
Angularly Unresolved
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A retired underwater operations soldier jumped in to save a life, and his speed left onlookers speechless.




.@TuckerCarlson: "Israel could not sustain a blockade or defend itself for 24 hours without the $1.5 trillion U.S. military backstopping it and enforcing the long-standing defense guarantee... If that were to go away, Israel would have two choices: Suffer elimination or use nuclear weapons."

















After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)


As an actual gun guy, watching ignorant dummies on here pontificate about how bullets should behave is a hoot. Everybody who shoots a lot has seen bullets do weird stuff. Bullets obey the laws of physics. The same bullets fired under the same conditions into standardized testing medium under the same conditions will produce similar results. However as more variables are introduced, the results will diverge. And there's a LOT of variables. What type of bullet is it? There are a whole bunch of different kinds. They are constructed differently using different materials for different results. What was the velocity? Was the ammo in good condition so it was close to the listed factory velocity, or was it degraded? On impact, did the bullet tumble? Did it poke a hole and zip through? Did it fragment? How did it fragment? And each fragment has a different weight and shape, which can all do different things. Then you get into the living thing getting hit, and it gets even more complicated because bodies are complicated. Some bits are solid. They absorb energy differently. Some are stretchy and elastic. Some smoosh. Some shatter. Some will do either based upon the mass or velocity of the individual bits which strike it. And that's the SHORT version. Anybody who says one particular bullet is going to do one exact thing to one specific target, every time, when they don't even know a fraction of the variables I listed, is full of shit and trying to sell you something.





@monsterhunter45 @TroubleSh0073r Larry, you can't talk with you. I mean that literally. You seem to have no ability to ask yourself if what comes out of your mouth is useful to other people. No internal dialogue. I don't remember having new shoes until I was about twelve. I bought my own gym shoes (cont)










