No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
User ID: 1042
No_one
4hr 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?
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
7hr 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.
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.
The game feels kinda long, but I think it's mostly bc I suck at it. E.g. I'm always dealing with some problem and running it at slowest speed.
Even though the supply chains are less complex than Factorio, the extra details and infrastructure related stuff means there's more..problems that can crop up.
Don't think I played the tutorial, I just did the in-game one.
If I were you, I'd give you this advice:
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remember that you'll need to scale up .. almost everything. (my current big issue is I can't expand my settlement without dumping a megaton of crap into ocean)
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plan ahead knowing that and you'll do fine.
My biggest peeve with the game is truck dumping. You lose gigantic amount of terrain-moving capacity if you incorrectly set up allowed dumping and truck drive across half the map. NEVER allow a dumping designation outside of a designated mine!
No_one
12hr 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..
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
1d 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.
No_one
1d 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
1d ago
The OP is the kind of person who is surprised when "Boaty McBoatface" wins the online naming poll.
I'm still amused you take my succinct summary as evidence I'm surprised by any of it.
No_one
1d ago
That makes sense. Yeah, I think so. I read a fair about Epstein even before his second arrest and untimely death. He seemed to be into 15-18 yr girls but was hiring adult girls too and there may have been some 14 year old. I don't recall coming across any suggestion of actual pedophilia.
If he's the kind of risk-taking ambitious guy and he's into teenagers, it'd make sense he'd be creeping on them.
by threatening to reveal their daughter was no longer a virgin
This still seems very odd because come on.. 1980s New York? That'd make sense in I don't know..some very traditional place, not NYC in 80s.
No_one
1d ago
If they had to resort to dropping expensive glide bombs instead of waltzing in and bombing with impunity using just bombsights, that means the airspace was contested. It's the same thing that goes on in Ukraine- except there even lofting the glide bombs happens at low altitude.
In the end, Houthis shot down.. at least 20 reaper drones since start of 24.
Now you can't shoot a reaper drone (service ceiling 15400, about 50 000 feet) down with a man-portable missile, even the smallest, newest missiles with performance high enough weigh about 200 lbs. This isn't stuff you can easily hide, possibly these were launched from heavy trucks and not just SUVs.
What does it exactly say about US Navy's SEAD capabilities, especially when we hear talk about them possibly being involved in a fight against China, if a proxy of a decidedly second rate power denied them ability to control airspace for over a year.
No_one
2d ago
Germany isn't Texas, and there are insufficient peaker or baseload plants to cover expected and common dark & cold weeks..
No_one
2d ago
Mostly solid points, I should have left that out or written it better.
In any case things are going off the rails everywhere in the American sphere of influence.
Baltics have been recognized as indefensible for a long time, unless NATO in Europe reforms and starts rearming right now, they're going to be basically helpless once Americans withdraw forces to Pacific or get too broke to maintain their presence in Europe.
We know Americans had issues establishing air superiority over Yemen. Any war around Baltics would have Russians strike airfields and cover their own forces with AAA so air power wouldn't have much effect.
Russians have vast amount of drones, tactical missiles and counter drone systems. Unless NATO prepositioned its entire force in the Baltics, the tripwire forces there would get overrun in a week.
Are German or French soldiers even going to have enough ammo to attempt to retake the area?
but stories of the grid failing are exaggerated.
I implied there's going to be ever less stability going forward because of ever fewer big generators coupled to big steam turbines.
No one wants to invest in an industry that's supposed to disappear by 2040. Coal plants are closing, gas peaker plants are not getting built at the expected pace.
No_one
2d ago
Oh.Thx. I think I have seen references to it.
I wonder where all the furries were in 1980s-1990s.
No_one
2d ago
This wasn't about training data, it searches and reads the web.
It incorrectly interpreted what it read because prompt or the model itself doesn't know claims of combatants are usually spurious.
No_one
2d ago
I meant things such as not being aware that combatants in a war release constant lies and assuming their press releases are not almost straight bullshit.
No doubt this piece of information is somewhere in there but unless reminded to it's happily oblivious.
No_one
3d ago
OP wishes you to know that he knows LLMs will write whatever if allowed to do so and this whole thing was neonazis ( they started the Stancil trolling) figuring out that if you contaminate grok's context enough it's going to say silly crap.
No_one
3d ago
I haven't seen Gemini do it much.
Mostly what strikes me is stunning naivete in places, basically repeats whatever official sources say without reflection. But that's to be expected.
No_one
3d ago
I would agree that intentionality isn't easy for them and is outpaced by their verbal ability, but it's not easy for us either. It's not clear even if it's optimal to represent the world accurately. (We are all at war, after all )
E.g. basically every ideological person in my opinion believes untrue things about the world for instrumental reasons and is unaware of it.
in philosophy, the power of minds to be about something, to represent or to stand for things, properties and states of affairs
Being strategically wrong about the world, that is, to misrepresent the world in the mind is advantageous. Horrifying conclusion yet if you look at e.g. the discussion about tracking and educators..
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.
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