popping time.
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  1912. Doctor... Ish.
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  1913. Kerr-McGee. Those are dirty, dirty curse words.
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  1914.  @Kraakesolv  fair point. Carry on.
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  1915.  @joat_dad4090  my mother used to rent a room to an Estonian-emigree student; same general very gentle, very dry demeanor. Interestingly, Tim is a highly ranked martial arts instructor - not strictly military, but definitely another Estonian who can take care of business.
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  1916.  @TastingHistory  yes, totally. A bit expensive for daily use, but very interesting flavor.
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  1917. Ok, making this today.
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  1918. This.
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  1919.  @____________838  which, the S&S 500? Some folks can shoot it no problem, myself included. No one I personally know likes to, though. It stings.
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  1920.  @____________838  .40 Smith is like that too; you can feel that relatively heavy bullet grabbing the rifling. Pretty 'snappy' round, and the combination is why so many don't like it much. I've got no problems with the torque and the snap, but I'm trained to it, too. .454 Casull is pretty much where I draw my line, recoil-wise, in handguns. Just because I can handle it, doesn't mean I care to handle it.
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  1921. Tommy on a budget!
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  1922. Good ergonomics, and a robust, simple design. Glad to see that it functioned as well as it looks.
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  1923. I could want that in my collection...
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  1924.  @MostlyPennyCat  "...all that money..." See, you knew the answer already.
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  1925.  @Ahmet-gc9wo  1) that was utterly incoherent, and 2) Russian trolls like you have been predicting the fall of Ukraine for almost two years now - you'd think you'd have learned better. Don't you have ANY other song to sing?
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  1926. I've said it many times - Russia is feeding its future into the flames. Almost 28000 future leaders, lawyers, engineers, dentists, doctors, laborers, IT specialists, lost forever. This is a crime against itself that will echo through Russia's future for decades. Putin is burning down his own nation, all in the service of his ego. Monstrous. Evil. Vile.
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  1927. He looks classy...
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  1928.  @contra009  yep. I will say, my guess of ~ 20% is reasonable, based on the tabular data. Depends on what you consider a 'normal' barrel length; I was thinking 3.5", which isn't actually present on the chart, but interpolation suggests I was reasonably close.
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  1929. They knew it was coming out, and were jealous...
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  1930.  @nagoogle8542  well, the OP certainly did.
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  1931.  @andyd2960  without one in my hands, I can only speculate. I've never had the opportunity to fire an AMT; we generally only had Colt, H&K, Ruger, or CZ pistols in the house, growing up. I've since expanded that to include Taurus and Browning, plus some random range toys, but no AMTs.
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  1932.  @petesheppard1709  yeah, but I can actually understand folks from the Bronx. Had a big kid from the Bronx work for me; thick accent, yeah, but intelligible.
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  1933. @Xeonerable  does it matter? You establish expertise, then you transfer the expertise to the younger generation - that's how you build a pool of knowledge.
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  1934.  @jeremymead8546  Beretta, however, is not. Not even remotely. Please observe how, until the Italians bought the firm, you had the merry devil of a time getting an MR73 in the States. Now, not so difficult (if you have the money). My point stands.
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  1935.  @markholbrook7482  I aspire to exactly this kind of thing. As I get older, I'm less interested in turning money in recoil, and more interested in turning money into precise shot placement. Semi-autos are fine, and certainly have a place in my heart, but I'm more interested in precision these days. This revolver fits the bill!
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  1936. Attention to detail. The mark of a master, whatever the art.
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  1937. 36 kilos..?! That's a serious weight to be hucking about. I guess they REALLY want to see what you've got...
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  1938.  @XtreeM_FaiL  not actually true. Complex cuts required more expensive machinery, more expensive skilled machinists, and often more steps, but those cuts could be made. The main problem was the cost, and more primitive design process - when you're building up the design in your head or on paper, the ability to test fit, iterate, optimize, and refine is tremendously more limited. That can ALSO be overcome, but it pushes development timelines and costs quite a long way as you have to physically build and test each variant.
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  1939.  @XtreeM_FaiL  Hemispheres are not at all difficult. Even a novice can cut one with the proper tool head OR the properly-shaped milling tool. Your other example is just tedious, not technically all that difficult. My father WAS such an engineer - but he only had to school the foreman once, and after that, the foreman knew he couldn't BS, and raised his game, even without an engineering degree. I stand by my point - And your point about mass production is exactly re-enforcing my point.
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  1940.  Marty TrueRedblood  kindly return to your home planet.
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  1941. Well done! No critiques from me this time. 😜 (Edit: ONE critique - Tina Barber started working on the breed back in the 1970s - it's more like fifty years of development work. ) Some observations / comments, though. ~ When someone asks me the difference between a German and and a Shiloh, I say: "A German is a working dog that makes a great companion. A Shiloh is a great companion that can work." It's a subtle distinction, but an important one. Shilohs are generally just less intense and less driven - which is not to say that there isn't some wide variation in drives. Shilohs are - generally-speaking - very good with children and other dogs. Cats depend on a particular dog's prey drive. ~ Aside from size, the other principle variation that separates Shilohs from Germans is the less-angulated hips, and the straighter, higher top line. This is deliberate. An angled pelvis does, within limits, give greater launch power for leaps and jumps. Unfortunately, many kennels have taken this to an excessive extreme. Shilohs are deliberately moved away from this feature. ~ I've owned four smooth coat Shilohs, and I far prefer this coat due to the greater ease of maintenance and general comfort of the dogs in warm weather. Plush coat dogs, of which I've owned three, can really suffer in the heat. Either coat will shed heavily, but smoothies don't mat. ~ On plush coats, the 'pants' region is ALWAYS at risk of matting, ponds, or no. I have a sizable creek near my house, and the dogs LOVE to swim, but the plushies need to be brushed out IMMEDIATELY afterwards, but even on routine days, I'll spend a half hour making sure the 'pants' are brushed out. ~ EVERY last Shiloh I've ever known has been a snuggle bug. 100+ POUNDS of snuggle-bug! You have been warned! 😁
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  1942. "Boris, where is ta... BORIS! WHAT HAPPENED TO TANK?! I told you to watch tank!" "Vladimir, I had to take a dump... I was only gone for a minute!" "Boris, you IDIOT! The sergeant is going to KILL us!"
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  1943. Aren't Americans acting on behalf of foreign governments supposed to register as Foreign Agents? Why hasn't MTG registered?
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  1944.  @beach81959  almost no one uses that as a basis for engineering budgeting.
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  1945.  Ima Goodtime  we are. Go away.
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  1946. Czech firearms get lots of love.
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  1947. It doesn't take much to create what is basically a hot pot restaurant, even with very basic technology. Hell, a hotdog cart could easily be created with cartwright skills.
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  1948. Putting it in the line for us...
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  1949. 😂
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  1950.  @andrewstevenson118  exactly the same material and concept. Matchlocks were a big step up from hand canon, which were, yes, touched off by linstock-held matchcord.
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  1951.  @paullytle1904  that would be the ideal, and I'm certain he still retains those skills.
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  1952. Sam Cummings! My cousin! Not that he was all that good a guy, but still, family...
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  1953.  @thatguy5040  yep. It's slow, but that's kind of the whole point - to pass time and produce a thing of beauty. Pretty sure I've still got a couple in with my old service paraphernalia.
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  1954. Sternum? What sternum?
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  1955. Damn. Those bots are creepy. This looks like SO much fun!
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  1956.  @None-zc5vg  deathtrap fighters were (and are) hardly new. Based on numbers built and length of service, the F-104 was very much a successful design. Trapezoid wings work just fine.
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  1957. In the real world they DO happen. Rarely. In any case, convenient happenstance should always be investigated sharply.
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  1958. Yes, let's see that recipe for Gwahaju, too. That way, we can properly toast the memory of this amazing woman.
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  1959. I'm totally going to raid my rose garden... Time for a trip for some glutinous rice flour, too.
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  1960.  @axelrubiocarrillo9719  nothing. They're all dead. 😛
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  1961. Good tactical sense on the part of the rocketeer: wait until clear to fire, then move in, fire, and immediately move away. Ideally, the riflemen should also be relocating, but I don't know the tactical situation outside the building. Sad that a classroom has to be put to such use.
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  1962. A quiet angry pipe...
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  1963. Transformers' failed SMG member...
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  1964. Inflation. That's US$48,254 today. Bloody steep price.
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  1965.  @jameskazd9951  at close range, that's respectable. Longer range (as discussed), the light bullet weight works hard against you, and performance falls off fast (see Chuck Hawks for example data).
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  1966.  @jameskazd9951  yep. Probably a lot closer than that. Still, given the choice, I'd still like something with more punch. Like I said, I'm not going to sneer, though. If the universe dictates that .32acp is what you've got, you're not going to be left out in the cold.
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  1967. I'm a big fan of CZ; interesting to see they can goof.
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  1968. Companion to eggnog. For those poor benighted soul who don't like eggnog.
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  1969. The double-stack magazine makes absolute sense, if you're serious about arming with .45ACP - the fat cartridge seriously gimps capacity unless you take steps - as the French did here.
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  1970. My father spent some time working for a "Three Letter Agency" during the anti-communist dirty war in the late 60s and early 70s in Thailand. When setting ambushes against the communist insurgents, the technique was to station one man on the flank of the ambush with a suppressed Nylon 66, with the mission of taking out the enemy patrol's Point Man, allowing the rest of the enemy patrol to enter the ambush zone proper, still unaware of their peril. .22lr is not a particularly potent round, but a couple headshots at close range will do the necessary. The Nylon 66 was considered desirable for this use because it could be easily and effectively suppressed, was low maintenance, and the stock was dimensionally stable in the climate of Thailand.
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  1971.  @zer0deaths862  damn. That puts the S&W .500 Magnum to shame.
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  1972. Very Gallic.
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  1973.  @ZNM0210  what, 13 nurses crash, then decide to go cap Mussolini? Yeah, it does.
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  1974. "Operating Spring."
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  1975. 😂
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  1976.  Trump Super Majority 2020  WWI zeppelins were not trans-atlantic vessels. They'd have needed VAST amounts of fuel (cutting bombload) or multiple refueling stops, during which they'd have been hideously vulnerable - if they successfully made rendezvous, and if the Atlantic's notoriously violent weather didn't prevent the refueling (or just wreck the airships outright). The 1930s airship Hindenburg was a marvel in large part because it could make the reach. It was 15 years advanced over the much more basic WWI airships.
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  1977. Horrors! 😲
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  1978. Kevlar and other aramid fibres DO expire, or more to the point, degrade over time. It's not, strictly speaking time, but time + exposure to degrading environment effects, such as UV radiation and thermal variation (heat/cold cycles). The problem lies in quantifying such exposure - it's VERY difficult. So they slap a (very) conservative date on the material, and hope that'll be enough.
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  1979. Yes.
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  1980. This is the most American car/truck commercial. EVAH. For a foreign brand name. 😁
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  1981.  @magnus1001  highly plausible - meatpacking industry is hugely profitable.
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  1982. Yeah, no. Too many failures in just one magazine. Give me an Owen.
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  1983.  @brianjob3018  gun mounts. Specifically, anti-aircraft mounts. The type where you have two operators, one controlling azimuth, the other controlling altitude. As it happens, in that time, there were a LOT of highly-skilled gunner-layers with WWII experience available. Add on the high-end cameras with extreme telephoto lenses (yes, there was a crewman for focusing, too), and you're in business. Station a line of these mounts along the flight path of the test flight, and you've got amazing coverage.
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  1984.  @douglasherron7534  not actually an useful anecdote. Traffic accidents killed more UK troops than the Iraqis did.
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  1985. Or they were copying each other to 'coattail' on the recognition?
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  1986. Russia will escalate, but will mismanage it and squander any gains. Ukrainian drones: Restoring brotherhood since 2022.
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  1987.  @brittakriep2938  I believe the Swiss manufactured the initial tranche of Mondragons, so that's entirely plausible.
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  1988.  @tomhenry897  it would be "in," or "from." The Swiss were the original manufacturer, based on the Mexican design. Mexico lacked the industrial infrastructure to mass-produce the Mondragon, so outsourced the construction to Switzerland.
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  1989. "...baker was a very needed part..." We see what you did there.
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  1990. @sheldon fords are you an idiot? In EVERY war, tens of thousands of bullets are fired every day. The expenditure to hit ratio in WWII was something like 25000 to 1. Now, that's an OVER ALL average, but it's indicative. Even in the Crimean War and American Civil War, when soldiers stood shoulder-to-shoulder in ranks at close range and blazed away with accurate rifled weapons, it too 60 to 100 bullets to get a hit. In modern, open-formation combat, even with well-trained units, a 6000-to-1 ratio is not uncommon. So take your ignorance, and hush up.
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  1991. There will come a day when the former KGB officer receives a KGB retirement.
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  1992. When you're in the middle of another video and the Forgotten Weapons notification drops...
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  1993. Indeed.
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  1994. Finland makes SO much sense.
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  1995.  @apollohateshisdayjob9606  more than fair.
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  1996. Counter-battery fire is no joke. Shoot, and scoot with a will!
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  1997.  @adamcichon6957  "the Ian." Ha. Yes, Ian's name is now a title.
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  1998.  @droppedpasta  ah! A fellow Nuc!
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  1999. Additive printing in structural materials is only beginning to show what it can do. Structural plastics printing is actually beginning to reach prices where the layman can afford to get into it.
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  2000.  @MrGrimsmith  put that printer & support equipment on a truck, and you've got a radical change to life in a destitute community. Flooding or wildfire or insane weather wipe out homes? Instant shelter, printing out now! Poor region without basic living shelter? Mobile printer to the rescue! Just this one example has huge implications.
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  2001.  @FirstDagger  complex shapes that are extremely difficult to create in other ways are now reasonable to make. Not in huge quantity, yet, but that's just an issue of maturing the tech. Oh, and biomedical devices? Sky is the limit. Why amputate or shorten a limb due to bone-crushing injury, when you can print a replacement bone scaffold which the body will over-lay with new bone? Metallic pins and plates? How about printed, absorbable re-enforcements, instead? No need for secondary surgery to remove the bits, once they've done their job!
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  2002.  @MrGrimsmith  think of how that would impact, say, hurricane Katrina evacuees, or mudslide survivors in Belize. Or earthquake survivors in Turkey. Shelter is a critical need after major disasters, and tents are only good for decent weather. Durable, warm shelter for mid-term recovery is hard to transport and expensive to stockpile. But a convoy of truck-based printers? You move them - fly them, even - to where they're needed. They'd warehouse cheaply, and you'd only need a relatively few of them, moving about at-need.
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  2003. Putin has created a meme of the Russian nation: they are now globally known as incompetent, brutal, petty, primitive, ignorant, lying thugs.
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  2004.  @cloric1  one of the more interesting videos I've seen was from a firefight in Fallujah. Medium-long range, maybe 500, 550 meters. The report of outgoing fire was very clear. The report of incoming fire - which, at that range, was extremely likely to still be supersonic - was almost inaudible. What you mostly heard were "PING!" when the vehicle our troops were using for cover got hit, and "ZIIIIP!" when a bullet flew past, close by. If you didn't know what you were listening to, you'd have had no real clue - Hollywood never gets it right. Oh, and the firefight was conclusively ended with an AT4. HELL of a good shot; outside of point target accuracy range, but did for the enemy's firing position quite thoroughly.
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  2005. Yeah, licorice is a polarizing flavor. Either you really like it, or... Not.
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  2006. Pounding the leather breaks up the fibres. Boiling leather is one way to make glue. Yummy!
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  2007. The "grip and fire" exploit completely negates the intent of all the smart features.
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  2008. Ah! A book full of Chinese Mystery Pistols... Over on Kickstarter, it's fun to watch the supporter numbers rolling upwards in real time. And the numbers, they're flying! Box Canons for everyone!
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  2009.  @Juggernautdemon  https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2473884/us-completes-troop-level-drawdown-in-afghanistan-iraq/#:~:text=There%20are%20now%202%2C500%20U.S.,operations%20started%20there%20in%202001.
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  2010. I know, right? 🙂
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  2011. @cloverleafsippa713 yes, yes we do.
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  2012.  @Alpha-Leader  that wouldn't be hard; Ian is generally pretty laid-back.
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  2013.  @blank557  classy. You are a person of breeding, one can easily see.
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  2014. 65% population loss..?! It's amazing society didn't collapse entirely.
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  2015. Clearly explained. Thank you.
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  2016. Ian gets his hands on an FAMAS F-1; La Marseillaise intensifies.
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  2017. Anti-submarine nets were quite effective as a static harbor defense. Pretty much EVERY nation that had sea ports used some form of ASW netting.
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  2018. Brilliant interview.
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  2019. Same
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  2020. This. Seriously.
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  2021. Severe short-sightedness on the part of the UK government, combined with a complete failure to honestly and accurately assess future commercial needs.
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  2022. NOT what Prince had in mind...
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  2023. Interesting. I was unaware of the egg grenade... I'm a bit surprised, because the egg looks much more menacing. The second version of the stick grenade seems to lend itself to adaptation to demolition and booby trap use.
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  2024.  @Thrashgu  De hecho, lo hiciste. Muchas gracias!
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  2025. Same.
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  2026. Hah! True facts.
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  2027. ​ @lev3k heh. No lie. 😁
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  2028. Now planning a meal of Champ, Sausage, and Soda Bread...
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  2029. Shill: very amusing. Carry on!
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  2030. Lumberjacking is HARD, dangerous work. Especially the way it was done early in the 20th century, especially especially so when felling the old-growth monsters. Those troops were pulling dangerous duty, no doubt about it. Maybe not as dangerous as going 'over the top,' but not slacking, either.
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  2031.  @davidgulley8033  are you off your meds? If not, maybe your should get some better ones.
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  2032. But who wants hot vodka?
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  2033. #akgnotificationsquad
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  2034. If the pony runs well, run it in every race.
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  2035. T-Rex poops Furbies?! That explains a lot.
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  2036. That's a pretty big 'miss.'
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  2037. :: scrambling through your back-catalog :: Ah! There it is! 😁
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  2038. Yep. Shot placement counts with tiny guns.
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  2039. Has Putin become George III..? Insane, out of touch with reality, and managed by the bureaucracy for the bureaucracy's benefit?
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  2040.  @richardarriaga6271  Probably stepped on a crack in the sidewalk, and broke a mirror, too.
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  2041. NO, modern fighters have been tested in the close ground support regime, and they came up short. Too fast to maintain adequate target awareness, too fast to accurately lay ordnance on target, inadequate lift capacity of the correct munitions types, inadequate loiter time, and FAR too expensive to risk in the high-threat combat regime. The F-35 even came up short in rigged USAF testing - only the F-22 would be less suitable. Curiously, of all the fast-movers that can be used for close air support effectively, they're all fifty+ year old designs too - F-15 and F-16. You should stick to ground combat analysis.
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  2042. Sexy weapon. Useful, thoughtful, effective.
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  2043. Anyone who knows industrial electric distribution or physics would know that maglev technology is far more energy hungry than its proponents claim. Not the transportation choice of the future, if you care about energy consumption.
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  2044. Like Foreign Demons. I resemble that.
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  2045. Wilmington, Delaware, is finally on the firearms map! Oh... Wait...
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  2046. Because legislators are idiots.
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  2047. Detective story! Interesting speculation. Hope someone comes up with something.
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  2048.  @Ryan_D1994  very good. I stand corrected. Still far, far too late for the Nazis to even think about copying it. Their external intelligence program was miserably bad.
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  2049.  @whatdidyoudointhegwardaddy68  ah, yes. The sneaky time-travelling spies. Hard to defeat, those.
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  2050. .45-70 auto in full auto will really scramble yer eggs!
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  2051.  @DB-yj3qc  yeah, but the Cav still love their campaign hats, boots, and spurs.
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  2052. Slow rolling the counter-offensive is exactly what Ukraine should be doing; the Russian forces MUST respect the threat and expend irreplaceable munitions. Russian artillery on the north bank cannot be be refurbished, and cannot be replaced. So, never mind the loss of munitions - the actual weapons are failing. If the Russians reserve weapons and munitions for later, the Ukrainians will advance faster sooner. If the Russians waste their weapons now, they will collapse much harder, later. For local Russian commanders, this is a nightmare.
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  2053. Savage roast. Well done. 😁
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  2054. Nope. I flinched too.
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  2055.  @glenbeaver2784  probably, but so what? Critical and expensive gear should be treated with respect.
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  2056.  @Mr.Z1989  fair. Heh.
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  2057. Spicy!
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  2058. Mauser really marked the hell out of that pistol... Almost like these were advertising in use.
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  2059.  Graham Stewart  ok, yes, that is true.
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  2060.  @lordsummerisle87  another fine choice.
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  2061. And a vast fortune.
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  2062.  @sheenachristina2385  ah-HA! Yeah, Mikey has a mouth. Ask him how he busted his elbows, sometime, for prime mocking material. It's epic. Food is my indoor sport; I love to tinker in the kitchen.
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  2063. Brilliant.
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  2064.  @hendrikg3616  and at every price point, from 'Poors' to 'Uber-Bling.'
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  2065. The ONLY thing good about the remake of Red Dawn is the military working dogs - Because they belong to a friend of mine. Everything else about the movie basically blows.
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  2066. Comparing off Ian's fingertips, I'm guessing around 10mm / .40 cal. Obviously, lots of wiggle room there.
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  2067. Having tremendous confidence in your grasp on power can loosen one up - His willingness to tolerate cheek was a power flex; "I'm so powerful, I don't HAVE to care what people say."
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  2068. Would 9x25 Mauser Export be a good choice for Elbonian handguns?
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  2069. Repeatedly, Imperial Japan's military forces demonstrated inhuman brutality, abysmal self discipline, and insanely calous cruelty. Japan still owes the Philippines an abject, explicit apology.
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  2070.  @merindymorgenson3184  pffft. I don't know what kind of prayers you've been listening to, but prayers for money, prayers to get other things of material good, prayers to inflict harm on people you don't like, prayers to win sporting events... And that's not even a tithe of the venal prayers offered up every hour of every day. Many are begging, others are bargaining; "please, God, if you'll do this, I'll never again do that." Every last one of them attempting to gain something from an all-powerful being. That's attempted magic - trying to manipulate the universe through divine intervention.
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  2071. Putin and his senior leadership are captured by the old, endemic, system of corruption. They literally cannot break the grip of corruption - never mind that there'd be a revolt of the criminals - there are simply not enough honest Russian leaders to effect a clean up. BTW: Print newspapers are still a thing. They're MUCH more thin than they used to be, though.
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  2072.  @nicholasmaugeri759  I own a Finnish re-worked Mosin. It's a nice piece. Not the finest in my collection, but high up there.
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  2073.  @Bubba-Fudd-bulletsmith  I absolutely own a Mosin m/39. SAKO refurb. I also own an M44 carbine, but it's not a Finnish re-work, and it's quite unpleasant to shoot (fireball city!).
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  2074. Yes. This.
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  2075.  @AxLWake  problem being, the guns are over in Belgium, and the buyers are on the wrong side of the pond. Importing used weapons to the US has become prohibitively difficult for Joe Average.
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  2076.  @CandidZulu  and yet, oddly, I own a Huskvarna M-38 rifle, over here in the States. One of my favorite long arms, to be honest. 6.5 Swedish is an OUTSTANDING cartridge. And that's not just the Swedish ancestors talking, either (my mother's folk come from Jämtland). It's just that good a cartridge.
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  2077.  @CMAdamska  that's scary.
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  2078.  @gamersunite7968  nevermind the XO or CO. The Chop and the COB will get involved - Do. Not. Want!
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  2079. Nah. The precident was already there. There is pretty much nothing new here, except for the connection to the insurrectionists in D.C. That's the only reason the general public cares at all.
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  2080. The semi-auto mode is interesting, if only occasionally useful.
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  2081. I almst viscerally felt that grunt when he landed. Heckin' big mood right then - punctuation on a nearly heart-stopping event.
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  2082. I used to be mildly obsessed about US Naval lighter than air aviation. The Macon and the Shenandoah were favorite studies. My father very nearly lost flight status for flying a Sabre through the dirigible hanger.
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  2083.  @jali96  well, it is Texas...
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  2084.  @f.a.2115  more common than you'd think, and "existing alternatives" has never stopped people from trying to find the "perfect cartridge." Because ANY handgun cartridge is - of necessity - a compromise, you're always going to find another justification for tweaking size, power, weight. It's the never-ending wheel of caliber evolution.
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  2085. I do love onion soup, and make a pretty good bowl, if I do say so myself. This looks very interesting, but I have a couple folks in the house whom can't handle cow dairy (proteins sensitivity). I might try with goat or sheep milk. I wonder if oat milk might be wholly unsuitable, due to the grain origin, and different effect when cooked?
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  2086. 🤣😂
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  2087. Rocks.
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  2088. Damn. That looks like some really fun rock and roll.
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  2089. The ammunition is bulky, so you don't have much of it. The rate of fire is low, so you have limited chances to score a kill, the range is short, so you don't have much of a combat envelope. If you want light, swift, close AA artillery defense, the smart money is on 35mm to 40m systems.
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  2090. You need to work out. .38 Super is energetic, and you want some muscle to help manage it. My wife, whom loves both 9mm and .45acp, will not shoot my .38 Super pistols.
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  2091. No, no - The West WILL lose like it lost in WWI - That is to say, it didn't lose then, and won't lose now.
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  2092.  @griffingamer8624  let us know what you find out!
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  2093.  @joshuagibson2520  Naaah... I'm too eclectic in my tastes; people would get confused. Firearms, lock picking, blacksmithing... Medieval musical instrument covers of modern music..?! Rescued foxes..?!! Folks would get mental whiplash.
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  2094.  @TheArklyte  "TactiCool" sells. It doesn't have to be actually practical, so long as it plays to the ego. Drum mags will sell as long as they're legal.
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  2095. USMC M40 precision rifle wishes to have a word with you...
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  2096.  @leopolderhardsberger2727  M40 still wants a word with you... But I get your point.
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  2097.  @FlatOutMatt  It's Astonishing how many experts there are hiding behind keyboards. Why don't they go forth and make the world perfect and safe..? Oh, right - they're only expert in being pretentious wankers.
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  2098. Filipino food.
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  2099.  @TastingHistory  hobbies help. Unless your hobby is cooking. 😛 Any consuming activity where you can fall down a rabbit hole for a while can redirect your attention away from eating. Doesn't hurt that I have a quite physical job, that I enjoy. I can utterly forget to eat for an entire day. Didn't use to be that way - I'm still somewhat heavy, but I used to be dangerously obese.
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  2100. Nice guy, and a sadly under-rated channel.
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  2101. Ian McCollum, time traveler.
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  2102. You'll never get that wish.
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  2103. The legendary Walker Colt gets some of its luster buffed off...
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  2104. Yes, we're going to need a Soviet flamethrower now.
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  2105. Russia can't even send troops to Kyiv. How do they propose to send troops to the Hague? Meanwhile, more limp-dick threats of nukes. That sound you just heard? That was my eyes rolling into the next county. 🙄
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  2106. Welcome to real freedom of the press. That's how the US rolls.
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  2107.  @mrmisplaytcg  🤣😂
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  2108.  @kbjerke  never much liked the Bisley grip.
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  2109. Hah! Why use one part, when you can make three really complicated parts do the same job?
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  2110. Scope == .416 No scope == .50
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  2111.  @mr.fahrenheit310  there is a big fat myth here that needs dispelling, NOW. "Prop" is short for 'property,' as in 'owned by the studio.' 'Prop' does not automatically mean 'fake.' All three guns on the weapons cart were live, real, fully-functioning Colt SAA handguns - which were also props. But, to answer your implied question, YES, even fake guns. Even toy guns. PERIOD. Safety isn't conditional or situational, it is a mindset, a habit, and a lifetime discipline. Never get into the habit of treating even facsimiles in a casual manner, and you will never have to learn what Alec Baldwin's going through.
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  2112. Looks like a useful combination.
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  2113.  @ragnkja  I was thinking more along the lines of sauces and ingredients. There are some very flavorful black sauces; was just trying to think of what I had, that would go well.
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  2114.  @jeromethiel4323  not just Soviet. In fact, the Soviets were n00bs to the concept; "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery The concept is not unique to Saint-Exupery, either. Thoreau's admonishment to 'simplify, simplify' is hardly unique, either. Excellence and efficiency lie in simplicity. The genius lies in seeing what needs to be discarded. It can be immensely difficult to see what essential form lies beneath the dross.
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  2115. Forgotten Weapons also had a go at AI and its blatant bullshiting in the case of Ada's story.
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  2116. The special foods; my wife goes a bit nutz on the baking. She loves baking pies and cakes, and will move heaven and earth to try a new recipe.
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  2117.  @christophersanders3252  say, do I scent a big cat..?
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  2118.  @williamallende4384  short-faced bears were rather more slender of build; but probably MUCH faster. A Grizzly or Alaskan Brown can hit 35 miles per hour for short distances, and 20 mph for longer ones; now imagine a huge-but-graceful bear, half-again bigger, half again faster. Nightmare fuel.
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  2119. Former USN Reactor Operator here; this narrative makes my hair stand on end. The lengthy list of errors and criminally negligent acts... ::shudder::
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  2120. Taking of advantage of momentary opportunity is a key skill. Brilliantly done.
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  2121.  @fattywithafirearm  sounds like a fun mission. Good luck finding your .25.
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  2122.  @insertnamehere001  for certain values of "liberated."
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  2123.  @Merilix2  no, safety and fault tolerance do not have to be part of the optimization decision. In this case, process was optimized for maximum volume flow, at the cost of safety and fault tolerance. It's all about what decisions are made; what priorities are ranked at the top of the tier. A sophisticated process will look at the consequences of those priorities, and adjust the tiers as needed to produce the best results. Unfortunately, "best result" is both subjective and changes based on time frame.
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  2124.  @trueriver1950  more of an euphemism; think in context of "excessively compacted" or "highly pressurized." Bureaucrats are allergic to saying things like "too fucking busy for safety."
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  2125. Russia has long suffered under the yoke of Boyars and nobles who do not care for the actual condition of their subjects. In modern Russia, replace "Boyar" with "Oligarch" and "Tsar" with "Putin."
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  2126.  @williambarry8015  😁
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  2127.  @robjohnson5872  a lot of the same places that don't want nuclear-powered ships would start concreting up their harbors the instant you say "Walmart." 😁
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  2128. Flat spin. The engine is either dead, or at idle. That's a hard kill.
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  2129. Not terrible. It's a nice robust thump, but a slower impulse than you'd get from a shotgun.
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  2130.  @baconator1377  any butcher worth the name will have an array of knives, saws, and associated tools. A skilled workman uses the correct tool for the job if at all possible.
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  2131.  @Psiberzerker  the trigger on the M1A is pretty damn heavy, but it resets quick. On and off, on and off - two shots reliably each time.
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  2132. Also: the M14 was not always semi-auto; it was very much created as select fire. That feature was later removed from many rifles, but by no means all. God knows, my issue counter-sniper* weapon still had the 'go to mast' switch still on it. The armorer threatened me with dire consequences should I ever take it off 'semi.' * Not as fun a gig as you might think; boils down to 'throwing enough lead at the shooter to suppress them long enough for the close assault team to finish the job.'
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  2133.  @Psiberzerker  go right ahead and be skeptical. Doesn't make you right, or cool. Doesn't make my assigned duties cool either. Fact is, I never shot at human being... But it was my assigned duty, should it have been necessary; Go ahead and play Mr Cool Cynic all you like.
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  2134.  @Psiberzerker  you really are an idiot. But ok, I'll play your idiot game: USS Dixon (AS-37), Duty Section Four, under duty section leader MLC Burdette. 1992-1994. My issue weapon for "Repel Boarders" Watch Station & Quarter Bill was Counter Sniper; an accurized M-14, with the select fire lever intact. The ships armorer promised me a bust and a discharge, should I ever switch to full auto. I believed him. Oh, but wait... I was supposed to come up with a heroic fantasy for you. Instead of bare facts. You're a bonehead.
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  2135.  @Psiberzerker  you can confirm my presence on the Dixon via publicly available sources. My evals, confirming my duties, would take a Freedom of Information Act request, but would probably be available. Depending on how much the Nav feels like indulging your stupidity. Pinhead.
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  2136. Can Cannon from Poland? Dude took a gas grenade to the chest... He'll be feeling that for a LONG time! 😮
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  2137. HAROLD'S MOM: I wanna die. HAROLD: I'mma just gunna leave this noose here...
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  2138. Reminds me of my Modelo 58B - don't stand next to me. 😛
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  2139. "Looks Shiny" is the goal. So long as it looks shiny when the Party Officials glance at it, then they're golden - they can blame someone/something else when it inevitably fails, later.
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  2140. Obscure reference for the win!
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  2141. "Everyone was drinking except the autopilot." The checks out; very military dark humor.
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  2142. Gruyere is my go-to, though cheddar will do if I don't have any gruyere.
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  2143. I add bread crumbs if I'm making a Mac & Cheese casserole, and will top that with grated parmesan. I learned this from my grandmother, who was born late in the 19th century. So, yeah... History and family combined here.
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  2144. Washington Irving is less well-known than he ought be.
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  2145. Not sure that I would want to compare the bird the Aztecs knew with what we know as "domestic" turkey... Pretty sure theirs would be much more like the wild turkey we still hunt.
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  2146. Dinky lil' thing.
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  2147. Well, considering the Brits were using it first...
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  2148. That's a glorious bit of art. So much skill; lovely to see. Also: Those locks are garbage; a novice picker, such like myself, can pop them in under a minute with basic tools.
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  2149.  @FrostyShock349  undoubtedly true.
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  2150.  @Mossy500A  my point, exactly.
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  2151.  @dalekidd420  no, I know the difference between the two. Definitely remembering the Adams.
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  2152. The fit and finish on the example seems quite high for an improvised gun. Impressive detail work.
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  2153.  @_c_y_p_3  oh of course he is; he's the world's #1 asshole. He was a colonel in the KGB. Not highest rank, but at a level where he was playing dynastic politics. He was known, and close, to Gorbachev, and probably set him up to lose power.
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  2154. Unexpected segue is unexpected.
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  2155.  @johnbrennan8611  so, you're saying it's a primitive tandem round weapon? Seems legit.
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  2156. Last I checked, US was at DEFCON 3. Alert, but not worried.
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  2157. Fun observation: MANY nations have signed protocols banning land mines. Maybe that protocol is going to get re-visited. Or maybe they're going to accept being vulnerable to an armored assault.
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  2158.  @penio78  Ah. I was unaware of that distinction. I learned something.
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  2159. There are always haters.
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  2160. Pretty sure that "shotty bolter" would fire. Once. Then, having failed to eject,* it would fail to feed. * Because, damn ejection port, you so small!
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  2161.  @doro8665  I'm selling power centers with as few as three, or as many as nine. Plus-or-minus USB charge and/or data surge ports. Largely, the number ports is traditional, and related to overload paranoia.
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  2162. Do you need a super-cheap 'beater' rifle? Are you so skint that you can't buy another rifle in better condition? If so, go for it. Better it get some love, and use, than wind up scrap metal.
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  2163. Protest is all fine and well, but when you compromise public safety, you're just a criminal.
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  2164. Seems entirely feasible.
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  2165.  @SVSky  it was indoors paintball for me; learning to MOVE when you suddenly find yourself in close proximity has to become instinctive. Nothing like the sting of paintballs on flesh at close range to drive that home. Served me well in SSET training.
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  2166. Heh. See the subversive stuff before it goes bye-bye.
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  2167. Just checked again... The numbers are still climbing like a scared cat! Stretch Goals for everyone!
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  2168.  @TugaAvenger  Because then you'll find yourself registering barrel extensions. Which is just as silly.
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  2169. Meh. Looks like playing around, not actual combat. When you're not strong, you pretend to be strong.
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  2170. Made this tonight, as a follow-on to Chana Aloo Curry with lentils. From one strength to another, it just kept getting better. The Payasam was wonderful. Universal approval from everyone from my mother to my youngest child. This is indeed the food for a god.
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  2171. I used the white sugar - slightly less than called for, maybe a third of a cup. Used a bit more cardamom - seven pods. Soooooo good.
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  2172.  @madkoala2130  if there's a demand, parts will be found. There are always plenty of merchants willing to provide, if the price is right.
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  2173.  @matthewspencer5086  yep. Exactly so. When I was young, iron sights and/or conventional scopes were fine. Now, I want to be able to leave the glasses on, grab a quick view, then line up to take the shot.
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  2174.  @thechonkersking2647  the point here is that if it is able penetrate more than an entire human torso, it is no longer a blank - it is a lethal cartridge. Doesn't matter if it was intended to be a blank, it is not one.
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  2175.  @Jesusprayerwarriorbw  one of three prepared by the Armorer, sitting on a cart outside the set. Not his personal weapon at all (being an anti-gun zealot, I doubt Baldwin owns any firearms).
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  2176.  @TheArklyte  sure, in a magazine-fed weapon, things get more complicated. Revolvers? Very nearly stone-axe simple. I think Brandon expected that we understood this was a Western; certainly the media has been very clear on that. That said, yeah, he could have mentioned the weapon type, sure.
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  2177.  @nindger4270  A Southerner, to boot. About as "not Russian" as one can get.
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  2178.  @nindger4270  naaah. Not even close.
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  2179. From an engineering standpoint, I like the LC bolt carrier better; it might be a bit more difficult to machine (not entirely certain), but it's certainly more compact.
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  2180.  @logicthought25  yep. I had one of those. Complete beater, but you couldn't kill it. I had to spin into a telephone pole at high speed and high rate of rotation to finally destroy it, and even then it protected me extremely well.
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  2181. Interesting indeed. More of this please; finding history in unexpected places is like finding gold.
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  2182.  @AidanS99  Indeed. It was the dawning realization of the futility and waste of it all that ended the war. The nukes only gave the Emperor the leverage he needed.
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  2183.  @thorn6809  that was the only such raid that produced those kinds of numbers; subsequent raids produce reduced results per raid (though in aggregate larger over all), and even in the Tokyo raid, substantial areas were missed. Recall that Tokyo was a huge city, with a massive population. In sheer numbers killed, it was enormous but percentage damage was less. Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered, proportionally FAR worse, and the area of devastation was much more complete. The city centers were literally smashed flat, then burned to ashes. Not even the worst that Lemay could do matched that.
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  2184. Practical.
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  2185.  @start2957  ah, moral relativism raised it's ugly head.
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  2186.  @rajivwarrier7623  so speaks an Indian collaborator. How long do think it will be before your weak-kneed government is yielding to Russian demands?
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  2187. As a master at knots, I can only chuckle at "unnecessarily complicated knots." Each has a specific purpose, but most people will never need those. The average person really only needs three or maybe four basic knots.
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  2188. He was short stroking it at first. He figured it out quick enough.
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  2189.  @garrymcgaw4745  sad days, my friend. I've always liked my buddies down under. So, the motion of the lever has to cam the bolt back far enough for the elevator to be able to lift the next round in-line with the chamber feed ramp. Which means that you've got to give the lever the full stroke, or the cartridge won't fully clear, and thus hangs up. Ammunition selection plays a role here; standard 'ball' (round nose) bullets are more forgiving and can handle steeper feed angles; the rounded tip more easily slips up the feed ramp. Scott was shooting jacketed hollow points ('JHP') and those present a flatter rim on the face of the bullet, which is more likely to hang up.
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  2190.  @CorgiWrangler  the USN has shelved any new research on railguns for the foreseeable future; I bet you can buy one cheap for surplus at the Dahlgren Research Facility...
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  2191.  @noahleek3968  depends on the state. Machine guns and destructive devices can be had, for a fee and a waiting period, but individual state rules apply, too, and are often much more restrictive.
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  2192.  @thecommunistdoggo1008  probably.
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  2193. Liability for libel, slander, and defamation is not pretty. At the very least, lawyers to defend yourself from charges of the same are expensive. Besides: the owner let Ian film this abomination, and from context, it seems Ian has given him some advice - in all likelihood 'steps are being taken' behind the scenes.
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  2194. Ordnance Lab has entered the chat...
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  2195.  @snperkiller1054  seeing as he was explicitly making an improvised firearm, No. The "Explosive" part of the BATFE would only take an interest if he'd put end caps on BOTH ends of the device.
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  2196.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  it's one of those 'well, kinda' situations, rather than a blanket 'No.' Maybe with an asterisk. The Second and Third Rates were always the real hitters. The Fourth and Fifth Rates were the utility players - Frigates usually saw more, and more varied, action. That's where the real go-getters learned their trade.
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  2197.  @molochi  meh. LMG, but the way the Brazilians use it, might as well be.
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  2198. Vintage ammo for your vintage firearm; a match made in hell.
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  2199. Racism appears to deeply written into Russian society. Not really surprising, official - or officially-sanctioned - racism is a common feature of fascist societies. (Yes, I'm aware of the implications that has for America - but Racism in this country is officially *disapproved.*)
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  2200. An elegant weapon from a more civilized era.
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  2201. That's a shame, really. The Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean have a fine engineering tradition. About half of my 'shooter' rifles and pistols are Czech in origin - either directly, or copies thereof.
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  2202. The Ultra Saber was a better aircraft, but the Thunderchief was a better warplane. The ability to put ordnance on target is paramount in a tactical fighter, and the Thunderchief could deliver the goods.
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  2203. That looks like a kid's drawing of an MG.
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  2204. If you need something small and reliable, this is a decent choice. Personally, I'd have gone for .380, but any weapon is better than no weapon.
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  2205. The coronation banquet meal was effectively a diplomatic function... Subtlety seems extremely on-point.
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  2206. "... Intentionally hitting economic, social-industrial... and residential targets..." He's a bald-faced liar. That's what Russia does, not Ukraine. But lying is also what Russia does, so no surprise there.
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  2207.  @anastasiab8173  as may be. I'm just explicating the why of RH's panic. I mean, wouldn't you, if someone woke you at 3am and said: "cough up 3 billion dollars or lose everything you've worked for..?"
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  2208. Wow. You sure know how to party! That's a pretty heroic lift for the anniversary dish; well done! (Pun intended)
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  2209. Another New Castle County, Delaware resident - thank you!
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  2210.  @tookitogo  foundry work is nasty-filthy work. You can see original colors on the fabric; they're not faded or stained beyond recognition. The masks aren't absolutely caked with dust and crap. Those uniforms are not more than a few days old, and have been cleaned recently. Likewise, the masks are fresh.
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  2211.  @Iwillfigureoutanamelater  then bring them here, and build another giant axe. Not that expensive, considering some of the stunts those guys have pulled.
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  2212. Nuking volcanoes..? THIS ignorance, again..?! 🙄 Sweet Christ, the Rooskies are STUPID!
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  2213.  @mohammadelhayek9155  with a nation-state sponsor, whilst frequency of supply may be spotty, you can expect those materials that do arrive to match the industrial level of the sponsor. Iran might not be Europe, but it's still a technologically and industrially capable nation. I don't think they're going to risk lives and treasure shipping crap.
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  2214.  @Jedi2155  sorry, I put a link in my earlier response; YT does not like links to external knowledgeable sources. 🙄 So - to cut it short: bullshit. Check the "shots-per-casualty" stats on ANY Army, in ANY war, and learn the error of your ways. Artillery is the primary killer. Literally tens of thousands of bullets, or more, are fired to produce one casualty. The VAST majority of bullets fired are to suppress and fix enemy forces, to allow either maneuver elements to close, or to allow time for artillery to range and do their work. The applies to the Canadians, the British, the Germans, Russia, Ukraine, the United States, and everyone else. But I guess I cannot expect actual knowledge from a Putin shill.
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  2215. As an American born again Christian, I confirm that the Australian family are a clutch of ignorant Muppets.
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  2216. Nice. I've sailed past, but looking at the island from the sea doesn't give context.
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  2217.  @dontdiscriminatehateeveryo9263  yeah, pretty much. But even with a familiar beast, things can go sideways. Fast. And its entirely clear that the officers understand that very well. If they're NOT more than a bit worried, they're idiots. I don't think they're idiots. I do think they've got great big balls of brass, to go along with huge compassion. Good guys.
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  2218.  @apseudonym  exactly. Which is why there's definitely ba pucker factor. Because they know that 1) he's a BIG bear; 2) wild animals are unpredictable even when you're familiar with them; 3) he's in distress and under stress, which makes anyone aggressive and prone to lashing out, especially wildlife. So, my point stands.
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  2219. If someone had tried telling such lies about me, and I had to be civil, I'd be the same.
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  2220. THIS.
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  2221. Oooh.. Goat cheese, mixed with nuts and pepper, stuffed into dates.
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  2222. For masochists.
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  2223. Nothing nice, I'm sure.
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  2224. Or the scene of an MPL orgy...
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  2225.  @luisnunes2010  that's nice bit of paranoia. Too bad it's completely undocumented.
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  2226. VA disability rating can be insanely arcane. If anyone can explain it, Jake is the one.
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  2227. Probably rolls her eyes, pats him on the head, and sends him out to play. I mean, from the sounds of crashing cars and gunfire, she knows where he is, and what he's up to.
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  2228.  @johnjones_1501  correct. It only pushes the day of reckoning back, and only by so much as you've got facilities and personnel who can support it.
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  2229. Brandon, at least you didn't have to narrate this one.
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  2230. Definitely unique.
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  2231.  @zoiders  hell, Germany tried to subvert Texas by flooding it with German settlers when Texas was its own nation. Failed, but that doesn't mean it was a bad idea. Ditto, Argentina.
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  2232.  @slightlyevolved  hah! Well played.
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  2233.  @kaitlyn__L  there's no accounting for taste, to be sure, but I will absolutely deny that the red slop Wendy's serves is chili. Tasty red slop? Sure. Chili? Not a chance. 😝
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  2234.  @kaitlyn__L  absolutely agree! Taco Bell is its own thing. I enjoy it on occasion, but it is in no way, shape, or form 'Mexican.' Fortunately, I can cook my own Mexican food, or go to one of several local authentic Mexican restaurants.
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  2235. From Guernica to Tokyo, every single time, the lesson is the same: Terror bombing ALWAYS backfires.
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  2236. This is an engineer's weapon. So many features...
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  2237.  @Salker64  I'm guessing powdered aluminum; useful in enhancing explosive yield, especially in crude (ANFO) explosives.
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  2238.  @arteljus983  "...they can't be..." Bull. They can be many things, and your limited assertion demonstrates that you're willing to misrepresent what they can and cannot be, in support of your pre-determined conclusion. I get it; you're emotionally invested that it MUST be ATACMS or analogue, because that was your original thesis. But your original thesis is not supported in any measure. Go away; you're not contibuting to the conversation in any meaningful way.
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  2239.  @arteljus983  ah, yes. Because you have an opinion, so you must be heard? Yeah, I've heard THAT before, too. Most often from folks who have nothing of value to contribute.
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  2240. Gold coin fountain!
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  2241. Mulholland caused every one of those deaths through his arrogance and corner-cutting; he was warned, he was told when the failure began, and still he did nothing. Negligent mass homicide. Depraved indifference. He gets no respect from me. ~ fifth generation native of the Los Angeles basin.
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  2242. Not Made Here; US government has some strange rules about buying "Made in America;" when these were conceptualized, H&K wasn't making MP-5s in America.
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  2243. More like "Dude, I am NOT answering that one!"
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  2244. For safety's sake, safety procedures need to be kept consistent; that way no one forgets an important step.
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  2245.  @rrolf71  it's ok. No one could have resisted.
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  2246.  @davidplatenkamp  human law and court rulings over the centuries state bluntly: you are wrong, and have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Oh, and the racist red herring / ad hominem? You KNOW your argument is baseless, and you're trying to distract from that fact. Shut up; go away - you have nothing meaningful to contribute here.
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  2247.  @davidplatenkamp  again: Bull. Shit.
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  2248. We heard you like wings, so we put some wings on your wings on your wings...
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  2249. Gimme strange stuff... It's always interesting.
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  2250. Interesting. I've been curious about .416 Barrett, but not a lot info I've seen.
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  2251. The US government has a long history of being extremely recalcitrant and stingy with compensation.
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  2252. Nuclear power has no karma of its own; it acquires the karma of its user. Also, like karma, it is extremely unforgiving. Be sloppy, or fail to do your due diligence, and you will be punished.
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  2253.  @Roon3808  foam is used to blanket the fuel source, cutting it off from oxygen. Bouncing it off the side of a tank is going to do VERY little good. Roughly speaking in a situation like this, if you're dropping the foam directly on the flames, you're doing something useful. Spraying the side of the tank isn't that.
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  2254.  @Lillireify  wow. Try decaf.
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  2255. Huh. Never knew the origin of the name of the Birkenhead Drill.
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  2256.  @gaoxiaen1  which should be a routine task. So yeah, non-trivial is a deliberate understatement.
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  2257.  @frenchfrey65  😁
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  2258.  @cleoharper1842  heh. You, and many others, my wife included. As I understand, it was created by a French chef to celebrate a French naval victory at Port Mahan (hence the name).
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  2259. God Bless, man. Combat medics do God's Work.
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  2260. Pressurized water coolers. BOOM! Without explosives, no less.
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  2261. Pretty rough finish, but considering its age, still very impressive. This would be a sensation at the range.
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  2262. Your conclusion is entirely wrongheaded, and flies in the face of observed facts; you should stick to commenting on ground warfare, because it's clear you've got very little idea about naval warfare. 1) you made a toss away comment about the Avenger class - they were wood and fiberglass for a REASON. Magnetic influence naval mines don't trigger on wood and fiberglass. Yes, aluminum hulls are also less likely than steel to trigger an influence mine, but more so than wood - and thin aluminum hulls are hideously vulnerable to naval mines. 2) the LCS has effectively negative combat value - they cannot defend themselves. No, not even with the fancy gun; Their sensor suite is utter crap. Using them as screens against drones and speed boats is putting sailors out there to soak up attacks with their bodies, without any meaningful way of fighting back or surviving. Putin does that kind of shit; I'm astounded you endorse such criminality. These little bathtub toys are absolutely unsurvivable, and have zero business anywhere near a shooting war.
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  2263. Brilliant introduction, highlighting the depth of your research into these episodes.
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  2264. That's what I always thought was behind the name. Something else new I learned today.
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  2265.  @richardgreer2982  the BATFE is a Regulatory Agency with a charter of responsibilities, and a requirement to duly abide by the laws passed by Congress. I don't care how much you dislike those facts. It doesn't matter how much I dislike those facts. They are still facts. Your ignorance of how Law works does not make your fantasies of how it should work correct. Legally, lawfully, the BATFE must act in support of the Law, as written by Congress and interpreted by the courts. Whining and bloviating will not change this.
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  2266.  @richardgreer2982  again, the BATFE is a regulatory agency. REGULATORY. Say that once more: Reg u la tory. You got a problem with criminals threatening citizens, take that up with the FBI. Or your state police. Your county sheriff. Your local municipal or city police.
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  2267.  @richardgreer2982  by means of regulation and enforcement of regulation. You missed that rather important bit. Which underscores just how little you understand.
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  2268.  @richardgreer2982  you KEEP. MISSING. THE. POINT. This is not about 'hurting' or 'helping.' It is regulation based upon a determination that the braces (which I find utterly ridiculous and an obvious exploit) do, in fact, make these 'pistols' shoulder-fired weapons, as defined by Congress. This is nothing more, or less, than a bunch of armed bureaucrats doing their jobs. It's not an "OMG they're taking our gunz!" moment. It's an "shit, now I have to do more paperwork" moment. Chill the fuck out, come down off the ledge, and use some fucking common sense.
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  2269.  @richardgreer2982  whenever a change like this happens, there is some grace before it goes into effect. It is a pain in the ass, but that's what bureaucrats do. And you've just suddenly changed the tune of your argument. Previously, you were pretending that the BATFE was a bunch of Starsky & Hutch crime busters. NOW you're all about the Snidely Whiplash persecution aspect. Both are wrong. Fact: Regulators are a pain in the ass. BATFE, especially. Fact: The pistol brace loophole has been abused egregiously. Hell, the Honey Badger's 'brace' is essentially useless as anything BUT a shoulder stock. Fact: Bureaucrats exist to find loopholes; either to exploit, or to close. That's their job. Conclusion: This decision was inevitable.
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  2270.  @richardgreer2982  no, it's not semantics. And "people being interested" is no defense, either. It was inevitable. Quit your impotent whining. If it's important to you - which it clearly seems to be - organize the legislative action necessary. Put up, or shut up.
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  2271. Russia is burning their future in this, Putin's War. Their young, the best and brightest, and being destroyed. These young men could be mechanics, plumbers, businessman, engineers, nurses, doctors, teachers... Instead, they're a net drain on Russian society, unable to contribute, or just simply being dead. It'll be a generation or more before Russia even begins to recover from the brain and labor waste.
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  2272. Dang - savage!
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  2273.  @Magtf_hikaroo  that wasn't misappropriation of transport; that event was caused by ego-driven arrogance.
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  2274.  @davebruneau6068  "I've heard a story. It must be false." Sounds pretty much familiar.
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  2275. I'd enjoy owning that - though I'd want to swap the stock with something a little less uncomfortable. 😑
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  2276.  @bohba13  all of which make sense. But with people like Putin out there? I don't see 'reason' making much headway.
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  2277. If they're holding a defensive line, they may not have much of a tactical choice. OTOH, the rocketeer moved in, did his job, and then immediately moved away to reload in safety.
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  2278. A substantial portion - about 1/3 - did NOT sign up for this. They were conscripted. Another third thought they were designing up for domestic duties only. ALL them have been lied to, kept uninformed, denied pay and bonuses, been screwed with administratively, and generally fucked over by their leadership. If you want cast blame, look at the Colonels and above.
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  2279.  @benoorehek8475  part of the reason why it's such a light recoiling weapon, no doubt.
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  2280.  @larrygarrett724  my experience has been that most soldiers whom have seen really harsh combat don't talk about it much. They tell funny stories about things which were combat-adjacent, but only rarely do they open up about the real brutal stuff.
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  2281.  @97dtharrison  Clausewitz. Which might be even more scary.
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  2282. Is it my imagination, or does Prigozhin look like a pissed-off Yoda in this video?
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  2283.  @dankim7488  yeah, well, the MP40 was a typically German over-engineered and over-built weapon. MUCH more expensive.
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  2284. This speaks loudly to my Mauser-loving heart.
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  2285. So Orcs live in pig stys, eh? Not surprised.
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  2286. Alameda is an outstanding idea. Of course, that's right next to Oakland, the epicenter of "NIMBYISM" in California. Good luck.
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  2287.  @brianv2871  California hadn't, but base commands had. I was in the PacFleet back then. He was zooming along on Miramar, and I'm fairly certain that yes, Naval Fighter Weapons School was PacFleet, too.
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  2288.  @brianv2871  honestly, it was basically a risk to get a ticket. Unless you got hurt. Then, yeah, you were at some risk of going in front of the green table. The REAL threat was the "line of duty" determination. If you are injured outside of the line of duty, the service is not obligated to pay for your care, and if outside of duty injury prevents you from fulfilling your duties, you WILL face mast. I've seen that happen.
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  2289. Also, the line of duty determination applied wherever you got hurt, on base, or off. The guy I saw busted for injuring himself doing something stupid (basically a drunken 'hold my beer' moment) was well off base when he did it. So yeah, under the UCMJ, you can be punished for being stupid.
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  2290.  @richmeisterradio  Excellent choice!
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  2291. "All of them."
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  2292. ​ @lancerevell5979 The red bug juice was more effective. The transparent stuff, not the cloudy pink garbage.
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  2293. ​ @rexmann1984  that is the way. 😁
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  2294.  @caffeine_canine367  spent a lot of time in southern Georgia, Florida pan handle, and southern South Carolina. Never once did I hear "Yee Yee!"
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  2295.  @con6lex  huh. Good thing I'm not collecting for value, then.
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  2296. In Tolkien's allegory, Saruman was corrupted by industrial thinking, and had established industrial methods on a large scale; reference what he tried in the Shire - tearing down nature and traditional craftsmanship to replace it with industrial revolution style machinery and mass production. Likewise, elves were allegorically guardians of artisanship and tradition; Sauron (and Saruman as his corrupt tool) was the proponent of impersonal, destructive, soulless and uncaring 'progress.' Tolkien didn't much care for modern industry, and longed for his idealized 'kinder, gentler' good old days. The Shire was his allegory for his fantasy lifestyle. So... How did Saruman make enough armor? Industrial mass production. Stamp forges. Casting mills. Thousands of slaves, toiling away over industrial forges in filthy, hot, dangerous work halls... All the industrial revolution production that Tolkien loathed. And, of course, fit and finish suffered. It was all one size fits all, and if you were outside the 85th percentile for an Uruk-Hai, well too bad - your helmet and armor are going to chafe, bind, just not work for you; and too bad, so sad - you're also a disposable cog in Saruman's war machine.
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  2297. Boom!, baby! Concord Naval Weapons Station explosion, Concord, California.
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  2298.  @forevermarked5826  they're just shipping them out. Typical Russian bullshit.
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  2299.  @mfree80286  Hah! Not great for follow-up shots, though.
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  2300.  @GrigoriZhukov  three dog nights? 😁
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  2301.  @GrigoriZhukov  ☹️
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  2302. I generally avoid Bloke on the Range; he's one of those arrogant wankers that like to tell other people how their local idiomatic language usage is wrong. There are enough good channels out there, I don't have to give trade to pricks.
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  2303. Common behavior in the US military. There's a VERY long history of slapping random parts off the shelf together to meet new needs.
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  2304. Got a snort-laugh outta me, yup.
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  2305. "Blue Flash" associated with radioisotopes is a VERY bad sign. Cherenkov radiation anywhere close-by means you're pretty much screwt.
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  2306. Are you kidding me?! You'll be eating coleslaw and watermelon soup every day!
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  2307. Yep. It's only after a fair bit of conversation that you suddenly realize you've left 'Normal' far behind.
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  2308. Better option than letting the soldiers drink...
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  2309.  keith moore  no, I don't forget that. There are inherent risks in an alcohol ration; soldiers will sell their ration, creating opportunities for graft and expanding grey and black markets within the barracks. Soldiers will hoard rations, then go on a bender. Other discipline problems existed, beyond; those are just examples.
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  2310.  keith moore  discipline issues around drinking were very much on the minds of commanding officers back then; there's a reason the UCMJ has a specific article for "Drunken Sentry." It's a holdover from historical experience with drinking in the barracks (and on ships). Issuing a shotgun for a little light hunting is a frankly brilliant idea.
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  2311. Those soldiers will get the 10% of SEAL-level training that is used 90% of the time - the other 90% is for extremely situational use, and very hard and expensive to train, and rarely needed. They're still going to be better than 90% of soldiers anywhere in the world.
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  2312.  @juliamuth8288  huh. Ok, I'll give it a chance.
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  2313. Some lords literally ruined themselves with the lavish feasts, trying to keep up with their peers.
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  2314. When I was a child, we used to drive past the airfield where the Guppies were based. They always fascinated me. My mother worked on the design of the C-133.
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  2315.  @tenchraven  not so much 'challenged,' as not willing to open the can of worms that would inevitably follow if they entertained the question.
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  2316. Oh, and: the poor are crazy. The wealthy are eccentric. Wealth gentles all our natures and classes, should we have more than our neighbors.
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  2317. The stuffing looks a lot like dumplings. That would definitely be an unexpected texture.
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  2318.  @ragnkja  yep. Which is what chicken dumplings are, basically - thick heavy pasta. Definitely not expected for a stuffing.
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  2319. You did. The previous upload vanished. Go figure.
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  2320.  @davidweikle9921  so noted; thanks.
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  2321. Frequently you learn more from failure than you do from success.
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  2322. Like that takedown. Slick engineering.
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  2323. It's Monday AM - a lot of viewers are at work.
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  2324. Muzzle flip control on Semi is pretty impressive, actually.
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  2325. By seizing the refineries, Germany has finally come off the fence. Russia has no one to blame for this other than Putin, who played stupid games with energy, and has now won a stupid prize.
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  2326. Potential Aperture Science recruit... someone get Cave Johnson on the line!
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  2327. Ms. Duntsova is now due for an appointment with a high window. Sad; she was a woman of courage. 😕
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  2328. 75 in six
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  2329. Your kit ready for inspection..?
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  2330.  @shawnr771  very good. Carry on smartly!
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  2331.  @alexdemoya2119  I get around. 😉
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  2332. Jerry Miculek did some BFR shooting at night, and even from a considerably longer barrel, .45-70 throws huge fireballs.
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  2333. This rifle looks like a fun afternoon.
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  2334.  @christopherg2347  Yep. This is true. But you get my point - especially as the Appendix is more likely to become inflamed and life-threatening than it is to be used for it's designed purpose.
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  2335. Don't think there's an actual 92 clone in the US..?
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  2336.  @thekraken1173  yes, I know, but that's not a clone. That's Beretta proper.
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  2337. Also, headspacing off of a semi-rimmed case is kinda problematic, accuracy-wise. My pistols all headspace off the mouth of the case; much better.
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  2338. This video confirms something that I've been saying: Japanese WWII tanks were appropriate and effective for the context in which they were envisioned and created. Facing up against modern European-theater armor become a classic "out of context problem" for the IJA. Japanese assumptions, doctrines, and plans were simply unprepared to cope with armor created from the European experience.
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  2339.  @Grumplebumple  ah, yes, the Indoors Lamb Grand Prix races... 😁 What bored country kids got up to in the days LONG before the internet. Heh. But ya know, Baba is still available. You can pick her brain any time. She'd love the chance to expand your culinary skills set.
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  2340. There was one of these on consignment at a local gunship for ages. I always wanted to know a bit more - thank you!
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  2341. Because
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  2342. Always beware of utopianists. They know better than you, they're more moral than you, they're smarter than you, and they're utterly incapable of seeing the forest for the trees. 🙄 Utopianism is the greatest political plague the world has ever known, and has killed a hundred million people,* or more. * Karl Marx was a utopian. He spawned the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, and the horrors resulting therewith. He spawned Communist China, and the horrors of Chairman Mao. He spawned Pol Pot. He spawned North Korea. Utopians kill.
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  2343. Russian - Putin - NEVER intended to honor the 'cease fire,' to start, the Russian Patriarch is Putin's head cheerleader, and also, the Russian Orthodox Church has exactly ZERO authority over the Eastern Orthodox Church. Finally, published comments by Russian soldiers made it extremely clear that they planned to use any cessation of hostilities to sucker-punch Ukraine.
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  2344.  @saabaton169  really? Decades of promised to... Ukraine? From whom..? Now, let's talk doorsteps: America is the senior power in NATO. America is one of two nuclear hyperpowers. NATO going to war over a national war in which it has no obligations, duties, or responsibilities would, of necessity, put America at war with the OTHER nuclear hyperpower. ARE YOU SO INVINCIBLEY STUPID THAT YOU THINK NUCLEAR HYPERPOWERS AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER IS A GOOD IDEA..?!
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  2345. "Cut Finding Fluid:" Safety Kleen.
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  2346. A man of great courage; God bless, that he received reinforcements.
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  2347.  @oogenshire  Not true. Carbine means 'short rifle,' and does NOT require it to be pistol caliber. For example, the current US-issue M4 carbine is... 5.56 NATO.
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  2348.  @sakkolappu7318  it was only the most important medium bomber of the war.
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  2349.  @marcobassini3576  you might wish to read the book 'Clarke of St. Vith' so that you might reduce your reliance on myth.
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  2350. Another demonstration about how people who do not understand firearms should have no part in making laws about firearms.
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  2351. 'Cannon Fodder' are actually a massive deficit to their own side; they use up scarce resources, clog up all evolutions with their ineptitude, contribute nothing useful, distract trained soldiers, and create bad press. Much of Russia's military training cadre are already on the front lines, so most of the conscripts cannot be trained. Most Russian (and other nations, too*) SAM systems have designed secondary attack functions. It's inefficient, but it is an inbuilt function. *The US Navy's "Standard Missile," their primary SAM, has an inbuilt surface strike capability.
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  2352. .25acp - when you want to hurt someone's feelings, but don't want to flip them the bird.
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  2353. Hated the charge after a SCRAM drill; often had to help E-Div with hopping battery gravities. I had a special poopy suit for that task - eaten all to hell by battery acid.
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  2354. When your contemporaries weigh in at over 50 kilos... 😁
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  2355. I've always thought that .500 S&W Magnum was natural brush gun cartridge. Glad to see it happening.
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  2356. It's a shame the Luger has political association. The P.08 was primarily a WWI sidearm. The P.38 is the WWII pistol that carries negative associations in my mind. While a lot of P.08s were used in WWII, they were very much secondary to the issued P.38.
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  2357.  @maxplaysgamesmore8552  fair point.
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  2358. Pilot in command was worse than just a warm body holding down a seat.
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  2359.  @LJMpictures  while true, those things are never well-contained. Some ALWAYS splashes about, and that's not the kind of fun Ian needs.
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  2360. Things we didn't know we needed...
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  2361. How far back does Turkish Delight go?
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  2362.  @sjonnieplayfull5859  he was aware that he was compromised. He knew it. Then is when he should have had the moral courage to resign. He didn't. That chicken came home to roost months later, when his mental capacity was further reduced. How is that mysterious to you? If he'd had the balls to resign when he knew (and still had the judgement), he'd have not caused so much grief later down the road.
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  2363. One of the most brilliant examples of reverse engineering, EVAH, - as briefly mentioned above - is the Soviet-era TU-4 bomber, a rivet-by-rivet reverse engineering of the Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bomber. Think about the discussion above, now apply those issues to massive, complicated engines, complex navigation gear, integrated hydraulic systems, and everything else necessary to make an aircraft fly. Even with multiple examples from which to crib (thus allowing 'averaging' to help reduce tolerance error), it was an engineering tour-de-force.
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  2364. @Cancer McAids oh, absolutely. They had to create new tools, new alloys, new processes... It would have been much easier to take performance data and general concepts, and use those to inform creating a similar aircraft, instead of a clone. Give the Soviets their due, the TU-4 was only 750 pounds heavier than the original (<1% difference), and that might easily be because they armed it with 23mm cannon, instead of 20mm. On the other hand, the effort was not wasted; the Soviets gained immense knowledge through the process, really boosting their aeronautical institutional knowledge, as well as jump-starting their strategic bomber program.
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  2365.  @giacintoboccia9386  you underestimate just how comprehensive the destruction in Germany was. Oh, there might have been bits of documentation here and there, certainly, but finding it - finding people who even knew where to look, well, that's a different story. Bottom line, there was no complete set of documentation to be found. And with missing critical technical information, well, you're back to reverse engineering again.
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  2366. The Spotting Rifles fired a special, specific round that is NOT compatible with the M2 BMG. It is ballistically matched to the recoilless rifle, meaning that if you can hit with the rifle, the main gun is going to hit the same spot.
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  2367. You get a serial number! And you get a serial number! Serial numbers for every exposed surface!
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  2368.  @nicholashodges201  even the parts that are physically part of the same piece.
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  2369.  @nicholashodges201 there are a few examples out there of Warlord Pistols that have the serial numbers stacked one below the previous - multiple times - as many as three times, if I recall correctly. Just in case you weren't sure you read it right the first time.
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  2370. That's what Privates are for... :D
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  2371. Idiots with guns! She violated Rule #4 too. I'm sure she had no idea what was upstairs. Also: Machine gun party time! Always a crowd-pleaser. Or, something... 🙄 #akgnotificationsquad
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  2372. No MP5..? Of course it's a horror!
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  2373. Heh. Ian, killing fanboi fantasies like a boss.
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  2374.  @herbb8547  operation holybells.
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  2375.  @richardschmidt8531  did back then, too.
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  2376.  @plaguemarine8023  yep. You called it.
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  2377.  @beuracraticdisappointments7976  no. Open them up side-by-side. The AK was inspired by the STG-44. It is NOT a copy. Mikhail Kalashnikov took a look at an STG-44, and said "I can do better than that." And he did. Distinctly different internals, much more simple, vastly more robust.
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  2378. "Sticky sweet white balls." Straight out of South Park.
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  2379.  @mikesunderland9145  warhead? No. Drones? Maybe, depending on how good their drill is. Remember, the warheads are coming for the radar, which is distant from the missiles and the control cab. It's the radar that has to boogie. If their drill is up to spec, it should be doable. Some of the time, anyway. Absolutely agree on the MANPADS.
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  2380.  @RonOhio  and renting one is expensive. Yep.
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  2381. Exactly my thought.
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  2382.  @benwilson6145  NASSCO, mentioned above? Commercial. USN contracts in both places. You'll note, despite your apparent outrage, that i didn't blame thee shipyard - only pointed out that in my rather extensive experience in drydock, the lack of a call for cribbing is unusual. Also, that had there been cribbing, we would not be having this conversation. Now, go be angry elsewhere.
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  2383.  @benwilson6145  are you having a stroke? That made exactly zero sense.
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  2384.  @clintmullins8670  academics - researchers and engineers.
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  2385.  @COMALiteJ  looking at crime analysis over time, I'm going to dispute your conclusion of 'too late.' Despite the societal stressors of 'too many bodies,' violent crime rates associated geographically and temporally with lead exposure have been trending steadily downwards. Now, geographical concentrations (cities, mostly) remain higher than other areas, but even they are trending downward. If you adjust for changes in population and population density, the trend becomes even more starkly obvious. Violent crime rates are a functional proxy for lead exposure.
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  2386.  @finaloption...  Small world. Feynman was one of my father's academic advisors. I even have a set of the Feynman Lectures autographed to me personally - a typically weird Feynman gift for my third birthday.
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  2387.  @lesliereissner4711  Yep. Showing, once again, how perverse is the universe.
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  2388.  @jayjaynella4539  Madison Square Garden. A large performance center, suitable for major sporting events or large concerts, etc. Also, incredibly ugly.
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  2389.  @magikclown  if that is so, why are you pumping for a wanted war criminal?
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  2390. Says good things about the robustness and airworthiness of the Anson.
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  2391.  @kriegguardsman9117  the Spanish firearms industry had some fine original designs. Some of the earliest military adopted semi-auto pistols were Spanish, and original. The Modelo 58 turned Germany into the cloners, in the G3. And the Star Firestar pistol was named Handgun of Year by Guns & Ammo magazine. Show some respect.
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  2392. 2021: Russia - Second best military in the world. 2022: Russia - Second best military in Ukraine. 2023: Russia - Second best military in Russia.
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  2393. Cool. Rather curious about that. I was wondering if there's a notable shift in handling with the stock extended? Maybe not, with the weight of the extension bits being similar or greater than the original plastic.
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  2394. Fly cheese? Yeah, I'd need a lot of strong wine, too.
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  2395.  @jeremiahvires7864  That would be my cousin. I don't bubba perfectly good milsurp rifles - He, on the other hand, would go absolutely nutz.
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  2396. Yeah, "Big Dick" envy was a common element in many Soviet designs. The GAU-8 rate of fire was specifically down-rated for the purpose of recoil mitigation, ammunition conservation, and accuracy. It is physically possible to dial up the rate of fire on the GAU-8 to meet or exceed the Soviet gun's rate, simply by a simple electrical adjustment. But that would have been not only pointless, but counter-productive. Amusingly, the rate of fire reduction exactly matched the standard GAU-8 ROF.
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  2397. Squid food. Useful for patching holes in the hull.
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  2398.  @dumptrump3788  yep. All fine fodder for "alt history" fantasy, but otherwise pointless.
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  2399. Russia desperately wants NATO to 'start' a war with Russia. Anything they can do to provoke an aggressive response that they can spin as an attack will be tried - Russia wants the propaganda value.
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  2400.  @PureCountryof91  honestly, I have no idea; I use a tumbler to clean my brass.
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  2401.  @bubba200874426  remember the original purpose - MILITARY self-defense, wherein non-AP pistol-energy rounds are utterly pointless, and AP is the only way to go. It HAS NO civilian purpose, really. It NEVER DID. Except fun shooting. I've been discussing the original design purpose, and thought you were too.
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  2402.  @bubba200874426  we were discussing your ability to misread and twist other people's words to make you feel superior to everyone else, and you demonstrated that behavior quite thoroughly.
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  2403.  @briancavanagh7048  class act. 👍
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  2404.  @JohnDoe-sw1rs  I suspect that would have created Ethiopian hegemony in the region. Probably would have made them a major focus for "The Great Game," with European powers competing to seduce them into alliance, or working diligently to destabilize them. Or both, simultaneously. Certainly, Britain would have been KEENLY aware of a major regional player in a position to interdict (or defend) their lifeline to India.
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  2405. We made this recipe, minus the rose water, and substituting toasted sesame seeds for the nuts. LOTS of sesame seeds. Extremely good. Various nut brittles, toffees, butterscotch, and other hard sugar candies are also common. Frequently, they're chocolate-dipped. Marzipan candy was common on the holidays growing up (I have a thing for marzipan to this day), and my wife makes caramel turtles on the holidays now. So, yeah, we make some candy. It's amazing.
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  2406. Granger's bus almost became permanent lawn art...
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  2407. King Shepherds are not mixed breed or mutts - They have a well-established registry, with extensive ancestry and genetics information maintained by a professional organization. They are divergent from Shiloh Shepherds, but share the same basic origins. The breed diverges from German Shepherds some fifty years ago by way of three crucial outcrosses: An Alt Deutscher Hund by the name of Artus; a White Shepherd from Hoofprint Kennels named Orbit, and a Giant Malamute named Secret Sampson Woo (which is an incredibly fun name to say!). Without being a specialist, the primary differences between Kings and Shilohs will be that all Kings are plush coat, a bit stockier, and a bit shorter; Meanwhile Shilohs can be plush OR smooth coat, come in ALL coat colors (Solid white to solid black, and everything in between!), and tend to be a bit more lean, and a bit more tall. Shilohs and Kings both tend to be VERY talkative. The primary distinction, as I like to say, is: German Shepherds are working dogs whom make great companions, whilst Shilohs (and by extension, Kings) are companions whom can work. Subtle, but very important distinction. Edit: My source is: Member of SSDCA, I knew Tina Barber, and I've owned seven Shiloh Shepherds over the last 23 years. I have two Shilohs currently in my household - One a Black and Tan plush, and the other a Buff and Cream smoothie.
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  2408. It's Tahoe. Everyone, bears included, speaks "good 'ol boy."
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  2409. Rate of fire seems higher than I recall from the Thompsons I've fired. Thompson triggers are notoriously hard. I find that the stiff trigger helps with burst control. Agree, Thompsons definitely need to be muscled pretty hard to keep them pointed the right direction.
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  2410. Of course Putin will accept a cease fire on grounds gained - it means he gets something he doesn't deserve for free (or at least no further cost). This is ABSOLUTELY STANDARD Soviet/Russian 'steal shit' "negotiation" tactics. Russia is the heirs to the USSR, and they are absolute criminal thieves.
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  2411. "Safety Flops."
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  2412.  @iantingen  fun fact, indeed... I learned something!
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  2413. Avatar checks out.
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  2414.  @thewolfin  hah!
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  2415. Russia is literally feeding its future into the flames.
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  2416. Yummy mass-produced, government-approved festive trench food! Heh. The hard-tack clip never gets old.
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  2417. One of the 'major names' 1911s that I've wanted to shoot, but haven't had a chance.
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  2418. Thomas Paine would understand Oleksandr. He would greet him as a kindred soul.
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  2419.  Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus  "Now get on up, on the floor 'Cause we're gonna boogie oogie oogie 'Till you just can't boogie no more" ~ A Touch of Honey
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  2420. Yeah, it's a flex, but I respect it.
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  2421. I've been waiting for this video. I've wanted to give this a try, and now I've got clear instructions.
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  2422. Ignorance, apathy, poor budgets, corruption... I'm a bit surprised there aren't more.
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  2423. April first video spoiler...
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  2424. Who won? Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!
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  2425. The legendary Muhammad Ali called that tactic "Rope a Dope;" he'd lay back against the ropes, protecting his vitals and letting his opponent wear themselves out punching Ali's strong core. When the opposing boxer got weary, Ali would come off the ropes - still fairly fresh - and hammer them down.
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  2426. Russia is contributing to the Ukrainian 'Lend-Lease' program. What a magnanimous good-will gesture! :D
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  2427. Rate of fire is not bad - easily to make controlled two and three round bursts. Or longer bursts for fun. 😛
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  2428. This.
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  2429.  @manatoa1  not much different from aiming a camera, really.
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  2430.  Modern Zombie  special tactics teams use c4 for door breaching, and bomb squads use c4 for disrupting bombs... Basically using a very small bomb to wreck a big bomb.
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  2431.  @erikarneberg11  my Manifesto: Give me a fireplace, a couple big dogs, and two fingers of good Scotch. Or else. No small cabin (nor even a big one), dammit. Though that sounds nice. I'm a born-again French lumberjack. Or maybe a hugely out-sized lawn gnome. I can't recall which. 😛
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  2432. Secondaries. Beautiful!
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  2433. I keep Shiloh Shepherds. I've had seven over the last 25 years. But your description of the origin is... Wrong. Sorry, but you missed the mark rather widely.
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  2434. Tina Barber started the breed in Manassas, Virginia (near the Shiloh Battlefield, hence the name). She did move to upstate New York, but there is only 1 (one) Malemute in the studbooks, "Secret Sampson Woo" (an incredibly fun name to say!). The other two outcross dogs were an Alt Deutscher Schaefer Hund named "Artus," and a White Shepherd from Hoofprint Kennels named "Orbit." Very recently, some breed lines have included a singular Czech Wolfdog (which contains 0% wolf, but is named for its appearance). All that said, "Blitz" behaved exactly as expected for a well-bred Shiloh.
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  2435. ​ @madhatter2695  only if she were an accredited diplomat - which she certainly isn't.
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  2436. @Bjorn Arnesen pretty sure Ursula is unseighlie fey.* They can be some of the most terrifying lawyers around. *(Possibly a Hag)
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  2437. That's a special kind of hell.
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  2438. You'll get a minor amount of softening in initial recoil - remember that the resistance of airflow out of that close-fit buffer goes up sharply as velocity increases - without adding a stiffer recoil spring, so you don't get a change in cyclic rate. Honestly, I think it's engineering overkill, but maybe not so pointless. The spring, more than anything, is to reset the buffer as the bolt travels forward..
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  2439. Glorious birthday for Ukraine!
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  2440.  @trevorthomas1030  yes, they do. It's an item on the actuarial tables for firearms range insurance adjustment. But in this case, I suspect it's because the range gets a lot of tourist traffic from places where people don't understand firearms safety. It prevents 'oops' problems.
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  2441.  @b.santos8804  yep. Those are the 'oops' problems I was talking about. With firearms, 'oops' can be fatal.
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  2442. Yes, tell us about Silphium. I'm curious.
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  2443. Heh. Once again, the cold open is golden. The forward Romanian backwards dong always looks funny.
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  2444.  @sixstringedthing  you. Get your coat and go. (But well done, none-the-less)
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  2445.  @sixstringedthing  😁
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  2446. Meanwhile, your Texan neighbors are happily chowing down on fried squirrel, and wondering "What's the big deal?"
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  2447.  @eliasd9129  a safety tie?
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  2448. A "Boom boom boom" box...
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  2449.  @1ofthe7dwarfs  he's not. Duh. That's the point - scams using his name or channel are inherently non-credible.
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  2450.  @DriveCarToBar  so... Thousands and thousands of culturally-alert citizens flood the streets... And spontaneously sang hymns. Catholic hymns. Hymns that it was clear they knew from heart. How did they know those hymns...? Unless... Wait for it... Catholicism is part of the culture? Hmmm. I think you atheists protest too much.
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  2451.  @coolsenjoyer  so if I start yelling "MOAR DAKKA," you'll be gritting your teeth..? 😁
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  2452.  @LongPigg  I'd need an eight-foot tod for fishing; I'm a lot taller than I look. And no, I don't sit on anyone's lawn, either.
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  2453. Heartbreaking stuff. 😕
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  2454.  @Vivungisport  If it was random, you'd have a point, whippersnapper - But it wasn't, and you don't. Pay attention now - I understand you're a slow learner, but this isn't hard: He was caught, red-handed, sending photos of UAF military installations to Russia. That's what agents do. Now, go away, child - you annoy me.
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  2455.  @Cba409  American citizenship is no bar to punishment for committing crimes. Fuck around, find out. Which he did.
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  2456. Azerbaijan government confirms the crash was due to a Russian air defense missile. ~ (Azerbaijan government official, cited by Euronews)
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  2457. Atkins Sr. reference!
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  2458. His book on shotguns had a prominent place on my father's bookshelf.
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  2459. Rice NOT burned! It was amazing.
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  2460. The Curve was always a gimmicky POS. I've handled one; I've seen Cobrays with better fit, function, and performance.
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  2461. https://youtu.be/jEKvMBRe_nU
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  2462. These calls are heartbreaking. Those poor duped bastards, sent to die for Putin's diseased ego.
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  2463. Looks like the Scooby van took a direct hit. But was that the Space Ghost trying to drive the truck away?
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  2464. The LPL would beat it in under 30 seconds, most of which time will be inspecting the mechanism.
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  2465. But, of course. Because France.
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  2466. Russians should know better than trying to attack in the mud. Even the n00bs should know better. That's suicide.
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  2467. "Two-gun Corcoron." 😁
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  2468. Looks simple. Is not. Fascinating design choices, though - I can see the argument for each one.
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  2469.  @megagamernick9883  planning for ideal terrain for your weapons is so early 20th Century.
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  2470. This is the result of using the tracks in a manner other than was designed; they were intended for transporting troops under cover to the edge of the battle, especially in Europe. They were never designed as infantry combat vehicles on patrol through contested terrain. Honestly, old-school WWII armored cars would have been a better choice.
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  2471. "Ukrainians have the high ground." Ukrainians are Jedi? That explains much.
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  2472.  @LMacNeill  yeah, good catch.
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  2473.  @oden1991yahoo  interesting idea. I support that.
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  2474.  @bobjones5674  historical pewter did.
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  2475. Parlor guns. I love the concept.
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  2476. I've fired a prototype M4 carbine with fully integrated barrel-length suppressor; the bolt closing is actually pretty quiet. It's the recoil spring in the buffer tube that you mostly heard.
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  2477. Sam Bankman Fsk'd
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  2478. You're going to shoot his lungs out!
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  2479. #akgnotificationsquad Thanks for sacrificing your thumb for this video
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  2480.  @LuvBorderCollies  good to know; I've got an M-58B in the safe that needs a good stripping of its packing grease - Cosmo-$#&*#-line. Also: Excellent name. I do Border Collie rescue work. Mostly 'strong back; weak mind' stuff.
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  2481.  @LuvBorderCollies  east coast; DelMarVa peninsula. I work with Mid-Atlantic Border Collie Rescue (MABCR). Normally I don't keep BCs as they require much more energy and time than I have available; I have until recently had (RIP, Suka) a Border-Mutt that was lower energy.
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  2482.  @LuvBorderCollies  contact your local rescues; there is often a range of tasks and needs that can be met with only minor investments of your time. It doesn't matter that you have a lot to give; what matters is that you give what you have. Find a place to put your hand on the cart and push - every bit of effort counts.
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  2483.  @LuvBorderCollies  yep, N. Virginia area is in our range. Lots of good dogs coming out of Tenn.
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  2484.  @obamama3121  what, but not their land back from France, their traditional enemy? That doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.
    2
  2485.  @helmortkuper2626  gotta remember, Churchill wasn't in power when the Nazis kicked things off. And Hitler could easily have kept Chamberlain in power with the right diplomatic moves.
    2
  2486.  @RealDixonPeter  oh, there's more there than that. Institutional incompetence as well, on several levels. Piss-poor assessment by fire officials, as well.
    2
  2487. Also: Tucker Carlson should be registering as an agent of a foreign power.
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  2488. Any difference in rate of fire appears to be essentially within the standard deviation of the base Suomi ROF.
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  2489. A similar argument has been made in support of the m-91 carcano rifle; not the most modern battle rifle - not even in the Italian inventory - but adequate to the task and far cheaper than retooling and replacing the existing inventory at a time when resources were severely constrained.
    2
  2490.  @joshuagibson2520  Delaware. Yeah, I know Joe. :-/ And yeah, I get about a fair bit.
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  2491.  @Rose.Of.Hizaki  geography was Britain's saving grace at that time - any pilot that managed to bail was usually back in an aircraft the next day. In some cases, the same day. Under those conditions, novices become experts very quickly.
    2
  2492. There is sufficient separation between chambers here that I would think the chance for chainfire would be negligible.
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  2493. "Shot their own men." Moral courage of the highest order. Also some of worst nightmare fuel, ever.
    2
  2494. Russia has become the best salesman for Western arms - Ever.
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  2495.  @joebenson528  Yeah, no. That's a completely unsupported assertion.
    2
  2496.  @TheGelasiaBlythe  welcome to 'Murica, where we screw up EVERYONE'S language, including our own. 😛
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  2497.  @b.gcapone6965  and no one likes the taxman.
    2
  2498.  @kevinwestermann1001  heh.
    2
  2499. Huzzah! Spicy chocolate beverages! Edit: a coffee mill works very well for grinding spices, too. It should make very short work of the cocoa nibs.
    2
  2500. @en svart melon Ink. I like how you think.
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  2501. Like getting punched by Mike Tyson.
    2
  2502. This is very similar to the way I make it. I never add tomato paste; onions though, certainly. I use a brown German mustard, and I add mushrooms. Typically I serve with dumpling noodles, but mashed potatoes are common.
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  2503. Kubota and Daewoo are muscling in, and Deere is about to get its lunch eaten.
    2
  2504. Looks a lot like the Remington 51, as well. Seems there was a LOT of copying of each others' homework going on.
    2
  2505. I bet it fouls like mad.
    2
  2506. #akgnotificationsquad Yeah, glad you sacrificed your health and sanity, so we don't have to.
    2
  2507. Four advertisements in an 11 minute video. Including front matter and trailing interruptions.
    2
  2508.  @shawnr771  just so.
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  2509.  @alexmoore1506  there is no 'safety' against a determined tinkerer.
    2
  2510.  @lightweight1974  all body parts attached; none broken or seriously damaged. I guess God does look out for madmen and fools. 😉 😁
    2
  2511.  @mistergrendel32  he's NOT going to do that. So, don't hold your breath. BUT if you religiously watch InRangeTV, you might get some clues. Hint: He's not a nutjob.
    2
  2512. The Chieftain has that covered.
    2
  2513. Safety improvement is often written in blood.
    2
  2514. A better class of angry pipe.
    2
  2515. God, I could hear my arteries clogging, just listening to the ingredients!
    2
  2516.  @pointdironie5832  no, in retrospect, not much of a good person.
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  2517.  @SpaceTooMoon  I do. It's a treasured piece.
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  2518.  @MrGrimsmith  I have never even considered Suomi. Like Basque, it is its own damn thing, with no relatives anywhere.
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  2519.  @JakeBroe  oh, and the other big difference between the US and Moscow is that the parades are mostly rural,not in big cities, and the civilian components are still more prevalent - school and university marching bands, veterans societies, and politicians.
    2
  2520. Interesting. So much I didn't know.
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  2521.  @Scaliad  heh. Ok, buncha mental images I didn't need. Well played.
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  2522. ​ @TastingHistory YES. This. Commercial cakes that had to withstand warehousing and shipping must be... More durable. Solid? Brick-like?
    2
  2523.  @sheenachristina2385  I like the direction you're going!
    2
  2524. Russian hypocrisy, inferiority complex, and paranoia was built in to the USSR from the very beginning.
    2
  2525. Yeah, that will raise the pucker factor.
    2
  2526. Have done Grog yet?
    2
  2527. You'll need a bitch-lot of energy to shatter that cube. Even chipping the edge took a very high energy level.
    2
  2528. I've traveled over the Mackinac, Delaware Memorial, and Coronado Bay bridges. Yeah, I'd go to Sheppy. Once, at least. Probably not twice.
    2
  2529. Only thing missing is some crumbled bacon.
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  2530.  awfulguitarplucker  yes! That would be awesome.
    2
  2531. Bit of flex at the stock anchor point; muzzle porpoising a bit.
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  2532.  @johnjohnmcclane1818  whilst true, it'll do a number on rats and woodchucks, too.
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  2533.  @Sgt_Bill_T_Co  yep. As far back as "Ride to the sound of the guns," Western militaries have taught initiative at the JO and senior NCO levels. In most Western militaries these days, that initiative is pushed down to the squad level.
    2
  2534.  @theimmortal4718  yes, but that's a trap. Clint spends a LOT of time training, which puts him way out on the end of the Bell curve. For those of us in the middle of the curve, or worse, on the opposite end, the Shockwave only barely fulfills the First Rule of Gunfights: Have a Gun. Gimme my three points of contact, thank you.
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  2535.  @dukecraig2402  and a 25mm chain gun would have achieved the same desired effect with a lot fewer rounds. It's not that it doesn't work - it's that that's a lot of fucking money and ammunition to expend when you can do the same with less.
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  2536.  @trith72  yeah, but recoil can help keep it up, after the first shot. 😁
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  2537. @Solidus Snake well, he is fairly stacked.
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  2538. Babushka longs for when she could denounce her neighbors and get results.
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  2539. Nothing like "Red" to tell you something by is wrong; red water, I'd be taking an extended vacation elsewhere.
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  2540.  @PlainlyDifficult  Spicy!
    2
  2541.  Marino  but 5.7 brass is barely heavier than .22lr brass... Different than getting pinged in the noggin by 5.56 or 7.62 brass. Still annoying. I use a brass catcher.
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  2542.  @zzygyy The big difference is that Ukrainian fighters DO get time down, if not much. They're fighting on their own soil, for their own families.
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  2543. The Brits sure knew how to build 'em beautiful. A shame their aircraft industry was betrayed by their own government.
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  2544. Terrifying how fast things can go from 'normal and controlled' to 'we're all dead.'
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  2545. Yellowstone? The Russian Propagandists are idiots. The magma chamber is buried kilometers deep. Under volcanic stone. Russia has NEVER had a weapon capable of breaching the chamber. No one has. If they tried, they'd piss off and radicalize millions of treehuggers. At a minimum. Russia would never again know a moment of peace - treehuggers can carry an epic grudge. I'm amused that Russian Propagandists have used footage of the Castle Bravo weapons test - an American weapon that went obsolete more than 60 years ago. I guess they have nothing comparable in the way of visually impressive footage. Not the first time Russia has praised American weapons, though. Some while back, a barracks on a Russian naval base had a giant submarine mural painted on it. A mural of an American Fast Attack boat. Oops.
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  2546. A cute little school badge.
    2
  2547. 🤣
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  2548. As close to a prima facie case for defamation as you'll ever find, outside of bad fiction.
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  2549. ​ @keithpeterson5127  SAE measurements got America to the moon. How many times has a metric system country landed a man on the moon? Metric system isn't all that.
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  2550.  @normanmccollum6082  yep. It's the lightest round I'd use to take deer, also. Mind you, if you're taking pot game, load FMJ. Hollow point is for bigger animals.
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  2551.  @contra009  got a link for that data? I'm curious to see how my gut feel matches objective data.
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  2552.  @RiderOftheNorth.357  Buffalo Bore (IIRC) has a loading that kicks out at 1150fps, but sacrifices bullet mass.
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  2553.  @contra009  excellent! Well, not really excellent, but good link - thank you for that!
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  2554.  @88porpoise  30k psi pretty much craps all over the 'in theory' statement.
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  2555.  @88porpoise  Enfield receiver normal use pressure limits.
    2
  2556.  @andyd2960  funny thing is, a long slide is heavier; you'd think that would slow things down. Maybe install a lighter spring, see what that does.
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  2557. I wanna see the .600 Nitro pistol vs. a running engine.
    2
  2558. That's a mighty shaggy dog ya got there.
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  2559. Oooh! More history!
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  2560.  @WALTERBROADDUS  and more explosions. "Soul Train," as envisioned by Michael Bay.
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  2561.  @Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский  clipping a power line does not cause an engine fire. Which was clearly visible on the video. Try again, only do better this time.
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  2562.  @kylewilson3751  Correction to your correction; whilst technically accurate by the narrowest of hair-splitting measurements, you're actually socially wrong. The members of Congress in the Senate, being in the senior chamber, are traditionally and by common etiquette, called "Senators," whilst the members of the lower chamber are indeed correctly called "Congressmen" (or -women).
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  2563. Funky! I love it.
    2
  2564.  hawkturkey  that's just a question of reduction. Boil it down some, you'll get there...
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  2565. With a full-length carbine, I could see a magazine arrangement similar to the tube magazines, wherein you pull out a spring-loaded follower, dump an entire box of ammunition in, and re-insert the follower to tension the magazine.
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  2566.  @asterias6436  France is indeed our brother. We've helped each other, stood by each other, for centuries. Yeah, we argue, too, but that's common in every family.
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  2567.  @CCW1911  heh. Good point.
    2
  2568. 'Supreme excellence in engineering is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'
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  2569.  @connorkenway09  I expect they'll use the exact same level of competence as they use now. But they will try.
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  2570.  @glennevitt5250  understand this: those smart people? They're playing no one's game but their own. They're not ganging up to create any trends - they're seeing the trends, and taking advantage for their own benefit, and screw everyone else. They're much too busy making bank off of the general chaos to bother with things like conspiracies, especially since chaos makes long plans not only pointless, but actually stupid. Smart folks snipe the opportunities that idiots create.
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  2571. Nice flex, going deep-history on the Tamales, and making your own masa.
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  2572. Also: now I have a new way to handle leftover turkey.
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  2573. You just described my favorite way... Though I've been known to drop some diced onion in with the bacon, too.
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  2574.  @rebel4466  and it's a great way to use-up the off-cuts and scraps.
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  2575. Not exactly news... Russia wanted get rid of Zelensky almost from his election - once he demonstrated that he had a spine. Edit: I'll note that during the reign of the USSR, Ukraine was accorded the national title of "Ukraine SSR," one of the theoretically co-equal Republics that made up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In short, Comrade Putin has forgotten his own history.
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  2576. Barney the Dinosaur is a war crime.
    2
  2577. Every Shiloh I've ever known has a black spot somewhere on their tongue. It's genetic, and harmless.
    2
  2578. Bless you, for being willing to share your mistakes for the edification of others.
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  2579. Hah. Didn't make me raise my hand. Mostly because I don't play FPS games. 😛 #akgnotificationsquad
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  2580. So, do you get good internet under that rock you've been living under?
    2
  2581. Factory loads, they look like. Factory loads can have QC failures, though it's incredibly rare.
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  2582. Heh. Scary line. I like it.
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  2583. "Decently well..." Top five.
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  2584. The Russian commenter is living in a bubble... Russia has been doing exactly this for more than fifty years.
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  2585.  @nunyabeeswax2575  archaeologist? Soils scientist? Entomologist?
    2
  2586. :D
    2
  2587. Two high-cost missiles at a pizzeria filled with well-known media figures. I believe this was a targeted assassination.
    2
  2588. This is where I use a cloth cone muzzle. It literally closes the mouth, and while it is much scarier to the dog, but is safer for everyone. The soft cloth is non-hurtful, but completely eliminates the dog's ability to bite - which is what makes it scary, because it removes the dog's only perceived ability to defend itself.
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  2589. Seems this rifle was absolutely ripe for percussion cap conversion. Almost as if Hall was expecting something like percussion caps to come along.
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  2590. The world's largest superball. I want one.
    2
  2591. "Eat your heart out, Scott." I see you, too, are a man of culture, and hate eggplant.
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  2592. What's another word for flying soldiers? "Skeet."
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  2593. A few intrepid Japanese submariners took a few random pot-shots at the US mainland, but they did extremely little harm. Panic amongst the general population did far more harm. See: "The Battle of Los Angeles." A video on the Battle of Los Angeles would be excellent.
    2
  2594. The sinking of the Blucher is a very apt comparison.
    2
  2595. Third
    2
  2596. Non! A cutlass is a fairly heavy, short blade, with a distinct curve, and a single cutting edge, for issuing to relatively unskilled fighters. That's much more like a rapier.
    2
  2597.  @ForgottenWeapons  🤣😂
    2
  2598.  @RogerRocks  ah, but that's too expensive, too! /sarcasm
    2
  2599. There used to be an aerostat stationed near Baltimore. You could literally see it from Delaware. When the useless thing broke tether and dragged across the countryside, its absence was rather notable. The Viagra bit is utterly off the mark. Sexual and reproductive health are entirely legitimate spends. Mocking legitimate healthcare is... Pretty shitty, frankly.
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  2600. In the Nav, we called it "Going Hot, Dark, and Quiet," and that's the opening line to many hair-raising sea stories.
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  2601. With no developmental road map, you have to expect to explore quite a few blind alleys.
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  2602. Yep. Highly cromulent alternative for 'Embiggened.'
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  2603. How many times are you going to rack that pistol..? 😛
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  2604. Nice set. Like it a lot; but a rug isn't the best idea where you're going to be pouring beverages. An impermeable soft mat may be of use. Also, wall hangings (out of camera) should help. C'mon, you know you want tapestries...
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  2605.  @99somerville  likely true. Many mid- and senior-rank officers were products of a strict and formal education. Didn't stop many from being utterly evil bastards, but yeah, "lawful evil."
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  2606.  @RevShifty  I found mine at a hispanic-oriented farmer's market. Really, I suspect you could make your own with a little experimenting. Mind you, it's quite bitter and spicy, but if you like black coffee (which I very much do!), you'll find this very welcome.
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  2607.  @williamarnold9744  it's a local product; I got it at a farmer's market. There's a large Hispanic migrant labor population here, and a lot of really good food shows up at the markets.
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  2608. S-3! (and variants) Used to call them the 'Hoover,' the 'Vacuum,' and even the 'Whistling Shitcan,' on account of the extremely distinctive sound they made with their high-bypass turbofans. I spent a good chunk of my life at SUBASE San Diego on Point Loma, right across the channel from NAS North Island, and those things were always buzzing in and out.
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  2609. He's already addressed the cost of homeless people...
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  2610.  @ForgottenWeapons  damn, now I'm hungry.
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  2611. Muzzle brake vibration.
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  2612. Two movie references... Ian watches Monty Python. I was only vaguely aware of this rifle. Cool info.
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  2613.  @alanhoff89  actually not true. SAMs carry enough warhead to initiate fires or detonate other weapons, either of which can be fatal. Soviet SAMs notoriously carried very heavy warheads. Hell, the US Navy's "Standard" Missile, most commonly used as a SAM, has explicit anti-shipping capabilities.
    2
  2614.  @ethanwood6832  Denys Davidov has some video of the water crossing in his latest update.
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  2615. @Chris Kortjohn that would have been for oil lamps, which you really do not want uncontrolled on a warship. Such lamps have also been the source of devastating fires, too. Just not in this case.
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  2616. YEET!
    2
  2617. Dangerous people remain dangerous; their physical capabilities may fade, but the mindset behind the ability remains, and should always be respected.
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  2618.  @4rdF1Hunny  could be, the timing is incredibly tight. Toss a coin.
    2
  2619. Embiggening. We do it best.
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  2620.  @ScottKenny1978  Oregon is larger than the entire UK.
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  2621.  @WellBattle6  hmmm. Yes. But... There is the mass of the body of the rifle directly above it. Reminiscent of 'thumbhole' stocks, which I have handled, and found to be quite awkward.
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  2622. Julia Childs had led a very active life by that point, including some time as a spy in WWII. She had nothing to prove to anyone, so felt free to say as she wanted
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  2623. I would love to own that, or a pistol like it. I have a Flobert 6mm parlor pistol, of a very similar profile, and I love that thing. Time to go talk to my local gunsmith...
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  2624. Damn, that is a sweet, and really useful, rig!
    2
  2625. Tlahuelilpan
    2
  2626.  @RonJohn63  only if he was planning on talking about "Number One Son" a lot. That's not the end-all, be-all of the genre.
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  2627.  @aleksazunjic9672  even Kings have limits on how fast they can move. He was presented with a fait accompli.
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  2628. Looks like a tiny little thing. Not quite as small as it first looks. Rather a good looking pocket gun.
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  2629. Yes, I know there are smaller weapons.
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  2630. I clicked in so fast there were no 'likes' and the only comments were the two pinned ones by Scott.
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  2631.  @BiggHogg870  that was the UK ignoring their own doctrine; noting special - BBs were always the kryptonite for Battle Cruisers.
    2
  2632. I've recruited for the US Navy in Florida and Georgia. ZERO surprises there. My wife is from the heart of the Rust Belt in Central Illinois; Again, no surprise.
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  2633. He's gone through a number of mics. The one he's using now is super sensitive; you can clearly hear trigger resets.
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  2634.  @xpusostomos  you have heard of cruise missiles, yes? Russia retains some real monsters in inventory.
    2
  2635.  @heatherinparis  good to know, and curse them for getting the jump!
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  2636. Established Titles is extremely smart. They get rich. Their customers? Probably not as much, some of them. #akgnotificationsquad
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  2637. The dunk tank vehicle pretty much puts 'paid' to the 'no EVs involved' claim; It's clearly badly damaged, and it's an EV.
    2
  2638.  @SepticFuddy  possibly. On the other hand, the blog post about her previous movie specifically states that she got her father to "train her up." So, I think my point stands.
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  2639.  @HipsterKhan  daughter, not grand daughter.
    2
  2640.  @conorstewart2214  that is a distinct possibility. I've had a squib malfunction. I lost the weapon, but because I followed the basic rules, that was all I lost that day.
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  2641. Fascinating. Thank you for this!
    2
  2642. Pretty crude. Inventive, but a bit of a bodge.
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  2643.  @alun7006  ah yes. The rest of the members of the shooting "party."
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  2644. Huh. Not a lot of production, but also not a lot of overhead, either. Maybe $1500, $2000 per month income, mostly passive. Better than a poke in the eye.
    2
  2645. Leaf springs are essentially flat... Erm, flat-ish, anyway.
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  2646. In ALL the places.
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  2647. Sheep on stilts.
    1
  2648. You fight how you train. For years, Moscow has prioritized glitter over substance. Add to that the utterly corrupt nature of Russian society, and, well... This is the result.
    1
  2649. Damage? All of it.
    1
  2650. DPICM is not particularly useful against trenches. Against troops and vehicles in the open, on the other hand, DPICM is a magic wand. Russian artillery, especially, is about to be severely screwed. Likewise, supply convoys are completely fucked.
    1
  2651. Slow cooker meal, for certain. This is going into my meal rotation straight away.
    1
  2652. Safety relief. If rocket go BOOM, weakest link is on the end away from Integza Really, it's pretty brilliant.
    1
  2653. Yeah, that firing pin system will make even hard primers sit up and pay attention.
    1
  2654.  @kyle857  having been inside the beast, as well as closely connected to major players in the R&D world (ARPA, DARPA, BRL, HEL, and others) yeah, it really does apply. The military is less xenophobic than it used to be, but there did, and does, exist a strong element of xenophobia where it comes to equipment. I know (knew) some of the players involved in the M9 Beretta search, the ACR project, the advanced warrior project, the Abrams M1 development (original mark), the ECWCS clothing, and the Bradley IFV concepts. Along with others. I used to cut the grass of the guy who created the Kevlar pot helmet, a close friend and subordinate of my father. I even have hunks of armor samples from those projects as paperweights on my desk. Hell, I wear some of the old ECWCS prototype gear when it gets cold enough... Yes, it's that durable that it is still useful all these years later. Yes, a LOT of foreign tech is involved in these. In EVERY case it was an uphill battle. Not only did the foreign gear have to prove capable, it had to prove that it was clearly superior to gear that might be domestically created in the reasonable future. Even then, xenophobic reactions were common. I can still hear a certain general officer profanely asserting that no one was going to arm HIS soldiers with "Gay Elves;" that being the approximate American pronunciation of the German pronunciation of G11, in reference to the G11 participation in the ACR project. Yeah, it looks cosmopolitan on the surface. The surface hides a LOT of bigotry and xenophobia. It gets better all the time, but it's built on a DEEP history, and in WWII, it was very much present.
    1
  2655. That hard tack clip just keeps on giving...
    1
  2656. Yeah, he's flexing. But at least he's letting us see what he's up to.
    1
  2657. Congratulations, you're popular!
    1
  2658. Finally, the dream comes true!
    1
  2659. That laugh... Joy exemplified.
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  2660. But will it fit into a Modelo 58B?
    1
  2661. The Khinzals' extra features mean absolutely nothing if the US is able to put an interceptor directly in their path - which capability has been absolutely proven. So brag all you want about the whistles, buzzers, bells, and shiny objects - they mean nothing.
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  2662. Excellent rifle; interesting design choices - not what most nations would choose, but... France.
    1
  2663. Cuban paratrooper = only downvote
    1
  2664.  @Jazzinthedark84  it can happen. When my daughter visited, they had five days of sun over the course of a week. She even has photos to prove it.
    1
  2665. Shit. Goddamn, that is a thing of beauty! Too bad I live in a barbaric anti-civil rights state. 😑
    1
  2666.  @BeardedFrog  they built 'em tough.
    1
  2667. The AK-50 lives! #akgnotificationsquad
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  2668. YT is run by inconsiderate jerks who can't even follow their own playbook.
    1
  2669.  @skoshman1  eh. "Friendly" fire is a universal fact, it's just that America has more fire than pretty much everyone else. No one is immune to 'Blue-on-Blue.'
    1
  2670.  @douglasherron7534  "What about"..? You didn't read what I wrote, and instead inserted your own agenda. Not going to engage with a dishonest debater. You're done.
    1
  2671. Garden gun?
    1
  2672. What might have been...
    1
  2673.  @nicholashodges201  seems culturally inherited.
    1
  2674.  @nicholashodges201  remember the time and place. They're using an entirely alien symbology set. Even to the educated, "Mauser" and "Wauser" are just meaningless squiggles. If they'd been using ideograms, you can be sure they'd have given more care.
    1
  2675. Because Russia isn't stupid enough to get in a shooting war with the US. Putin is pants-crapping terrified of NATO, and NATO has the famous Article 5: Attack one of us, attack ALL of us.
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  2676.  @ayanjee  Doesn't matter how or where they got them, the Ukrainians are killing the hell out of Russian fascists with those weapons.
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  2677. Ian can only host 1/3 of the 'stache, though. Not enough facial real estate.
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  2678. Tara *Im*perfection
    1
  2679. Clearly,the Russian soldiers didn't want to carry all those mines with them....
    1
  2680. I love secondaries. Big, bold, bouncy secondaries...
    1
  2681. Pretty typical for a FW vid, I believe.
    1
  2682. Amazing reflexes. I didn't hear any threat warning, so he either saw it coming, or has absolute gunslinger reflexes.
    1
  2683. Shoulda used a Hi-Point as the target gun. Less of a loss.
    1
  2684. He does them every now and again.
    1
  2685. So, a museum piece, or a gate guard, dragged out to serve as a decoy, then? Edit: Ha! Spoke before the video got there.
    1
  2686. So... Basically a waxer.
    1
  2687. .204 Ruger, firing the 24 grain Hornady Super Performance from a reference barrel hits 4400 fps.
    1
  2688.  @adamcichon6957  hell, I was entertained. 🙂
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  2689. Epic thumbnail!
    1
  2690. Screw bladesmithing; this is where blacksmiths really improve the world. Beautiful, intricate, and and fascinating.
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  2691. The AMD-65 might be a trash blaster, but there's a definite 'Punk' look to it - dystopian apocalypse, or WH40K, it screams "MOAR DAKKA!"
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  2692. As I read the Russian Constitution, there IS NO "legal" way for succeeding Putin. Any talk of such a transfer, it's baloney.
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  2693.  @dragondude9637  more corruption; debauchery can be sustainable, presuming that everything else works. But it wasn't just corruption; the Roman empire suffered from being too large. Communication with the far rim of the empire was slow, so command and, control, and - important! - regulation suffered. The second part of that is that the mere existence of Rome forced otherwise pastoral tribes to organize and develop - including taking on elements of Rome that they found could fit; poor communications meant that when the tribes rolled over the border, response was too slow. Corruption meant that when response did happen, it was weak, poorly led, and ill-supplied. Still, the Eastern Roman Empire - Byzantine Empire; the still-existing rump of the original Roman Empire, the Roman empire had lasted over two millennia, in one form or another. Not too shabby.
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  2694. Amusing note: automatically generated captions interprete the sound of rushing air from a cartwheeling tank as "music." Sick.
    1
  2695. I was serving when this happened. The NIS and the Nav were (and still are) notorious for inventing lies to cover the asses of the hierarchy. The NIS is now called Naval Criminal Investigative Service - But the only thing "Criminal" about NCIS (NIS) is their criminal incompetence. I've dealt with them in action, and they were cartoonishly incompetent.
    1
  2696. Fast overview; nicely toasted. Moar, pls.
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  2697. They work.
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  2698. This is fascinating. You present your case very clearly, and with a good balance of focus on pros v. con, and I agree with your general conclusion. Robotics would be in applications like Boston Dynamics' "Big Dog" quadruped pack bots, or as a power unit for man-augmentation frames for use in loading, weight handling, and construction. Similar to UAVs, power density is key here, and frequent rebuilds are much less of an issue.
    1
  2699. Through-and-through wound, striking and grievously wounding the man behind her? What the fuck kind of hot load was in that "cold" gun..?!
    1
  2700. Movie company could have easily paid for a "Simunitions" weapon, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
    1
  2701. Folville is demonstration of the historical truth that justice isn't blind - it sees money extremely well.
    1
  2702.  @TastingHistory  no, no they do not. Endemic to the human condition, I fear.
    1
  2703. From detection to strike, is maybe a minute. Probably less. No time, realistically, to react.
    1
  2704. That SafeLife body armor advert I just got fed? Fun stuff! Also: Holy God, that .460 revolver was throwing fireballs! 😲
    1
  2705.  @johnnemeth6913  yes, quite aware of that. But you can run digital over AM radio just fine, and then you don't get stepped on.
    1
  2706.  @johnnemeth6913  yep.
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  2707. When I was in the Nav, often we'd compare some food as being 'like shoe leather,' some had it even worse than we. 🤔
    1
  2708. Food you prepare with a mallet? Yeah, iron rations indeed.
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  2709. Hi!
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  2710. Most phones have a failure lockout after six or so attempts during a specific period of time - Usually within five minutes. Once the limit is exceeded, the phone locks for five minutes. My current phone increases the lockout period after every failed sequence, rapidly extending to hours. That's the common flood control for phones. I imagine the police have a code that allows them to bypass the flood control.
    1
  2711. "Angry Pipe."
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  2712. Well, non-newtonian fluids can absorb a tremendous quantity of energy per unit volume, and are 'self healing,' but they are HEAVY.
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  2713. Time for you to collaborate with Colin Furze - he's got that jet bike thing down cold. On the other hand, his jets are kinda lacking in moving internal parts, so you've got something to share.
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  2714. Do recall the flop-and-twitch in the US over food dyes (Red 40, Yellows 5 & 6), and the ingredient Benzedine. It's not just the Victorians.
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  2715. Huh. Not the response I expected. Off to the kitchen!
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  2716. So... It's a tail-chasing explosion. Very cool. Well, hot, but you get my point.
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  2717. "...PLUS... higher quality rifle." Dude. That's a HiPoint.
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  2718. Yes! One of my favorite subjects. My family and I are well-read on Whisky/ey. Indeed, my mother and I host tastings, including charity auction tastings as fund raisers for our church. Aberlour is one of my favored distilleries, most especially their A'Bunadh offering. Truth be told, I prefer Kilchoman's Machir Bay over any other, but I would NEVER say 'No' to Aberlour.
    1
  2719. Machir Bay is like drinking a peat fire on the beach. You're virtually picking peat embers from your teeth. Not for everyone, of course. World whiskeys can be very... Surprising. There is, for instance, a French (yes, French ) whiskey that made my mother and I burst out in frank laughter - delighted by a whiskey that tastes like a candy store.
    1
  2720. That Russian barracks is worse than the tightest warship berthing space. And by that, I mean Pre-WWII warship berthing. Disease central!
    1
  2721.  @BatCaveOz  if you'd ever done UNREP it wouldn't seem weird at all; it's a dangerous and difficult evolution, that Sailors do, somewhere, pretty much every day. Blue water Sailors take pride in their skills, and get to do the hard jobs; being one of them is a badge of honor.
    1
  2722. Every time I think Putin can't get any lower, they break out the heavy equipment and dig even deeper. SMH
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  2723. Appreciate the detailed pre-brief; gave me good context.
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  2724. Good form. Zero flinch or anticipation on the 'click of death.'
    1
  2725.  @ADUSN  ok. Still, in terms of logistics, you were also correct.
    1
  2726.  @ThePinkerton1776  yep. No exceptions to The Rule.
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  2727. Been waiting for this for a long time. Incredible reproduction; a tremendous amount of effort in getting it right.
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  2728. If serious about shooting helicopters, should be 14.5x114mm. But damn, that would be rough firing! Also, despite the beefy muzzle brake, pretty sure the muzzle blast alone would have done for the White Claw and Pepsi containers.
    1
  2729. Ok, that was completely legit.
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  2730. You know what you call a flying soldiers? Skeet.
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  2731. "thou shalt not stint grace." i.e. when God offers you leniency, you take it.
    1
  2732. Forces literally fixed in place - the first unit to crack will have the honor of opening the door for the UAF.
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  2733. Russia is feeding its future into the fire. This bright young man, an artist full of energy, is now fertilizer. What a waste of potential... What might he have achieved, if not for Putin's ego? No one will ever know. 350000 dead or severely wounded young Russian men transform this single tragedy to a horror of staggering proportions. All for one old man's ego.
    1
  2734. Very sexy rifle/ammunition combination. Is there a ready source of brass / bullets for reloading?
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  2735. Is anyone making a bolt action rifle in 8.6 Blackout? Seems there's a hunting and tactical niche for a rifle with no action noise.
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  2736.  @ForgottenWeapons  thank you! I think this cartridge has very interesting potential.
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  2737. A Russian Official speaks, a jackass brays - Who will know the difference?
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  2738. I well remember the bloviation by various 'analysts,' reporters, and talking heads about years and years of effort to stop the fires, some even pushing close to a decade. There was gleeful panic in the air - "News" organizations LOVE a good disaster. Then the Texans showed up. :: SNUFF ::
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  2739. I learned new things. Cool! #akgnotificationsquad
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  2740. Deep backup, perhaps.
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  2741. Dark. Hilarious.
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  2742. In many cases, a catastrophic mission-kill on a surface vessel is more useful; damaged but non-sinking vessels use up rescue and salvage resources, and jam up repair facilities. What I really want to see is massive queues of busted Russian ships moored - uselessly - outside shipyards.
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  2743.  @shoeby9273  not so much; my father worked on the problems with the Hun. By the time the D model came along, the Sabre Dance was essentially history. And yes, he lost some friends to it before it was resolved. The 104 never did shed its killing ways, and killed a much higher percentage of its pilots.
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  2744. Golden Shellback here. Also Golden Dragon (separate deployment), and Blue Nose. Nothing too out of control in any of these ceremonies. Memorable, yes, but completely tolerable. My Third Class Crowe was 'tacked on,' as were my Dolphins.
    1
  2745. Shoreline, Waterline, Flagpole Keys, Mail Bouy, and other run-arounds were common in the Nav.
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  2746. The conical fracture pattern is exactly what I expected.
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  2747. Glory to the heroes! Slava Ukraini!
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  2748. If Russia blows the damn, they will have completely fucked Crimea; signalling that Crimea is lost.
    1
  2749. Kyle has largely become irrelevant to the shooting community, but it's nice to see some respect to one of the pioneers.
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  2750.  @justforever96  having owned and operated both rifles, I absolutely disagree.
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  2751. Good God. What a trainwreck. Someone has some very serious questions to answer. #akgnotificationsquad (Edit: Brandon Herrera, Curse Breaker)
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  2752.  @fresatx  Baloney. You're either a Russian troll, or have swallowed their BS whole. 1) Ukraine NEVER aimed at Moscow, never tried for Moscow, and was VERY public about that. So that claim was a lie. 2) Perun has ALWAYS done dispassionate socio-economic analysis on Putin's War, and while he may strongly favor UA, he's never been irrational about it. So that's lie #2. I'm calling you a 'more-subtle-than-most' troll - Well played.
    1
  2753. Dylan is hilarious; collab!
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  2754. How do you stop Mark Rober? You don't.
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  2755. Make you schizo..?
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  2756. Eggplant! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Huraugh!
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  2757. ​ @danielsan7436 it's also VASTLY smaller than a real whaling harpoon.
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  2758. A brilliant display of chutzpah and daring.
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  2759. Clearing a 'bricked up' pipe is insanely difficult. Sure, you can steam the line, but that's highly dependent on weather conditions and length of the line(s). Another thing to consider is that as the lines go idle, and temperatures decline, oil will contract, creating pockets where water will condense, and corrosion will increase markedly.
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  2760. Brilliant adaptation of an excellent (for its time) rifle. Not militarily useful, but for a hunter? Absolutely useful.
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  2761. Naaah, he's better than that.. Ian's threesome of gorgeous guns would never break up and leave him.
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  2762. Cold open: High levels of WTF. Thank you!
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  2763. Yeah, a bit creepy and sobering.
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  2764. Once again, stupidity and greed is its own punishment.
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  2765. This cross-integration presents a very scary prospect for Russia. One of the barriers of Eastward expansion of NATO lies in integration of weapons platforms and systems. Now, not only can Ukraine rearm with Western weapons, but the path forward to full integration with Western systems has been unlocked.
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  2766. Heat control is the entire exercise. Basting is important, true, but without heat control, you're wasting your time. I HIGHLY recommend electronic thermometer probes; They don't need to be expensive.
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  2767.  @TheBuhrewnoShow  Too bad you're a tool of Putin. Or maybe just a tool, period.
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  2768. No school like old man school. And grampa is going to take you to school.
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  2769.  @dreyone6156  nice try Vladimir.
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  2770. Now THAT was a fun montage. Epic 'caper' theme.
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  2771. Shout to Col. Cooper!
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  2772. That's not legal advice, that's business advice...
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  2773. Aerator nozzle.
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  2774. YouTube is a defacto agent of the Russian Federation. There is supposed to be a requirement for agents of foreign powers to register with the State Department. Failure to so register is a crime.
    1
  2775. When Rube Goldberg designs something that works...
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  2776. This is my stuff! Yay! I love my electric motors, pumps, and impellers. (and tomatoes are terrible)
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  2777. My favorite fireball-thrower. 🙂
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  2778. The orcs were only going to steal them anyway. They've been stone-cold busted making off with entire fleets of agri-equipment. John Deere remotely disabled millions and millions of dollars worth of stolen equipment that had been looted in Ukraine and relocated to the nation of Georgia via remote software update.
    1
  2779. Putin is taking yet another page out of the Third Reich playbook; Putin is replaying the Lebensborn program. This is additional proof that Putin is a fascist.
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  2780. "Plumber's Delight."
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  2781.  @josephstabile9154  this, exactly.
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  2782. Insta-click because AK-50.
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  2783. Who sez Americans don't use electric kettles? I have one at each level of the house. My daughter has one. My sister has one. Yes, they rock.
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  2784. SKS is not terribly pretty, but AKs are fugly.
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  2785. It's all about what you know - the unknown is scary.
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  2786. Medieval on Christmas? Where's the bowl of wassail?
    1
  2787. "Direct Pressure" is a basic technique taught in every first aid class.
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  2788.  @seanslawson98  the Fukushima tsunami was at least order of magnitude greater - that is kinduva important consideration. Rather like comparing a sapling to a redwood.
    1
  2789. When advertising hyperbole strikes France...
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  2790. I have weapons envy now.
    1
  2791. God, those are terrifying words. I can't imagine what the passengers were feeling.
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  2792.  @ROOSTER333  when presented with the gift of a perfectly functional weapon that exact fits your needs, you'd be stupid to not copy it. China, therefore, is clearly not stupid. Maybe Germany should have been more like China.
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  2793.  @dawsontomar7558  honest analysis is puppetry? The level of copium in that comment is astonishing. You are to be pitied.
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  2794.  @ROOSTER333  which demonstrates that you known absolutely nothing about engineering development. Go away, child. I think I hear your mamma calling you.
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  2795.  @ROOSTER333  yep. A child. Bugger off, smartly now.
    1
  2796.  @TonyM540  😂
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  2797.  @darthwiizius  😂 We watch the same channels. 😁
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  2798. THIS is the behavior I recall from my youth. Of course, it might be a cleanliness issue, meaning we may still have been idiots.
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  2799. Congratulations. Your childhood has been cancelled.
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  2800. Of course Putin broke the deal. He's Putin, and if his mouth is moving, he's lying.
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  2801. Har har har.
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  2802. Taxation is part of the social contract - the mutual agreement that there are some things that government does better than individuals or corporations. Things like national defence, building roads, locking up criminals, etc. The problem comes when government starts doing things that it ought NOT be doing - especially when the citizenry disagree. Sorry, I put nuance into a simplistic kneejerk reaction situation. #akgnotificationsquad
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  2803. He's been to many, and posted videos from some.
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  2804. That was one ANGRY officer. The men in black masks are in for a VERY bad time if they come back.
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  2805. I recall Phillips Petroleum being a bit of a big deal when I was young.
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  2806.  @thomas316  it was in the retail context that I recall them.
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  2807. Always good to have a backup plan. I daresay the M.20 would have done yeoman work, had it been pressed into service.
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  2808. Tom Selleck called; he wants his 'stache back.
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  2809. Zip .22 is INSANELY bad. Check Ian's video on the subject. I've handled one, and Oh. My. God. it sucked.
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  2810.  @GermanTopGameTV , no, if it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid, and you got lucky.
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  2811. The larger missiles look suspiciously like AGM-88 HARM missiles.
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  2812.  @Kevin-sg5xc  I understand that it's a very recent integration. So excellent to see them in use; I also understand that Russian S-300 batteries have been taking a pounding from the HARM missiles, to the point where they've actually reclaimed a system they had 'gifted' to Syria.
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  2813. That is one sexy pile of parts!
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  2814. Putin still cannot admit the "We've got nukes!" line is no longer a useful tactic. It's sad, really... It's like a star secondary school athlete still clinging his teenage glory into his fiftieth year.
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  2815. Reed Knight comes up with some nifty stuff.
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  2816. Great cold open!
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  2817.  @Ryan_D1994  cite?
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  2818.  @whatdidyoudointhegwardaddy68  and it was back-burnered until 150-odd days after the Amerika Bomber plans were forwarded for selection. There were no useful blueprints until early '44, and no aircraft until after Germany had been knocked out of the war.
    1
  2819.  @whatdidyoudointhegwardaddy68  no, you misunderstood me. If Germany was going to steal the B-36 design, they'd have to be time traveling, because the B-36 and the Amerika Bomber were temporarily out-of-sync by two years - this, despite the B-36 concept having been requested a year sooner.
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  2820.  @binaway  certainly. And what did the Germans get? Pictures of a really big bomber that they couldn't touch, examine, or even get to see in the air. There was nothing useful in any way, shape or form to them; just grainy photos of a really big bomber of entirely conventional layout. Hell, without context images, you couldn't even tell exactly how big it was. My point stands.
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  2821. Jake, I love your reporting Bro, but you need to stop talkin about radiological consequences. You have zero idea what you're talking about there.
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  2822. Would love to see what happens with a Buffalo Bore hard-cast lead solid in .44 magnum. That, or an FMJ.
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  2823. It's a pain.
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  2824. Sealed cylindrical roller bearings are absolutely a thing. Bit surprised you didn't acknowledge this.
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  2825. I recall this from when it happened. I remember the horror I felt when I realized it was a rolling, continually-developing disaster, with victims trapped in the accumulating wreckage. When I was a very young child - one of my first coherent memories - my family was caught in the middle of a massive 40+ vehicle wreck on the interstate in Los Angeles. Whilst my family escaped relatively unscathed, there were others who did not. It wasn't until some years later that I had been looking at blood pools and corpses on gurneys. Hence, my horror.
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  2826.  @Vivljo  in eastern and southern europe. Which is why I said "most." Because where they were was... Right up next to central asia.
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  2827.  @Vivljo  rough parity in density, but much smaller geographically.
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  2828. The return of Garum!
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  2829. Nog!
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  2830. Brave, brave Sir Robin bravely ran away... Russia better beware... DC Comics take their Intellectual Property very seriously. Putin should fear the corporate lawyers; they'll seize his dachas, at a minimum.
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  2831. If you should make it to the US, the Philadelphia area has many first-rank universities. Even better, you could try the University of Delaware. 😉
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  2832.  @TK421-53  also 7:14
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  2833. Witness Putin's response to the Grain Agreement: Cruise missiles into the grain supply in Odessa. Russia. CAN. NOT. Be. Trusted.
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  2834.  @roubartnekola5896  mama Bear ain't protecting shit. She's stealing from her neighbors and beating them up because she's a big, fat, lazy, stupid, bullying, useless coward.
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  2835.  @theconchonetwork498  ah, another Putin troll. Those 14000, over eight years? Not massacred. They Died in Combat against the legitimate government. So, now that you've broken cover, and exposed yourself as a Putin Propagandist, and a liar, what you do now? You'll probably have to abandon your account, and you're not going to get any borscht tonight.
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  2836. Dumb projectiles, without stabilization, swaying in downwash, with 'by eyeball' guidance. Could this have been done less intelligently? Incredibly lucky to get any hits on target.
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  2837. Proto-Martha Stewart.
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  2838. The product of a Khyber Pass apprentice.
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  2839. Just for the record; test fire of the Davy Crockett launcher: https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs
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  2840.  @Seth9809  child model 12ga are harder to find, and are, honestly, over-powered for home defense. As in: too much lead moving downrange. 20ga is the sweet spot for do the job without OVER doing the job. Honestly, .410 would work, if you're well enough trained, but 20 gives you enough punch that if your shot placement isn't 'just so,' it'll still have the desired effect. The small size is an asset, not a detriment, in moving in small spaces like hallways - this is not urban combat. This is home defense. So, no. I reject your assessment.
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  2841.  @boobe92  literally.
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  2842. I ate a LOT of Filipino adobo when I was in the Nav. Many grew to loathe it, but for me it became comfort food.
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  2843. Pork adobo, especially. By the way, if you want to explore Chinese, Indian, and Persian influence on Filipino cooking, there's a LOT more history to explore! (Pancit!)
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  2844. Agree, it can be repaired - and likely too fast for comfort - but it is a huge psychological blow, especially with all the Russian tourists in Crimea. Try to hide this from the public, Putin! Logistically, it puts Russia on the back foot. In Crimea, and Kherson, Russian quartermasters will be 'robbing Peter to pay Paul,' and that logistics shortfall will take months to correct, after the bridge is repaired. This is a significantly disruptive event, but not a definitive one. More important is the psychological effect, and the diversion of resources necessary to repair and increase defences on the bridge, plus the logistics bottleneck created by having to careful inspect every truck crossing the causeway.
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  2845. Drive Tanks is on very good terms with the BATFE; they've done their homework. Demonitized might still happen.
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  2846. When I was in the Persian Gulf, chocolate chip cookies were still highly prized in care packages.
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  2847.  @bobroberts2371  right. Nothing to see here.
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  2848. No, no family resemblance there..
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  2849. I hear "fire control," I think missile launch and guidance systems.
    1
  2850. AIM-120D has a 160km range. That is NOT short range.
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  2851.  @MrCristianposso  more than long enough to invalidate the claim made, though.
    1
  2852. The UN is a debating society, full of high-school levels of cliques and drama.
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  2853. Now this was just delicious. Thank you!
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  2854.  @daleyoung87  You are a living example of Dunning–Kruger effect.
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  2855. Gold SA80, anyone?
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  2856.  @thomasbecker9676  any community of sufficient size will have idiots. I'm willing to bet you that plenty of Musk's fanbois are experienced practicing engineers. I know a couple, to be sure. Doesn't make them the norm, though.
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  2857.  @AsbestosMuffins  based on my experience, I'd agree.
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  2858.  @vaderdudenator1  that's for low-capacity hand cannons. I like high-capacity hot loads.
    1
  2859. Frozen nacho cheese is chunky...
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  2860. He didn't want to deal with Konami's lawyers.
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  2861. I would like to see you do a multi-stage axial-flow turbine.
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  2862. Wow. That's a chonky boi.
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  2863. I'm amused - a gun that can tell you to clean it.
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  2864.  @merindymorgenson3184  yeah, you keep wriggling on that hook, but that doesn't change the fact that impious prayer is extraordinarily common, and is nothing less than attempting magic. Which was my point in the first place. Which you have admitted. Enough, already.
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  2865.  @mikeorgan1993  Those birth rates are a horror show. This REALLY underlines my assertion that Russia is feeding its future into the flames.
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  2866. Cute little handful of a revolver. Ian, can you comment on the development of the fully opening crane arm/star ejecting revolver cylinder, compared to the system used here?
    1
  2867. SOS is similar in nature to sausage gravy; image my shock (none) that you suggest that sausage might be a better choice. 😛
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  2868. China likes this; by forcing barter, they can set a highly favorable exchange rate.
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  2869. The problem isn't the responsible person. The problem is all the irresponsible people out there.
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  2870.  @charmingmander331  ignoring that fact won't help; this is the world that is, not the world we want.
    1
  2871. How long before a Colonial Marines Pulse Rifle?
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  2872. If the First Sergeant is that happy, it's already too late for you - he's got a MASSIVE bone job that needs doing, and he's already chosen you to take it.
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  2873. Yeah, I knew of these. I DIDN'T know that they were actually effective - in limited circumstances.
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  2874. It wasn't an explosion. It was a special birthday fireworks display.
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  2875. Secondaries. I love them.
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  2876.  @nicholasmaugeri759  m/39. Think it's a SAKO, I'd have to check.
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  2877. At night, the HIMARS come out to play... And the Orcs run away. Decades from now, Russian children will be scared into behaving, for fear that HIMARS will come get them in the night.
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  2878. 😂
    1
  2879. When the woodchucks get too annoying...
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  2880. "Not horrible." Faint praise.
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  2881.  @AxLWake  fair point. :-P And don't think we're not suitably jealous. ;-)
    1
  2882. So why the footage of TBF Avengers?
    1
  2883. Gods... I felt my waistline expand just watching the cold open...
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  2884. The "Pudding Dispenser" effect is fun, too.
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  2885. You'll shoot... Your balls off?
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  2886.  @marresjepie1887  Robot Jox, one of the very few SF movies to get explosions in space right. Now I've given away both my age, and my geekiness. 😛
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  2887. Classy move. 👍
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  2888.  @Slavicplayer251  not quite. It would ricochet at a complimentary angle to the angle of impact. Ignoring, of course, real-world effects of spalling and bullet deformation.
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  2889.  @MrMeow-iq7kq  no, at that range, with the limited dispersion of that particular weapon on that particular target? Entirely do-able, which, if you'd actually watched the video, you'd see he accomplished. Shut up, go away, and be ashamed.
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  2890.  @MrMeow-iq7kq  so, you're saying that you didn't watch the video. Go home, child.
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  2891. The nature of the improved Ukrainian NCO corps is was what made the Kharkiv offensive possible. Rigid control - Such as Russia uses - is absolutely the worst for either side of a thunder run. The modernized UAF NCO corps has learned initiative and aggression, and they've been honing their skills.
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  2892. Nothing is entirely useless; it can ALWAYS serve as a bad example. Or maybe a HORRIBLE example.
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  2893.  @Khronogi  he defrauded the poor, too. And the poor cannot afford that. SBF deserves to be crushed like a bug.
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  2894. Perfectly useable as a plinker, or even as a hunting, rifle, even today.
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  2895. Zooming!
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  2896.  @johnmead8437  wrong. STUPIDLY wrong. Those experienced leaders have higher responsibilities. #1 is the safety of their charges, which is NOT something you can slack on. When the weather exceeds the equipment, you call it off. Period. Any other choice is idiocy. As is anyone who thinks they should do otherwise.
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  2897.  @johnmead8437  weather doesn't always follow the forecasts, you idiot.
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  2898. Everyone thinks they have a better idea for a cartridge. Problem is, most of these exotic cartridges are THIS CLOSE ->||<- to some other cartridge that does the same job just as well.
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  2899.  @brianbrandt25  if you were sufficiently ST:OS geeky, you'd know that's not even a good joke; no one is making antimatter weapons.
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  2900. There's no secret to it's failure. There has NEVER been a mystery to it's failure. And the US has nothing like it because not even the US Army is that incredibly stupid. Dur.
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  2901. Swiss-knife of a firearm.
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  2902. This looks like it could be easily made in any garage workshop...
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  2903. Wooo! Pretty!
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  2904. My cousin, Sam Cummings, strikes again! 😁
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  2905.  @Ken_Koonz  and a grill gun.
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  2906. Baltimore. No surprise there.
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  2907. The Poles fought like lions. Very inconvenient for post-war governments looking to curry favor with the Dark Empire.
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  2908.  @samhoober3084  fair point, and something I hadn't considered.
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  2909.  @nobodynoone2500  heh. According to various lawmaking bodies, if a cartridge has been adopted by any military branch, it is, by definition, a "military cartridge." Basically, the thinking was that they didn't want civilians using military-grade weapons. Now, a 2nd Amendment-type legal environment kills that thinking, but in places that were not so long ago ruled by "divine right," it still lingers. Edit: This is at least part of the reason why .25 and .32acp were so popular in Europe for so long.
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  2910.  @f.a.2115  thus, said by everyone before the uptake of every new caliber. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The market will decide.
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  2911.  @f.a.2115  you didn't read what the European commenters posted, did you? Go back and read what they said. You're working from an American bias, and are uninformed.
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  2912.  @f.a.2115  so, when he reports conditions where he lives, he's just talking about himself? Yeah, pull the other one; it's got bells on it.
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  2913.  @f.a.2115  say, have actual been to Europe? It's not even close to the wasteland you believe. Well, England is, but continental Europe is - while not America - hardly the dystopian tyranny you seem to think it is. So, I'm going to ignore you now, because you are clearly talking from your prejudices.
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  2914. Not bad, over all, but there are better performing choices.
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  2915. Mining has long been an industry run by heartless bastards. The shortened lives and deaths by unsafe mining practices in my wife's family is a litany of horror.
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  2916.  @AtlasJotun  there's nothing preventing a reproduction rifle being built to handle modern loads - indeed, I doubt it would be any other way. The major difference between modern .45-70 and .30-30 lies in the ballistics and modern loadings. The .45-70 makes an excellent heavy brush cartridge. It's not a long range choice, but rather a smasher that can put heavy game down in close conditions. There is a good range of bullets available for it, and if I wanted something that would really put a big, pissed-off, hog in the dirt, that's high on my list. Contrary-wise, the .30-30 has a pretty limited selection of bullets. It's not as heavy as the .45-70, nor is it as effective at longer ranges as, say, a .270. I was quite deliberate in my choice of options.
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  2917. The Recovery Vehicle was a real coup - that's a real force multiplier, few in number, and very hard to replace.
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  2918. BATFE - you'd think they'd be more fun. But, well, no...
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  2919. I know history pretty well, but the sheer sliminess of the sugar growers always catches me by surprise.
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  2920. Would make a great hassock for your den.
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  2921. Kittens are always fine.
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  2922. "Sea of Waldos." Brilliant analogy.
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  2923. This is wine & cheese taken to the ridiculous extreme.
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  2924. End the debate..?! Hah. You wish. People are religious about their caliber-of-choice. They will never stop fanboi-ing.
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  2925.  @Arukan  Would you care to amplify on that? Could you specify WHAT about the sentence was a waste - Or are you just being a keyboard warrior, looking for relevance?
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  2926.  @barbarakay6614  1) This was 45 years ago, so NO, I do not remember the individuals name. The Judge was Justice Albert P. Close, though. You can go look it up if you want. But 2) Being 45 years ago, EVERY newspaper in the county has been rolled up into Gannet - Good damn luck finding ANYTHING now. 3) given your assertion (which I have no doubt is generally true), I don't see how this was any LESS effective, save that it a) cost the county almost nothing, and b) kept limited jail cells open for more directly violent (note I did NOT say more serious!) offenders, and c) DID put the the general public at least minimally on notice
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  2927. I have dined in the restaurant in Tijuana that claims to be the birthplace of the Caesar salad. It was still a nice restaurant, and yes, I had the salad. It was good.
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  2928. 57mm AAA systems are very rare these days, as they fall exactly in the middle of the range between "Highly effective" and "Highly mobile." Simply put, 57mm ground mounts are just not useful in a fluid, mobile ground combat situation, and haven't been for many decades.
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  2929. Weird, indeed. The magazine alone looks... Wrong. #akgnotificationsquad
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  2930. Why did you not move your truck..?
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  2931.  @TheArklyte  people buy them all the time for their S/A AKs and ARs... Perfectly useless, but so long as people attach ego value to them, they sell.
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  2932. This could have gone so much worse in so many ways. Fortune was on your side; a learning opportunity instead of a funeral. Thank you for showing us, so we can learn too.
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  2933. Damn. Your father is built like tank, too!
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  2934. Taking "Thumbs Up" to insane new levels!
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  2935.  @sethmullins8346  it's simple. He researches every gun that he sees, that he doesn't already recognize.
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  2936. Pierre was here first.
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  2937.  @RandomDudeOne  Gore's claim to have been the first politician to recognize and support the internet is another falsehood. But he's taken enough grief for that over the years that I consider him well-punished.
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  2938.  @JohnDoe-nf7up  sure. A precision marksmanship team can utterly dominate the battlefield as far as they can acquire and accurately shoot. Seems pretty relevant to me.
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  2939. Whilst "Alien" was very much NOT modeled on Ada's story, the parallels are striking: small expedition stranded, abandoned, and betrayed by their employer, and only the woman and the cat survive.
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  2940. When on the Submarine Tender, I was Duty Section Counter-Sniper (less awesome than it sounds - more of a designated marksman role). My issue weapon was an accurized M14, called an M21. I never once fired it full-auto. Indeed, the armorer threatened dire, unimaginable, consequences if I were ever so stupid as to try it.
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  2941. Those rocket pods deliver a LOT of hate.
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  2942. Simple conversion; easy to operate. A potential game changer, had things been different...
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  2943. Fun sushi battle. You're going to get yer butt kicked, though.
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  2944.  @azmc4940  that would require a tremendous level of moral courage; very few people can muster that.
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  2945.  @Randomname254  Three points: 1) The nation from which they come is extremely notorious for gender power imbalance, 2) Men are usually (not always, I'll grant) much more aggressive than women when acting in an adversarial manner, and 3) It's pretty damn obvious on the face of it, given the information presented, so NO, it is not bias, and you are obviously looking for ways to make his behavior less unprofessional - indicating that you are the one with a bias. In short, you've just outed yourself as a gender bigot.
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  2946.  @selseyonetwenty4631  clearly, you and I did not watch the same video. Piss off.
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  2947. Then there's the French. They dropped the whole 'bean' thing, and made onion soup.
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  2948. "Energetic Disassembly."
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  2949. I have this very same revolver. I love it. It's my deep woods walking gun; there's nothing in the continental 48 it won't handle, push comes to shove. Including nacho cheese, watermelon, and especially eggplant.
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  2950. Oh, and YT auto captions still interperates gunfire as "music" or "applause."
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  2951. Two monkeys fskn' a bear trap... Heh.
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  2952.  @thetexastickler5698  FB is only concerned about the $$. They have very little interest about advert content, unless it'll hurt them politically.
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  2953.  @hatchet646  meh. It there's improvement to be had, and it's not too costly, that's probably for the best. Of course, there's always room for corruption.
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  2954.  @hatchet646  i expect they're going to sell a LOT of Leo upgrades. Full chassis? Not so much. Not unless they can demonstrate a large value added for the cost. Especially not when the Leo chassis is already so good.
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  2955. Ok, the Maggot Mag is definitely out of left field.
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  2956.  @lowandslow3939  look up the design of Japanese defensive bunkers on the Pacific Islands during WWII. They literally stood up to naval gunfire. Using only sand and tree trunks. Hell, look up WWI trench warfare "bomb proofs." Timber and earth. What the Russians needed is achievable; they just need to put their backs into it.
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  2957.  @lowandslow3939  nope. Surface bunkers, with direct fire ability. I'm serious. GO LOOK IT UP.
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  2958.  @lowandslow3939  link posts get deleted when I post them. Bottom line: cross-hatched alternating layers of timber and thick layers of soil, totalling at least a meter thick, covered in a final layer of soil. Yes, that's hard work. The more you sweat, the less you bleed. Also, yes,bunker-busters will penetrate, but those are not commonly used weapons in this war.
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  2959.  @internetcensure5849  hmmm. Yes, air superiority. Like that enjoyed by Major General Botashev. Oh, wait... Didn't he suck up a MANPAD and die ignominiously in a ball of fire, mission incomplete? Why yes, yes he did... So much for "air superiority."
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  2960. This one resonates with me rather a lot; my father was Chief Engineer of Special Projects at HEL for a long time. He wasn't involved in this weapon, but he did refer to it on some of his work, including the integrally-suppressed M-4 Carbine.
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  2961. The western bank of Kherson has been a bleeding wound; Ukraine has made it an abattoir and Russia has finally been forced to admit defeat in the region.
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  2962. See, this is the kind of detail that I'm looking for; the nuance that gets missed.
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  2963. Threshing chaffe is very much something you want to do outdoors; its messy as hell, and hard on the eyes. Been there, done that.
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  2964. My sister's family is very big on Hogmanay - I've been known to drag my wife to the festivities, as well. Shortbread is always a big deal. Maybe not as big a deal as the Piping of the Haggis, but still a necessary element.
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  2965. Bob Semple would be proud.
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  2966. Serious, business-like weapons are fine by me. 'Sexy' definitely takes a back seat to function and reliability.
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  2967. By this point in the war, veteran UAF soldiers are either skilled, or casualties. Russian "soldiers" are mostly either unskilled cannon fodder, or skilled units in reserve waiting for the offensive that isn't coming.
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  2968. More practical advice. Thank you!
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  2969. Ok, this is brilliant.
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  2970. The "Nuke Siberia" plan is honestly the least stupid nuclear idea to come out the mouths of Russian propagandists.
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  2971. France really does a fine job with collapsible weapons.
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  2972. Shazzi has really outstanding English - hardly any accent at all, even when I was listening closely for it.
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  2973. It's huge, heavy, and awkward. Of course it flopped.
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  2974. Big $$ flex. #akgnotificationsquad
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  2975.  @Joe3pops  pre-'64 20ga, post-'64 12 ga.
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  2976. I have always thought that a 'brush gun' in .500 S&W Magnum was a natural combination.
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  2977. Entirely too rational. The media and talking heads are going yo ignore the hell out of this - there's mo money in rational analysis.
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  2978.  @marcfaur  sounds like you have a small country. Oh, wait, you do. With 350+ million people in US, there is a LOT of room for disagreement. We don't have the defacto censorship of small communities - loads of room for disagreement. Not that it's wrong to have small-community reactions; that's the nature of smaller population size.
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  2979. @Snide Remarks snide remarks, indeed. 👎
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  2980. @JesseGreenwood-h1o  salt pickling and lactose fermentation pickling are common low-tech, low-effort preserving methods. Delicious, and easy.
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  2981.  @andrewbooth5533  former clinical publisher for a large Pharma; among my work were atypical antipsychotics. Yeah, I'm fairly comfortable about that usage.
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  2982.  @andrewbooth5533  Definitely off the deep end.
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  2983.  @randomnobodovsky3692  the Titanic has been found, and imaged quite thoroughly. 1) She was built with iron, not modern steel. 2) she was built with shit-grade iron plating. 3) she was rivited, not welded. 4) beams weren't shattered; rivits were popped and plates were shattered. 5) those are common effects when crappy iron is made very cold and struck hard. 6) the presence of icebergs were documented extremely well by survivors and nearby witness ships. 7) you're going to have to try MUCH harder to get anyone to buy into your paranoid fantasy, because just like the Titanic's crappy plating, it's also crap.
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  2984.  @randomnobodovsky3692  ah. Beg your pardon; I should have recognized that.
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  2985.  @randomnobodovsky3692  fair point, and gracious of you.
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  2986. I live in New Sweden (ten miles from Old Swedes Church); can confirm Delaware has no native apple pie recipe. Dutch Apple Pie is, however, quite popular locally.
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  2987. Yes, do give 'Mock Apple Pie' a crack; am curious.
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  2988. Biden has COVID - Again. The Right lies about him, and attacks him. His own party panicked like headless chickens, and back-stabbed him. Is anyone surprised he's finally decided to toss it away? Criminals to the Right, cowards to the Left, and his own failing body in the middle, he's simply done with it all.
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  2989. Nooooobody likes eggplant!
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  2990. Ed Lindner, Rube Goldberg's slightly crazier cousin.
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  2991. I wonder, was Lindner educated as a clockmaker?
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  2992.  @Broken_Yugo  trial & error, yes, but the basic engineering parameters were reasonably well understood, so... Scientific guesswork.
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  2993. Is that a Lowe's bucket under the ejection chute..?
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  2994. It's not so much that Neo is dodging bullets as it is that he's dodging the agents' reaction times and point of aim - he's literally getting out of the way of the muzzle before the agent is able to fire the next round.
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  2995. "May not be the worst.." Yeah, but you're an AK guy, so you've been exposed to a lot more shitty AK builds.
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  2996. The crews of these static defenses must have been truly desperate and courageous - almost a guaranteed suicide job. The Nazis might have been evil incarnate, but never doubt they knew how to fight.
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  2997. Yeah, Tar Creek is a fiasco of the greatest dimensions. The local tribe got shafted harder than average by the US Government. BIA exists pretty much to institutionalize the shafting of native peoples.
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  2998. Hot water heater.
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  2999.  @doggmitt  some of the early war tanks might actually fail.
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  3000. I find it utterly bizarre that there wasn't a fail-safe design on this equipment - A failure to receive a return from the interlock should have immediately shut down the treatment. Likewise, the procedural violation of the absence of the Chief Physicist - A mandatory participant - is also absolutely bizarre. If he's called away, that should result an immediate cessation of treatment.
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  3001. Ain't NOBODY going to loan Scott any .50 BMG rifles any time soon.
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  3002. How long, d'ya think, before this beast winds up in a game?
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  3003.  @k8eekatt  A pudding Beholder? Its gaze causes intoxication and merriment?
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  3004. Now use the lees to make bread!
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  3005. "Today's episode..?!" Every episode!
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  3006. "...how you are in real life... ...versus how you present yourself in the comments..." Yep. Nothing like the anonymity of the keyboard to turn folks into raging edgelords.
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  3007. Also: VHS-2. It's a bullpup. I don't much care, however many GunTubers have covered it.
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  3008. Wow. The longer you look, the more bizarre it gets.
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  3009.  @joshua43214  none of the various chemicals are perfectly dispersed, and will off-gas or volatize over time, leading to a 'Love Canal' effect. Daughter compounds resulting from reactions are also not really good for ones' health, either, and will linger. Experience with similar slurry damn failures demonstrates that the toxic results will linger decades, unless very carefully cleaned.
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  3010. I'm amused. I've got a 58B, and it functions flawlessly. My only objection is that violent extraction. I use a cardboard shell deflector, and sometimes I'll actually embeded brass in the cardboard. That said, I've never wanted an 'L' model. I've heard too many dire things about them.
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  3011. Ian McCollum hates this shotgun with a passion normally reserved for a hornet in your underwear. It really seems that Cobray was trying a bet to see just how crude and cheap they could go.
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  3012. Load the glitter cup with a mix of glitter and powdered ink, for that indelible impression...
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  3013. Very Confucian.
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  3014. HK does love its violent extraction. You cover the range on front of the muzzle, and to the right of the weapon, too. Also: Weapon is its own flashbang.
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  3015. Ian: "This hurts. Let's do more!"
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  3016.  @crow578  as a veteran myself, and the son of a veteran, I've seen the VA evolve (devolve) over time. But most importantly, the records center is not part of the VA. It belongs to, and belonged to, the GSA. It's pretty fucked up to paint the NPRC-MPR with the recent shitty behavior of the VA. Keep your conspiracy theories elsewhere.
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  3017.  @crow578  you misunderstood. The VA has become shit. The GSA has not. So keep you conspiracy theories elsewhere. Where they fucking belong.
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  3018. The greatest thing about Ian's job, is that he created it for himself. You, too, with effort and dedication, can create a dream job.
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  3019. Batcave, if Bruce Wayne had a sense of humor.
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  3020. I do love secondary fires. Especially really expensive ones.
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  3021. Another excellent cold open... Non-newtonian fluids are strange.
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  3022. Remarkably compact design. I'm a former USN Reactor Operator - This design is utterly brilliant, though the hubris of the overall concept is rather breath-taking. That said, I'd have LOVED to have been involved in this. Bleeding-edge (for its time) design.
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  3023. "Want."
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  3024. Amazing - the Bahkmut news has fallen off the front page. Putin has (even more) egg on his face.
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  3025. "Yok"
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  3026. Canned human meat. Huh. Well, the Russians are feeding enough men into the meat grinder that is Avdiivka to keep the canning factories busy.
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  3027. Honestly, I can give YT a pass on this one. I appreciate your chill attitude about the whole thing... Meanwhile, you have ammo (heh) for a buttload more videos and merch.
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  3028. Not at all hard to understand - shooting SMGs is just FUN. Must. Have.
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  3029. This is extremely cool.
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  3030. Slava Ukraini! Glory to the Heroes! If Russia doesn't stop shelling Kharkov, Ukraine will have no choice but to raid into Russia.
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  3031. Much want. I drool in envy.
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  3032.  @demonprinces17  that seems entirely plausible.
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  3033.  @Merilix2  again, you use that word "have." There is a built in assumption to that word, which you are missing: That failure to consider safety will somehow prevent a process from going forward. THIS IS NOT TRUE. The only thing necessary for a process to go forward is that the right people approve it, and people are fallible.
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  3034.  @tvanced8583  yeah. You have to read for context.
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  3035.  @thewhitefalcon8539  actually, where I work has done that, with some success. Mind you, it's not air transport, but with heavy equipment, management is ABSOLUTE in their requirements for safety. Of course, the possibility of horrible publicity and massive lawsuits have probably edged them in the right direction.
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  3036. A very large percentage of the weapons that were officially "turned over" to the Afghan government were in fact undergoing repair or refurbishment in... The United States. Where they remain.
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  3037. CIWS is not particularly good at hitting traversing targets. The software and a tracking will do the job, but angular traversing speed matters, and the system is intended for close range, where angular velocity is magnified. The mount is fast, but it's not THAT fast.
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  3038. Sabotage? Incompetence? Deferred maintenance? Dunno. All I know is that it couldn't be happening to a more deserving nation.
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  3039. ​ @willemsma it's Elbonia. His birth is far from the weirdest thing to happen.
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  3040. "Aussie B*tch" sounds sexy, aggressive, and ready to start a fight. :: looks are sample repro :: Yep, confirmed.
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  3041. For a long time, rocket motors have used liquid-cooled thrust bells to avoid burn-through and explosions. The liquid in question? Fuel. They literally used fuel jackets on the bells to pre-heat the fuel, and keep the engines cool.
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  3042. That KP-44 is ghetto-sexy. Trashy and dangerous, but you just have to have a go...
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  3043. Truly horrifying.
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  3044. Once again, Rube Goldberg, Gunsmith, strikes again.
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  3045.  @farmerboy916  agree that 'comon' modern cleavers are just big knives. You may have to pay a good amount of money to get the real deal. Mine are old - one belonged to my grandmother, another was rescued from a yard sale; edge grind, steel, temper, blade geometry, they all matter.
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  3046.  @Psiberzerker  no, no. Submachine gun M1A; aka "Thompson." The M1A variation of the M14 is strictly semi-auto.
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  3047.  @Psiberzerker  I'm well-known in this channel. You come in and throw accusations - which you did, with some real english on them - you're going to get disdain. You want civility, be civil. Shipboard counter-sniper is exactly what I stated previously. Someone starts shooting at the ship, my job was to throw enough lead at them, accurately enough, either drive them off, or pin them down for a close assault team to fix their little red wagon. Permanently. Chief Burdette had some fun ideas in that; drilling a hostage situation on the weather decks of a squadron submarine? (Yes, unlikely, but hey, Drill Monitors are weird) Burdette's response: "Cummings, go take your rifle down to the paint barge, shoot that SOB in the back." Somehow, that wasn't the answer the Monitors were looking for. After a few cycles like that, with the Chief finding increasing amusing ways of breaking the scenario, all of which would have worked just fine, the Monitors gave up. I liked working for the Chief. He had no respect for authority, and a very devious mind.
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  3048.  @matiasdiaz8913  in 1875? Only the first volume (of three) of Das Kapital had yet been published, and Marx was on NO ONE'S radar. So - Not this.
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  3049. Grozny was in the midst of a Ukrainian drone attack; shitty luck, basically. Where Russia is culpable is in that they denied landing at any nearby airport.
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  3050. A few mines would have had the same effect. This? Someone didn't want to carry those home. Possibly, they'd reported placing more mines than they actually had placed, and showing up with several hundred 'extra' mines would be telling. Anyway, this 'field' can be effectively swept with minimal effort by a large armored bulldozer. Something in the D-7 to D-9 range.
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  3051. DP-27 - Stalin's record player!
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  3052. Cold open just keeps getting better...
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  3053.  @custink22  fast and efficient!
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  3054. "Russian secret wonder weapons?" Sounds like Nazi Germany in the end days of WWII. Not surprised; fascist nations read each other's playbooks. Anyway, 'wonder weapons' didn't save Hitler - they won't save Putin either.
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  3055. Zelensky is trying to avoid what Russia is doing; sending their future into the fire.
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  3056. Guest starring: The Wind.
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  3057. Russian trolls are going to have to scramble to dance around this one.
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  3058. I love Pancit. Too many years in the Nav; where Filipino food is extremely common. Since leaving the Nav, I have had to learn to make my own.
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  3059. Every time someone predicts that Russia has run out of missiles, they launch a new wave of mass attacks. I'll believe it when the waves of missiles cease entirely. When you state percentages of missiles stocks, you are assuming that the original intelligence estimates are correct. I have my doubts. Likewise, I have SEVERE doubts about the effectiveness of sanctions - Recent revelations have shown that they're as watertight as cheesecloth. Bakhmut has become a monkey trap, a shiny object that Russia MUST have, even if they die achieving it. Similar to Stalingrad. I would highly approve of Ukraine taking and holding Rostov-on-Don, once they've restored their territorial integrity, and holding it until such time as Russia pays all that they owe to Ukraine for their crimes.
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  3060. Only in as much as applies to the First Amendment. Contract law claims are still available. Now, Parler has made questionable claims, but Amazon still has to answer and defend those claims.
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  3061.  @SomeUniqueHandle  further, under section 230, AWS is specifically protected from consequences for having applied their own TOS for violations.
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  3062. Not seeing any love for Ed Sarkisian, though his category is less 'serious' than some of the other ones. Sarkisian cracks me up, and he seems like the kind of guy I'd like to buy a beer.
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  3063. Tofu dreg construction is not limited to mainland China, sadly.
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  3064. I don't hate it. Doubtful that it's safe to fire, but if made with proper quality, I could see that as practical.
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  3065.  @colbeausabre8842  and the version of the WOMBAT that used a .50 cal spotting rifle? Ok, it's possible I got the sequence wrong, but as you yourself just pointed out, not exactly an American-only solution. Unless BREN guns were being made elsewhere?
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  3066. https://youtu.be/jEKvMBRe_nU
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  3067.  @BaquePhotography  yep! Made me glad I 'passed' on that lock!
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  3068. When Rube Goldberg wanted to roll the dice on who does, and how far from the trigger the death happens...
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  3069. Titanium Gun just got slash-dotted. More business than they can handle for a year.
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  3070. Yeah, I cold carry that in the woods.
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  3071.  @randomnobodovsky3692  yeah, improvised. He adapted a semi-automatic pistol into a full-sized closed-bolt select-fire submachine gun, all with never having seen the insides of one before. Extremely skillful improvisation, but improvised just the same.
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  3072.  @randomnobodovsky3692  not mutually exclusive - nor do I know of ANY definition of improvisation that requires poor fit and finish.
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  3073.  @randomnobodovsky3692  explained already. If you're incapable of interpretation of simple written word, there's no point in me writing more.
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  3074.  @randomnobodovsky3692  nope. You failed to read for comprehension. Fit and finish is NOT coupled with improvisation - that linkage is YOUR hangup, not mine.
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  3075. I, too, have a GunBroker problem...
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  3076.  @scipioafricanus5871  you cannot successful live off of pillaging if you're not advancing. The troops quickly deplete the resources where they are, and with nothing new coming in, and no new territory to plunder, well, they're fucked.
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  3077. What, no eggplant on the table before you ran it down..?!
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  3078. I have some very long-barreled revolvers, including a 16" barrel Buntline Special. It's ridiculously fun to shoot.
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  3079. Brandon steals ALL the thunder...
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  3080. Dem feetz! The Grey Poupon joke literally made me snort-laugh. 🤣
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  3081. Russian propagandists invent fantasies of potency, because they've got no reality. Fabulists, one and all.
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  3082. Stalin's Record Player!
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  3083. Supersonic at low altitude. These guys have guts of steel and ice water for blood.
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  3084. Sick burn, du. 😁
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  3085. Murphy's Law: It's mandatory.
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  3086. Damn, that's ugly. Single-handed use, I'm pretty sure it'll be wildly inaccurate; the very definition of 'spray and pray.' Point-blank use only.
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  3087.  @andreivaldez2929  used to see it regularly; used to hang out with the staff at a 'big box' sporting goods store just off of I-95; busloads of Chinese tourists would flood the place, bee-lining straight for the firearms department, where yeah, they'd pose and take selfies and flag the shit out of the whole store. Yes, bolts were removed and locks were in place, but still... Made my hair stand on end every time. Fact is, most had never seen a firearm outside a movie, and only had Hollywood ideas in their heads. None of them meant to be idiots; they were just so utterly clueless that they didn't even know they were ignorant.
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  3088. The "I-95" bit is key. Tour buses headed from NYC to DC, or vice versa, would literally pass within a mile of the store; their tour guides were literally using this store as a featured attraction on the trip. Plus, being pretty much exactly mid-way between the two cities, it made a convenient food stop at the adjacent shopping mall. "Stop, stretch your legs, get something to eat, and go fondle firearms."
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  3089. Context! He called it the best bolt action rifle of the war for the context in which it was made and used. You need to understand that weapons don't appear in a vacuum, as Ian clearly knows. They appear in a context, and of all the bolt rifles of WWII, the Carcano most exactly met the needs of its context.
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  3090. Russia captured a Gundam mech in Kyiv today, also. (joke, for those who don't understand)
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  3091. Savage bullshit call on the misinformation. Nicely done.
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  3092. The locking wedge bit worries me just a tiny little; after some wear (probably thousands of disassembly cycles), wear might loosen it up and cause issues. Realistically though, it should be good for the practical life of the weapon.
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  3093. It would be interesting to revisit this design in .300 Blackout; it looks extra suitable for integral suppressor use.
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  3094. Maybe with better charging handles, though. 😛
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  3095. Just pray it's not a Zombie Krink...
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  3096. More tech breakdown vida, yes pls!
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  3097. Gods. That poor shotgun...
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  3098. Straight-up terrorism by Russia.
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  3099. No chance in hell I'll vote for a Russian tool. No orange faces in the White House ever again.
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  3100.  @DoubleMonoLR  it was all bound together; the 'accelerated' design did not receive the kinds of multiple reviews a more traditional process would allow, and the 'accelerated' build put a tremendous 'pressure to perform' on the crew. Ultimately, it was race against the clock that had a crumbling structure being put in place, instead of being lowered back down and checked over. So, yes, the 'accelerated' is entirely responsible. A traditional process would have had the crap design laying on the ground, awaiting replacement, instead of hanging in the air, ready to kill people.
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  3101.  @angelrivera2339  your friend is absolutely right.
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  3102.  @0neDoomedSpaceMarine  by the time it gets out another 50m, it will be. 130ft-lbf @ 100 yards is already pretty weak. At 150m, we're talking maybe 90ft-lbf, which is flat minimum.
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  3103.  @mickleblade  in that respect, bullets and bombs are very accurate - they ALWAYS hit the ground. 😛
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  3104. Listening to ANYTHING Michael Moore says on military subjects is to hear abject stupidity. The man is aggressively and deliberately full of crap.
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  3105. Star-Bellied Sneech.
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  3106. Slava Ukraine!
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  3107. Go Tokarev!
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  3108. Next step up: 20mm x 127mm.
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  3109. Also: "Stick your thumb in it" has a new meaning...
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  3110. I think the KB 500 likes (destroying) eggplant.
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  3111. Also, the KB 500 throws fireballs like a Mosin obrez. Brandon is jealous. Want.
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  3112. Sunnuvabitch, that's mad wicked, son! Now, of course, you're going to be buried in requests to make the AK-50 a production weapon.
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  3113. Say, how do you like this dish? Don't hold back, now... Tell us how you really feel!
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  3114.  @TastingHistory  well, I guess not everyone is a fan of garlic... Say, does Jose show up in mirrors? You might want to check on that...
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  3115. Those of us in the tools/building materials sector call it 'Chinesium."
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  3116. Mae for Most Influential Female.
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  3117. So... Golf with tanks. Gotcha.
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  3118.  @Tricky_Vic  wasn't the Prop Master. It was an Assistant Director. Why was an AD handling weapons and not the Armorer?
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  3119.  @TheArklyte  it was a revolver, so cycling doesn't apply. Otherwise, agreed.
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  3120.  @mlr1691  none of which I argued against.
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  3121.  @TheArklyte  fair enough!
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  3122.  @sebnetic  no Darwin - neither of his victims did this to themselves.
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  3123.  @mlr1691  ah. Very good. Carry on smartly!
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  3124.  @mandothepando9637  if true, then that is an incredible failure of duty. No way in hell production weapons should be so used, and, in the unthinkable case where such happened, they should have been immediately cleared by the Armorer. That is exactly the Armorer's job!
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  3125.  @Sartek  except that is NOT what happened; the AD grabbed the weapon off the cart, not from the Armorer. I'll note that this particular AD has a history of unsafe actions and behaviors, as documented by former colleagues.
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  3126.  @thawhiterabbit01  I seriously doubt a hoplophobe like Baldwin owns any weapons. In any case, it was one of three on the cart, so I doubt it was a personal weapon in any case.
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  3127.  @Sartek  ah. Thank you.
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  3128. Nice. Wrap your technical improvements in a familiar and popular package / look. People see the exterior, and are comfortable buying it... Saves effort in getting market acceptance.
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  3129. Lots of knees to the crotch.
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  3130. Potatoes and onions are useful. Roubles? Basically only useful as toilet paper. Russia is cheaping out, big time.
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  3131. Heh. Bring the pain...
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  3132.  Erwin Rommel  right, then. Do I need to shift to the Father Christmas avatar, then?
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  3133.  Erwin Rommel  eh, it's the season. Gotta make my rounds, make sure folks are boozing it up right proper (that being the big difference between Santa Claus and Father Christmas).
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  3134.  Erwin Rommel  same name I've always had.
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  3135.  Erwin Rommel  because it's the season.
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  3136. DPICM is also REALLY great for fucking up Russian artillery.
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  3137. House were made of ADOBE. Ah-doh-BE
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  3138. The very first thing I noticed was the lack of supervising drill instructors durning a movement drill. The troops bouncing up and down looked like they're playing a children's game. There ought to be half a dozen more NCOs, if you want to get useful training.
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  3139. Tarkov would HAVE be a fun game, if you're still playing after all these memes.
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  3140. @Jona v.K which is fitting, since the G3 family traces its history back to the CETME Modelo 58; Just keeping it all in the family.
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  3141. So... Russian "Maverick." Lawless, self-centered, hot-dogging jerk gets shot down flying a high-risk mission where he has no business. Utterly predictable and pointless.
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  3142.  @J0man1  you, Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
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  3143. I know several Coast Guardsmen. They've done boarding duty in the Caribbean; after their descriptions of what is left after modern pirates hit a private vessel, I'll never again be appreciating the popular depiction of pirates. TLDR: When pirates hit a private vessel, body bags are involved.
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  3144. Interesting. Good concept, poor execution.
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  3145. It's like the Chevy Vega - on paper, quite crap. In reality, surprisingly useful and functional.
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  3146. More of a cream than white.
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  3147. Back, long before the concept of 'tacticool' was ever dreamt, the French had already invented it.
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  3148. I'd guess the concept is that you empty the revolver, and then punch and/or stab anyone still standing.
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  3149.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  also makes sense, yes.
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  3150. "Mere." Short for Meredith.
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  3151. "Mere." Short for Meredith.
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  3152. Nice mod. Reminds me of the Beretta 1200FP; mechanically different but functionally similar.
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  3153. Pretty gentle extraction, too. I bet the extra weight does a fair job of taming recoil.
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  3154.  @speeddensity9543  and for sumo wrestlers.
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  3155. Yet another art-decco antique space gun. The state of engineering wasn't very sophisticated back in the day, but they sure knew how to make some fun aesthetics.
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  3156.  @lawlaw295  that was only true a a very small fraction of the population. Of course, those were the folks in charge, or those the folks in charge had indoctrinated into their myth (soldiers). The vast majority of the population was happy enough to just do as they were told - including surrender, which they went along with just fine.
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  3157.  @krunchie101  like empty intersections and playgrounds. Doesn't speak well for their targeting reconnaissance. At this point, I'm beginning to believe that the actual damage done was by accident, and due to the high volume of fire - they missed, and accidentally hit something of value.
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  3158. That's a nice blue glow from your steaming bucket o'death, there...
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  3159. I've had to deal with N(C)IS several times. I was NOT impressed. Indeed, the only thing 'Criminal' about NCIS was their incompetence. JAG Corps? Generally a pretty solid buncha folks. But nothing like the show. Not even remotely. I made it ten minutes into the pilot, and never went back.
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  3160.  @arslanikhlasov3450  your attempt to muddy the waters is obvious. You're either a Russian 'bot, troll, or what the Stalin called 'a useful idiot.'
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  3161. #akgnotificationsquad likes German buzz-saw GPMGs.
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  3162. Because they're the NYT. They can't EVER get geopolitics or military stuff right, because it's against their religion.
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  3163. Honestly, that was very impressive. Full-auto is a bitch to control, and wasteful; it requires excellent trigger-discipline to gain that control and conserve ammo.
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  3164. Ice cream? RUN!
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  3165.  @keither85  'sheet shank.' For shortening a sheet (bottom line on a sail) without cutting. But I'm being pedantic. 😛 Most folks only need a simple overhand knot, a half-hitch, and a square knot. Maybe a clove hitch. You're a specialist, so have expanded needs. Edit: Also, yes, good Dad Joke.
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  3166.  @keither85  facts. Autocorrupt is bad enough. Voice recognition only makes it exponentially worse.
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  3167. I've been extremely critical of these useless bathtub toys from the very beginning. ANY working sailor could tell they were a shit idea from the very conception; only a politician - in or out of uniform - would go for these, because they were always a boondoggle designed to line peoples' pockets with graft. Whoa, look! I was right! If we NEEDED the capability in the combat regime, there were off-the-shell vessels that were quite capable - Singapore, for instance, has a class of vessel that fits the space, and are actually tested, proven, and functional. But noooo... Can't have something not designed in the US! Heaven forbid! Not Invented Here! Feh. All we needed was a license, and they could have been built in the US, but Admirals have massive inflated fragile ego problems. I won't even get started on Congress' graft issues. Crooks, the lot of them. Disclaimer: I WAS a working USN sailor. I could have told the idiots involved how to avoid most of the problems. Oh, wait - I, and tens of thousands of other sailors, DID tell them!
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  3168. Even an open-sided low shed roof will help; a simple pole shed will do even better. This is a trivial construction task.
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  3169.  @CraigMcDonald1234  no, not Nazi dragons teeth. The Nazis at least constructed them correctly. But, without infantry and artillery actually covering them, they're worse than useless.
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  3170.  @hb1338  which is why I don't rely solely on 'western' sources.
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  3171.  @warweasel2832  Ian is a celebrity, thus a target for lawyers.
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  3172. Early medieval recipes seem to most interesting, especially those contemporary to the early medieval era from exotic locals (India!).
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  3173.  @doomermeme9975  and your point is.. what? At no time did I bring any of that into question.
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  3174. Could Putin and Kadyrov possibly be simultaneously more transparent AND more condescending to Muslims? Does he HONESTLY think Muslims are stupid enough to fall for this insulting stunt?
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  3175. The media absolutely requires controversy in order to survive - no one is going to click on articles that say "Nothing to see here." So, of course they're going to be launching verbal firebombs such as "Tanks are dead."
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  3176.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  the USS Pennsylvania (136 guns) begs to differ.
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  3177.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  never the less, she was commissioned, armed, crewed, and sailed. That she spent a fairly long career (~40 years) as a receiving ship doesn't obviate that. As for combat, very few first rates, anywhere saw much real action - first rates really were only prestige ships. It was the second rates that were the real utility battle wagons.
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  3178.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  heh. Indeed, ironic. About a dozen First Raters were ordered over the years; Congress being traditionally cash strapped and reluctant to invest, absent an immediate threat, only the Pennsylvania was completed. Meanwhile, the heavy frigates were forced to carry the load - which they did manage. American isolationism goes all the way back.
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  3179. This is what hell looks like.
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  3180. America did their part, fighting on behalf of the White Russians. No one in The States seems to remember.
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  3181. Russia cannot train all the conscripts - most of Russia's training cadre have been sent to Ukraine. That any can receive any training at all is remarkable.
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  3182. Right. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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  3183. Fact is, Parler's pockets aren't deep enough, nor do they have the necessary talent on hand, to build their own platform from scratch. There's a reason they were using AWS, and that is that building and maintaining a large, robust, web hosting service is a non-trivial task.
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  3184. Submariner here, with extensive experience in operation, maintenance, and repair of the same; including fibre-reenforced plastic (carbon, aramid, and glass). EVERY time I take a look at this situation, I find some new, enraging, safety violation. The arrogant insanity is literally stunning. My fury at Stockton Rush's grotesque stupidity is unrivaled.
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  3185. Oh, and I absolutely agree, that in my experienced opinion, the Titan was unseaworthy, and Rush was both a liar and negligent.
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  3186. I've met that salesman.
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  3187. Least safe ever for me was refresher training on the shotgun aboard the submarine tender. Standing in a line, weapons at port arms, when the sailor to my right fingered the trigger. Violation of the 'keep your finger off' and 'treat as loaded rules' at the same time. Fortunately, he was very tall, as the muzzle blast from his negligent discharge went over my head. Also, he lost his grip on his weapon, and it flew to the deck. End of training for him. Fortunately, NOT end of life for me.
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  3188. Gods, what an ADORABLE chonk! He's going to an utter unit, but with the attitude he shows, no one is going to care.
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  3189. Ask, and we shall (eventually) receive. #akgnotificationsquad
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  3190. That is a fuck-lot of honey...
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  3191. "That's pretty sweet." We see what you did there.
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  3192. Locally, the fox population is pretty bold; they'll park butt in the middle of the lawn and stare at you with a "what the fuck YOU lookin' at?" attitude.
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  3193. "Ya gotta treat propane with respect, Bobby..."
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  3194. Its not that it wasn't 'right;' it's just that it was competing with an aircraft that was just as 'right' - or maybe a bit more so - that was already mature, proven, and in production.
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  3195. Too bad an absolute novice can pick it (me). Master Lock has decent hardware in their bodies, but their cores? Tres shabby.
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  3196. Narcissism does not mix well with stupidity.
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  3197. 😁
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  3198. "Where do you store the food?" "Everywhere." Truest of true facts. At the beginning of a run, we literally walked on our food. Heavy cans were stacked on the decks, and planks laid over them. Frame bays, piping runs, light fixtures, cable bundles, and in every other possible niche, there'd be food. When I wanted to add a pack of powdered cocoa to a mug of truly nasty engine room coffee, I'd reach above the Reactor Plant Control Panel, where there'd be a mesh bag stuffed with packets. Our food wasn't any more special than regular navy food, but our cooks learned to work magic with limited, degraded ingredients. You can, in fact, make quite edible bread with powdered milk and powdered eggs - It just takes skill and practice. One cook even managed to make sheet cakes with those ingredients.
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  3199. I might consider dicing dried apples into the soup as it is finishing. Dried apples would be a durable ration, and potentially part of the stores loadout.
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  3200. The French copy no one, and no one buys from the French... 😁
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  3201. When talking military budgets, recall that they do not include a lot of elements that other militaries include, like healthcare. The Russians put that spend under other departments.
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  3202. Ok, that's some bold 'inventing' there. I'm honestly surprised there weren't more blowouts.
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  3203. A decade back, their Royal Majesties, Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia visited Wilmington and New Castle; my daughter had the honor of a brief conversation with the queen.
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  3204.  @Belnick6666  he told us he didn't feel like posting, and nothing was wrong. What more do you want?
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  3205. It was a different era, a more naive era, a more cavalier era, a more... Clueless era.
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  3206. I grew eating this. No, I'm not Greek in any way, but my mother was into exotic-but-efficient foods that we kids would eat.
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  3207. Stack the noodles more or less exactly atop each other, with your cheeses & seasoning, then cut the stack in quarters, and you have stabable snacks.
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  3208.  @tombogan03884  and this after they trimmed the cases! 🙄
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  3209.  @kmm696  of all the possible inconsistencies, that's the least probable. Loading blocks are commercial off the shelf. It's literally easier AND cheaper to buy them off Amazon or Temu than to make one.
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  3210.  @mohammadelhayek9155  sure. That has no impact on the nature of this video.
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  3211.  @eugeneoliveros5814  nah. Wrong equipment - and if they were trying that, I'd expect more uniform results. Even a elementary student could eyeball the OAL better than that. Which tells me they weren't even trying.
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  3212.  @antonkirilenko3116  Ian travels to Europe fairly often. It doesn't have to show up in America for Ian to get his hands on one.
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  3213.  @antonkirilenko3116  sure, it's unlikely, but never say never. Ian may yet find himself examining weapons in a former CIS country. He's already spent a significant amount of time in Finland.
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  3214. Essentially an ego project that grew a following.
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  3215. Nice jumpscare. Reminds me of skull scene by Marty Feldman from Young Frankenstein. Fun handgun.
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  3216. When punching, punch through the target, don't pull back. Follow-through is how you face-stab a zombie properly.
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  3217. The fake American accents are hilarious. I have never heard anything so bad. Honestly they sound exactly like Russians pretending - a child could do better.
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  3218. Dragons are real.
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  3219. These Sea Drones are, in effect, modern fire ships. They're not going to get many outright kills, but they are going to deny the enemy sleep, peace of mind, and safe harbors. Sevastopol is effectively unusable as an anchorage now - Any vessel in port there is vulnerable. These drones are IMMENSELY destructive, and very, VERY inexpensive for what they deliver. Recall the USS Cole, which was completely removed from service for YEARS by a single RHIB of roughly the same size. These drones expand that capacity and make it long-range. Sevastopol is done as a military harbor.
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  3220. A disgusting example of bigotry and dishonorable behavior.
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  3221. I get the vibe, and you're not wrong.
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  3222. AmmoSeek is my go-to.
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  3223. I like .40 S&W; I don't have problems with snappy recoil. And yeah, I have ammo. I'm using a couple bricks of .22lr as bookends. Yeah, it's a flex. 😁
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  3224. Good, detailed analysis.
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  3225. Everything new is old. 😁
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  3226.  @Isaacmantx  That realization is over a year too late - I don't doubt that you're correct in that Russia wanted to effect a 'Coupe de main' and exceeded their capabilities, but they should have quickly re-enforced, re-targeted, and used their military to better effect long, long ago. The demonstrated incompetence is the best possible argument against Marxism-Leninism, and against kleptocracies in general.
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  3227. It just keeps getting better.
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  3228. The West is, instead, teaching Putin a lesson.
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  3229. >>Sigh<< Ok... MOAR DAKKA! There, that should hold ya for a couple minutes.
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  3230. Technically, a Soviet submachine gun.
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  3231. YouTube doesn't even know what its own rules are. Internally, it appears to be run by personal fiat, and whatever the loudmouth-de-jour says goes. Until the next loudmouth steps up.
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  3232.  @garymarklein  Nice - You're judge and jury, then? Clearly, you don't know your civics.
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  3233. Always have a plan. Always have second eyes (and ideally, third eyes) on your plan. Always plan for your plan to fail. This is a rare incident where process and regulations are updated without spilled blood.
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  3234. Insane neglect of process and protocol, as well as medical ignorance, malpractice, and complete lack of urgency. If I weren't aware of just how stupid humans can be, I'd have never believed this.
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  3235. I must respectfully inform you that you are sadly, sadly mistaken; the worst song - ever - on any platform, anywhere, in any age, is The Shaggs' song "My Pal Foot Foot:" https://youtu.be/XR9d4ESlpHY
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  3236. ​ @bryanhoell5886 wrong answer, cupcake. "Better advertisers" don't prevent channel strikes and content deletion. Only a change in YouTube policy or Ian editing to accommodate the host can do that, and since only onr of those is in his power, well, this is what you get. Rejoin the real world, and quit yer bitchin.'
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  3237.  @ThePhoenixcompanies  another facile response from an expert. 🙄 Those full auto folks survive by chasing advertising that they can insert into their vids. Ian spends that time where he could be chasing money to instead produce more content. And then entitled ninnies bitch about it. Quit being a nincompoop; exercise that weak clicking finger and follow the - GASP! - free! link! and get the content.
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  3238.  @avlawns3037  ah, yes, you're clearly an expert. Expert nincompoop, perhaps. I'm going to state some hard truths for ya here, princess: 1) He clearly does run his business as a business, as it pays all his bills and pays for vast amounts content, too. 2) You're no expert on business, that's astonishingly obvious. 3) Your levels of entitlement are rather shocking, even in this age. 4) you're unbelievably lazy, in that it is too much effort for you to lift your clicking finger to take advantage of the - GASP! - Free! Link! that was provided for you.
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  3239. So, you're saying the war against the Kaiser was immoral?
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  3240.  @luisnunes2010  yeah, no. You've definitely gone off the deep end, mate.
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  3241.  @luisnunes2010  you're the one making extraordinary claims. The burden is on you. Make your case, or go away.
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  3242.  @luisnunes2010  yes.
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  3243.  @luisnunes2010  ah, yes, because ageist insults are such strong evidence. 🙄
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  3244.  @luisnunes2010  and still you fail to provide any support for your extraordinary claims. You've got nothing.
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  3245. That's some epic shit.
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  3246. Jeez, that ship is messed up. Not going to get a lot of useful salvage out of that.
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  3247. No such beastie as a 'Poseidon' class boomer. Ohio Class? Yes.
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  3248. At this point, I think the Russian PAOs use a 'wheel of fortune ' to come up with their excuses.
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  3249. Chopped up the brush behind the mini-Mozambique rather thoroughly.
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  3250.  @LD-pt5ur  just FOUR launcher batteries have fucked 20 depots in the last week or ten days; they're blowing up depots as fast as a launcher can drive into range of each newly discovered depot. Ukraine is getting many more launchers in the near future. 😈 Meanwhile... The rate of fire of Russian artillery has fallen off notably, because their ammunition has to be trucked in from twice as far away, meaning that Russia ammunition is spending days on the road instead of hours. Russia is so short of trucks that they're making use of looted Ukrainian trucks, and it is still not enough to keep the Russian guns firing. This is the pause that allows Ukrainian forces the breathing space to reorganize, consolidate, and dig in. You talk about how the launchers haven't moved Russia back, but that is a grossly ignorant statement. HIMARS is bleeding the Russian forces, and when they're bled white, Ukraine will be able to reclaim their land with relative ease.
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  3251.  @Penguinius  no, no. It's still a dictatorship, it's just a "friendly" dictatorship.
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  3252. Compared to some? Oh, yes. The skorpian comes immediately to mind - so much as touch the trigger, and you've got an empty magazine.
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  3253. With all the blackouts happening, expect a major baby boom starting in about seven or eight months.
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  3254. Ian McCollum is feeling a disturbance in the force...
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  3255. Looks like my old work laptop. Pretty much exactly what I wanted to do to it, too.
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  3256. Looks like Burt Rutan's grandfather was here.
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  3257. It occurs to me that this could easily be evolved into a 2-shot derringer. Instead of side-tipping, design it to rotate 90°, and bore chambers top AND bottom, and set the ejector to operate both chambers. Then all you need is an indexing firing pin.
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  3258. Joerg Sprave would like to have a word.
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  3259.  @baconsoup8346  yep. I've been saying this since it became clear just how many leaders were dying in the Russian forces. Each NCO, junior officer, and field-grade officer that died is a net economic loss to Russia. They're literally feeding their economic future into the fires.
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  3260. Bayonets as practical tools. Sorta. Nice.
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  3261. Gods. What a thrashing that poor ship took. Salvage operations are going to be very challenging.
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  3262. Almost did an FPSRussia.
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  3263. Further proof that Russia is basically an organized crime family - a family of functional morons.
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  3264. Heavy Metal Poisoning is VERY much a Russia signature - From back in the Soviet Union era when heavy metal poisoning was very much more difficult to detect. The idiots in Russia's covert action groups have STILL not figured out that heavy metal poisoning is no longer hard to detect - they keep going back to the same techniques, not understanding that it's the same as shouting a public confession.
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  3265.  @kaitlyn__L  I get that. I love Taco Bell bean burritos - they're nasty fakes, but in and of themselves, quite satisfying.
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  3266. Don't tinker.
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  3267.  @simonmoorcroft1417  that's entirely plausible. Especially if mixed with aluminum flour - which is a pigment used in protective paint, and not terribly difficult to source. One or two men could have easily acquired the necessary elements inside Russia.
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  3268.  @StryderK  you know, the US is generally pretty open about those kinds of things; they haven't shied away from revealing everything else sent, and they have made a firm point on why they haven't sent ATACMS to Ukraine - but you can go ahead and ignore the evidence present whilst insisting you have greater insight than... Oh, every journalistic organization and reputable blogger out there.
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  3269.  @Salker64  truck bomb or not a truck bomb, I'm laying my money on enhanced ANFO as the explosive.
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  3270.  @ThePandafriend  I'm confident that they don't have any unofficially, either. Not yet. Not until command and control to the satisfaction of a nervous US Congress can be resolved. ATACMS is a political weapon as much as it is a military one.
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  3271.  @arteljus983  nothing wrong with me; why do you persist in being wrong, when any number of folks have been full of useful comments? Ah, I get it. You're a narcissist. Again, go away.
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  3272. 😂🤣
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  3273. The judge appears to be doing things 'by the numbers,' such that when the suit is killed, it will stay dead.
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  3274. Table yeeting. A new Olympic sport... Maybe get Nike or UnderArmor to sponsor you?
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  3275. #akgnotificationsquad
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  3276. Yes, Poland is probably more heavily armed, per capita, than even the US. And that's not even considering Article 5.
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  3277. He would not have had even technically a POW status; defection is treason, and willfully changing sides makes him and idiot, and nothing more.
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  3278. Hot Wheels tracks for bullets...
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  3279. In other words, John Deere is a lying sack of crap.
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  3280.  @r.9158  considering that the B-52 was designed in the 1950s, that's entirely beside the point.
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  3281. Matt as Kaiju. That works.
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  3282. Ground attack aircraft flying ground attack profile. Seems normal enough to me. Gotta say, that kind of flying requires some big brass ones.
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  3283. Cool. A less-angry tube!
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  3284.  @Del_S  I'm certain it would. Just not enough demand for anyone to commercially pursue it.
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  3285. Your assertion that convection requires a liquid is - scientifically and engineering-wise - bullshit. Convection requires the flowing exchange of warmer and cooler working fluids - of which air is a perfectly fine example. Next time, do a bit of googling, before you shank your science cred again.
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  3286. Those are perfectly fine measurements. You just need to be not scared of math.
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  3287.  @MorganHJackson  it has more factors, so is divisible more ways.
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  3288.  @freddiestranger9783  I don't take religious advice from shouty strangers on the internet. Piss off.
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  3289. The shop display items? Straight fire. AK-50 parts? Nuclear fire.
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  3290. Kilo class submarines are not huge, but they're stealthy and capable. That's a serious capital loss for the Russian navy.
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  3291. Well, it took more than four times what I thought, and kept on stopping bullets.
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  3292. Not sure exactly when a bullet finally penetrated, but it was probably six or more times my expected '15 round' guess.
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  3293. Pretty sure FPS Russia did that, or something like it.
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  3294. Powdered eggs are gnarly, and frequently outright nasty. A talented cook, however, can work miracles with them, including pastries.
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  3295. Elbonia is expressing interest...
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  3296. So... An Elbonian Sniper Rifle.
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  3297. So... you're ready for the Tomato Apocalypse...
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  3298. Unregistered Foreign Agent? That's a crime!
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  3299. Weebl called it, some time back: https://youtu.be/b8uBnpUVoLc
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  3300.  CLureCo  yep. Same story as when the rimfire shortage hit. I know a guy who is sitting on over a hundred thousand rounds of .22lr. NOT a typo. At one point, he had over 110 thousand rounds; he's sold some, shot some, and will still have a more-than-lifetime supply. He's NEVER getting his money back, though. 'cause the rimfire apocalypse never happened.
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  3301.  @nightmare-gv6jf  r/nope
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  3302. Do you want superpowers? Because this is how you get superpowers. I guess you could say he illuminated his mind.
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  3303. Tacti-cool
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  3304. "Experimental reactor has a power excursion with fatal results." 😮 SL-1 Intensifies. 👿
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  3305. The fact that it involves manual manipulation of fuel elements whilst standing over the reactor core only magnifies the irony.
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  3306. Never forget the salon! Must fit that in, somewhere.
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  3307.  @TomElliottJackson  yes. Exactly.
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  3308.  @davidplatenkamp  people have been spouting that lie for over 200 years. The Bohemians were wrong, the utopians were wrong, the anarchists were wrong, the hippies and yippies were wrong, the anarcho-script kiddies were wrong, and so are you. Bottom line: until there is a RELIABLE alternative model for compensating innovators and the people who support them, IP is not only entirely legitimate, it is also inevitable. Go ahead. Show me a model that hasn't failed. Even LINUX has gone IP, albeit under GNU. If you deny that GNU is an IP protection model, you're deluded.
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  3309. Just found this channel. Subscribed.
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  3310. Beginning of the vid comment; before you even get started, duck in figs and dates sounds amazing.
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  3311. Wheat and barley? Are you sure the Pharoh wasn't going to brewing his own beer?
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  3312. End of the video; that's it. I'm making date & fig sauce for Thanksgiving. Because I bet this would go very well on turkey or goose.
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  3313.  @natowaveenjoyer9862  because it is.
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  3314. The electrical fire doesn't have to be very big to denature the wire rope to the point of failure under load, Especially if the wire rope were made of substandard materials to start. Heavy load, minor change in mechanical properties due to heat (and electrical arc fires are VERY hot!), and PING! Down comes the cable.
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  3315. Inspired and creative use of otherwise non-productive inventory. Might have to save my pennies.
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  3316. Love watching you mock yourself. Good to see folks with a sense of humor.
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  3317. Those free flight rockets are utterly devastating on the receiving end. They're not precision weapons, and they're not intended to be; they're localized area effect weapons, and they completely WRECK concentrations of light armor, soft-skinned vehicles, buildings, and especially personnel. You clearly know nothing about modern munitions.
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  3318.  @marktessier9441  extending the range. Allows firing from a safer distance, and gives Russian MANPADS less time to engage. You lose some concentration/ density of fire are the receiving end, but these missile barrages are utterly devastating when they land anyway.
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  3319. Calling absolute BULLSHIT on your implication that submarines are always dimly lit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. "Rig for Red" is only in Control, and only when going to PD at night. "Rig Dark" is only for surfacing at night on patrol when you're going to man the bridge, and a vanishingly rare occurrence. Control is usually dimly lit - with white light - to reduce eye fatigue on the watchstanders; the rest of the time, and the boat, it was quite well illuminated with fluorescent lights. Berthing spaces were usually dim, too, for obvious reasons, but they too lit up brightly on frequent occasions. Far too often, IMO. Ops compartment? Engineering spaces? Galley, mess decks, wardroom? Lit right the fuck up. ~ qualified in submarines
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  3320.  @scottwyatt2614  same.
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  3321.  @jdlamb4212  immaterial.
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  3322. Highly unlikely that Ukraine will give Russia any breathing room while they control the initiative and are rolling up the Russian troops.
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  3323. Almost a shame it fell all the way. Would have been much more expensive if it had just bent badly and hung up... The Russians would have had to complete the demolition before commencing cleanup and rebuilding.
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  3324. Amused by the various 'Cobray' type handguns. Crude, clunky, but they work, and have a certain primitive charm. I own several; they're tremendous fun to shoot.
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  3325. You need a wascawwy wabbit to shoot at. Or a screwy duck.
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  3326.  @JohnHolmes-n9g  Russian troll is obvious and stupid.
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  3327.  @acomingextinction  Ballistic knives, sadly, have a rather long history; lots of prior art there. So, yeah, no.
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  3328. Clearly, you have made this all very clear. Clearly.
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  3329. I have racks of 85 watt incandescent bulbs for sale at work (big box hardware store); it's not that uncommon.
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  3330. John Browning is spinning in his grave.
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  3331. Oh, Elbonia. Don't ever change.
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  3332. Poor Ian. Figures he'd like it. "Starvation diet" is exactly right; desperate people will eat crazy crap. Many Chinese food 'delicacies,' such as birds nest soup, started the same way.
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  3333.  @edubraz  yes. There's a dearth of east Asian examples, so far.
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  3334. This is going to be a theoretical exercise for me. So glad you ran the experiment for us.
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  3335. Also: "Bedight" is a most cromulent word.
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  3336.  @TastingHistory  🤣😂
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  3337. Noto Squad, sound off! #akgnotificationsquad
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  3338. Another fascinating and quirky French firearm; i want one! Edit: Also; Was post-war France actually Elbonia? I see a lot of logistics and design sabotage here...
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  3339. A little of both, I suspect. Plus the mild recoil of the .380. My father was a world-class pistolero, and she and he spent a lot of time together at the range. Well, all of us did. Family time, yanno? But there's something about the PPK, even with her aging eyes and muscles, it shoots to her intended point of aim.
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  3340.  @PapaSchultz74  oh yeah. And I carry it forward. My family still goes to the range together. My wife is more of a shotgunner; my daughter is into precision rifle; my son loves his archery; I'm into all the above plus handgunning. It's expensive, frankly, but it's worth it, and then some.
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  3341. Nieces and nephews, too. My brother-in-law is Quaker, but he has no problem with target shooting... So yeah, when we show up, the range is full.
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  3342. Sweet Jesus, Musk is a walking dumpster fire.
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  3343. Even lags have sense of honor and propriety.
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  3344.  @chetpomeroy1399  their nuclear missiles will not help them win in Ukraine. There are no battlefield targets worthy of a nuke, and any strategic targets will get them into an active war with NATO. Russia's nuclear bluff has been called. Now they're shopping the pathetic false flag "dirty bomb" provocation, and have had their bluff called there, too. Russia has gone limp-dick, and they know everyone knows it. They're flailing (and with a limp dick, that's NOT a good look!)
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  3345.  @suportbghelp4938  considering the way Ukraine is kicking Russia's ass without NATO troops on the line, EVERYONE says that - except Russia, who cries "Wolf!" everytime they screw up and get their collective asses handed to them.
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  3346.  @aaronbaker2186  that could happen. But Putin has systemically eliminated everyone around him with a spine. More likely, they'll say "Da," then bolt for their shelters. MOST likely, though, is that Putin will continue to rattle sabers, and send untrained men to die for his ego.
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  3347.  @GwynBleys  that is, again a grossly simplistic mis-reading. STUPIDLY so, in fact. Really, you Putin Tools are blunt instruments even at your best, and after eight months of the "#2 military" in the world getting its ass kick by its own incompetence, well, none of you are in good repair any more, are you?
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  3348. Don't mess with success.
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  3349. Max Mac-a-roni.
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  3350. I thought 60... I was wrong.
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  3351. Ok, was NOT expecting the stove apocalypse. Excellent.
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  3352. Per my wife: that's the only approved use for mayonnaise.
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  3353. Usually, if you throw enough money at a problem, it can be overcome. Not the smartest solution (usually), but a reliable one.
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  3354. Uncle Joe is well past his "Sell by" date... #akgnotificationsquad
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  3355.  @BavarianM  yes, it is, but at a low specific activity in its most common isotope. The value of plutonium in fission reactions lies in its very large mass defect when split.
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  3356. Oh hey, like the Soviet Russians fortified factories in Stalingrad? Oh, wait... Hypocrites like you don't read history.
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  3357. Gorgeous.
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  3358. Do NOT mess with trees. You WILL find yourself in court.
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  3359. YES. Complete agreement.
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  3360. What scares me is that if they manage to get the machine learning right, they could literally flood the battlefield with swarms of drones.
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  3361.  @martinharries8689  ah, yes, playing the paranoid to try and undermine the UK's proper, moral, and righteous support against that fascist, Putin.
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  3362. French farmers are still, more than a hundred years later, occasional casualties of WWI UXO
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  3363. "Excellence in engineering is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away." Too many features == Failure
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  3364. The big dogs in the prison camp scene? I knew them. Their owner is a well-known & respected Shiloh Shepherd breeder.
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  3365. Yes, I watched the movie. Mostly for the dogs.
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  3366. Protecting the parts that matter...
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  3367.  @Axteffekt  nah, better not do irredeemably evil stuff to start, so you don't have to scurry like a rat.
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  3368. Damn... That's quite the shower of brass!
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  3369. Locally, the EAS is used for tornadoes, flooding events, and the like.
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  3370. Damn. 😮 Color me VERY impressed!
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  3371.  @John-ed8ye  useful. Thank you!
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  3372. Cocoanut milk would be easier to find, I'm certain.
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  3373. For refrigerator brining, big Ziploc bags are your secret weapon.
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  3374. That .700 NE really throws a fireball...
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  3375. Looks chonky - Cute!
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  3376. Sam Cummings! Cousin! (yes, actually)
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  3377. High Point carbines aren't actually horrible. At least as far as plinking and PCC uses go.
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  3378. I don't recall ever seeing a "right to wear camo" in the Constitution. Care to point it out? Yeah, didn't think so. That said, Dakota is definitely channeling his inner "get off me lawn!" grumpy old man.
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  3379. Picked up my phone, discovered this vid only 9 minutes old. Bonus!
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  3380. Also: Damn, that thing kicks like an angry mule! 😲
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  3381.  @bohba13  ALSO true, but the powers that really matter will use the refuseniks as an excuse.
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  3382.  @bohba13  I think, if you look at history, you'll see you're mistaken. Examine, for instance, just who signed, and did not sign, the protocols on land mines.
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  3383. My father worked on the Eldest Son project. He would NOT shoot anything chambered in 7.62x39. Ever.
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  3384. "Deagle thumb." Sounds like a perverted sex act... Like something Ghislaine Maxwell might offer a'la carte...
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  3385. 😁
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  3386. And yet, the utterly mad magazine design.
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  3387.  @neutronalchemist3241  in an era when belt feed was already a proven, reliable technology, and the Masden had demonstrated that box magazines were both reliable and combat efficient.
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  3388.  @neutronalchemist3241  ah, yes, the cloth belts used by pretty much the entire rest of the world. Yes, clearly unsatisfactory. As opposed to the Goldbergian mousetrap magazine used by... One nation. Your argument is clearly superior.
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  3389. Gun Jesus going full 'Lazarus' on Calico...
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  3390. The only purpose I could see for the Ise class would be as commerce raiders. Which, of course, is immediately countered by the convoy system.
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  3391. That's a new version of the old menace: the Water Willie, where a hose is allowed to flail about and beat this crap out of little kids. Just in this new version, it uses a bullet hose. Also: "...banger of a headache." I see what you did there.
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  3392. But that magazine! 😲
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  3393. The point is not to hit or kill the shark. It NEVER was. The point is to startle the shark. For that purpose, shooting into the water near the shark is exactly the correct thing. Boot camp swim check involves, among other things, jumping off of a high platform because if you do have get off a crippled ship, you're going to be doing it from a goodly height. Swim call off a warship is not dangerous, really. And yeah, I've had swim call off of a submarine, including diving off the fairwater planes; No big deal. The shark watch typically uses an M-14, which is plenty enough to startle a shark.
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  3394. Putin tool identified
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  3395.  @Locahaskatexu  recruiting, perhaps?
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  3396.  @HenrikBSWE  not impossible.
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  3397. I will push back at your claim of 'significant' setback. It's a spectacular hit, certainly, but Russia has another dozen such craft. It's only got a load capacity of 500 tons; that's not a lot compared to regular cargo ships with capacities in the thousands of tons. The biggest value that the Project 775 ships bring is the ability to offload in primitive harbors and even across the beach. But that's still not a major lift capability. Nuisance value, ultimately - impressive, but not a war-winner. More important, in my opinion, is the recent loss of Su-34s. That has relieved pressure on the Dnipro bridgehead, allowing Ukrainian forces to consolidate and reinforce without having to dodge FAB-500 and -1000 glide bombs.
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  3398. That's just a fine, attractive hunk of engineering.
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  3399. Bubba's giant fun gun... It just screams "hold my beer." Seems excessively finicky on feeding; could use some refinement.
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  3400. Complete pin-brain. Yeah, lock him up for a while to give him some time to get his head out of his ass.
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  3401. When you stick you neck waaaay out... 😕 ...and don't get your head cut off. 😎
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  3402. "We have dates at home."
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  3403. Bet it throws real fireballs. 7.62x54r is potent, and with a shorter barrel...
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  3404.  @MelanieCravens  I wouldn't look to Star Trek for definitions on anything. :p
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  3405. Huzzah! The subscribers accumulate apace! You earned this, enjoy your win. 🙂
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  3406.  Alexander Macedonian  true, Russia has had a future - a dark, bleak one. With commenters of your caliber in Russia's corner, that future is even darker than I feared. It's clear that you are emotionally stunted, and your selection of a stale homophobic slur donstrayes your intellectual deficits.
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  3407.  @timmytwodogs  excellent! My first 1911 was in .38 Super. I think... Yeah... I currently own three handguns chambered in .38 Super, including a Tanfoglio.
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  3408. Shockwaves travel through homogeneous glass, only dumping their energy with they find a phase or density transition. That's why you get the chipping on far face.
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  3409. Also: Try shooting polished granite.
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  3410. Nifty bit of history. Thanks for this.
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  3411. Mind you, the AK 50 is anything but forgotten...
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  3412. Make up your bloody damn mind - Cruiser, or Destroyer (hint: they're *Cruisers)*..? 50 inch machine guns? Do you have ANY idea what you're talking about? At the very least, this was an incredibly sloppy video.
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  3413. This story is NOT recent. Back in the 1980s, the US Army's Human Engineering Labs (HEL) were working heavily on hearing protection and command intelligibility under hearing protection. Bernie Corona, MS, (HEL) and Dr. B. Cummings (Chief Engineer, HEL, Special Projects Office) both spent a LOT of taxpayer money on force hearing protection studies. The Army, being the Army, did little with the results.
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  3414.  @bigreddog502  is joke. Japanese put bayonets on damn near everything - including light machine guns. Hence, meme.
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  3415.  @lemokolyon  you are so completely full of shit. If you MUST parrot Putin propaganda, at least choose something plausible. That you are, straight-faced, lying like this indicates that you are too stupid to pick a good lie. Meanwhile; one aspect of blue-on-blue casualties: Russian weapons systems are entirely capable of incredible destruction. If they're manned by ill-trained soldiers and incompetent officers, with shit communication, it's entirely possible that you've got troops moving in the open directly under an own-force artillery concentration. Maybe it's lack of coordination... Maybe it's land navigation errors... Maybe it's bad aim... Maybe it's incorrect target identification...
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  3416. It's going to take more than a government collapse; Russia needs a major cultural revolution, and that's going to take a LOT of time and effort. In America, we talk about "Joe Six-Pack," the notional average American. It's the attitudes and beliefs of Joe Six-Pack that act as the keel and rudder of how the country goes; he stabilizes its political and social course. If you want to change course, you need to get Joe Six-Pack on board with the plan. Same, in Russia (or any other country); Ivan Vodka is going to need to want to change course, if Russia is ever going to become a stable and moderate nation. The problem is, eight decades of 'communism' and two decades of Putin have taught Ivan Vodka to plow straight ahead, without looking for any alternatives. Getting his attention, and convincing him it is time to change is going to be a monumental task. God speed, and I hope it happens, but I don't think it will happen anytime soon.
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  3417. Firey death to the Tomato Lord!
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  3418.  @nichevo1  shot placement counts. Not everyone is a marksman at that level. Hell, almost no one is. For us mere mortals, you need much more.
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  3419.  @nichevo1  not sure, myself.
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  3420. Ah, the ever-popular Brass Dance. 😐
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  3421. Clearly you're having far too much fun; more fun than is strictly allowed.
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  3422. They're going to get slash-dotted for sure.
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  3423. That's a LOT of damned hard, detailed, work. Take a bow, Brandon & crew - y'all've earned it!
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  3424. BSE is a particularly horrify disease.
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  3425.  @lancerevell5979  the translucent red bug juice is more effective. The opaque red bug juice is useless for anything, including drinking.
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  3426. New to me. Cool.
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  3427. the Russian diplomats might have been in the dark, but the UK, German, US, Norway, Finland, and Sweden all knew, and warned Ukraine and the world. So if he was truly ignorant, he must have had his head in the sand. Still, he did the right thing, and did it early, so I'll give him a pass.
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  3428. Big cardboard bowl of watermelon soup... And yeah, one heck of a muzzle blast!
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  3429. HIMARS launches "Attack M&Ms."
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  3430.  @fritzdaddy-135mmgetstagger4  de gustibus non disputandum est.
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  3431. I always expect southpaws to eat brass... Watching my daughter rock the fun switch makes me flinch every time; she hasn't caught a face full of hot brass yet, but watching it flipping past her face... Yeah.
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  3432. Finding her left-handed firearms has become a bit of a hobby.
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  3433.  @cmonbroitsme  I'm cross-dominant as well, but I've learned to deal with it... On long guns. Watching me shoot handguns weirds people out, though.
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  3434.  @anonymous11233  could be worse. You could've said something political.
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  3435. Fighting bravely for a doomed and evil cause. Very sad. The incoming fire was well-directed, and the position was completely compromised - A white flag could have saved their lives. Putin is feeding his nation's future into the flames.
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  3436. 12 birdshot was mildly terrifying. The turkey load one is my favorite; pretty much confirmed my preferred defense load. Slug was more destructive, but when you're blowing coconut-sized holes in a torso, well, past a certain point it doesn't really matter, does it?
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  3437. Gorgeous, and yes, extremely clean design. The machining would have been a stone bitch - classic Swiss engineering. But there are probably half a dozen ways around that. I can think of two right off the top of my head. Shame it never went any further.
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  3438. If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid, and you just got lucky.
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  3439.  @Goorood  those ground explosions sure as heck weren't more smoking Russian soldiers. You're very bad as a troll. You need to go back to troll school quick, before the press gangs grab you and send you to die in Ukraine.
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  3440. Sailor here; Not being able to rescue the sailors is not a sure sign of incompetence. The bad facts of being a sailor often mean that you are far from rescue, and sea rescue is an extremely difficult operation that is nothing even remotely like ground evacuation. Hypothermia can kill VERY fast, and even if a rescue flight were launched instantly, by the time the rescuers reached the site, everyone would already be dead, given current Black Sea conditions. As for the crew escaping the vessel itself, well, it was subjected to numerous VERY violent explosions in close sequence; that destroys soft equipment like life rafts, and leaves the crew physically disoriented and disabled; very poor conditions for self-rescue. The ship sank very quickly, and would have trapped some crew, as well as taking life boats and rafts down with it. So - The loss of all hands is almost certainly due to the conditions of war at sea, rather than incompetence.
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  3441. Nifty action. A semi-semi-automatic?
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  3442. Good shot; catastrophic kill.
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  3443. Online death threats are for cowards and basement-dwelling man-babies.
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  3444. There are large multi-national charities that haven't reached your level of donations. The Enforcers and the LSA rock, out loud.
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  3445. Invite a carpenter. Because, while you may be a fine doc, a carpenter you are not. 😛
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  3446. Bolts, pins, plates, and screws in the skeleton, and spinal hernias? Those are DISQUALIFYING in the West. Russia is the land of Eternal Booooolshit.
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  3447.  @ushankaman6143  apparently, they are that careless, emphasizing superficially impressive armored movement over good combined arms doctrine. Where the Russians find themselves on the defensive, their doctrinal discipline has been much better. I suspect that pressure from above (Putin!) added to the corruption endemic to Russian government, and a misaligned training program (infantry training is not sexy), has forced the Russians into dangerous choices.
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  3448. Big Green needs to change it's stance, or it's going to get eaten. There are a lot of hungry competitors out there, already making inroads into their market share. Once farmers lose their emotional attachment, if Deere hasn't mended it's ways, it's going to go the way of the Big Three auto manufacturers.
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  3449. Ah, the sweet, sweet music of solid, well-machined steel parts working against other, similar parts. 🙂
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  3450. I sat jury on the Exxonmobil v. SABIC trial in Chancery Court in Delaware. Three words in a contract - three words that the plaintiff themselves suggested SABIC amend - cost SABIC more than $400 million dollars. Read your contracts. Re-read your contracts. LISTEN to your lawyers, and listen to the OTHER party's lawyers even more closely.
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  3451. "Can a movie be bad if you watch it over and over again..?" :: 'Evil Dead' franchise has entered the chat. ::
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  3452. For such a sophisticated design, it looks surprisingly crude.
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  3453. Classy. Mea culpa isn't easy, but you went there.
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  3454. What, no gambeson? No plastron? Boo! 😁
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  3455. Because they can?
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  3456. Non-newtonian fluid
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  3457.  @MAGAMAN  paper mask doesn't stop the virus. It stops the water droplets carrying the virus. And yes, that is un-contravertable science.
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  3458. ​ @ForgottenWeapons 😅😂
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  3459.  @5777Whatup  that's what happens when you let a corporal run your wars.
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  3460.  @pennise  oh, they had their bean counters, absolutely. No project that large can succeed without bean counters. What they didn't have was mass quantities of regulators. Sure, there were some, but no more than strictly necessary. These days? We've got - literally - regulators regulating other regulators.
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  3461.  @pennise  whistle true, you then have the problem when the Engineers nearly bankrupted Boeing. Because they were shit at counting beans. Bean counters MUST have a seat at the table (and did, except for that - fortunately brief - tenure). Saying there were no bean counters present or involved is factually and functionally wrong.
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  3462. The Civilian Production Administration (Board) replaced the War Production Board in late 1945. Just as the WPB organized, prioritized, and regulated resources and production, the Civilian Production Administration turned around and shepherded the transition from the wartime economy to a civil economy. The CPA is a very large part of the economic miracle of post-WWII America, ensuring a (relatively) smooth transition, including measures to limit unemployment amongst returning soldiers. The WPB and CPA are crucial in the events that turned the United States into an economic hyper-power.
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  3463. Goldberg, taking out the trash... Heh. Matt, this what you get for littering manikin parts in front of Goldberg. 😛
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  3464. Declare victory and go home. 😁
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  3465. Let us presume - just for argument's sake - that the single-action revolver magically cocked AND fired itself. Had Baldwin followed the single, first, MOST IMPORTANT #1 rule of firearms - NEVER POINT A WEAPON AT SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY - we would not be having this conversation. Had Baldwin followed just that one, basic, rule, he would not be living with a lifetime of regret; not even if somehow the handgun turned into a fire breathing full-auto endless-ammo Hollywood bullshit weapon.
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  3466. Definitely different. Pensacola is one of my favorite towns. Glad you had a good time!
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  3467. Government moves at the speed of bureaucracy.
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  3468. Huzzah! You may not be the hero we deserve, but you are the hero we need!
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  3469. Eh. Look at my name. I don't need no stinkin' 'established' title. 😛
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  3470. https://youtu.be/Wk0i0Bi0p1Y
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  3471. Not gunna lie, I want to see the KelTek P-50.
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  3472.  @jic1  could be; I dunno. The company itself is Austrian.
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  3473.  @baobo67  6.5 Swedish is a great round, but I don't know of any left-handed Swedish Mausers, and they're all a good deal heavier than the Scout. Plus putting optics on a Swedish Mauser isn't exactly easy.
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  3474.  @jic1  it's in response to the assertion about the superiority of certain nations' rifles. A rebuttal by example, if you will.
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  3475.  @blitzhill9533  yeah, but that's not what they're known for, thematically.
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  3476.  @Ghastly_Grinner  sand is even less effective once the fire grows beyond a small patch. Yes, I've played with putting fire out with sand and dirt, too.
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  3477.  @ragnkja  yeah, no.
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  3478. I like pan pizza well enough, but I fall into the New York-style pizza camp. No, it's not a casserole; John Stewart should stick to politics - he's an idiot where pizza is concerned.
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  3479.  @ferrisbueller9991  1870s. The Guycot, to be specific. Ian did a video, back in 2016.
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  3480.  @ferrisbueller9991  Made by Cap'n Dan and his Scurvey Crew?
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  3481. Basically, a pump 'garden gun' for killing garden pests like woodchucks.
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  3482. Muzzle blast is a bitch. Be respectful, or it will slap you stupid.
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  3483. No ground beef; but pepperoni was available.
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  3484. Ukraine is killing Russian Flag and field-grade officers as fast as they can.
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  3485. Big fan of rum nog. Rye isn't really my thing, but brandy and rum work well together.
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  3486.  @richardlooch2109  yeah, my comment was mostly ironic. I mean, you could buff and stone the slide bits... But why?
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  3487.  @girtisholland  wow. Dude above failed to read the thread. 🤷
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  3488. You missed a great opportunity to use the axe on a tomato.
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  3489. Heh Cursed gun image hangover. #akgnotificationsquad
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  3490. Piccolo Pistol Pete
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  3491. #problemsolva
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  3492.  @cripstopheriii3509  so it is. Some of us work, anyway; so I forgot.
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  3493. "...a little lack-luster." Extreme understatement. AMTRAK has had a LOT of problem with PTC. There was a nasty wreck fairly recently in Philadelphia where PTC would have saved lives.
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  3494. I'm brought to mind of a Matador. Ukraine waved the red cape at Kherson to attract the Russians' attention, but the real threat was the blade hidden out of sight. Once the Russians reacted south, the blade was thrust home in the Kharkiv region.
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  3495. The Don Ho reference is kinda... Obscure, these days.
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  3496. Sometimes, he gave them a boot. Or a Boutet.
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  3497. Ukrainian war trolling knows no limits
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  3498.  @youareliedtobythemedia  seized. Expropriated. Nationalized. Whatever. No matter how you squirm or weasel-word, it's all the same: The German government now controls the refineries. Deal with it.
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  3499. Wiping out the fuel storage is much more important than the aircraft.
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  3500.  @nahor88  so, those who can't drive go without. Those without cars go without. Those who are just ficking exhausted after busting their asses all day go without. Yeah, you didn't think about your comment before posting, did you? Try thinking first, next time.
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  3501. Russia has ALWAYS distorted Western policies, lying through their teeth to justify their rampant paranoia.
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  3502. Warthog Defense seems to be back up.
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  3503. This takes me back to Naval Nuclear Power School, and heat-cycle discussions. Enthalpy charts, saturation, superheat, condensate depression... All solid core topics.
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  3504. Lithium Bromide refrigeration needs a video.
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  3505.  @whatthepfpsays4234  engraving done Warhammer-style. :-D
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  3506. Like cracking a boiled egg, continuing growing pressure everywhere eventually leading cracks, and cascading failure. Soon, Ukraine will be making 'egg salad' from Russian holdings.
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  3507. Shades of the World of Warships "Flamu" shitstorm...
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  3508. Context: (Then) Community Contributor "Flamu" posted a profane and highly critical rant about the state of World of Warships. Much drama ensues. Everything gets sorted, everyone is now on same page. Then the WG North America office decides, out of nowhere, to post an amazingly insane shitpost, reopening the whole can of worms.
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  3509.  @Rx7man  The collapse of WTC 7 was caused by a single initiating event—the failure of a northeast building column brought on by fire-induced damage to the adjacent flooring system and connections. Inadequate design for the mode of damage; again, an unanticipated event. Should fire have been considered? Probably.
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  3510.  @fox7757  the thing is, if you're a licensed engineer or architect, you can't hide these things. Sooner or later, errors and shortcuts will come to the surface. You. Do. Not. want your name associated with, say, a Surfside, Miami, condominium.* * THAT sonuvabitch got lucky; he died before he murdered a bunch of residents.
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  3511. LEGENDARY!
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  3512. Not surprising; a well-designed weapon remains a well-designed weapon. The US still retains the M1911a1 in inventory, though it it is no longer the primary issue sidearm. Keeping the old reliables in service is only efficient.
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  3513. Top lever is a bit awkward, requiring that you change your grip to work the action, but not excessively so.
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  3514. As long as they don't pair it with the 'Smart' cycle...
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  3515. Brilliant bit of work flow.
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  3516. NGL, this would do the job 99.9% of the time.
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  3517.  @Liminal.Headspace  if you shoot it without earpro anywhere, you're going to be deaf. Oh, and it throws quite the fireball, too. Fire it at night and your night vision is toast. Intimidation value: epic.
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  3518. The Battle of Los Angeles: https://youtu.be/6oY8HIWBS-Y
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  3519.  @jeffwalther3935  and if I had a crystal ball, I'd win every lottery.
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  3520.  @jeffwalther3935  and yet... No empty B29s. Face it; no matter how you wiggle, wriggle, twist, or "What If," the balloon bombing was money, manpower, and resources down a rathole. Technically brilliant, but logistically and militarily idiotic.
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  3521.  @jeffwalther3935  setting aside the logistical waste, the entire concept was wrongheaded from the start. It was akin to attacking a main battle tank with a break-barrel BB gun. Not just futile, but literally (as historically demonstrated) ignorable. It's the kind of project you assign to the idiot you can't fire; nothing he could do with it would matter, but it gets the idiot out of your hair.
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  3522.  @jeffwalther3935  your ideas of management and Imperial Japan's are rather different. Do not make the mistake of presuming that other people have the same goals, motivations, or even theories that you do.
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  3523.  @MrDaiseymay  the balloon bombs absolutely did not create panic. Thus, an absolute failure. The shelling of a handful of refineries and lumber mills created local panic, yes, but again, not enough to do anything useful; didn't slow the fall of Imperial Japan by even a second, thus, while limited, local, tactical success, was another strategic flop.
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  3524.  @jacqueslefave4296  after it happened a couple times, I could afford my own personal bully boys. And a couple thousand acres fit for digging shallow graves.
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  3525. Back on the day of black powder and horse calvary, this maneuver would be carried out by horse calvary using wheel-lock pistols, in a process called a 'Carousel' or 'Caracole.' Yes, the carnival ride is named after a military maneuver designed to fix pikemen and/or arquebussers in place for a maneuvering block of friendly pike to work around to the flank and ruin their day. Cavalry would ride into range, turn, and ride across the face of the enemy formation, discharging their wheel-lock pistols, then wheel away to ride out of easy range to reload, only to charge back in to range and repeat. Edit: I see I'm not the only historical enthusiast watching. 😛
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  3526. Khyber Pass Berthier?
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  3527. Yeah, you can save it. Scrap the existing receiver and put in a new one, should actually be pretty straightforward.
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  3528. Food archaeology is not for wimps.
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  3529. Viking Blod mead is sold at a local, excellent, bottle shop. It features at pretty much all of our holiday meals. Considering the preponderance of Norse blood in the family, perhaps not surprising.
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  3530. "...Lukashenko didn't think this through..." No: "...Lukashenko didn't think." There, fixed it for ya. "Region sealed off due to anthrax." Are we certain it wasn't a massive draft dodging effort?
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  3531. Assassination? Or just a fat out-of-shape dude eating too much fatty meat?
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  3532. Single-wear Couture Ball Gown as butt wipe. Could not POSSIBLY come up with a better dig at conspicuous consumption.
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  3533. Very truthy.
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  3534. This is the way.
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  3535. How many scopes did you ruin, with this experiment?
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  3536. As a 'threat in being,' these guns and the other batteries kept the Japanese fleet honest; no submarines surfacing off the coast to shell facilities,* no random destroyers raiding. Just not worth the risk. * As happened a handful of times off the American West Coast.
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  3537. Scott, you're looking a LOT less buffed out - recovery has really taken it out of you. Bet you're glad you're getting back to the point where you can work out again. Earl has a special eggplant holder... That's epic!
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  3538. SPAM stands for "Spiced Ham." Hormell invented it as a way to make use of off-cut leftover pork, between the Great Depression and WWII. Think "Scrapple," but with less offal. It's actually pretty good fried up with eggs. Oh, and I learned about SPAM in the country. I don't know any city folks who like or eat it.
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  3539. Classy. Way to keep your integrity intact! Not surprised that an air defense missile landed somewhere unfortunate. Whatever goes up, will come down. Air defense missiles are not 100%, and very few are equipped with a "missed target" self-destruct.
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  3540. Remarkably simple design. Shame they retreated from the American market.
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  3541. Ok, the cold open wins.
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  3542. Mack the Knife (shark)
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  3543. .500 Bushwhacker is a beast. Like a holding a flash-bang in your hands.
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  3544. You'd think the Russians would start making more, smaller, depots. Also, hiding them better might be a lesson to learn.
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  3545. "Dad, can I shoot the slime..? "Not on camera." "Awwww..."
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  3546. Squirrels are not venomous, poisonous, or fond of Mountain Ash Tree leaves, so would never survive in Australia.
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  3547. Yeah - The manning suppositions? Clearly not assembled by an experienced sea-going sailor; It was a drug-smoking self-fellating fantasy.
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  3548. Secondaries. Yes.
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  3549.  @MyKillerson  see my above-made point.
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  3550. Hey, I have some nasty potholes near my house. If I can get Google to relable them as "Ukrainian Hospital,' or "Ukrainian Kindergarten," maybe Russia will drop a missile on them? Then I can get DOT to repave them properly! Downside; I might have to import Ukrainian utility workers, too.
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  3551. What happened to everyone's noses..?!
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  3552. That small game broadhead was the very definition of "Brain Damage."
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  3553. She displayed all the classic signs of a narcissistic con artist. She trips most of the flags for pseudo-science and quackery. When investing, especially in unproven and 'disruptive' technology, you MUST stay disciplined and avoid unreasonable enthusiasm.
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  3554.  soaringtractor  a virtual hornets nest of machine guns.
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  3555.  @sakkolappu7318  just so happens, I disagree with your assessment.
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  3556.  @jacobkingsford5209  nope. Not a joke. Still not the most common, nor as used in as many theaters, medium bomber of the war. An excellent craft, indeed, and in head-to-head measurements in most ways superior, but not quite as versatile, and certainly not as numerous.
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  3557.  @jacobkingsford5209  never said otherwise. As a multi-purpose light attack, it was brilliant.
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  3558.  @allangibson2408  the gunship variants had either great racks of m2 machine guns - or - the 75mm gun, but not both. Space and weight considerations severely limited the ability to add additional machine guns when carrying the cannon. Blister guns, sure, but not the eight to twelve internal gun arrangements.
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  3559.  @binksterb  used to crawl all over the old base, after it was effectively abandoned. Shame what a ruin it became. The Commandant's quarters are still visible from across the river.
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  3560.  @marcobassini3576  except, which you blatantly ignored, when American officers went and did things like Clarke did, which completely bamboozled the Germans. They literally had no counter for Clarke's 'more than blitzkrieg.'
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  3561. Glad you're back in the gym. That's a nasty hunk of metal they pulled out of you. Three months, and you're cleared for the gym? That's amazing. Bravo Zulu!
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  3562. 'Way to get back on that pony and ride, buddy! Edit: Also proud that Lowe's can contribute to the rehab shoot.
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  3563. DOGGO!
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  3564. Prototyping. Enough to test the patience of saints. Lesser mortals can only grit their teeth and tough it out.
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  3565. A well-maintained boat is good for well over 40 years. A poorly-maintained boat isn't good for even 10. But it's clear that the smirking bastard has no understanding of submarines whatsoever.
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  3566. Napoleon gets bad press, but that's because 1) he scared the winners very badly, and 2) he lost. In many ways, Napoleon was modern, thoughtful, dynamic, and inventive. He set up and followed through on a system of incentives for new, practical innovations, he created efficient government, and he helped drive industrial and agricultural development. If it weren't for that whole 'losing' bit, he would be remembered as one of the great leaders of the industrial revolution.
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  3567. Never interrupt the enemy while they're making a mistake. Attacking from predictable directions during muddy weather... Well, as the Might Jingles would say: That's a paddling.
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  3568. Obsolescent != Obsolete Properly maintained, any of these vehicles can still do the job for which they were designed. As long as they're not facing modern opposition, they remain capable.
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  3569. I usually tolerate the sponsorship messages as a necessary sin, but this time? I'm checking them out because I find myself suddenly hungry.
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  3570. If revolutions are unlawful, does that mean that communist china is also illegal..?
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  3571. If ever there was a time to piss on a fire, this was it.
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  3572. Pretty sure the BMG case detonation yeeted the primer into the fire - explosive de-capping.
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  3573.  @lorelyna1  yeah, and I'm sure that Ukraine has some special forces, and as I happen to actually know some special forces types (Army SF, Navy SEALs), I also know that they don't waste their capacity on extremely high-risk, minor targets like this. Further, being Special Forces does not make you magically incapable of being detected and countered - which is why they don't get wasted on minor targets. There is no good risk-reward benefit to it. Occam's Razor.
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  3574.  @richardpark3054  Occam's Razor absolutely applies. The OP posits an incredibly high-risk, extremely complicated operation in exchange for the destruction of a minor target as a substitution for an already offered, simple, and demonstrably possible explanation. The Razor always favors the least complicated solution that meets all known factors. Special Forces are not magic. They are extremely expensive to train, supply, and field. They are, by definition, extremely limited in numbers. Use of such a force on minor target would be stupid. The Ukrainians are manifestly not stupid. You presume two legs of the tower were severed, but I see no evidence of that, and neither do you. You saw an explosion and the tower fell. The idea that this was an infiltration attack is not quite impossible, but is so unlikely as to be ludicrous and ridicule-worthy.
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  3575.  @lorelyna1  dude. You saw the same video I did. Stop gaslighting, it's not a good look, especially for something this obvious. I'm beginning to think you're a more-subtle Putin troll.
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  3576. This kind of thing makes my sailing brain hurt and rage. Start with the company's leadership, and jail the lot of them; a fish rots from the head. Flog the derelict bos'un, and his supervisors the same even harder. Cashier all officers in the bos'un's chain of command, and especially the captain for gross dereliction.
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  3577. Yeah, and there's NO way you'd ever need to fire with your off hand. 🙄
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  3578. ​ @АлександрВойлошников-ц5л I can tell you, even without the test, no, it will not stand up to the 4-bore, either. The current US helmet is good, but NO helmet is going to stand up to that beast.
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  3579. BB or CB caps..?
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  3580. Click-bait title.
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  3581. Not with that Damascus barrel, there won't be.
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  3582. What would entice me? A better paycheck. Had I a decent paycheck or disposable income, I'd have been a contributor LONG ago. Quite literally, I go negative balance between every paycheck, so even a dollar a month is more than I can afford.
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  3583. Good details.
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  3584.  @skepticalbadger  so was America, quite deeply.
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  3585.  @matthewsandifer2673  "Parlor Pinks" was a contemptuous phrase used for fashionable British socialites whom would gather in their parlors to drink and party and praise communism, despite being classic bourgeoisie. Basically hypocrites pretending to be "Red." Hence 'Pink,' they're not really Red, no matter what they pretend.
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  3586.  @larrymartineau7507  Have you UTTERLY lost your mind? Or are you some Gun Control provocateur, trying to make 2A supporters look bad?
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  3587.  @arkhaan7066  No. An AR build with that description would be easy. An AK, not so much. Which is why I would want Brandon to do an AK build - it's challenging.
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  3588.  @ronswanson485  like I said: A high bar to clear.
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  3589. Much of what is blowing your mind is that the Russian NCO Corps is notoriously weak. They simply do not have any useful level of low-rank professionalism.
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  3590.  @LN997-i8x  well, that's a shame. 😕
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  3591.  @packhorsetriumph5319  and yet, who do you call when motorcycle gangs are taking over your suburbs. Yeah. Not so pure and noble then, eh?
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  3592.  @tays8306  the higher-ups are invariably political. That should not reflect on the rank and file.
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  3593. Damn, it's a Bolter! MOAR DAKKA!
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  3594.  @sillysad3198  😂😅😆😂
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  3595. Ah. Basic process revealed; added to rotation. 👍
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  3596. There are videos out there of 4-bore and even 2-bore "Stopping Rifles." They make this look gentle.
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  3597. I have a few Cobray pistols. I love them. They're crude, clunky, and absolutely built like little tanks. The double derringer actually makes me cackle like a madman. It's just fun. Impractical to the point of uselessness, but fun. Edit: .22 short sux. But .25acp sux worse.
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  3598.  @ForgottenWeapons  ah. Makes sense now. Thank you!
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  3599.  @guaporeturns9472  heh. Another idiot heard from. The typical unknowing, self-congratulatory auto-eroticism of someone whom has made up their mind long before knowing anything on the subject. You are Dunning-Kruger in action.
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  3600. Yep.
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  3601. Actually, the Battle of Brody, in Ukraine, 1941, had the largest single engagement of armor. In Kursk, specifically the Battle of Prokhorovka, considered by many to be the largest tank-on-tank engagement, Germany had 294 tanks and assault guns, whereas the Soviet Union had 616 tanks and assault guns. At Brody, the German army had 750 tanks and assault guns, whilst the USSR had 3500. That makes Brody, by far, the largest tank-on-tank engagement ever. No one talks about it much, though, because 1) the Soviet tanks were older, mostly obsolescent vehicles, and the German tanks weren't much better. Also, the Nazis won that one. That doesn't mean that Kursk had fewer vehicles, or was smaller, just that actual fleets of tanks directly engaging in a single action against each other, Brody was larger.
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  3602. The CCP government doesn't know ANYTHING that is inconvenient to their desires.
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  3603.  @thesleepypiggy  fair point. Slash-Dot ( /. ) effect.
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  3604.  @danielch6662  that's moderately well established, actually.
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  3605.  @davidloftus2654  yeah, I always get those two mixed up. 😛
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  3606. Free AKs...?! Ukrainian farmers are running off with Russian tanks! I've seen videos of two different SAM systems - one wheeled and one tracked - being hauled off by tractors. Also a tracked APC. Best yet, a bunch of Ukrainian civilians joy-riding on a 'liberated' Russian main battle tank!
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  3607. The tracked APC video was hilarious - a Russian soldier was chasing after - "No! I still owe payments!"
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  3608. USAF 162nd Wing recently did an assessment of two Ukrainian pilots, both of whom are both qualified on two different Russian fighter/bomber airframes. The assessment was very positive, stating that after only a short orientation period, the UAF pilots were capable of routine maneuvers in F-16, and even some important 'technical' (i.e. difficult) maneuvers. The official conclusion of the 162nd was that four months transition training is sufficient for experienced UAF pilots. What does this mean? It means that when the F-16s arrive, the UAF pilots will be ready and waiting.
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  3609. So... crew-incinerating, turret-flipping armored vehicle design has a LONG tradition in the Soviet/Russian military... Nice to know they're consistent.
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  3610. Quite the ammo flex...
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  3611. This is a cascade failure. With Russia's crap command and control, senior officers are going forward to learn what's happening and to attempt control, and they're failing.
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  3612.  @thor9563  brilliant. Let's get Kyiv on the phone!
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  3613. Due to a series of stupid errors, the USN submarine fleet discovered that EB Green duct tape, when painted-over and reenforced with lagging, will hold submergence pressure to 150 feet. Oops.
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  3614. Guy Fawkes would be proud.
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  3615. Maybe Sam Cummings was here, too?
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  3616. Such fun!
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  3617. Suspiciously watching calendar - old hoax is ever-green.
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  3618. @Cancer McAids oh, they actually build mills and tooling calibrated in Imperial measurements for the effort. Indeed, they had to compromise their own engineering strength standards to meet the design. The Soviets went to absurd levels of effort to clone the B-29. Every single case where they used their own equipment, either because theirs was better, or they weren't able to duplicate the US equipment in time, required lengthy bureaucratic approval all the way up to the highest levels. The afore-mentioned 23mm cannon, objectively harder-hitting and longer-ranged, for instance, required dispensation from the Kremlin.
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  3619. News to me. Ingenious and highly efficient.
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  3620. Wouldn't wish C19 on anyone, but most people get a pretty mild case, and you're not in the highest risk category. Bad fortune, but you should recover well enough. Be well.
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  3621. .17HMR...
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  3622. Yeah, my point, as well. My legal research: have picked up bits of a motorcyclist at 2am on a highway ramp.
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  3623. That's not hair - That's a fleece!
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  3624. Big boys' gun. Not many places I would have a need for it; but one heckuva range toy.
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  3625.  Adi Krieg  brilliant. Thank you for your service.
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  3626. Most definitely. Though not quite as cute.
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  3627. Was actually expecting him (you) to one-hand the incoming beverage.
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  3628. This is brilliant; I had some VERY incorrect ideas about the origins of pizza. I am more educated! Huzzah!
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  3629. Fire-forming brass shot-shells... Heh.
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  3630. The ultimate "burn" on tomatoes.
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  3631. A complicated, if entirely effective, solution to problems that can be answered by cheaper solutions.
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  3632. Both sides think things are going to plan. Both are wrong. The side that is least wrong is the one which will win.
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  3633. Huh. Very weird. I'd own one just for the weirdness factor.
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  3634. Tokyo Blaster was best; yeah, you screwed up, but you screwed up in a controlled manner that was unlikely (less likely?) to lead to people suddenly leaking all over the place.
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  3635. The German Government, especially Scholz, have gone full Nevil Chamberlain. I'm certain that Russia has lots and lots of dirty pictures of the key players in German government. NOT a good look, and the German people need to call a no-confidence vote, and throw the rats out on their corrupt asses.
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  3636. I think this one is fundamentally more practical than the Styre.
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  3637. Seriously.
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  3638. Condolences on you loss. Condolences on his family's loss. Condolences on the loss to Russia's future. Sadly, until Russia wakes up, the deaths will continue.
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  3639. Wow! Putin is such an eco warrior! Singlehandedly, he's cut Europe's use of fossil fuels; he's fertilized the fields of Ukraine; and he's boldly embraced negative population growth in Russia! Get that man a Nobel Prize! 🙄
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  3640. ​ @aaronhoward7593 PA
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  3641. Mikhail Kalashnikov himself was very clear on the subject.
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  3642. Poland has a long history of getting beat up by their neighbors. I can't fault them.
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  3643. The connection with East German Neo-Nazis and West Germany Skinheads is particular ironic, in that one of his lies about his invasion of Ukraine is an allegation of 'Nazism.'
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  3644. The real brilliance is that the Russians must respect the threat of the cheap drones... If they don't light off their radar, the drones can get direct observation, and the HIMARS will begin to fall. Or, they do light off, and the HARMs come knocking on their door.
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  3645.  @andrejsurdevics6476  that DOES raise the challenge level, yes. 😂
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  3646.  @emersonschwarz1364  during Sam's tenure, Interarms had warehouses STUFFED with odds and ends. They may well have sat in crates.
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  3647.  @benwilson6145  are you such an idiot that you cannot recognize a typo? Yes, yes you are. I'm leaving the typo in place so everyone can see what an idiot you are.
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  3648. Nice Brandon Herrera reference...
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  3649. Bubba is not purely an American character. I would NOT put it past some South American Bubba making a 70 pound flashbang SMG. That said, it is probably a bolt gun.
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  3650. Functional design, why not chamber it in every caliber you have?
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  3651. Yeet vest.
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  3652. You are NOT alone. YouTube has been bought out by Putin; YT has been conducting a sweeping Special Demonitization Operation. Edit: YouTube are evil sacks of crap.
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  3653. The chilling effect is huge. It's not censorship, per se, that's true, but it has the same general effect.
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  3654.  @bloodybones63  because people ALL want the same things: Health, shelter, love, a better life for their children. The debate, and the divide, lies in HOW to best obtain those things.
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  3655. Not AT ALL surprised that Russia reneged on their solemn word. You just cannot trust Russia. This kind of paranoid duplicity is baked in to their language and culture.
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  3656. IRT HIMARS: As always, logistics is where it's at. IRT Drones/loitering munitions: Putin's War is a prime opportunity to pressurize munitions R&D. Live test > simulation. IRT blowing up trucks: Logistics is where it's at.
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  3657. Eh... Cousins, maybe. The M-2 is based more on the Browning M-1918/19.
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  3658. Naval architecture is not for amateurs.
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  3659. Behold the power of the internet.
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  3660.  @ragnkja  Hah! Truth!
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  3661. Want. Much want.
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  3662. Once you get to .357 magnum, it's really just a matter of personal preference - there's little material difference in terminal ballistic performance. Yeah, I know, I'm a heretic.
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  3663. Unboxing video that doesn't suck.
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  3664. No.5 Mk1...?! ...drool...
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  3665. Kherson City reclaimed by Thanksgiving? (24 November 2022) It could happen. What a Thanksgiving day that would be!
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  3666. That moment when the wheels cease being wheels, and the tank becomes the wheel... 😲
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  3667. Also: $43k...?! Don't tell Mare!
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  3668.  @DemolitionRanch  meta-wheel!
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  3669. Very cool provenance. I love this kind of detail. I collect Mausers, but none of mine have anything like this level of detail.
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  3670. 1 hour old, 2.7K views. Impressive.
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  3671. Damn. Going to have to try this.
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  3672. The DNA testing conducted and released are sufficient to have put 'Paid' to the Hitler child theory. The fact that some tests have been withheld further discredits the theory - the only reason for withholding results is that they were disproving, thus eliminating the ability to make more money on the whole mess.
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  3673. I wonder... That 11mm round could have made an acceptable heavy machine gun in an infantry support role; did the French investigate that possibility?
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  3674. Amen. Ignorant civilians think soldiers want war. They forget that WE are the ones who die in war. Recognizing that 'war is inevitable, and that it's best to be ready,' is NOT the same as wanting it.
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  3675. Also: Stay off this old man's lawn.
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  3676. Kinda got yer butt kicked in the disassembly. Not a great recommendation for the weapon, but if you're willing to shell out for an expensive bespoke handgun, I guess you're also prepared to deal with some eccentricity.
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  3677. Limes were standard ration to inhibit scurvey. Adding it to the rum, well, that's efficient as well as tasty. And yes, I do enjoy my Grog.
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  3678.  @ItWasAnAccident  not in the Russian tradition. In the Russian tradition, ships are 'He.'
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  3679.  @NielsC68  as a long term goal, strategically wise.
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  3680. When it really matters, you do it yourself.
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  3681. Moar Dakka!
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  3682. It's real, and yes, private owners will be in the crosshairs.
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  3683. The bitterly amusing bit here is that Allianz probably paid more to defend their stance than the actual costs on payout would have been.
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  3684.  @michaelbaker8284  nice to know. Also: very cool gig.
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  3685. That's a buttload of butter.
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  3686. The Russian trolls and Bots are out in force, I see, pushing the same old tired lies.
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  3687. Savage takedown. I approve. Lots of snark, and full factual analysis.
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  3688. Death by a thousand cuts.
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  3689. They also have two ranks of Warrant Officer.
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  3690.  @watcherzero5256  probably true, and addressed in my post, above.
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  3691. Also: What, no eggplant? 🍆
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  3692. Need to work on your coordination when rapid firing, but I can see this being a very fast firing revolver.
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  3693. Quite the lawn ornament.
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  3694. 'Gun God.' FTFY
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  3695.  @fren_karl  point.
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  3696. Fortune favors the bold.
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  3697. Tolerance stacking alone is going to give them migraines.
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  3698. OK, "Table in a Tree" made me giggle.
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  3699. So... The original 'Glock Magazine...'
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  3700.  @beast0339  That seems about right. For comparison (yes, that's me, a few years ago): https://youtube.com/shorts/9KQz8ikF7Kg?feature=share
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  3701.  Jack Wrath  no one cares.
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  3702. The mini-gun is, mostly, an area-effect weapon. "To whom it may concern," if you will.
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  3703.  @bobhill3941  atop the public domain issue, popular usage can - and has - forced a name into public domain, well ahead of the official end of trademark protection.
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  3704. I expect that the waves and coastal flooding washing away the coast defenses will make little to no difference - Ukraine has no ability to push a major over-the-shore invasion, which is what the Russian defenses would have opposed. As for small unit beach assaults, Ukraine has always had the ability to pick their spot, bypassing any defenses. Even in Sevastopol, the loss of the booms means little - booms are easy to replace, and there are few worthwhile targets left in Sevastopol harbor, anyway.
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  3705. Good marks for range on the turret flip. Not so much for height.
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  3706. The biggest flaw, and a fatal one, was the sacrifice of almost 50% of the potential passenger volume, as required by the design. An interesting concept, but economically futile.
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  3707. Yeah, that squares with what I've heard from my fellow sailors, and the background conversations.
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  3708.  @jamesellis4275  ah, thanks. I remembered the incident, but not the particulars.
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  3709. What good would naval drones do for Russia? Ukraine currently has no navy. What are the Russians going to attack... Themselves?
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  3710. The bloopers are even better than the rest... Watching you crack yourself up is vastly entertaining.
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  3711.  @Drizzit57  correct. I've not lived outside the US, though I've visited 19 different countries; I won't presume to judge local trends.
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  3712. Max, playing with his bakeware... Never lose the Whimsey, Max! 😎
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  3713. Kellogg might have had a point, actually... I know that making my wife an excellent steak, she's much more convivial.
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  3714.  @Mr.Robert1  yeah, it's been gussied up. The airframe serial numbers don't change, though.
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  3715. Sight radius is an issue, and there's the increased mass ahead of the trigger which has some limited impact on muzzle flip, as well as delaying unlocking. Biggest issue is that you can put a longer recoil spring in place, which softens perceived recoil.
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  3716. I've been saying this for two years now; Putin is feeding Russia's future into the fire.
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  3717. Well within the range limits of a Stinger. Considering that it was not a catastrophic kill, might very well have been a Stinger, as they have relatively small warheads.
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  3718. @Bob Habib where the hell did that come from? Your comment is in no way, shape, or form related to what I said.
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  3719. @Bob Habib you commented on whether or not Russia would become combat effective. To which point, I had said nothing at all. So either you're insane, or you're... Well, insane. I have no anxiety, but you are clearly a jerk.
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  3720. Patreon moneys well spent. VERY well spent.
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  3721. The treasonous Defense Minister may be gone, but his procurement system soldiers on in the same tradition.
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  3722. My experience is that Americans are among the most open and chatty folk on the planet. Americans also tend to be highly time-obsessed. These facts tend to catch other nationalities off-balance.
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  3723. I've said it a hundred times, and I'll continue saying it; Russia is feeding its future into the flames. Their best young men are dying like flies, removing future machinists, mechanics, lawyers, farmers, scientists, and leaders. Every day, Russia's future becomes more bleak. Edit: Russian bureaucracy would make Franz Kafka vomit in horror. Second edit: Failing to document the soldiers' presence in Ukraine allows Russia to deny death benefits, survivorship benefits, pensions, veterans' care, and so on. Also, KIA that are not 'officially' in Ukraine don't count against war casualty numbers. Again, it's a bureaucratic shuffle to avoid bad news (which is a career ender in Russia), public dismay, and to shuffle war costs to other departments which allows yet further obfuscation. Kafka would shit.
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  3724. 7.62x54r in the fire.
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  3725. .22 rimfire in a jello mold, in the fire.
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  3726. ATACMS will not change the outcome of the war - Ukraine was always going to win. ATACMS will just raise the cost for Russia - and save some Ukrainian lives.
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  3727. Or they decided to go with advert-speak, such as 'Lite' for 'Light,' etc..
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  3728.  @ordinosaurs  I'm sure someone is getting slapped silly for trying it on, to be sure.
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  3729. Some of the Brandywine powder mills still exist to this day - some even in working condition. Even where the mills are gone, the water mill weirs and raceways remain. The Hagley Museum is a 'Must See' if you ever find yourself in Wilmington, DE, with a couple hours to kill.
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  3730. Yes, the baseplate should bed itself in as you fire it, compacting the dirt under it.
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  3731. It looks like a child's drawing of an SMG, come to life.
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  3732. Yeah, I thought I saw Johnson heritage there.
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  3733. Squid here: The damage to the Askold is reparable, but not economically. The United States Navy might repair it, because we have the expert shipyards and the available cash, but Russia? Only if it becomes a prestige project, and even then it would leave a ship much reduced from its former capabilities.
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  3734.  @UserUser-ww2nj  the ATACMS and such missiles arrive supersonic. You would not hear the arrival at all because the noise would be obscured by the blast. That whoosh sound? It sounds like traffic passing a support pillar. Try it some time - roll down the window and drive fast past bridge pilings or buildings. The sound of your vehicle reflects off the structure, right back at you.
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  3735.  @sonachuria8698  12 miles of pontoon bridge? Yeah, not very likely.
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  3736. "It's a dirty bird as shits where it lives." If discipline is lacking in the small things, it's probably lacking in the big things, too. Soldiers that can't care for their home can't be counted upon to take care of their weapons, their hygiene, or any of several hundred things a soldier must do right to do their jobs.
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  3737.  @BBradshawProductions  actually, it's the Ukrainians that have a nasty habit of using artillery-emplaced "instant" minefields. And yes, these vehicles will be in range.
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  3738. Damn, that is one sexy beast! Mi gusta mucho!
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  3739. Interior grain (fuel body) topology can be much more complicated than your basic description - as I'm sure you're aware. There may be multiple cavities, or the cavity might be star shaped, or other, even more complicated and exotic shapes, all with the intent of maintaining a constant combustion surface area. A constant combustion surface area means a constant thrust during boost phase, simplifying many control and construction considerations. Rather than a fuel migration, I think it more likely that there was an internal crack in the grain, or maybe an air pocket, either of which would - briefly - alter the burn physics, producing the change in thrust axis, as you describe. Ultimately, I think your temporary asymmetric thrust theory is sound, and most likely, but the cause is more likely to be physical defects - cracks or voids - in the grain rather than fuel migration. Of course, uneven fuel mixing when casting the grain is possible, but I think that less likely; Mixing the materials prior to the pour isn't all that much more complicated than mixing paint.
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  3740. I was heavily involved in amateur rocketry when younger, and I've seen seemingly 'intelligent' malfunctions of rocket motors. Rockets that boomerang, corkscrew, or even seem to chase people. In each case, it is certainly traceable to asymmetric thrust, caused by either grain or nozzle failure. Interestingly, a US submarine, sneaking about a Soviet naval exercise, got some footage of similar malfunctions in naval surface-to-surface missiles.
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  3741. The achievement no one wants to achieve.
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  3742. I'm seeing the same issue with this monster that I see with all other pistol shotgun types - when the rifling grabs the shot or bullet, the entire weapon counter-torques. Hard.
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  3743. Ok, THAT is a sexy rifle. Me want.
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  3744. This has been coming since Putin wasn't jerked up short over Crimea. Wimpy-limp-dick responses to aggressive acts only guarantee repeats. Much too late now for governments to grow a spine.
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  3745. Ruger =! Remington.
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  3746. That first shot scared the eggplant to death.
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  3747. The guys at Food Lion are scratching their heads...
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  3748. NOT what I expected. Probably could be punched up with black beans and some additional spices, maybe served over rice or boiled barley.
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  3749.  @TastingHistory  honestly, I'm thinking you could take this dish to Mexico, and find that local culinary tradition would make it rather nice.
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  3750. "Idiots" on their shirts? Truth in labelling.
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  3751. Courage!
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  3752. So... We should be expecting Russian Tour Directors, Ticketing Agents, and Baggage Handlers on the front lines soon?
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  3753. Ekaterina Duntsova will live long enough to lose 'unanimously,' then she will fall out of a window 'in remorse' for slandering the Tsar.
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  3754.  @Marinealver  it's not the military minds... It's their idiot civilian masters.
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  3755. Very clear explanation of battlefield 'shaping' attack tactics. Thank you.
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  3756. Still battlefield relevant to this very day.
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  3757.  @phillipriggs3375  I'm envious. I've wanted one for years.
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  3758.  @phillipriggs3375  yeah, you suck. 😛
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  3759. Also: Matt as an overgrown child? No stretch at all.
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  3760. In the days of sail, that 'scum' was called 'slush,' and was often saved to be spread on hard tack (clack! clack!). The ship's cook had rights to the slush, which he would sell to the crew. Hence, 'slush fund.'
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  3761. The Henschel Hs-129 would like a word. First flight in 1940, and in service from April of 1942, whereas experiments with cannon-armed Hurricane fighters didn't start until 1941. Sorry, but the Hurricane Mk2D takes second place as "world's first dedicated tank killer." If only by bit, but still...
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  3762. Was thinking exactly that thought: "Wildlife will police the range."
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  3763.  @Dave5843-d9m  I'm a submariner. I'm fully aware. That doesn't make it any less sad.
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  3764. YouTube is a tool of the oppressors. They side with evil overlords.
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  3765. "No normal life for Russians." Amen. "We had to shell our settlement in order to save it" ~ Russian Armed Forces, probably. The irony is staggering - you'd think Russian officers would have studied the Vietnam .conflict. Apparently not.
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  3766. The game being played is "Whack-A-Mole." "Chicken" is a game of head-on collision, to see whom will flinch first.
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  3767. There is a local Moroccan restaurant, wherein the meal is served from communal dishes, and you use your fingers. And yes, the table is low and you sit on low cushions or hassocks. It's a bit pricy, and requires that you either dine with strangers, or bring a large group of friends. We have a routine circle of family and friends for dining at this place. 🙂
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  3768. "very tricky" =! "Impossible." There are enough videos from the ground showing UAF fixed-wing aviation penetrating the FEBA that I'm not going to call the authors of this videos liars from my armchair.
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  3769. What  @particlemannn  said!
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  3770. Go Daddy, go Daddy, go Daddy go! (Needs anime theme music and dramatic animated intro scene)
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  3771. Yep
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  3772. The way Russia does things, they only need two ships: One making brief sorties, and one to strip for spare parts. Russia doesn't really 'do training;' certainly not as the West knows it.
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  3773. Looks SO Hollywood SF...
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  3774. Surface ships have a dive cycle of 1/2. Submarines generally have a dive cycle that ends in whole numbers. Dunno about you, but if my boat sinks, I want it to be able to resurface. ~ Qualified in Submarines
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  3775. ​@theodoreolson8529even in the Nuc program, submarine service is 100% voluntary. ~ Qualified in Submarines; former reactor operator
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  3776. ​ @fareastslav incorrect. I'm 6' even. I served in boats; and I was the shortest member of the 'Goon Squad;' Submariners who were 6' or taller. My first XO was 6'5", and the Chief of the Boat on that same submarine was 6'4". There IS an upper height limit - it's the same limit surface sailors have
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  3777. Ah, Deleval turbine - I've used them a LOT. But yours is much more portable. I mean, my turbines? They required an entire nuclear reactor to work. Your turbine is SO much more practical!
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  3778. Russia CANNOT be trusted. Casual brutality from Russian soldiers doesn't much surprise me, sadly. Too much of Russia remains primitive, ignorant, and brutal as only peasants can be. No Ukrainian would waste a HIMARS missile on their own people. It's too valuable waste such a weapon for a highly dubious propaganda boost, especially when they're already completely dominating the publicity war.
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  3779. Sailor here; Shipboard firefighting is extremely technical and requires highly specific skills. I've fought shipboard fires on submarines and surface ships. That was all extremely scary - even though I'd been well-trained for that type of fire fighting - but this vessel? It's an entirely new level of HARD. You DO NOT charge in on a fire like this without careful training and loads of support and backup. Mad respect for the courage of the fallen, but their judgement? Not so much.
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  3780. Oh, I can't wait to see how Russian State TV reacts to this latest - they're going to be shitting their pretty pink panties. The Belgorod raid is going to completely spoil the Bahkmut party. Speaking of Bahkmut, it is a classic pyrrhic victory... Another two or three 'victories' like this and Russia is lost.
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  3781. Typically selfish Russian behavior.
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  3782. Rockin' the 1850's waistcoat and gear. Looks good on ya.
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  3783. So... Another entry in the "Angry Pipe" series of submachine guns.. Cool. 😎 I would certainly love to see it fired, if the correct spring can be found.
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  3784. Fast and easy deploy. I like it better than before.
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  3785. Proof that 'Bans' only stop honest people.
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  3786. Controlled landing. Forced landing, though. That counts as a kill, though, as it clearly kept burning.
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  3787. Damn. Ryan broke out the knife hand. Things are getting serious!
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  3788. Russian standard propaganda technique: multiply all gains by 10. Divide all loses by 10. 600+ dead seems entirely plausible.
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  3789. I suspect Girkin is deliberately put forward as a "loyal opposition" voice to guide discontented Russians away from effective action.
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  3790. I have long wanted to do this. Thank you!
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  3791. Also: manikin face in foam? Impressively creepy. I love it!
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  3792. Ian McCollum hates this shotgun with a passion normally reserved for a hornet in your underwear. It really seems that Cobray was trying a bet to see just how crude and cheap they could go.
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  3793.  @flameraven42  body contact is indeed the issue. Perspiration is the primary means of getting exposed. Wrists/cuffs/long sleeves and collars/necklines would be the major points of transfer. Totally agree that carpet, upholstery, and wallpaper dyes would be the major threat. But, then, with so damn much green dye, it's very hard to assign relative contribution.
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  3794. My usual augments are: a pinch of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper, a drop of vanilla, and another dash of nutmeg.
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  3795. The cayenne shows up in many of my dishes - a tiny bit adds a subtle kick to the back end.
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  3796. Will ghee serve in the place of lard?
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  3797.  @TastingHistory  excellent, thank you! Cayenne is the single most used* spice in my kitchen. Not in great quantities, but extremely often. The subtle kick at the back end works especially well with sweeter dishes. (*Excepting, perhaps, pepper. I don't really consider salt a spice, per se, but if you insist, then yes, it's ahead of cayenne too).
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  3798.  @6.5x55  another valid comparison
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  3799. Just surrender. You'll NEVER get a word in, edgewise, or any other way. Not even with a crowbar. * * Unless used percussively.
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  3800. ​ @Inumuro  yes, that's 100% right! Crap human factors and shit design are never at fault! Never blame the authorities when you can scapegoat some hapless schlub!
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  3801. Beau Brummell lives!
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  3802. Agreed that the magazine well needs work. With the barrel being nicely in line with the butt, I'd have thought muzzle control would be better; I wonder if putting an under-barrel device, such as a grenade launcher, might tame it a bit?
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  3803.  @JD-tn5lz  nope, nothing ever comes for free - almost like it's a physical law of the universe.
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  3804. Not normally a fan of smaller calibers, but this looks like it would have been a sweet little pocket pistol.
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  3805. Pressurized water coolers. Those should be spectacular. Just make sure you're well back... You don't need any more metal stuck into your body.
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  3806. No real surprise; Russia always eats its own best and brightest.
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  3807. SERIOUSLY.
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  3808. Iranian liars claim they've given nothing to Russia. Fact is, they're supplying modern 'buzz bombs' to Hitler's spiritual heir.
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  3809. Se habla Espanol, pero un pocito, y muy malo. I can use the help.
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  3810. No FPSRussia stunt today... Thank you! Safe Acrobatics, though... New Olympic sport?
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  3811. The Dutch set roots deep in the new world in full competition with the other powers, the largest city in the colonies was Neuw Amsterdam, later to be renamed New York. Dutch naming conventions lasted a LONG time, and some still linger. The cultural influences of New York were extensive, even then. It's no surprise that we still use their name for cookies.
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  3812. YouTube is doing its best to render itself irrelevant.
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  3813.  @HyruleBalverine  admiralty law has similar provisions. Mostly it traces back to common law.
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  3814.  @HyruleBalverine  which ignores the point that it's a human lawyer talking human law, so the assumption is baked-in.
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  3815.  @The_Bird_Bird_Harder  kit guns. It doesn't require much to make an 80% receiver for this. Hell, even a 50% receiver would be do-able by most folks. Design it as a .22 rimfire, and even the hoplophobes would have a hard time bitching.
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  3816. My friend had one, Lo! Those many years gone. It wasn't terribly reliable, but I've come to learn that it was probably operator error causing the problem.
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  3817. I've been saying it for two years now; Putin is feeding Russia's future into the flames.
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  3818.  @Alice_Fumo  what would it take? About three days of no food.
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  3819. To return the slide to battery.
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  3820. The cold opens are getting to be more fun than the main body of the video. Heh! Oh, and I'm pretty sure wet concrete stops bullets just fine - heavy non-newtonian fluids are like that.
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  3821. Also: concrete is the new Cerakote
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  3822. I wonder about uptake in those countries that ban 'military' cartridges for civilian use.
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  3823. From a compact gun, I bet this cartridge is a real flamethrower.
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  3824. My lunch break was😅😅 well-timed. As any submariner can tell you, good food can maintain morale in even the worst living conditions. Good food would have helped keep the inmates tractable.
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  3825. BOOM! baby!
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  3826. There's a reason chicken ranchers don't keep rhinos. Because yeah, rhinos are mean to chickens.
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  3827. Mis-labeled Airsoft gear. Because China.
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  3828. The main thing I learned from my Luau experience was that I don't like Poi.
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  3829. Rifle-caliber derringers are fanboy fap-tools, and not even remotely efficient. If you want a useful backup, there are plenty of efficient pistol calibers that aren't wasteful gimmicks. Oh, and guessing 650fps
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  3830. Huh. Actually kinda impressed it went over 1100.
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  3831.  @JaredHardy001  highly plausible.
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  3832.  @Adamsadventures83  multiple takes / edits?
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  3833. Damn, that is one SEXY pistol!
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  3834. Squid here. Submariner type, too. Generally-speaking, the food was the from the same source(s), but the cooks on submarines tend to be of higher skill - If they're not, they come up to speed VERY quickly. That said, list angle is still something with which to contended - We still bust Ray's chops over his infamous "List Cake." One side of the sheet cake was a quarter inch thick, and VERY well done. The other side was 3+ inches thick, and rather under-cooked. Then he went and leveled the whole thing off with icing. 😧 Thanksgiving and Christmas meals are taken VERY seriously. For morale purposes, a proper holiday meal is absolutely unparalleled - and screwing it up is a career-limiting move. One year when the Supply Officer screwed up the bird order, the cooks raided the Officer's Mess to get enough turkey to feed the Enlisted Mess. With the sweet potato liquid, you should be able to reduce it down before adding the sugar, rather than casting half aside. Marshmallows... Meh. Leave or take. Now, I use unsulfured molasses, but this would be much more efficient, considering that everything in the dish is common in the supply line.
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  3835. The cooks on the boats could do AMAZING things with 'powdered everything.' Fresh bread every day underway was standard, and even the most grueling schedule can be borne, if the food is right. You VERY quickly run out of fresh, and make do with wet and dehydrated, and canned - Turning 'snake eggs' (canned potatoes) into something edible is just the beginning. Plastic ice-cream, powdered eggs, pastries, pies, and cakes MADE with powdered egg and powdered milk... I could fill the page with examples. At one point, we pulled off of what we were doing to get an injured sailor into Yokosuka Naval Base, and once he was on the tug, they passed us over a score of crates of fresh fruit. The first five crates made it to the Mess Deck empty - every man in the working party took a 'tax' before passing the box on. Best working party, EVER.
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  3836. It's like a slow-motion trainwreck...
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  3837. Ukraine is conducting a master class in battlefield shaping. Everything the Russians hide, Ukraine exposes. Every position Russians secure, Ukraine undermines. Every expectation Russia holds, Ukraine subverts. Managing chaos in your own lines, whilst creating uncontrollable chaos in your foes', that is the essence of successful war. Ukraine has mastered the lesson.
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  3838. So typically Russian... If you can't perform magic, and shit the necessary parts, you go to the Gulag.
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  3839. A big, big save. An avian humanitarian.
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  3840. Another of my unicorn firearms.
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  3841.  @donjones4719  indeed they do. Not going to be shooting one, though.
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  3842. NYC dirty water dogs. So iconic that The City would look odd without the carts.
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  3843. ​ @FieldBlaser sadly, the majority of Russians are on-board with the way things are in Putin's Russia.
    1
  3844. In short: Military environment is HARSH. Stuff which can stand that environment are EXPENSIVE. Testing to PROVE the Stuff will survive is BLOODY damn expensive.
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  3845. The form-factor is intriguing in that the folded 'box' form should probably fit into the large thigh cargo pocket on a pair of utility work trousers. Indeed, placed in such a pocket, most people will ignore it, assuming it to be a tool or a 'pocket office' like you see construction foremen using. Indeed, folded, it looks almost exactly like worksite portable office binders I see contractors using every day.
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  3846. Wow. Talk about a massive violation of civil rights. That 'Judge' needs to be removed from the bench. Like, right now.
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  3847. Completely unknown to me; seems it could have been a significant force-multiplier if built in decent numbers.
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  3848. As prominent as Roman has become, I wonder if this wasn't a targeted assassination attempt?
    1
  3849. Siege warfare has not changed much in basic principles over the centuries.
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  3850. Amazing surgical technique. There's a spot for you at Johns Hopkins.
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  3851.  @MrShotlighter  🤣😂
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  3852. Now and again, yes.
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  3853. So... You've laid yer mitts on a VSS. Waiting for the video to drop...
    1
  3854. The look on Max's face as he realizes he's murdered a bottle of good wine... Heh.
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  3855. Compact and efficient; just the things you need, nothing you don't.
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  3856.  keith moore  I've been about; new job is exhausting, but I'm getting the hang of it. More energy for the internet now. ;) Thanks for asking!
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  3857.  @johannisguardian529  👍
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  3858. Can absolutely second the recommendation on long pepper. It's amazing.
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  3859. Any firearm can kill. Sure, some require very favorable conditions to be lethal, but always assume lethal capability. These look to be about .40 calibre, maybe a bit larger; that's quite capable of doing the job.
    1
  3860. Grinders aren't all that expensive. I use a black one for my coffee, and a white one for my spices.
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  3861.  @matthaught4707  true fact.
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  3862. Facts. Most navies have vastly reduced sea presence, because they don't have the deep pockets that America has. This is why it's a big deal when a small or poor nation manages to do a world tour, or make a show off of someone's coast far away.
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  3863. Freekin' HUGE fans.
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  3864. Attempting to keep secrets... By unknowingly sending foreign spies. How humiliating.
    1
  3865. Military generators tend to be pretty good. Lots of MILSPEC equipment is dodgy, but they (we) don't skimp on generators.
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  3866. Seems deceptively easy. Bet I can find a way to mess it up.
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  3867.  @TastingHistory  ah! I am saved! I never burn rice.
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  3868. My daughter's original Hi Power is an old police turn-in. It's battered and scarred, and yet still shoots like a laser. And it was real cheap, too.
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  3869.  @andersjjensen  'zactly. I have a relatively long neck, and a big ol' gourd of a head. Give me a tall rifle, please. And yeah, that might contribute to muzzle climb, but I'm a big guy, and can control that easily.
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  3870. It is a shame, so many people feel entitled to treat these performers as if they're not real human beings. They're providing a service, not signing away their rights or humanity, and should be granted the same respect as any other professional, and as any other human being.
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  3871. These are probably intended for urban combat, such as the infamous (and incredibly rare) "Terminator" vehicle; high-angle 'upper floor' killer.
    1
  3872. Cold-blooded murder. Russia is a nation of liars.
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  3873. Looks very controllable. Not an "angry pipe," more of "disgruntled square channel."
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  3874. Inviting strangers to cross-check your work: Pro Flex.
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  3875. Also; in regards to the '5937' number, standard Soviet/Russian propaganda technique is to divide or multiply by ten. By that calculus, Russian would have lost 59,370 soldiers, or thereabouts. That's closely congruent to Ukrainian claims.
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  3876. Struck gold, eh? Ok... Nachos for weeks.
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  3877. Not even the Tsar Bomba could break into the magma chamber; the USSR scrapped that program immediately after the test detonation, as the device could never be made into an actual weapon - far, FAR too heavy to deliver by any realistic means.
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  3878. Putin should stop hiring Ivan Konskriptovitch to do his electrical work. That dude smokes carelessly.
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  3879. Excellent FPSRussia impression.
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  3880. Auto-generated captions are amusing... Tokarev = "toe krabs" Gunfire = "applause."
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  3881.  @LinkHyrule03  #4 buck.
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  3882. I love how the squirrels lose their coordination when the laser-trap door triggers.
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  3883. How to screw up civil engineering, by the numbers. Mulholland was an arrogant ass, as well as a fraudulent land speculator. He's noone's hero.
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  3884. Investigation leads to knowledge leads to confidence. Bravo Zulu for getting back on that horse!
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  3885. Sweet potato and pumpkin pies sit side by side on our table; peace has been achieved. (My wife is Southern, and her pies are amazing)
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  3886. 'Nathan's Famous' It has been done. Prigozhin is working in an environment where a bit of cash and a lot of ruthless ambition can be leveraged into an empire. A successful restaurant or grocery chain is enough of a base to move ahead.
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  3887. Uh... The US had a flying jet fighter before the end of the war. It never saw combat, but it was very much well in advance of your statement.
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  3888. I'm wondering if there was a local shortage to die-stamping machinery, or maybe such machinery was assigned to higher priority projects?
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  3889. Oh, and 'copter' drones don't have the lifting capacity for any useful countermeasures and their downdraft would automatically disperse any cloud or gaseous countermeasures, whilst winged drones move too fast to be protected by anti-laser measures - they literally leave the countermeasures behind.
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  3890.  @megagamernick9883  as an illustration, it hasn't changed much, except getting worse for gun systems. Iraq had modern AAA systems (for the day). There's much less footage of AAA gun systems in use in Putin's War, despite the HUGE volume of video coming out of that war, because the AAA gun is much less useful, portable, and less effective than MANPADS and larger SAMs. But spending a US$1M missile to blot out a $300K drone is inefficient, and using $100k MANPADS to pot a $100 hobby drone is even worse. Blazing away at a drone that's dinking about just out of range, and / or maneuvering sharply whilst laughing at your gunners' inability to swat the mosquito, is just ludicrous.
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  3891.  @JimmySailor  57mm towed and self-propelled gun mounts are a thing. They're not widely used any more, because they're no longer effective or efficient. If you MUST use a gun system, 35mm to 40mm is where the smart money is (See German SP AAA platforms). High volumes of fire, lots of ammo on board, quick tracking, useful warheads, etc. They're still not using them for drone hunting - they're expensive, fairly rare, and reserved for anti-aircraft defense of high value targets where drones would not be used.
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  3892. That's one hell of a stalk!
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  3893. Too much fun! Expensive, these days, mind you.
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  3894.  @keithmoore5306  yep. I normally hold on to 1500 rounds per long gun caliber, and 500 rounds per pistol caliber. I'm rather north of that, right now, because I haven't been shooting much, this last year. Of rimfire, I think I'm sitting on about 4500. All that is because of my habit of buying ammo whenever I find it on cut-price sale, even if I've already got a lot. It's paid off; I can afford to shoot.
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  3895. The NATO targeting instructions primarily require a militarily valid target, right up to and including a review by freekin' lawyers. Clearly, Russia just don't give a shit.
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  3896.  @annainspain5176  huh. Oh, look - you just quoted... Me. Brilliant! 🙄
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  3897.  @MidlifeCrisisJoe  You so thoroughly misrepresent my position, I can't even call you a bald-faced liar. You are clearly insane, and should seek help.
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  3898.  @MidlifeCrisisJoe  nope. Nice try, but go back and reread what I ACTUALLY said.
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  3899.  @JariDawnchild  such infrastructure is extremely problematic, but also increasingly isolated.
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  3900. Ah, the Whistling Shitcan. AKA the Hoover. Damn things sounded like flying vacuum cleaners - stationed @ SUBBASE San Diego @ Ballast Point, we got to listen to those damn things flying out of NAS North Island all damn day.
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  3901.  @sheenachristina2385  yes. Exactly.
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  3902. Darwin award candidates. Pinheaded idiots - they willingly brought their fate on themselves - and their families.
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  3903. That's a right handy carbine.
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  3904.  @randomnobodovsky3692  heh.
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  3905. Ah, the infamous 'evil weapon.' I do want one of my own.
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  3906. Also: what the HELL do you call that buggy..?! Edit: ah. The Bruiser. Nice. I want one of those, too.
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  3907. Huh. The GripPod finally found its niche. This is an extremely tasty bit of kit. DSA has done well.
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  3908. "Clever girl."
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  3909.  @krissteel4074  my friend was on active duty with me during her husband's final days; NIS (Naval Investigative Service - now known as NCIS - incompetent under either name) was doing everything they could to bust her on anything they could find, due to the prejudice associated with AIDS, and the cost of dependent care suffering from AIDS. This was before the government nerfed dependent care, and they were on the hook. Eventually even the command had enough of the blatant attempt to shaft her, and stomped on the farce of an "investigation." In a sad bit of irony, her career ended due to Hep C; acquired by way of unsafe immunization practices with the once-popular air-gun inoculation process.
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  3910. At this point, might as well, just bring back the .35 Remington with a heavy bullet.
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  3911. Sponsor plug; very entertaining. Harpoon; very terrifying.
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  3912. Ukraine is writing an entirely new chapter in the Book of War - If you've not got the traditional 2- or 3-to-1 numerical advantage AND are lacking the usual high-tech force multipliers, Ukraine is proving you can still advance whilst keeping casualties within acceptable limits. Intelligent militaries will be closely studying this "fix, starve, strike" methodology for addition to their own doctrine.
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  3913. Technically, Bakelite is a thermoplastic.
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  3914. Pretty edgy. So far, you're winning. Carry on smartly!
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  3915. What is the point of being part of a union if you have drag deserved benefits out of them?
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  3916. Damn. That muzzle brake does major work in redirecting those gasses.
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  3917. When Q has had enough of 007's shit...
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  3918. Flew Space-A on a C-9 a few times; the air stairs were absolutely convenient when getting on or off at spartan military bases.
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  3919. Wow. Oh, Holy WOW. That's a courageous leap of faith. Thank you.
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  3920. Frittata. Basic low cost almost peasant food. Just saying.
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  3921. There are tens of thousands of feet of film of the F-4. So why the F-14 footage?
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  3922. Have you made it to the Casbah yet? Edit: I see you have!
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  3923. A trip to a souq is always a treat.
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  3924.  @offthemountains  yeah? Exactly how many mass murders have you committed? Yeah, I thought as much. The average German was normal, but their leaders? Mentally diseased.
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  3925.  @offthemountains  actually, that is entirely wrong. Proven by both science AND practical experience. There is a VERY high inhibition to killing fellow humans. Military services have known this for hundreds of years, and deliberately de-program that inhibition by harsh training methods. Those training methods have become increasingly scientific over time. Just one specific citation: Jones; 2006; J. Contemp. Hist; V41, #2: "The Psychology of Killing: The Combat Experience of British Soldiers During the First World War"
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  3926.  @offthemountains  your statements reek of faddish pop psychology, and demonstrate that you have exactly zero idea of what you speak. Do a quick Google on "reluctance to kill" and you will find an education that you appear to desperately need.
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  3927.  @realtalk6195  yes, they did invade France. Later. MUCH later. Look up "The Phony War" period of WWII. Seriously, what people being taught in history classes these days?!
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  3928.  @JohnDoe-wx2oo  soba noodles and Udon most often, but ramen too. Actually, after Udon, I eat cellophane noodles second most often, but those are Chinese. I'm fortunate enough to live in a University town, with a very large first-line university. We have MANY asian students and visiting faculty, and consequently have a wide range of Asian food resources, from Thai, to Filipino, to Indian (in many different regional variations), to Chinese, japanese, and Korean. The only thing we're missing is Mongolian - I'd do many things to get some real Mongolian Barbeque, I'll confess! In general, Chinese ethnic food is second only to Mexican ethnic food, when you're talking "exotic" food in America. Actually, Italian ethnic food is so common as to be considered routine, with Irish and Greek being close contenders. But college students across the nation swear by, and live on, Ramen noodles. 😉
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  3929.  @JohnDoe-wx2oo  not to make you jealous, but there are at least four large Asian markets within three mile (5 km) of where I live. I have almost more asian-themed spices and sauces in my cabinets than I do Mexican. My "normal" spices are actually in the minority.
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  3930.  @JohnDoe-wx2oo  ah. I'm a fifth-generation native son of the Bear state. Actually from Fullerton. These days, though, I live in Delaware, home of the UofD Fighting Blue Hens (actually game-cock fighting roosters. Big, nasty-tempered birds). After living in So-Cal, and sailing the Pac Fleet, I've got a strong taste for Asian food in all its varieties. Plus, yanno, Mexico. 😉
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  3931.  @andreyolshansky8078  Putin troll.
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  3932.  @diakonhexxen6505  Putin troll.
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  3933. Black humor is entirely proper in this situation.
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  3934.  @calvingreene90  .357 is so energetic that you're going to get super-sonic 'crack' anyway.
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  3935.  @calvingreene90  Certainly - but that takes us back to Nagant-level ballistics - a circular journey for no gain.
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  3936. DoE guards nukes. You want them to be armed. DoT uses howitzers to clear avalanche danger zones by setting off the avalanche in a controlled fashion. America isn't weird; you just don't have the context.
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  3937. Now, use compressed CO2 to freeze a tomato.
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  3938.  @ojalajim  Yeah, bad stuff happens in a war. At least, it wasn't an apartment block or a pizza shop, like Russia likes to blow up.
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  3939. Incredible skill on display. Essentially advertising pieces, but beautiful ones.
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  3940. AK-50 mk.1 died. Also: https://youtu.be/8fc-uq3xr_Q
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  3941.  @Rose.Of.Hizaki  the reference was to the Battle of Britain. Which took place - duh - over British soil and water.
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  3942.  @whydoyoucare8731  I have no problem with mercenaries; but they're almost never 'elite.' These guys? They seem competent enough, which makes them a cut above the typical Russian trooper. But "competent troopers with a language barrier" does not an elite force make.
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  3943. If you've ever opened up the two weapons side-by-side, you'd know better. STG-44 =|= AK-47 They are internally significantly different in basic function.
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  3944.  @Paul.irishlad  extremely unlikely; the surface tender would have seen it, and cancelled the dive.
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  3945. I've carried a Firestar M40. It's heavy but I'm a big guy, and don't mind the weight. On the other hand, it's been utterly reliable, eats whatever I feed it, and the weight helps tame some of the 'snap' that people complain about in the .40 caliber. Again, I'm a big guy and the snappiness of the .40 doesn't bother me, but I'll still take the help. This much larger, and probably heavier, pistol should help keep the 10mm under control.
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  3946. Fire extinguishers don't have motors. Fire trucks are fire fighting vehicles.
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  3947. It's so cute! Itty-bitty!
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  3948. I've seen that 'customer' a few times...
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  3949.  @dreamingflurry2729  I know there was a 20mm shoulder-fired RR. Also, I believe a shoulder-fired 57mm RR gun... But wait! Carl Gustav 84mm RR is short and concealable..!
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  3950.  @jmace5964  government workers play horseshoes? That explains so much...
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  3951.  @PlainlyDifficult  😆
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  3952. #AKGNOTIFICATIONSQUAD Turning White Claw cans inside out... 😅😂
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  3953. Fact.
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  3954. See if you can find someone with a vacuum forming bag; assemble your glass, then put it in a vacuum bag and suck the air out of it as it's curing, and you should get tighter, more effective armor blocks.
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  3955. Call it "Dog Crap," and be done with it.
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  3956.  @AnIdiotsLantern  Russian naval tradition holds ships to be 'male.'
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  3957.  @nucleargrizzly1776  quite familiar with .38 Super - before .40 Smith, that was my favored round. Pretty sure 10mm is more brutal than even the famously hot .38 Super.
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  3958.  @nucleargrizzly1776  indeed it did. I loaded to Major myself. And yeah, I beat the shit out of some frames. 10mm is a nastier beast; I used to shoot a Delta Elite, and yes, that frame couldn't take extended use at the highest levels.
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  3959.  @nucleargrizzly1776  the Delta Elite had frame issues. Later weapons were beefed up.
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  3960.  @Raspredval1337 Naaah. Gears increase complexity, and introduce fragility.
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  3961.  @BillyBoze  you're not an American, are you? In America, the first hint of anything showing 'private bits' will start a crusade of bluenose and bible thumpers. No administrator is going to deal with that - auto-termination. Now piss off, troll. Or learn how the real world works.
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  3962.  @trueKENTUCKY  what the hell are you on about?
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  3963. Prigozhin is a brute and a war criminal. He needs to stand in the dock at The Hague.
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  3964. There's a LOT of firearms out there. Ian's well-known excellence opens a LOT of doors to get access to those firearms.
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  3965.  @nustada  that is a blatantly false statement. Again, the libertarian dream is a lie. And you just told a very stupid one, too.
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  3966. @No Thanks that's actually fair. Other than French Onion Soup, soup is low in my skillet.
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  3967.  @englishatheart  yeah, you're such a social edgelord. 🙄
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  3968.  @mrsanchez27  What the fuck does that have to do with this thread..? Also, you've got your history almost entirely wrong. Our ancestors revolted over taxation without representation. That is to say, there were a WHOLE SERIES of acts, taxes, and laws passed called the "Intolerable Acts" that were put into place without the colonists have any say in the matter. All the Colonists wanted was a seat at the table. It was THAT denial that lead to the revolt; NOT your superficial and facile explanation.
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  3969. You do such a good job of reading the advert copy, I will actually listen through it all. Nicely done.
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  3970. So... Almost. Using injection molding, and a bit more thought to the safety, this was so close to being reasonable.
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  3971. Kremlin doesn't like Tucker Carlson "Interview..?" They shouldn't have gone with Tucker Carlson - That ALWAYS backfires.
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  3972. I thought that was only canids?
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  3973. Not gunna lie; the Garfield sight made me laugh.
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  3974. Not gonna lie, that eyebrow quirk in particular - and the montage in general - reeks of Bollywood action movies. #akgnotificationsquad
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  3975. When frying corn tortillas, get a large bowl and lay a couple wooden spoons across the top. Drape the fried tortillas over the spoon handles, and when they take a 'set,' you have perfect pre-formed taco shells.
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  3976. I remember when those first came out; I was tempted, but something kept suggesting I wait a bit. Then the word of mouth started... And I never looked back.
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  3977.  @mnm1273  not terribly so. Without France, it's unlikely that the American revolution would have succeeded. And France did gift us the Statue of Liberty.
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  3978.  @mnm1273  the 'Nationalists' are still idiots. Their lack of 'positive experience' boils down to France stubbornly choosing to act in their own perceived best interests, instead of following America around like a puppy, i.e. acting like a grown up nation. In other words: they're pissed that France exercises its own judgement. The rest of us don't care what France does, by-and-large.
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  3979.  @mnm1273  France has nationalist too.
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  3980.  @mnm1273  maybe. Probably not, though. Because the premise is still ignorant.
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  3981. Heh. If our UK brethren need advice on squirrel-catching, we colonials would be pleased to help - We've considered squirrel a staple small game for.. Well, forever. Especially in Appalachia and the South, squirrel hunting is a common way to keep kids busy, out of trouble, and contributing to the table. We can supply recipes, too. 😋
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  3982.  @ennio-cr  yes.
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  3983.  @devinwhite104  Bastilone does air-cooled MGs.
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  3984. Quite the trench, the G36 was digging...
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  3985. Same.
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  3986. Nice Jingles reference.
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  3987. "Well, considering that this is an AK-12, the latest Russian battle rifle, and it has a random short burst selector, you have to ask yourself... Will he fire three rounds, or only two? Well punk? How many?! Well, to tell you the truth, I don't know, either..."
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  3988. Ok, Matt getting blasted in the face with high-velocity Play-Doh is NEVER going to get old.
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  3989. At last. I hope Ukraine has been busy working on doctrine for use - because this could REALLY ruin Russia's party.
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  3990. Fourth possibility (and the best option, IMO) is that the heavily-wounded soldiers have already flown out on an earlier aircraft. Edit: Hell, an American E-5 would have at least started straightening this shit-show out. At the least, getting the poor sods back under shelter and clearing the crap off the runway.
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  3991.  @BerndFelsche  whilst true, the difference between heavy exertion in 70°f and 108°f are not even remotely similar. Been there, survived that.
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  3992. Interesting that the design aligns the eye so well.
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  3993. I wonder if this isn't a symptom of cost-cutting in the industry or supporting infrastructure?
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  3994.  Christie Malry  yeah, well, merchandising is always off the hook.
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  3995. The slapping sound of falling slime is... Disturbing.
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  3996. Big gun go BOOM. Everyone sits up and takes notice.
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  3997. Myth Busters got things very, very wrong on a fair number of occasions; amusing show, but not exactly rigorous science.
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  3998. Yeah, but "Gauss Musket" doesn't sound as cool.
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  3999. Building engines that blow up, and yet you get away without injury or major damage... That's kind of a super power. Be proud. Also: get a welding jacket, or at least a leather apron. You'll burn up fewer shirts.
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  4000. How terrifying - to have your attempt to regain control making the problem vastly worse. I doubt the flight crew had any idea what was really happening, even just before impact. And \for the passengers - I'm sure they realized something was wrong even before the official upset, but only had less than a minute to come to grips with what was happening.
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  4001. Finns, freeze? Please. Jack Frost is a Finn!
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  4002.  @shekelclipper4069  Obvious Russian troll is obvious, and uses out-dated propaganda talking points. Come on, Comrade - get up with the times; the fascist Tsar doesn't like it when his trolls are incompetent.
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  4003.  @gunnargundersen3787  maybe gnats? Blackfly gnats have a NASTY bite, and are even smaller than mosquitos.
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  4004. At ~ 200m high, the Horlivka slag heap is the single highest terrain feature in the general area of Horlivka. It provides a useful observation post, albeit one that will attract a lot of Russian attention. Mostly, though, it allows a Ukrainian propaganda victory that lets Ukraine to claim to be 'king of the hill.'
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  4005. Simple to operate, but complicated internals. Kinda brilliant, but self-limiting.
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  4006.  @alun7006  pretty makes my point.
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  4007. Yeah, that spinner damps out quick. Frustrating target.
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  4008. / signed
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  4009. Don't know who was first, other than John Browning.
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  4010. Ah, there it is - Garum.
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  4011. Oh, noes! Someone invaded sovereign territory! 🙄 Like most bullies and pansies, Putin can dish it out, but can't take it. Resorting to impotent threats is the best limp-dick Putin can offer.
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  4012. Who punches harder... Ma Deuce, or Steve 'Wonderboy..?' Well, I dunno, but if you're on the receiving end, it won't matter to you.
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  4013.  @moosemaimer  that's the security blanket aspect. A solid argument in favor.
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  4014. Damn, that beater van is taking a beating...
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  4015. In many cases, the low-key burn is the one that REALLY stings. The more Russia tries to provoke the West, and the longer the West doesn't bite, the more Russia loses the world-wide propaganda war.
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  4016. It's pretty clear the Ukrainians are getting scouts up close and personal - turning the already-accurate HIMARS into a literal sniper weapon.
    1
  4017. The volksjaeger is an example of moral panic in the upper hierarchy. They knew, in their hearts, that they were fucked, and were scrambling for a miracle - any miracle - that would save them. Thus the wild array of "superweapons" and competing resource-wasting fantasy weapons.
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  4018. Not very many Liberators were dropped; most were left in the warehouses in the UK.
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  4019. If AK-pattern rifles fit my body shape, I would be buying this RIGHT. NOW. Regretfully, AKs do not fit me, but I appreciate the heck out of this rifle. It's quite lovely.
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  4020. I'm a fan of fibre optic rods in my low-profile sights. Two reds and a green; lining up the sights is easy, instinctive, and I don't have a sight frame digging into my tender flesh.
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  4021.  @grumpyoldman-21  😂
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  4022. @c0ya1 while absolutely right, that's malignant creativity - not something to be encouraged.
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  4023. Big Brother / The Real World, in advance. Santiago was a world-class ass.
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  4024. No, not really a risk. Russia is more paranoid about their nukes than even the US. They maintain VERY close control of them, and would not have had them floating about randomly.
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  4025. Courtesy of my sister in Alaska, I have both bear and moose. Bother are a bit freezer-burned, unfortunately, so jerky or pemmican are probably their fate. I might try turkey and chicken, just for curiosity. Also; Se habla Espanol, pero un pocito, y muy malo. I can use the help.
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  4026. The choke berries are loaded with vitamin C; it makes a fine preservative, and aids against scurvey.
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  4027. Still not as stupid as the guy who RPG'd into a wall Right. In. Front. of his face.
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  4028.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  the loss of the Vasa would suggest that the answer is 'Yes.'
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  4029. Landmine? Maybe one of those sneaky German "wayside" mines? Anyway you call it, that was a very bad day for a crew of Orcs.
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  4030.  @johnkelinske1449  good to know.
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  4031.  @zacharyrollick6169  Honestly, yes. But what I really want is a slightly longer and beefier fore end, and a slightly shorter barrel. 20" would be ideal. The combination being a handy all-around hunting arm for any medium game or smaller.
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  4032. Watching you geek out on the weirdness of the flavor is a delight. 🙂
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  4033.  @PapaSchultz74  sure. Expensive lesson.
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  4034. Looks very reminiscent of the Swedish K; not surprising, I guess, considering the competitive origin.
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  4035. The biggest problem the Pathfinders faced was that their imagination and ambition far exceeded their technological capabilities.
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  4036.  @azalkathegunpowderdragon9439  Spies are just aggressive fans. Actually, it's management and marketing. But those are the guys pushing the unreasonable demands that make considerations, constraints, and compromises so vexing.
    1
  4037. @Judge Dredd I get around.
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  4038.  @strider04  why thank you. I've worked very hard to make it epic. Well, no, actually. It's just nature. :-p
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  4039.  @JakeBroe  actually, yes. Two M-60 variants on transporters, one M-4 Sherman, and three M-5s - all on their tracks. Big difference from Moscow is that it was the local National Guard that made the effort.
    1
  4040. Interesting to me, I used to live near, and work in, Aberdeen, Maryland. It was not unknown to have an M-60 or M-1 pass through town under its own power. Deer Creek Testing and Proving Center was also nearby, and we would tube down the creek whilst they were testing tank chassis there.
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  4041.  Kristian Mijic  exactly.
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  4042. Go with sweet potato filling, or turkey filling...
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  4043.  @andersbendsen5931  never a problem. I like recognition, but that's not why I comment; I usually have something to say, even it's nothing earth-shattering.
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  4044. Pretty good FPSRussia impersonation.
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  4045. Going to do something with ham. Not quite sure what yet, but it's not going to be too over-the-top.
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  4046.  @shonk3317  probably not, but that's the strength of America; we can flush our own toilet, thank you!
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  4047. You've been saying "ATACMS will happen" for 18 months. Stop already. The US isn't willing to go that far.
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  4048. And this is not even their final form!
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  4049. The infantry files are probably inexperienced; they're doing better, they'll get better still. Yeah, it's going to be expensive.
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  4050. When did the Russian losses hit 300K - Two months ago, maybe ten weeks? The rate of Russian losses has accelerated like a runaway freight train. You know there's going to be a NASTY wreck at the far end. The end? When Russia has been bled white.
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  4051. Yeah, that looks like there's some serious clipping at Putin's neckline.
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  4052. May the Russian forces have the courage to surrender.
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  4053. RIP to Randy. Fuck the Feds. #akgnotificationsquad
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  4054. Your best Mae West isn't great, but you get bonus points for remembering her and her way of turning even mundane statements into loaded innuendo.
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  4055. Eleven seperate outbreaks, and no action taken..?!
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  4056. SAVAGE meme. Well played, Sir!
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  4057. Seems to me that indexing the barrel correctly on reassembly would be challenging.
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  4058. Well, you did make mead, so yeah... You're an official meader. And weird food might be why they drank so much at feasts. If you're completely hammered, odd food is less a concern.
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  4059. Incredibly wholesome.
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  4060.  @TAKIZAWAYAMASHITA  Oceangate deliberately ran AWAY from such knowledge. They knew it existed - they were offered help many times. Their leader was so invincibly ignorant that he thought he was smarter than "...a bunch of middle-aged white men."* He flatly rejected engineering expertise learned at the cost of human lives - Only to murder his passengers in his suicide tube. Yeah, I have some very strong opinions on this subject. * Even though he was himself a middle-aged white man. Irony, much? 🙄
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  4061. There are a few other videos out there, but not many.
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  4062.  @md.farhannadim1783  gotta say, Ed is still an excellent marksman. I could used to do that, but my eyes these days? No way.
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  4063.  @mikecain6947  like they'd listen to anyone without a billion dollars? Heh.
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  4064.  @betterdonotanswer  they never did. They reached a modified form of Leninism-Stalinism... And then Ronald Reagan scared them into bankruptcy.
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  4065.  @antoniograncino3506  all "-isms" are flawed. Some, more deeply than others. Any theory or philosophy of government or even of personal conduct is going to fail, hard, if it doesn't take into account basic human nature.
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  4066. An elegant weapon from a more civilized time.
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  4067. That thing is huge, but damn if it isn't just ferocious.
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  4068.  @PJDAltamirus0425  carrot or beet might not work, but I bet you thyme could. You'd have to pair it with the right balance - bergamot, maybe? - but I can see it.
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  4069.  @3000BETA  once created, certainly!
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  4070. Serious deep doo-doo for these people.
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  4071. Yes, I would subscribe to a channel that destroys expensive equipment...
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  4072. I think that if "Doesn't die" is your standard for 'everything going fine,' you might be attending the wrong parties.
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  4073. Awfully special there with your pointy stick. But how are you going to defend yourself if someone comes after you with a basket of strawberries..? Eh?!
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  4074. Putin's War is Ukraine's War of 1812.
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  4075. I've had decent fruitcake. My grandmother was born in the late 19th Century, and she had her mother's recipe. It was rather good. To start, it wasn't completely overloaded with candied fruit, and it was leavened. A little bit. Sadly, that recipe didn't survive her departure. 😟
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  4076.  @TastingHistory  yes, yes it will. 🙂
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  4077. They learned that meat waves are a successful war-wining tactic. After all, they won the Great Patriotic War - no one really counted the cost, because dictatorship.
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  4078. Have you considered an elastomer buffer between the two parts of the rear trunnion?
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  4079. i.e. a hunk of rubber.
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  4080. "Happy Tuesday, aye!" :: salutes :: Hey, residency rules are residency rules. Obey, or get out.
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  4081. It is amusing, in a very dark way. Bakhmut is now an irrelevant goal; five months ago, it was the key to encircling and slicing off the remnant of the Donbass region. Today, that objective is impossible - Izyum has fallen back into Ukrainian hands, and there is no force coming from the north to link with Wagner. Still, Wagner crawls forward, crowing about hundred meter gains, even as they water the ground with their blood. All for no useful purpose. And still Bakhmut has not fallen. Five months. Still chasing the same target. This is not an advance - it's slow motion suicide.
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  4082. Tucker Carlson is morally a traitor - Not actually technically treasonous, but morally, he's an enemy of America.
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  4083. You would think a clock-making company would understand harmonics, and limit the bodies on the bridge proactively.
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  4084. What the fuck are you on about?​ @Katchi_ 
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  4085. What the fuck are you doing on about?
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  4086.  @Mountain-Man-3000  yep. 😉
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  4087. "What's going on?" Ukraine has solid SAM coverage, and Russia has been sticking their necks out. End of story.
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  4088. Navalny was no friend to Ukraine; He felt and said clearly that Russia should own Crimea. That said, he was a bitter foe of corruption in Russia. An honest nationalist can be negotiated with - Putin has NEVER been honest.
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  4089.  @andrejs2708  how does it feel to work for a fascist war criminal like Putin?
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  4090.  @juicingfactor1463  sounds like military and historical ignorance on your part.
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  4091. Russian propagandists are mourning the loss of one of their best sources of hot quotes. Trucker Carlson needs a good swift kick in the slats.
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  4092. Pitch it. Hollywood needs this content.
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  4093.  @suziecarr1566  yes, yes he is. Look up Vet Ranch channel.
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  4094. There may be an aftermarket market for handguards with better thermal protection.
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  4095. Fifty years ago, in Colorado, sourdough was very much a thing; I still treasure the memories of my sister making sourdough pancakes. She got her starter from a neighbor, and there was a tremendous degree of competitiveness over who had the best starter. I think you over-protest the unpopularity.
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  4096. Heh. The cold open remains brilliant.
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  4097. Innovative. Innovation often gets rejected, sometimes for no other reason than that it is new and strange.
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  4098. Hey! I've heard of that place! 😉😁
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  4099.  @FirstNameLastName-tg3rc  where there's a single buyer who controls the market, instead of the seller.
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  4100. Interesting variation on "Follow the Leader."
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  4101. Clearly a prototype, with prototype problems. Nicely controllable, but desperately needs a holographic or red-dot sight. As a PDW, fancy comfortable stocks are kind of deliberately an afterthought. I can see where this would have deffo benefitted from some additional development work; but it's an outstanding start. I'd love to see this refined, and maybe chambered in something like .30SC, or 5.7x28.
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  4102. Nostalgia is a dangerous mental sickness.
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  4103.  @theimmortal4718  agreed, but as I said, that's a trap. Hardly anyone is going to have that level of training. Mortal humans will always do better with the extra point of contact.
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  4104.  @theimmortal4718  "Child Model." It has all the advantages of being short. It has all the advantages of three points of contact. It has all the advantages of proven design and use. Those are the criteria for successful home defense. Because, let's be honest here, none of us in this thread are going to be breaching doors. So why bother, unless you're just looking for a range toy?
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  4105.  @theimmortal4718  that was already stipulated in the OP.
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  4106. That would be wasteful - for anti-personnel effect, one 20mm or 30mm shell per meter of trench is just as useful as twenty, and far more efficient.
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  4107. Any basic combat engineer could utterly wreck those dragon teeth barriers without even pausing. Even Nazi Germany, who built actually effective dragon teeth barriers, knew that without infantry and artillery covering them, they were no more than a nuisance. Just throwing lines of unanchored tetrahedrons across the countryside is wasteful and pointless. Possibly counter-productive, in that they encourage a false sense of security which could cause Russian leaders to lower their guards. Meanwhile, even if properly mined and booby-trapped, one engineering vehicle with a plow blade or a mine-clearing line charge will blow right through the barrier.
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  4108. Pretty sure you'd get a typical grenade blast with a purple tinge to the cloud.
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  4109. Daring.
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  4110.  @ourtime-downhere6931  "huge human" makes a difference.
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  4111. Gold tiger-stripe. Because more horrible.
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  4112.  @mordecaieagle4240  😁
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  4113. When dealing with the kinds of forces that habitually use Technicals, the lack of CBRN is moot; it's just not needed. As for Situational awareness, well, again, they aren't going to gain any value from a system that they can't maintain, and aren't trained to use. So - both of those are really a moot point, and not applicable. Situational awareness can be expanded by basic smart phones, so mobile hotspots and Garmin satnavs are more useful as an immediate upgrade.
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  4114. Failure rate not withstanding, unlike some other desperate regimes, the Confederacy did not faff about with 'new and untried.' When your back is to the wall, K.I.S.S is the only way to go. Smart.
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  4115. Brilliant!
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  4116. It's basic, but practical. Free of unnecessary gimmicks, stripped down to the functional essentials.
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  4117.  @ScottKenny1978  hey, if Ian can get .32 longue (.32 French) back into production...
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  4118.  @lightweight1974  heh. Cynical, but not wrong. Enough demand, and we could probably get someone producing it... I own several .38rf rifles, and would love to be shooting them. There are special centerfire brass cases with the primer deliberately offset to simulate rimfires, but those are somewhat unreliable and hyper dependent on correct indexing.
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  4119.  @lightweight1974  fully understand. It's easy to get that way.
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  4120. You know, 90° quick-acting cutoff valves aren't terribly expensive. Might save your table from more holes. Just saying.
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  4121. Decent rap! Well-played, son!
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  4122. "...except for sales to... ... influential people." Ah, Italy. Your corruption never ends.
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  4123. T-Rex has been out of work while Scott has been recovering. He needs Scott back up on that pony!
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  4124. Quad-ought buck to the face could maybe ruin yer day. Just sayin'
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  4125. Meh. Niche weapon for extremely niche purposes. Doesn't even look fun as a toy.
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  4126.  Marino  meh. I've got both 5.7 and 5.56 firearms. Subjectivily, 5.7 brass feels MUCH lighter.
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  4127. Do not taunt the spirits.
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  4128. Add diced onion before frying, you've got my favorite base form. Maybe use green onions for nice color. Diced chives work, too. Add crumbled bacon, and top with an egg over easy, and you have a feast!
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  4129.  @Ahmet-gc9wo  how can it be "the fact" if no one is quite sure what you wrote? But, anyway - nearly TWO YEARS into Putin's "Three day operation," Putin's War is going worse for Russia than ever. So. You are an idiot.
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  4130. The flame is rather lovely.
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  4131. It's a roulette mod: pull the trigger and take your chances; maybe you win, more likely you won't.
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  4132. Instructional, indeed.
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  4133. Investigate Kilchoman scotch. Particularly Sanaig & Machir Bay bottlings.
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  4134. When Germany inked a deal for huge volumes of cheap energy from Russia, they signed a deal with the devil. They should have known better, but there you are. Until Germany acknowledges just how compromised they are, they will try to soft-pedal their complicity in Russia's reign of terror. It's hard for an addict to blame their pusher or themselves.
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  4135.  @ericmitchell985  Well, a gear is a wheel, and a wheel is a rotating lever, so...
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  4136. Latvia is justifiably famous for their choral music.
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  4137. Clearly, fans don't like egg plant, either.
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  4138. I think maybe a Phoenix is likely much more stupid, but it's also a .25acp.
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  4139.  @wouldbang6928  no, that would you. Because I have, in fact, handled one. Was NOT fortunate enough to fire one, but was able to pick up, shoulder, strip, and reassemble one.
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  4140. The blocks over the trunnions are called cap-squares.
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  4141. As a fifth generation native son, I can gladly say I no longer live in California. That said, hope springs eternal.
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  4142. The revolting (heh!) troops are actually showing the moral weakness of the Russian officer and NCO corps. There is no way a Western army would not have this guy running and doing push ups until he puked himself unconscious. Completely unprofessional of the Russian leadership.
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  4143. I love that your bodged valve attacked your face.
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  4144.  @normanmccollum6082  considering the offerings of the day, this rifle chambered in .243 would do much better than a number of its contemporaries.
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  4145. Ease of cleaning & clearing in a tiny gun where size makes the more usual methods a pain in the backside. Also, the tip-up means you can actually make the weapon smaller and still function well.
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  4146. The field craft in Russian camps is appallingly bad. A typical Boy Scout troop has much better camp discipline and field craft.
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  4147. I think seized Russian assets can also be leveraged to recover Ukrainian hostages from Russia.
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  4148.  @hdvrNG  don't count tanks out. There's a constant see-saw between offense and defense, and honestly, the necessary technique is already known. The "parasol" bar armor that some Russian tanks are using is quite effective against grenade drops. Not so much against ATGMs, but, you can have everything...
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  4149. This kind of thing is why biomedical devices software validation is now a highly specialized industry. One of my numerous sisters is a Biomedical Devices Software Validation Engineer. She makes stupid-big money, and typically only works six months a year; the demand for her skills is intermittent, but when she's needed, it's literally life-and-death; the software she tests can kill if it fails.
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  4150. See, here I though you were being very disciplined in your trigger control... :D
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  4151.  @88porpoise  the point being that it is not "theoretically" weak at all. I'm at a loss to guess where you came up with the 'theoretical' comparitive weakness when a 30k receiver can easily handle NATO standard cartridge. It sounds a lot like the typical gun store FUD legendary bullshit, to me.
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  4152. Boo-YAH! The man is BACK!. Eggplants everywhere, be afraid! (Also: funny opening!)
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  4153. TWO tables! 😁 Edit: MANY tables!
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  4154.  @MichaelArtelle  yep.
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  4155. From Tea Parties in Boston to Tea Parties in your local convenience store, Tea is America's assault beverage of choice. #akgnotificationsquad
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  4156.  @turretlizardinthesun957  considering that Gullah is a kind of creole, it's going to be difficult.
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  4157. Made this, this evening. Pretty much clone-correct, and VERY popular with the family. Observations on my effort; - less time on sauteed vegetables. A touch overdone, albeit still good. Just could be a bit better. - I generally use Worcestershire sauce instead of soy. Went a touch heavy, but again, first try, so mistakes are going to happen. Again, I'm the only one who noticed, so... Maybe it's just me? - brown the chicken a bit longer next time. Again, I'm the harshest critic, so maybe I should stop looking for problems? Overall, delicious, and I've already been asked to put it 'in the rotation.' 😉 A leisurely hour and a half, no difficult steps, just kind of a relaxing meal to prepare. Served mine up with sourdough bread, to sop up the remaining sauce. Yum. 🙂
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  4158. Watching the infantry dismount, they seem to have their act together. A little too bunched up for my comfort, but they're establishing flank security, and the NCOs are heads-up and directing their troops, rather than getting caught up in the fighting. Well done!
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  4159.  @gorkyd7912  get off your moralistic high horse. I commented on causes, not justification. Go preach you drivel elsewhere.
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  4160. Pretty amazing how tolerant he was of the ear cleaning.
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  4161. ​ @crayolavet4433 benefits, wages, and insurance all set a minimum cost floor you can never get below. The fact that only one company is shouldering the cost of developing the industry in the USA adds another, higher minimum floor cost. It's pretty obvious why it's not cheap.
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  4162. Lots of Lugers recently. Sorry for the pun. 😛
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  4163. Setting a plate 'For Elijah' or for the random unexpected guest is pretty common; in our family we set two extra spaces - one for Elijah, one for my late sister (gone far too young).
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  4164. For artillerymen, catching a convoy in movement, in the open, is the holy grail. Those poor Russian peasant SOBs have been sacrificed on the alter of Putin's ego. The report on Pushilinov, even if completely false, is incredibly damaging. It creates enormous distrust and suspicion within Russian ranks. That kind of friction is the kind of thing that screws up coordination and ability to react to emergent threats.
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  4165. Information on pilotage in the Delaware River and Bay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilots%27_Association_For_The_Bay_%26_River_Delaware
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  4166. Pffft. Please. New York was fine before Trump, it'll be fine without him, too. Anyone that thinks Trump is indispensable is an idiot.
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  4167. This a field-grade officer, in charge of literally thousands of soldiers. What was he doing so close to the front? Almost certainly trying to reorganize troops thrown into wild disarray by the Ukrainian advance. Slava Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!
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  4168. They're policing brass with a shovel...
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  4169. IF you have a Jennings that runs, they tend to run rather well. Pretty much "all or nothing" with them.
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  4170. Space magic. Didn't work out for the Germans, didn't work out for the Russians. Maybe one day, we'll see a successful space magic gun, but not any time soon. "Simple" still rules.
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  4171.  @genem895  this assertion is not backed up by Russian training figures or by reports from the pilots themselves - prior to getting to a war-operational squadron, Russian military pilots have to beg and scrape for airtime. Witness the spare of non-operational wrecks that have popped up all over the places, including recent well-documented non-combat SU-25, SU-30, and SU-34 wrecks. 34000 sorties over 240+ days is NOT a huge number (142 flights a day), and reflects only those pilots on actual combat duty.
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  4172.  @genem895  i witnessed that you're a liar. And you're a tool of that war criminal fascist, Putin.
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  4173.  @Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский  are you blind? Did you not see the engine fire? Explain to me how a tail strike causes an engine fire. I'm waiting for your masterful explanation. Idiot.
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  4174.  @Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский  because you can't explain.
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  4175.  @Maplelust  it's not ideological. If you think it is, you need to go read a dictionary. There is NO ideology wherein lying to the point of culpable treason is a tennent. Nor is there any ideology that supports allowing your military to collapse through fiscal neglect. If you THINK such an ideology exists, your teachers have failed you miserably, and you should be very angry at them.
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  4176.  @Maplelust  good I've got your attention. Now: "Ideology (n): A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which fos the basis of an economic or political system." Now, then: Which ideals or ideas supports institutional and endemic falsehood to the point of treason? If you had said "culture," I would not have been so utterly contemptuous. Because that can (and does) certainly exist in many ways and times and places. But but "we believe in lying until we fail our country?" Bull. Shit. No one has that as a belief, whether or not they actually engage in such.
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  4177. KELTEC: Triggered
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  4178. "Well kempt" is a phrase I've run across. "Whelm" is another I've seen in older texts. I've always (as long as I can recall, anyway) known "maculate" to mean filthy, untidy, and sloppy. But then I'm a bit of a nerd.
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  4179.  @aguywhodoesstuff1116  yeah, similar to the British style, notorious for slashing up the pilots as it punches them through the canopy.
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  4180.  @johnnunn8688  Generally. Unless said slashing leads to traumatic amputation, or massive blood loss whilst in the shrouds, both of which have absolutely, fatally, happened.
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  4181. I mean, there's a reason why modern ejection seats have straps to yank you back tight to the seat.
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  4182. I sell these lights. I hate them. Sure, they can do fancy things, but there is ZERO repair pipeline for them, and almost as little recycling pipeline. They're both disposable, and eternal in the landfill. I try, where possible, to steer people to the screw-in or tube-LED light fixtures wherever possible.
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  4183. Metal donuts? Might be hard on the teeth...
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  4184. The suit is a NICE touch.
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  4185. I was going to suggest that your compressor stage was a bit too small... Then you got it self-sustaining. ImPRESSive first try!
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  4186. F
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  4187. The range footage confirms your theory.
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  4188. Yay!
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  4189.  @Lionstar16  yes, this.
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  4190. Rocket tomato.
    1
  4191. The blade is more rapier-shaped, rather than sabre-shaped. If you know what you're doing, rapiers are incredibly lethal. Probably far more dangerous in-hand, than when fixed to the mosqueton.
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  4192. How many times was your original video shared? I know I shared it, and commented upon it - and my commentary was discussed - meta commentary. So the Texas courts got dragged even more than has been documented.
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  4193. Of course, Twitter... Excuse me: X has suspended the account of the guitar player. Because Elon is an ass.
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  4194. Evil. Extremely funny, but very evil.
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  4195. Clearly, Russian forces need a safety stand down. 😛
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  4196. Great opening.
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  4197. Crap build is crap.
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  4198. My favorite apple liquor! No, I'm not related. I like the description of the Apple Jack drinker... Sounds like a regular party guy! I like Apple Cider toddies: ~ 5 ounces fresh pressed apple cider, heated. ~ 1 ounce whiskey (bourbon will do, but Apple Jack or brandy is better). ~ Dash fresh-squeezed lemon juice. ~ Cinnamon and ground clove to taste. Heat the cider, pour into a mug, blend in spirits and lemon juice, garnish with cinnamon and ground clove. Drink, and enjoy!
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  4199. Really? You think ANYONE in American politics is capable, smart enough to create and steer a decades-long conspiracy? In AMERICA..?! Dude, you're living in fantasy land. There is NO ONE in American politics that smart. Indeed, no one in the entire world that smart. Especially since the power structure is swarming with short-sighted, self-centered, dim-witted sociopaths.
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  4200.  @TastingHistory  my mother owns a metate; picked it up in Oaxaca while on an academic trip hunting bats. I may give it a try, just to see how hard it is.
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  4201.  @nunyabidniz2868  my daughter has a rifle that needs a Monte Carlo style stock, but it's an odd-ball rifle, and would need to have one made custom. Instead, she has a leather cuff that straps in place, with a pocket that can take multiple thicknesses of padding, allowing her to adjust the rifle to her exact fit. If I am allowed to shoot the rifle, I need to remove the cuff; easy enough to do. Put the cuff back on, a couple shots to check placement, and she's back in business.
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  4202.  @michelguevara151  well, yes. But that's a bit more math than most actually want.
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  4203. The insane waste of trained resources that was planned... And carried out. SMH The skills and training needed to carry out a successful suicide flight are the same as needed by a pilot that intends a career of combat flight. The nihilism in Japan's wartime mindset is mind boggling. They were literally throwing their best and brightest away.
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  4204.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  Before the special attack groups, they were throwing formally-trained pilots into the fire. The bare-bones training came after they'd exhausted the fully-qualified volunteers.
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  4205. Initially the IJN and IJA refused and even punished advocates of suicide missions. After a handful of notably successful suicide attacks, along with the increasing futility of standard attacks, attitudes changed, and the old guard was forced to sanction them. Official sanction allowed some modicum of control over what was becoming close to a mutiny by the younger pilots and some charismatic young leaders.
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  4206. "We will find a way." You don't win against people with this attitude.
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  4207. DP-28 == Stalin's Record Player
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  4208. This DUST dude? He's a clown.
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  4209. The theorem recently appeared in a Taufledermaus vid; resin shotgun slugs began oversetting, once they dropped below a certain velocity. Repeatedly. Whilst staying (mostly) on-trajectory. Clear demonstration of the Theorem. https://youtu.be/H1RJ8BxZ89k
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  4210. It was actually built, using steam to drive the disk. It was an utter failure. Ineffective in all respects, in every use case they could imagine. Heavy, bulky, dependant on external power sources, slow to spin up to useable velocity, and completely inaccurate. So, no.
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  4211. Literally, a house of cards problem.
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  4212. When the Bear Cavalry shows up, yer truly fooked...
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  4213. The selector switch is deal killer.
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  4214.  @charlessalmond7076  i own 100+ year old weapons that shoot like new. Ian has fired WWII sub guns that worked just fine. So, I'm not buying that for a second. Single sample defect, yeah, that I'll buy, though I'm still not impressed that it failed in this manner.
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  4215.  @charlessalmond7076  one of my 'shooters' is an 1897-dated rifle with all parts numbers matching. It has multiple company-level inventory stamps, and two different sets of national property marks. It's old, and used. And yet... All the parts are there, and work correctly. Making excuses for shit quality control is delusional.
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  4216.  @leeoldershaw956  congratulations, you just failed practical science. Lithium has an exothermic reaction with water which produces lithium hydroxide and... Hydrogen. The reaction lasts longer than a similar mass reaction of sodium and water. Guess what happens when hydrogen and heat mix? FIRE! 1/3 of a gallon of gasoline (energy equivalent) isn't a lot of energy? Go light a pint of gasoline on fire, then spill it into a car. See what happens. Dunno what planet you live on, but I don't think it's planet practical.
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  4217. I get this noise every day, for hours per day. At close range. Order Pickers, Reach Trucks, and Forklifts. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP All day long. In either direction. If it's moving, it's BEEP BEEPing.
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  4218. An enormous monument to the "Sunk Costs" fallacy.
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  4219.  @mzaite  fair point
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  4220. The biological impact of radioactive material contamination is why I fear "dirty bombs" far, FAR more than the possibility of some terrorist organization making a nuke. Building a functional nuke is not easy. Building a dirty bomb is stupidly easy.
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  4221.  @tantangpenn5496  That's the kind of thing an asshole would ask. Edit: Tan Tang Penn has deleted their original, grossly insensitive, comment. If you're just arriving, be assured, it was jaw-droppingly insensitive.
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  4222.  @Beanliquid  trust me, if you add enough nutmeg to reach toxicity, you won't be eating the dish. 'Cause THAT much nutmeg would be bitterly nasty.
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  4223. Nothing like caffeine and a calm voice to listen to, to reset your frame of mind.
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  4224.  @littlejackalo5326  oh, I know they WANT my guns, but even in Delaware - that's right, Uncle Joe's backyard - the legislature is scared of 2A voters. With good reason.
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  4225. HiPoint carbine is not actually horrible. In fact, it's actually not bad at all. Especially for the price.
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  4226. Ok, that cold open is the best yet!
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  4227. Also: Absolutely murdered that Texas Star!
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  4228. Give it a shot! Let us know how it turns out.
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  4229. Dunno who was rolling the watermelons, but I bet they were wearing fruit salad afterwards.
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  4230. Mulholland, Jr. L.A. Water District has NEVER been able to shed Mulholland's legacy.
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  4231. When small, we had a cat named "Poor Hungry Kitty." Very similar story; feral, terrified, but so food driven that we had no trouble taming him.
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  4232. Clearly mistaken for a Malaysian airliner...
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  4233. Beria was an absolute monster. Never mind his personal crimes, his hand at the helm of state ministries guided the USSR in a reign of murderous brutality the likes of which have never been exceeded* by any nation - not even Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler exceeded his cold-eyed democidal horror. *Occasionally matched, but never exceeded.
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  4234. This comment was deleted right after I posted it; I suspect some Russian cowardly POS sniveled to YT; here it is again: Every Russian on Ukrainian soil should be tried for conspiracy to commit - or actually commit - war crimes. Every Russian officer and politician above company grade should be brought before the tribunal in the Hague for crimes against humanity.
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  4235. Squirrel is good eating. Ask any Southern Good 'Ol Boy. 😛
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  4236. 3-D metal printed Tesla turbine.
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  4237.  @MarkFeltonProductions  I'll go look for it, thank you!
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  4238. Listen to me And I'm sure you'll agree The bravest man in history Was neither Soldier Nor champion of law But the first to devour an oyster raw!
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  4239.  @martinc.720  and it amuses us. Go be a kill-joy somewhere else.
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  4240. A comprehensive smack-down.
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  4241. You are giving Russian Media too much credit. You need to recall that the Kremlin has its thumb heavily on the scales there; many channels are outright owned by the government, and the rest are heavily encumbered with censorship rules which give the Kremlin de facto control over content. As it stands, the Kremlin is playing to the domestic audience whom are ignorant, lack adequate access to fact-checking, and are already capture by the official propaganda machine. In addition, the secondary audience are external clients of Russia, and Russian apologists. They're counting on a public which is apathetic, ignorant, cannot - or will not - bother fact checking, and will quickly forget the content anyways. So yeah, those Russian reporters ARE waking up and planning on lying.
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  4242. About your diet... I have some concerns.
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  4243. Bullet-resistant bathroom glass. Light gets through, but peepers are denied.
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  4244. Weird flex, but kinda brilliant.
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  4245.  @kenhanna6834  why would I be joking?
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  4246. With the powder magazine going, I doubt there is much left to find and identify. Even the guns would be scattered and mired deep in the silt.
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  4247. So glad to see r/TreeLaw called out!
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  4248. That's a LOT of ramen. That could feed an entire dorm of college students for at least a weekend.
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  4249. Simple enough, though you'd expect a bit of weirdness from an early version like this. Not quite a mature design, but close.
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  4250. This is actually interesting. Deep backup possible.
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  4251. Basically, the Marlin Camp Carbine, 40 years ahead of schedule.
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  4252. Sabre? Hell, that's a rapier! Close order drill with bayonets mounted, using these, would be potentially lethal. Slope your weapon a bit too much, and a facing movement could decapitate the guy behind you.
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  4253. There's a lot of fud and 'lore' around the Gyro Jet. I've read an account by one SF green hat type that carried a Gyro Jet in Vietnam. He actually had a lot of good things to say about them, which went counter to some of the lore.
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  4254. "I can't brush you like this." :: proceeds to brush him like that ::
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  4255. The modern dive klaxon sounds like a sick moose. I'd far rather the Nav still used the traditional old-school klaxon. (Qualified in submarines)
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  4256. US Army Extended Cold Weather Clothing System is also very good. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on some of the prototype gear, and it was amazing. I spent two bad winters at Navy Yard PHILA - including the year they managed to freeze the Schuylkill River right down to the bottom - and despite being up, plowing snow in open-cabbed equipment at oh-dark-thirty, that gear made those winters some of the most comfortable in my memory.
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  4257. Multi-barrel for overachievers. You better hit with the first barrage, because you'll be reloading all day long.
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  4258. This is a fascinating engine. I was a submariner, and submarines use interesting engines for various purposes; from the horizontal or vertical dual-opposed piston diesel generators, to combustion-driven swashplate motors in torpedoes. The more I'm seeing these various engines, I think I'm seeing old concepts being presented in novel formations. This is valuable, but hardly panacea. I'd love to see one of these engineering upstarts HONESTLY and without hype pick an application and really go for it, warts and all. Once established in an industry, there's plenty of time to leverage sideways into other applications. This particular design seems absolutely ideal in long-loiter drones; small naval vessels, speed boats, and related craft; lightweight manned aviation; and the like.
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  4259. I see secondaries there at the end.
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  4260.  @TastingHistory  gotta love them dirty water dogs!
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  4261. Heh. "Talk nerdy to me." You sexy geek. 😛
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  4262. GREAT cold open! Shooting gloves. Just sayin'.
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  4263. What the HELL is anyone doing with eggplant puree?! What hellish unethical experiment are they conducting..?!
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  4264. Actually, Russia and the Soviets are notoriously stingy on cash payouts. Look at the Walkers - they got paid an absolute pittance for the epic levels of betrayal committed. Now China, they aren't afraid to pay out large ducats for betrayal.
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  4265. WHAT "icebreaker race?" If the US had any need of large numbers of icebreakers, it would have them.
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  4266. Also: .45 ACP wedgie. 😁
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  4267. Gods. I may have developed a permanent sympathetic wince.
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  4268.  @swampdonkey1517  the problem wasn't the Communist. It was the overwhelming sense of entitlement combined with a deep resentment fostered from losing WWI. Any nation that can philosophically embrace the concept of Ubermensch/Untermensch has some MASSIVE problems built in. I'll note that the Germany was / is NOT the only society with that problem. They were just the absolute worst at that time.
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  4269.  @swampdonkey1517  no, I don't forget about that. But by WWII, that was a generation in the past. Old news, to say the least. Did Hitler use that as an excuse? Certainly. But the VASTLY larger causus belli was the myth of the 'stab in the back,' and the enormous sense of resentment mixed with unfounded sense of entitlement and 'racial superiority.' German in general, and the leadership in particular felt that they were owed things they had never earned. In effect, nationalistic incels.
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  4270.  @mercurywoodrose  I have friends, yanno... 😎
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  4271.  @patrickwilliams3108  could entirely be. I didn't make it - picked it up at a farmer's market. Black, bitter, unsweetened, cayenne pepper or other pepper from here to eternity.
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  4272.  @markmower6507  you'll never know...
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  4273. "Desk popped." I chuckled.
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  4274. I love my AR-57 upper. It's WAY heavy, but it does have an issue with finicky feeding and extraction. with the right mag and ammo, it can be a great plinker.
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  4275. Pretty sure introducing false evidence is perjury - and I'm pretty sure that's a felony.
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  4276. Caroway is god-level delicious.
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  4277. Musk has bluntly stated that the hyperloop idea was, in fact, intended to derail (pun intended) high speed rail in California.
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  4278. Armored personnel carrier. Still one hell of a good shot.
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  4279. I hate it when someone sinks my church. Takes forever to refloat it and dry everything out.
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  4280. Seizing her power back.
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  4281.  @ThePandafriend  oh, they can still be Useful Idiots. The simplest way to that designation is to get fooled into thinking they're working for a different nation than they thought. The USSR was particularly good at duping fools like that with false flag recruiting.
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  4282. Once again, Putin's proxies wave Russia's nuclear dick about. It's as limp this time as it always has been. In all the 80-odd years that nuclear weapons have existed, they've been used in anger exactly twice. Both times by the United States. Putin (and his proxies) should give that a good hard think.
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  4283.  @TheWizardGamez 😂
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  4284. The looks a lot like a Hollywood prop.
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  4285. That's a big dude. How many rice crispy treats did you actually order..? What percentage actually made it to the test? Robert is definitely Demolitia material. 😁
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  4286. Oh, and that Maxim 9 definitely sounds different.
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  4287. Robert & the BFR: 'Big Iron on his hip.'
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  4288.  @philgiglio7922  good question, and I guess we'll never know.
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  4289. Slide action shotgun is an outstanding starter gun; simple, straightforward, and they don't age out - no matter how experienced you are, they remain every bit as useful as they started.
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  4290. On my unicorn list; always looking for a chance at one. Even without full auto.
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  4291. I've got a VZ-52; I want a companion rifle for my collection.
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  4292. Saw this at another guntuber channel recently. Was much intrigued; thank you for the actual details.
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  4293.  Angie H.  it's a ring, generally worked from a large nut, as a way to keep oneself occupied during slack time while on patrol. Take a large steel or inconel nut, work on it with files, sand paper, and other hand tools until you've turned into a ring. Most go with simple single or triple facet rings, like a signet ring, maybe with some images worked into the facet, but I've seen some high art too. All depends on your patience, the amount of slack time you've got, and you innate artistic skills. Mine tend to be fairly plain.
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  4294. I work in the electrical department of a big box hardware store. I wish I could park you in my electrical devices aisle.
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  4295. Ring circuit wiring has its purpose, but is in many ways less flexible and less amenable to retrofitting additional circuit, as compared to radial circuits.
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  4296. Also: Every one of my extension cords are visibly and prominently labeled as to their amperage rating.
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  4297. I gotta say, VERY interesting challenges, and you look gooood doing it in a suit. Very continental - tres chic. Your friends in France approve, I'm certain.
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  4298. Sternum? What sternum?
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  4299. Ian McCollum is twitching uncomfortably, and doesn't yet know why.
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  4300. Got to get those tax revenues - no matter what the cost. Screw those kids, they don't vote anyway. /bitter sarcasm
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  4301. The entire circus depends on one clown in center ring.
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  4302. Shotgun TASER to the face is still deadly force. It's a nice idea, but too dangerous in practice.
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  4303. Considering that Saddam did explicitly copy from Hitler (and other totalarist leaders), it's not surprising.
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  4304.  @Psiberzerker  so did everyone else.
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  4305.  @Psiberzerker  the Modello 58 (CETME is actually a manufacturing complex; it would be like calling a rifle "General Dynamics") was designed by German engineers that were unemployed, having been used and booted by the French. The H&K link came later.
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  4306.  @Psiberzerker  the name of it's most famous rifle is the Modello 58B. Common usage doesn't change that.
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  4307. The problem with calling it a CETME is that there different calibers and very, very different configurations using the same architecture. Using your analogy, it would be like calling an M-4 an M-16 or an AR-10; they are similar, but they are not the same.
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  4308.  @Psiberzerker  yeah, but I live in a world where precision matters, as a fact of both safety and of function. Use the wrong label, and at best, you waste money. Intellectual laziness and mental sloth irritate me to no end, especially when the only excuse is being lazy for the sake of being lazy.
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  4309. Damn. Simulpost.
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  4310. "I eat my peas with honey/ I've done it all my life. They do taste kind of funny/ But it keeps them on my knife."
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  4311. EXCELLENT FPSRussia impersonation. Edit: The name for that style of bolt is "Telescoping Bolt," as the bolt at least partially 'telescopes' over and encloses the chamber and barrel.
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  4312.  @smorrow  the distinction lies in that the telescoping bolt reciprocates under the top cover, rather than forming part of the top cover. Yeah, on just such technicalities patents depend.
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  4313. BUY an I-Phone? Looted one, more Likely. I use Ground News - I'm quite happy with their service. I've been using it since very shortly after you first plugged for them; Let them know their sponsorship is working.
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  4314. Human ingenuity is endless.
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  4315. Thank y'all, thank y'all. I'll be here all week, be nice the waitstaff, and thumb yer nose at Putin. 😁
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  4316. Lord Thompson essentially murdered those brave, creative, dedicated crew and engineers. Oh, not in the first degree, no, but through his dictatorial management, his willful disregard of expert advice, and his ego-driven monomania, he sent them to their deaths. The only grace here is that he went with them.
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  4317. Bird in the hand worth two in the bush.
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  4318. Potatoes have an insane calorie yield per acre; easily the highest of any of the common staple crops. if you need to feed peasants, potatoes are where it's at. Until a blight comes along, that is - As the Irish learned to their great sorrow.
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  4319. You learn more from failure than you do from success. I wonder who got paid to force the engine selection?
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  4320.  @nickthompson9697  probably 'punches it up' some, but there's only so far and so much gain you get from a few inches of barrel. Rounds out of this pistol will be measurably hotter than average, but even still, it is a pistol-length barrel, and a fairly weak cartridge.
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  4321. Ian being mean to innocent handguns again... 😁
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  4322. Bang-Fu. It's super effective.
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  4323.  @mbryson2899  probably doesn't much care, being long dead.
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  4324. "Liberace's House of Crap." Ha. Insulting to Liberace; his outfitting was very careful designed to a specific purpose. Goering's bombast was all about his uncontrollable megalomania.
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  4325. There's an implication here that YouTube is going to be around hosting videos 550+ years from now. That tracks. I wonder what the ToS looks like? Have they become integrated into ONI?
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  4326. So, Estonia is the anti-Elbonia, then?
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  4327. YT is schizzo. You carry on with your bad self.
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  4328. Congratulations, you crazy kids!
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  4329. At this point, you could probably get custom glitter, and maybe even a glitter sponsorship.
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  4330.  @The_True_Noble_Duke  Pathetic troll is pathetic; come on, Ivan - you can do better than that. Or have you surrendered in your heart already, and are now just phoning it in?
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  4331. Yeah, they want Russia running about like Chicken Little.
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  4332. Set the Russian PoWs to repairing Ukrainian cities. They can learn useful job skills, and maybe earn a small amount of forgiveness.
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  4333.  @rich1051414  this is the result of nearly a century of deliberate political desensitization of the Russian population; if they'll passively accept any political bullshit that comes along, they'll be passive when you try to rally them for a cause, too. They, effectively, have no causes.
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  4334.  @johnslugger  as discussed, above, No.
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  4335.  @xpusostomos  the big cruise missiles have very little tactical utility - too inflexibile. But for a strategic target like a dam, they're perfect.
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  4336.  @xpusostomos  doesn't change the targeting profile any. A dam is a large, stationary target.
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  4337.  @PsilocybinCocktail  exactly my point. If Russia is about to lose Crimea, I expect they'll try to poison the well.
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  4338.  @johnslugger  certainly.
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  4339.  @deftoneseire07  heh. Yeah, just like the Russians couldn't cross any rivers. It's so cute when novices pretend to be strategists.
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  4340. He was invited to give it a try by the manufacturer.
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  4341. A half mile? 50kg? And people freaked? SMH.
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  4342. Transatlantic flying U-Haul trailer...
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  4343. Extra flipping toughens up the pancake. Do NOT over-flip unless you like eating gasket material.
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  4344. Nog! https://youtu.be/Wk0i0Bi0p1Y
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  4345. I've made this recipe before. Wow! It'll knock you off your feet.
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  4346. The lever is also part of the locking mechanism. It's fundamental to the way the weapon works.
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  4347. Or he was worried about fines.
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  4348.  @Breakfast_and_Bullets  realistically, the number one punitive response by the BATFE is a fine. They're less interested in spending budget sending people to prison than they are stopping various behaviors. Fines are efficient.
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  4349. It's a mission!
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  4350. You don't have to watch much to say something like "BSE is horrifying." Especially if you've been educated on the subject prior.
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  4351. Wow. His coat REALLY brightened up.
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  4352. Very few, if any, directly. By descent, quite a few. Delaware has a history of producing fierce combat units; the 1st Delaware had a ferocious reputation during the Civil War.
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  4353.  @bertrandlechat4330  reason being that the officer organizing the first Delaware unit was a dedicated fighting cock breeder and fighter. His "Fighting Blue Gamecocks" were, and are, HUGE, vividly blue, and VERY aggressive - much like the soldiers he recruited.
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  4354. Heh. Burning table is mesmerizing.
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  4355. Chainsaw took a beating.
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  4356. 20mm Solothurn.
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  4357. Even before social media, the wives' grapevine was one of the most potent intelligence networks in existence. The spouses ALWAYS had the true story before those of us in uniform did. The only network more capable was the similar net belonging to the prostitutes.
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  4358.  @GodmanchesterGoblin  "only smoke and heat damage" Look again - it's charred. It didn't go ALL the way up, but it was sure as hell involved. Also: roughly half of the EVs aboard were on higher decks. Won't say that an EV caused the fire, but you can see the special means necessary to safely recover a damaged EV - shippers have some serious thinking, planning, and engineering ahead of them.
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  4359. Russian anti-aircraft IFF authentication is not noted to be very robust... Flight MH-17 for evidence.
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  4360. Ian has done a good number of videos on toolroom protoypes, so... This is seriously educational. Thanks for the incredible effort!
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  4361.  @conorstewart2214  yeah, which is why I agreed that it was a distinct possibility.
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  4362. Scheduled drop; it's a 'set it and forget it' thing.
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  4363. Mini-bikes. Heh. We used to build our own... Buncha punk kids zooming about on hazardous little lawnmower bikes. We were a freakin' menace.
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  4364.  @Element905  they had to operate it. Now, one thing that is common to EVERY soldier is that they love to bitch about their equipment. Whine, kvetch, snivel, and complain. That is, unless the kit is really solid. And I'm not talking about "public venue, the officers are watching," either - I'm talking "hanging about in my basement, over a case of beer." If, in that environment, a soldier says a bit of kit is right decent, then you can be sure, by God, that he actually likes it. So... Over rate? I doubt that. You on the other hand? Give me some bone fides for your assertion, or you're just a troll.
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  4365. "Tastes like Christmas." Ok, I'm sold.
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  4366. I like these 'shorts.'
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  4367. Thanks to the video virtual walks, Hollywood doesn't even need to go on-site to film; they've already got the details necessary for a CGI fill.
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  4368. Pneumonia is no joke. It WILL kill, if it possibly can.
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  4369. Brilliant attention to detail here. But one does wonder how you might charge the weapon in the first place without getting your powder wet..?
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  4370.  @aleks4996  not really familiar with that cartridge loading.
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  4371.  @jozseftoth9368  pretty sure that yes, that's exactly what happened - relatively soft copper will take interesting shapes when put under extreme stress. Not sure if the bullet was annealed deliberately, or if firing process had something to do with that.
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  4372.  @aleks4996  superior as opposed to what? What's the standard of comparison - standard M2 ball? SLAP? Tracer? .338 Lapua? Like I said: don't know that loading, so you'll need to give me a bit more information.
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  4373.  @Ripper13F1V  yes. Exactly.
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  4374.  @aleks4996  so, real life... Care to tell me of any long range sniper shots taken with a .416? Oh, wait... No one uses it as such so you have zero comparative data. Making claims in a vacuum? Yeah, that's a bullshit analysis.
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  4375.  @aleks4996  no one uses it because you assume it's less effective. Without any actual tests. Again, making claims in a vacuum. Being "real life" still does not make you an analyst; that much is entirely clear. You think you're right. You might be right. But you have zero way of actually knowing that. And yet you still insist, absent evidence, that you are right. Yeah, I'm not convinced - not at all.
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  4376. "Russian Propagandist" == "Functionally Stupid" Hell, they're even trotting out the utterly stupid idea that Ukraine is welding AFV crews into their vehicles. I swear, Russian Propagandists are using an Ouija Board or an RNG to get their ideas.
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  4377. .429 looks like it REALLY wants to be chambered into a carbine.
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  4378. It's amazing how many bottles were blowing up with each shot... Insane power!
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  4379. Not at all surprised that a Russian Propagandist is a bully.
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  4380.  @alanmlkbanda  The transponder gives speed, which is calculated into the CG software once it drops below a certain value. So, Yes, it does. Just not as explicitly as I'd like.
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  4381.  @fredlin6303  have you seen how complicated an aircraft cockpit is? Adding unnecessary additional buttons is the wrong direction to go.
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  4382. When you put vastly destructive weapons systems in the hands of ill-trained troops, directed by incompetent officers, you're going to have problems. Add infantry and armor that are equally untrained and incompetently led, and you've got a SERIOUS problem. The add shit communication and crap coordination, and you have a recipe for complete disaster. Troops moving in uncoordinated action, wandering into 'friendly' fields of fire, making land navigation errors, being subject to poor aiming and worse target identification... While the 60% claim seems high, I have no doubt the Russian forces have suffered substantial 'own goals.'
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  4383. Nope. Internally very different from a Browning design.
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  4384.  @morelenmir  np
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  4385. @Eric-oe6ow  leaf springs (semi-eliptical springs) are arced springs, without complex bends. Once you put an acute bend in it, it's no longer a leaf spring, pretty much by definition.
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  4386. @Eric-oe6ow  flat spring. Yes, it's bent, but it's made from a flat piece of metal. And yes, that's the technical term. It doesn't matter if thousands of non-engineers call it wrong - they're still wrong.
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  4387. Entirely possible it was a leftover from WWII
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  4388. Geekily watching the calendar.
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