FtSoA
5d ago
For the P365 in particular, the WC grip is a affordable replacement with ergonomics (thickness) that many people prefer. Weights can be added as well, for those who want them, for recoil management.
There's a huge aftermarket parts industry for both the P365 and P320 because of their modularity.
FtSoA
5d ago
Are you talking about the M7 replacing the M4? Because that is being fielded now.
https://www.twz.com/land/sig-sauers-m7-rifle-gets-official-army-seal-of-approval-despite-controversy
Is it a great idea? Probably not at scale, for the same reasons that 5.56 is easier to employ than 7.62 for the average troop--a lighter rifle with 50% more ammo. The Army should have fielded the AR10 over the M14 in terms of modernity/ergonomics, but the AR15/M16 with the lighter round sure is nice. Classic assault rifle vs. battle rifle tradeoffs argument.
I think for the M4/5.56 replacement they should have stuck with something with at least an easy 25-round mag, like 6.8 SPC or 6mm ARC.
The .277 Fury is legitimately a cool round though.
https://old.reddit.com/r/army/comments/1csuwkh/a_three_day_review_of_the_m7_spear/ https://old.reddit.com/r/army/comments/1cry8oq/a_review_of_the_277_fury_training_and_combat/
FtSoA
5d ago
Pulling the trigger to the point that it's just barely not going off and then wiggling it is going to cause problems on a lot of firearms. The trigger should not be pulled as a part of the holstering process, and supposedly the existence or not of a manual thumb safety (standard on the military models) is irrelevant for this kind of failure.
Most of these guntubers are just fucking around until they make the gun go off, without any relevance to the reality of the known cases.
There are so many P320s out there, like 3 million in the US, that the base rate of these discharges is still tiny. In some cases it's just people claiming the gun went off without them having done something stupid. In other cases, it might be poor customization contributing to the problem.
It could be a slight manufacturing defect that is rare, but still enough to cause these discharges in certain circumstances.
Sig has not handled the PR well at all, but it genuinely is still a mystery for what the hell is going on.
There's a blockade, after all.
You think those tunnels to Egypt were for tourists? This is a decades-long relationship.
Whereas this time around they were unable to even conquer the first frontline villages of Khiam and Al-Naqoura
They were "unable" or that wasn't their plan? I'm just aware of what the general sentiment was about how things went in 2006 vs. 2025 and in the latter it's widely agreed Hezbollah got beaten to an embarrassing degree. The fact that Israel could do it without a major ground invasion adds to Hezbollah's embarrassment.
All the credible reports I've heard from Iran are that the hardliners are the ones rising in power while the reformers were humiliated by getting betrayed in the middle of negotiations. If your story were accurate we would expect new concessions in negotiations whereas in reality Iran hasn't moved an inch and has refused to even reopen negotiations.
I haven't seen a good story on things for like a month now. It's funny to see the sentence "hardliners rising in power" since that's their default position for the last very long while, minus a bit when Rohani looked like he might be succeeding. My belief is that it's pretty unlikely Iran goes the pragmatist route and we see a renewal of the conflict.
The real negotiations with Iran tend to happen in secret. That was true of the JCPOA and I imagine it will be true for anything else. They have until almost the end of August to deal with the E3 re: snapback sanctions.
I will say shit like this is hilarious in that Iran's secular nationalists used to run the place, but were friendly with Israel. If the theocracy goes there's no reason to be in conflict with Israel! That article is also funny because it never seems to mention the fact that your average would-be protestor knows that they're likely to get gunned down right now if they try anything for any reason, so the lack of protests might not be because of greater solidarity.
An odd comparison, how is Israel's economy doing?
Do you have any idea how weak Iran's economy is? Israel is orders of magnitude better off, which is why it can win a war against a country nearly 10x its size.
clearly you missed the funeral where half the "dead IRGC hardliners" miraculously turned up alive.
Two survivors is not "half" of what was claimed, lol. There were a lot of coffins.
Iran's missile production and launching capacities are quite literally underground. There's zero evidence that they took significant losses in that respect, whereas the fact that it took less than 10 missiles on day 12 to land hits when on day 1 it took more than a hundred proves that Israel's air defenses were collapsing. If anything it's the Israeli strikes that had zero military effect.
Ok now you're just being delusional and I have to doubt you know what a "credible" source is here. Iran's launchers are not all underground. That's total nonsense. You have to believe that the IDF is just lying I guess and that all those bombs they dropped didn't do much.
Israel has demonstrated that it can launch missiles from over the horizon and hit targets in Iran, but they don't have the ability to actually fly directly over Iran dropping bombs, something that would be necessary to inflict any damage to their underground strategic infrastructure.
So the IAF is just lying about this? Also they were dropping JDAMs and bunker busters. There are photos of the damage.
Because Israel doesn't bark when they want to bomb Syria, they just do it.
You're confused about how Israel decides to do things in light of U.S. pressure and risk. Israel does not want to piss Trump off about Iran.
There is no such footage of Israeli jets over Iran.
Oh so you don't believe the footage of Iran shooting down F-35? The IAF had drones over Iranian airspace, which are much easier to shoot down. Hard to believe they didn't have faster combat aircraft dropping munitions. I'd imagine that the aircraft stayed much higher in Iranian airspace because of the risk being much higher than in Syria.
Again, if Israel didn't receive an ass-whooping from Iran they would still be bombing Iran.
In your mind Iran came out better here? Israel called off aircraft mid-flight because Trump demanded it, but you think Israel was actually glad to stop.
That's incredible. What are you reading that causes you to credulously believe Iranian propaganda like this?
FtSoA
8d ago
The sheer malice of Hamas is pretty much how they convinced me that they should be utterly destroyed.
I agree; Hamas is just not a "normal" actor that can be viewed the way an opposing side usually is. Unfortunately, the same is true of the Gaza-based Palestinians. There's a reason Hamas has been in control the way they have been, and some of their rivals are just as bloodthirsty. There's not much room for compromise under these circumstances, where on average Israel cares more about the lives of Palestinians than Hamas does.
I think that in the missile exchanges with Iran, there was little in the way of trading risk to soldiers vs risk to civilians.
In the missile exchanges with Iran, Israel signed up for accepting that their interceptions would not be perfect and some level of civilian casualties would be suffered. As it turned out, they lost far fewer than they were prepared for (I don't know what the number was that they projected, or that they were willing to accept). Israel was prepared, reportedly, to put boots on the ground to take out nuclear sites if the U.S. did not lend a helping hand. That would have placed some hundreds, if not thousands, of troops in harm's way.
The IAF also did not lose a single manned combat aircraft, which beat their expectations.
Infantry is vastly less deadly to civilians than bombs are
Keep in mind you're comparing "moral infantryman with overmatch in urban warfare" to "precision bombing at scale." Against an opponent with basically the world's best tunnel network.
I do not know enough about how exactly the Israeli military has conducted its operations in Gaza to make a confident judgement. But from my experience in the US Army, the Israelis are clearly trying pretty hard to minimize collateral damage. As hard as the US military does? I'm not sure.
To roughly paraphrase a sentiment I saw on twitter, every dead Israeli soldier is a blood sacrifice for the Palestinian people.
This whole conflict is immensely frustrating and I don't know how far Israel would have to go before I was forced to reconsider my support for them. But I do think one must keep in mind that Israel had to fight several wars of survival against pretty overwhelming odds, that the Arab countries maintain the identity of Palestinian Arabs (as opposed to Levantine) as a useful weapon, and that making forced deportation of a population (i.e. ethnic cleansing) a crime against humanity kinda makes it impossible to deal with a persistently hostile group in any "legal" way.
What's worse, forcing the migration of a population one is at risk of continual war with, or killing them war by war?
FtSoA
8d ago
It's worse than that.
IQ is a better predictor of job performance than a college degree is. (Especially now, when the vast majority of colleges aren't selective anymore.)
Education is usually just a proxy for general intelligence on the job market. We could just cut out the credentialist middle man, but that's not going to make things better on the disparate impact front.
Meritocracy is, in some very real sense, "discrimination against dumb people" because, while intelligence is not all one needs, it's the single biggest thing in most cases.
FtSoA
8d ago
To date, I've personally met maybe five or six people smarter than me
You don't get out much I take it?
How ugly do Nobel Prize winners look? I think it's a pretty standard finding that there is only a small positive correlation, but if you look at say top 20% IQ vs. bottom 20% I think it's pretty clear who looks better. (Obesity make this all the more obvious.)
but this horseshoes at the ends of the distribution.
As Yud would put it, the tails come apart.
I don't think being wildly intelligent is negatively correlated with physical attractiveness, the way extreme height is negatively attributed with athleticism, for both reasons of physics and often resulting from a disorder.
Here's why you're probably less smart than you think you are:
Height's relationship to athleticism is a pretty bad example because those are both physical things. Height comes with performance tradeoffs due to physics, and in certain sports that is very apparent. Being extremely tall also tends to come with greater fragility and various health ailments at higher rates because it's "out of spec."
Intelligence and beauty are completely different things. There's no inherent trade offs for the shape of one's face with the performance of one's mind. There's also no reason to believe sexual selection would totally divorce the two.
People also try to believe that being really smart means you also are not as good as various mental things, or have a higher risk of mental health problems.
Which to my knowledge is all bogus cope because most humans don't like to realize that life is actually just unfair and it's not a like a video game with a finite amount of skill points for a character.
FtSoA
8d ago
First off, does Hamas really care about what happens to Assad or Iran? They take Iranian weapons but they also backed the Syrian rebels against Assad, they aren't exactly a full on proxy of Iran like Hezbollah.
Assad, no. Iran and Hezbollah, yes. One needs supplies.
Hamas is Sunni, not Shia, but the shared devotion to destroying Israel gave them an otherwise strange set of Islamic allies.
If anything the fact that Iran was ultimately dragged into the fight despite desperately trying to stay out of it directly is a Hamas W.
Sure, they wanted the whole Islamic world to rise up. The more the merrier. Except for the part where Iran and Hezbollah got their ass handed to them. That's not the result one wants for one's allies.
Hezbollah is in the same position it was in 2006
This is not true. Israel was largely considered to be the loser in that conflict, or at least having underperformed. In 2025, Israel blew the fuck out of Hezbollah after demonstrating that Hezbollah was almost entirely militarily ineffective.
Hezbollah is much weaker than in 2006, and will remain that way if the Israelis aren't exaggerating about their intent.
Houthis are stronger and more influential than ever,
They are doing pretty well, yes. But they are overall the least important bit as demonstrated by the fact that they're having a great time while their allies get wrecked.
Iran survived Israel's best shot at regime change and responded with enough missiles to break Israel's missile shield and deplete it's interception capacity down to nearly 50%
Thanks to Trump, so far yes the regime survives. However, it's in a much weaker position than it was before, and longstanding problems like the economy continue to worsen. I've seen some credible-sounding reports that moderates/reformers are rising in power/prominence due to the embarrassing defeat, and how much Khamenei is in touch with reality is hard to know. His succession will be much more fraught than it would have been if it had happened without the 12-Day War.
Iran's missile production and launching capacities were hammered pretty hard, so you really have to squint to see the silver lining in the dark clouds of "we launched a bunch of our prized military capability at Israel and had nearly zero military effect."
It remains to be seen what Israel's red lines will actually be for e.g. Iran rebuilding certain military capacities. But the IAF demonstrated the ability to conduct air strikes at will and there's little hope for Iran that they can suddenly acquire or develop top-tier air defense systems. And assassinations on the ground are also always a fun fear for Iranian leaders.
Syria is a real loss but Assad was always the weakest link and his fall had more to do with his own incompetence than Israeli brilliance
Who suggested otherwise? Israel was not the primary factor there. The Turks did more, I think. Plus the fact that Iran and Russia both had to back off the level of support given their other military priorities.
It's not a great time for Iran. They spent decades preparing to put up a good fight against Israel and/or the U.S. and in a matter of days they were revealed to be a paper tiger against Israel, with just a dash of U.S. involvement. They can try to pretend they did more damage to Israel than they actually did, but they can't deny their own high losses, or that Israel could do it all again.
FtSoA
8d ago
It's like a freedom of navigation patrol but for free speech and scientific awareness.
FtSoA
9d ago
Because (A) I've seen JTarrou post in that sub and (B) it's a sub that allows wrongthink. Usually trans wrongthink, but it's actually a pretty solid free speech zone.
FtSoA
9d ago
In what sub?
Edit: Blocked and Reported. Just as I suspected.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1ltkjsp/comment/n2e9czv/
FtSoA
10d ago
Ok, but Skyrim is an immersive open-world game with a narrative and all that.
Most phone games are way worse on the metric of gamification! It's like slot machines--they just skip straight to the dopamine.
Plenty of people just play games like Skyrim or Red Dead or GTA as a way to pass the time, long after they've beaten them. I'd argue they'd be better off if they found it less relaxing.
A lot of shooters are just fun because it's fun to shoot endless hordes of zombies or whathaveyou.
Don't some people love to just play poker on Red Dead?
Personally, my perfectionism gets triggered a bit too much with a game like Fallout and so I can't even just enjoy it because I have to keep checking the damn guides to make sure I hit all the things. So I started Fallout 4, but barely did anything. (I really like Fallout New Vegas years ago.)
I barely even game anymore and haven't for the better part of a decade now. My dopamine circuits are apparently satisfied with arguing on the internet. (I can and do still read full books just fine though. Never understood that issue.)
FtSoA
10d ago
So you're a filthy casual?
One of those "mobile" "gamers"?
(I'm kidding. Once again, I think there's more than one model here, and "true" "enjoyment" is neither easily defined nor discerned.)
FtSoA
10d ago
If you need to gamify something to enjoy it, then you don't actually enjoy it.
Counterpoint: Actual games.
Perhaps what we are discussing is more "the feeling of progress." Newb gainz are fun. Novelty is fun. Plateaus are not.
Every once in a while, I stop lifting say squats for a while. When I start back up, it's fun to rapidly increase. Then I plateau. Rinse, wash, repeat. (This is fine because I'm focusing on running for the time being. Where ... I'm making progress.)
Having bucket lists for hikers/explorers is a fun way to force oneself outside of one's comfort zone. I like hiking. Having a goal makes it channeled towards something concrete.
There's more than one way to enjoy various hobbies, in other words. Camping can be luxurious or hardcore. Cheap or expensive. Hiking, running, lifting, shooting, offroading, drones, car stuff, music, etc. all have multiple levels one can find a sweet spot.
Also most people like some kind of diversity, so switching and taking breaks is pretty normal.
but the guy seemed so concerned about bagging an extra peak that he was willing to risk pissing of a friend who gave him free passes to a band he really liked.
Sounds like a rational agent trying to maximize utility between two competing goals and willing to take risks.
FtSoA
10d ago
The AI does allow for an automated police state at scale.
Works for the internet police mods too.
Legibility comes with trade offs, and limiting freedom is usually one of them.
I believe there's going to be a whole slew of court cases and societal fights over this kind of thing. In the US, at least. Places like the UK seem to be ok with police state mods.
FtSoA
11d ago
I mean, you absolutely can assign greater culpability to the more effective side.
You cannot do so without, as your cat example demonstrates, having a holistic understanding of all the relevant factors at play.
The proposed loss ratio standard is a metric worth considering, but it is hardly a good single metric. If Hamas was better at fighting, more Israeli soldiers and civilians would be dead because they have tried, but not succeeded most of the time.
FtSoA
11d ago
I feel like Nietzsche is cheating a bit. I'm familiar enough with some of his ideas to know he had some interesting things to say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard
Undoubtedly you've seen this play out many times.
I have. Which is why I know continental philosophers seem to lean in to making it worse, as if obscurity and complexity is the point.
I'm glad some people like you do the reading to pass on some level of understanding.
FtSoA
11d ago
It's not all bullshit.
Which half though?
I dug into Girard just a little bit because of his recent influence on important people and came away with a strong condemnation of his entire process as incredibly moronic and I can't understand why he's given the time of day by otherwise intelligent people. "People's desires are influenced by their perception of what is desired by others" is not exactly a novel contribution to human psychology.
I can, in contrast, understand why Marx has had the influence he has had, in terms of his writings and in terms of the mechanics of the rise of the USSR.
I read Russell's A History of Western Philosophy in my early 20s and that did not help me here. Continentalists seem to get very mad at Analyticals misrepresenting them, without themselves having a consensus about what was "really" meant by any given thinker.
FtSoA
11d ago
Or perhaps your enemy is good at hiding amongst civilians, but bad at killing their opponents.
Keep in mind how many rockets were launched by Hamas from Gaza against Israel with the intent to kill civilians. Just looking at the deaths without considering the causation of the numbers leads to poor judgements. Context matters.
You can't assign immorality to the side with greater competence against the side with demonstrated malicious intent with a low success rates.
Let's put it another way. How many Israeli combatants died in the recent war with Iran? How many Iranian civilians?
Good luck dividing by zero.
FtSoA
11d ago
ymeskhout
Wasn't he pretty clear about being tired of dealing with certain views that would simply not respond to evidence?
Less of a "personal" thing or "flameout" but in the same vein.
FtSoA
11d ago
Well Vietnam Syndrome has been replaced by Iraq Syndrome.
So a newer example plus the passage of time is all it takes to change public consciousness.
FtSoA
11d ago
I think that on a grand strategy level, everything is going according to plan for Hamas.
No, it's not.
It was not expected that Israel would curb stomp Hezbollah and Iran, and that Assad's regime would fall.
The Axis of Resistance is pretty well fucked for the indefinite future.
FtSoA
11d ago
The Arabs and Arabic didn't enter the Levant at scale until the Muslim conquest in the 7th century, right?
"Philistine" comes from Hebrew, originally. If you didn't know, Hebrew is also a Semitic language.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Philistine
My understanding is that the genetics of Palestinian/Levantine Arabs and ethnic groups that predate the Muslim invasion differ, but there's a lot of admixture due to conversions to Islam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians
Long story short, "Palestinians" are not "Philistines" even though it's the same label.
That screw is representing a hell of a lot more than "slight pressure" from the holster. It's moving 1mm past the pretravel as measured from the top of the shoe. That's a lot.
Having the sear engaged that much and then jostling the gun is not going to go well on a variety of firearms.
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