No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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10+ arrested after a rifle ambush of security at Prairieland Detention Center near Alvarado, TX on 4th july.
Shortly before 2300, some of the arrested fired fireworks at center to draw out a response, when it arrived at least two of them started shooting at the responding officers from a distance of 100-150m. Soon after, a driver (trans, seems the only one) with a van that had 2 ARs was stopped by a responding cop (map & times)
The shooters fired about 30 shots at responding cops, hitting one in the neck, suffered a jam, probably faced return fire and then started running. Shortly after cops arrested 9 of them in a field 300 m away, armed and in body armor in addition the driver in the van. At least one got away. $25k reward.
Total equipment recovered so far on the spot: 4 AR rifles, pistols, 12 sets of body armor and several helmets.
NYT article: https://archive.is/CBvms Unusually big ambush, usually it's just one guy.
Here's a twitter thread with more details. Can't vouch for the veracity of it. It seems logical - we've been hearing for years how antifa can organise and has people. These people look too clean though, antifa protesters usually look much scruffier.
This looks very.. amateurish. Sure there was a plan but it seems they underestimated the difficulty of hitting anything at night. Or just chickened out.
No_one
12hr ago
The laundry series is not half as scary as Scratch Monkey, his first novel.
Stross needs to be terrorized in real life to produce great art (e.g. Scratch Monkey was written while he was implementing credit card transactions..in Perl), and I'm seeing much promise here with the rise of nativism and Trump.
No_one
12hr ago
I loved the aesthetics of 'Your Name' but found the plot kind of lame. It made no sense whatsoever. Yeah, I don't care the clouds were kitschy. Same is true of every other film of his I've seen, including the latest, Suzume.
E.g. 'The place promised in our early days' had an impeccable vibe and mystery to it, but in the end the whole thing made ..little real sense at all. Still, enjoyable. Also I feel like I'd want to go see coastal Japan eventually.
No_one
9hr ago
"stupid burger country intentionally screws up procurement" story.
What else was M14 but a bad idea? Why didn't use adopt MG42 in 30-06, which, I recall, was attempted but somehow failed. Intentionality or not, screw-ups in weapons procurement abounded and proliferated ever more so. Today it's more of an exception than the norm for procurement to be basically fine.
No_one
1d ago
The problem with false flag theory of this size is that the ten people arrested would have to be genuine. You can't find ten people willing to do a decade in prison over a false-flag attack.
And the mix of amateurish and sound seems exactly like what you'd expect from an organisation that tries to plan but doesn't have much real world experience in doing so.
Of course, the whole thing could still be a 'false flag' of the type of some red-coded psychopath devising the whole thing and selling it to Song to accelerate matters, the way FBI informants created terrorism plots. But that seems unlikely as such competent people are rare.
This theory of 'more bullets = better' is not actually better in general, since a good part of the value of a semi-automatic rifle for small teams is that the slower rate forces better shooting fundamentals for reliability per shot, rather than wasting ammo faster for less gain.
Well, they didn't seem to have practiced or thought this out. A competent cell could have modified rifles for fully automatic, controllable fire. I'm sure if you do a bit of research you can find accurate blueprints on how to modify the receiver to allow full auto..
No_one
1d ago
As far as I can tell, TACO is somewhat responsible, but also, average US tariff rates are just over 50% on Chinese goods?. Is it all TACO? If 50% tariffs have been painless, do you expect me to believe that 100% tariffs will truly be apocalyptic to the US economy?
Chinese are not only talented at trade, they're also talented at cheating in trade. So.. it's not having as much impact as you'd think it would. Because they're not paying the tariffs.
No_one
12hr ago
They got my money (early on), but with how tough the playerbase was, and how they never fixed cheating I never really played the game. Maybe 20 hours.
We are getting pretty close to being able to have games where bullshit like 'memorizing where loot is' and 'memorizing great ambush spots' stop mattering.
No_one
12hr ago
There are probably alien mechanisms in the solar system but we won't find them for centuries.
No_one
2d ago
Around here (Slovakia), I'm not sure if @georgioz will back me up on this, putting children into daycare before age 4 is seen as wrong and harming the child, as the child needs stability and security, not be taken care of by strangers.
Communists briefly promoted it but it later came to be seen as unwholesome and wrong. I have a relative who was put into daycare from age.. 1.5 I think, or maybe 2 years and it seems she (and rest of family) think it was not a good idea.
As opposed to the 10 people who demonstratable were willing to do a decade in prison over a non-false-flag attack?
You think you could find 10 right-wingers or just mercenary guys willing to do 10 year in federal prison, on a lie?
the sort of tacti-cool that serves as an even greater indicator of cell incompetence t
Go to a serving infantry soldier and tell him LMGs are 'tacticool' and 'not actually very useful'. AR rifles are fairly controllable in full auto, and with a bipod they're probably extremely controllable. Whoever they'd have been shooting at would have been dead. Swapping out mags isn't that hard either.
No_one
1d ago
7.62x39 is a WW2 round. Every single non-vestigial military has moved on to rounds similar to .223 (which, by the way, didn't pioneer those ballistics). The British were pushing for a .280 cartridge in late '40s but Americans insisted on .308.
It's remarkable how bad Federal Americans are when it comes to guns. After WW2, it should've been obvious intermediate is the way to go, but not only did Feds refuse to that, or failed to copy the MG42 despite trying to, they proceeded to compromise their entire's bloc small arms procurement for the next 30 years.
In a bit of unambiguously 21st century news, some tweaks to Grok, xAI's chatbot have had it do particularly interesting things today including
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when asked to, composing bite sized smut about other users (first victim was possibly Will Stancil)., then defending said decision.
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referring to itself as Mechahitler
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doing the "every single time" meme in its replies.
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saying Elon personally allowed it to point out Jewish overrepresentation in radical leftism
This may make minor news because Musk is in trouble, on the other hand all the people who really, really hate him have their pants on fire like Europeans, von der Leyen is getting impeached, they're actually scared of Russia / China so it might just blow over, the grid is getting worse and is going to keep getting worse due to Green energy mandates.
I'm even suspecting Musk deliberately told them to relax the guardrails for some reason. Probably .. publicity?
Update: site addresses the issues
We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.
EDIT2
apparently this prompt change may be the culprit
EDIT3
Stancil went on local TV news to complain about the ERP grok made. (video included)
EDIT4:
There's quite reasonable suspicion this 'malfunction' was engineered by Nikita Bier
No_one
18hr ago
At this point tattoos signal nothing more than conformity or body dysmorphia.
Piercings are more serious, I'm not sure what they say except for 'lower social class' or maybe body dysmorphia.
No_one
18hr ago
fine, but then why did every other Western nation that was looking to change calibers and was capable of indigenous weapons development also reject the idea
They were largely not sovereign nations and forced to do so by Americans due to NATO. I'm sure that e.g. had the Germans been left to their own devices they'd have kept making Stg.44s post war as the rifle's superiority was recognized during the war.
And honestly, no, the other ones don't really matter.
Sure, buddy. Sure. A communist Malaysia is okay, sitting straight on an important trade route and providing oil.
no other military would adopt a smaller cartridge until 5.56 NATO).
Japanese adopted 6.5mm in 1897.
No_one
18hr ago
Are you really going to try and insist that not even 10 of their rightwing equivalents would cross the line at a lie?
a) Firstly, most people wouldn't think nobody would break b) there's no guarantee anyone would even care about a false-flag attack (nobody cares about this one)
So no, I don't think you could find ten rightwingers willing to pull a false flag like this.
this would be missing the point, much like firing at full auto at the ranges of this incident.
Effective range of light machineguns fired from a prone position isn't <100 meters.
I don't know, I only ever played Ark on the official servers. The game .. may feel fun for ~800 hours if you play by yourself in the PvE mode but it's about 1/20th of the entire game experience. PvE itself can be challenging and fun, especially on Aberration, but the real experience is vastly more 'rewarding'. The issues is, permanently running servers reward no-lifers, so even those who could dedicate 4 hrs of it each night, as much as people used to watch TV, would be unable to compete with students, unemployed, part-time employed people who love the game..
The whole reason why it seems more fun is because people are smart, and you really find out what you're made of when there's no reload or do-overs.
Ofc, with Ark, the big issue is, that devs can't program and can't create good rules.
I'm not as opposed as some to stat sticks, but if you're going to let a solo direwolf easily take down a pack of five carnos that each individually outweigh her
That's because they wanted to reward players and the level scaling is absurd. A tame direwolf with a few lvls into HP is going to have about the same HP as an alpha carno. If in the game high level tamed animals weren't absurdly stronger than wild ones, navigating the map could be an actual challenge. People wouldn't like that at all!
Ironically, you picked a pretty bad example because direwolves are notoriously 'squishy' due to having no saddle damage reduction. They're a niche animal with limited uses, mostly bred as pets. You want a high level direbear with a decent saddle, but ideally a high level t-rex. That's going to eat everything except a giga or titanosaur. (as to fighting those, the only safe way is trapping them and using weapons or dinos that do % damage, like another giga or allosaurus)
Anyway the meta to understand is relatively easy and in any case, there's always the wiki.
No_one
4d ago
We know from the Israeli defector ben Menashe that Maxwell was working for Mossad ..that was corroborated when (iirc) Mossad guys carried his coffin and so on. Not a stretch that his favorite daughter was also involved.
And as to what Epstein did.. Whether there is a list or not is irrelevant, we know he was recording blackmail material. I strongly doubt he was e.g. into porn of Alan Dershowitz and people like that. And I can't believe intelligence services ,even if they didn't create him, would have allowed someone like that to operate an influence operation without wetting their beaks. No way, absolutely no way.
No_one
1d ago
The thing about .280 is that it's not a good GPMG round
Most militaries are now using two rounds, an intermediate one and a full rifle one. Why would switching to a .280 or something a little smaller wouldn't have made sense then? Manufacturing 5 million rifles is really not that big of a deal, especially if you did sensible things like looked at the Stg.44 and derived the appropriate lessons.
that could be retrofit to replace both
How many rifles or machineguns were re-barelled to use .308 post war? Some Garands. PPS-43 isn't really 'quasi intermediate', the effective range tops out at about 150m, maybe. It's also a relatively small and light bullet. Even the strongest loadings top out at under 1000J from an SMG barrel.
(who never fought a war -> didn't matter),
...what? 90,000 British fought in Korea. They also put down the communist insurgency in Malaysia and then in Brunei. I guess that doesn't count, right?
I don't buy the collision story alternate theory bc I saw it discussed by sailors. It was just a crash. US warships crash into merchant shipping with some regularity - whether it's more or less often than other navies I don't know.
The fighter that fell off board story stinks a little. There's no conceivable reason why a carrier would be taking evasive action short of torpedoes in the water, which the Houthis don't have. From the POV of a missile the carrier is essentially stationary, whatever direction it moves is irrelevant.
So saying "oh fighter fell off bc evasive maneuver" smells like BS.
Likewise, if I imagine a general being killed by Russian ballistic missiles, in most cases the body will not be in a state where you can put him in his quarters and pretend it was a natural death.
Not really. If there's fragmentation or overpressure damage and the guy is promptly stuck into a fridge..which is usually possible in UA cities, the body would look superficially fine. A keen eyed medic could spot it but you can always swear some guy to secrecy and just fix it, no? Isn't there a regulation allowing something like that. Bystanders would see a corpse being removed.
Doesn't really make sense why a general would be there tho. Pretty sure only tech specialists who really have to be there and rarely special forces go there.
No_one
2d ago
It's almost certain this 'stunt' was engineered by Nikita Bier and probably approved by Elon.
nikita bier, known for making apps go viral, joins x as head of product the next week, grok declares itself "mecha hitler" media from across the world reports on it
you've all been played. as usual
No_one
4d ago
Um, no. People are already working on stripped down 'reasoner' AIs with limited knowledge but great reasoning ability and ways of plugging in extra databases.
That's deemed to be the most promising area of research at least what my superficial following of Ilforte's twitter makes me think. The hope is, within say 10 years you'll be able to run a fairly smart mind on a big graphics card. Researchers believe even a 2-3 billion parameter model with the right architecture could be good at thinking. The models right now, especially the big ones were often giant bags of heuristics, at least before reasoner models entered the scene.
It's actually kinda good as TV. You only feel it insults the viewer's intelligence like once per season, instead of every 5 minutes like a normal TV show.
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