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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Suicide Watch posted:

NYPD used their riot control weapons to headshot protestors leaving some with permanent damage, and Boston PD used a pepper ball gun to kill a bystander back in '04. Plenty harmful despite not being .22s. General rule should be that authorities will always defy doctrine to inflict maximum harm if given the resources.

TASERs were originally pitched to the public as “cops will only use this when they otherwise would have had to use lethal force.”

Now it’s used as a compliance tool, and hardly an eye is batted.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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If I were a journalist, I also would not respond to that guy.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Hiring a couple of folks on Fiverr is the worst way to get to the bottom of a statement’s meaning, next to hiring one person on Fiverr or using machine translation.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Proud Christian Mom posted:

There's a country that flagrantly interferes in US elections routinely and it isn't Russia or China.

It’s Australia.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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My guess is that they didn’t do out of their way to advertise to children, but they didn’t go out of their way to avoid it, either.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Letting the enemy get close to your tank with anti‐armor weapons is bad, and you should not let it happen.

https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/atp3-20-15.pdf posted:

Tank platoons almost never fight alone. Open terrain such as desert, plains, and flat countryside is conducive to the employment of massed armor formations. In such terrain, mechanized Infantry supports the forward movement of the armor units by providing local security, retaining key terrain, clearing dug-in enemy positions, and enhancing direct fires with organic small arms and antitank fires. On the other hand, restricted terrain (such as built-up areas, forests, and jungles) increases the vulnerability of armor units. In close terrain, it is more advantageous for tanks to take a supporting role in the forward movement of the Infantry. Armor provides close-in direct fire support against hard and soft targets that could slow the Infantry’s advance.

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Nov 2, 2023

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Potato Salad posted:

if you're smart you'll swing with the feds every time

As Uncle Billy said,

quote:

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors.

You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Godholio posted:

The guy knew his poo poo. He wrote that after the very first state's (SC) secession was announced.

Correct.

South Carolina passed its resolution to secede on Thursday, 20 December 1860. Sherman made his remarks the following Monday.

Colonel Sherman was then the first superintendent of what would become Louisiana State University. He resigned that position on 18 January 1861, shortly after Mississippi, Florida, Alabama had joined in secession and eight days before Louisiana itself seceded.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Discussion Quorum posted:

"At least the Nazis had an ethos" but for real, twice, on the same day

Someone get Sean Spicer for comment.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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ZombieApostate posted:

https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20140209_gaza_water_crisis from 2014:

quote:

Consequently, residents suffer deliberate water outages, receiving running water for only six to eight hours at a time: 25% of households on a daily basis, 40% every other day, 20% once every three days, and the remaining 15% (in Gaza City, Rafah and Jabaliya) only one day out of four.

The erratic supply of water forces residents to collect water in containers. These containers are placed on rooftops, yet power outages often mean that the pumps that are to channel the water into the containers are out of commission, forcing residents to collect water in other container, on ground level.

Isn’t intermittent flow like this a nightmare for water treatment? Like, separately from the sanitation issues of having limited amounts of water stored for days in jury rigged tanks in each home, if there isn’t consistently enough water flowing through the mains, the chlorine cannot do its job.

This is stuff that the managers in Flint could have pointed out.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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I don’t think that a “Hamas base” can fit inside of a child’s bedroom. Not even in DJT’s Manhattan penthouse. It violates Euclidean geometry.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Wouldn’t it make more sense to offer sperm banking to those entering IDF?

It’s ethically and logistically simpler.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Internet VFW > 2023 Hamas/Israeli War Thread: IDF cum IVF

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Quackles posted:

Is that Groverhaus?

Yeah.

The walls/outbuildings are Osama’s Abbottabad compound.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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I’m not an expert on local practices, but why would one think that they’re not circumcised already?

I mean besides the guy being a monster and an idiot.

quote:

Male circumcision is widespread in the Muslim world,[3] and accepted as an established practice by all Islamic schools of jurisprudence.[2][4][5] It is considered a sign of belonging to the wider Muslim community (Ummah).[6]

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Dang there are a lot of people with the avatar of Biden gripping the table to avoid being sucked into the portal to Hell.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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It’s less fake than the backronym for “RPG”, or everything surrounding the use of the term “drone”.

Also “recoilless rifle”

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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You’ll get Tootsie Rolls, and you’ll be grateful for them.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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“Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot”

Handheld ☑️
Antitank ☑️
Grenade ☑️
Launcher ❌

Use a sling or an atlatl if you want it to be an RPG.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Dang I did not expect EkuNNN to get a new job like that.

This is a joke that’s a bit hard to explain if you didn’t read SAD last month.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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I’ve seen the aftermath of a number of car fires in person. They certainly can get hot enough to melt aluminum and to destroy steel under its own weight. I’ve never been around after an attack by a helicopter gunship though.

The thing that sticks out to me is that the silver car with the bottles on its bonnet looks to have intact wheels and tires. Perhaps it was destroyed by concussive force, but not in place or all the windows on the background cars would be broken.

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Nov 27, 2023

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Are we even sure that that’s where the cars were parked the night of the festival or is it possible that they were moved with heavy equipment?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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The color coding really makes the image.

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