Phoenicianpirate
@Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 4 hours ago:
But if you get a rise out of them it’ll be perfect.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 4 hours ago:
Online and on video games.
- Comment on Anon is a fighter 1 day ago:
And then you were introduced to the term boxer’s fracture…
- Comment on Disney wolves 6 days ago:
It isn’t just Disney. Look up Migration. They gave the mallards huge bills while the ducks had narrow ones.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 1 week ago:
EVEN NUMBERS ONLY! 15? Are you fucking kidding me? They come in 6, 12, or 18, or those big 30 squares. EVEN NUMBERS!
Who packs them in odd must suffer the wrath of the gods of the autists
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 1 week ago:
For me I have to take them out in an even number otherwise I will have a feeling that is going to hang onto me until I rectify it ASAP.
Also they must be taken out from one specific side and not the other. The balance must be maintained!
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 1 week ago:
America has not been subsidizing Canada. Canada has been subsidizing the US.
- Comment on Do you understand how many people 350 million is? How did this worm ridden ball sack float to the top? 1 week ago:
Holy shit! Any idea that the Republicans are anything other than insane bootlickers to even more insane people is insane!
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 week ago:
That kid who asked about radios should be given a scholarship to a STEM degree. Also the kids who asked about using smoke signals and pigeons have mad creativity. The stock kid? Well he probably has more financial accumen than most Wallstreet punks.
The kid with the replacement dilemma? Forget philosophy. That is lawyer material right there.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 2 weeks ago:
Neutronium… I am having early 2000s trivia website flashbacks! Wasn’t a teaspoon of that stuff several tons or something?
- Comment on Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes we might never really know. It is part of the mystery. Can you imagine if you had dinosaurs that had trunks like elephants?
- Comment on Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! 2 weeks ago:
Best Machina ex deus ever! (then)
- Comment on Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! 2 weeks ago:
Best deus ex machina ever!
- Comment on Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! 2 weeks ago:
Fuck me the baboon image was serious nightmare fuel.
Can you imagine if we somehow were able to get 100% accurate images of dinosaurs (with the feathers… they were birds, not reptiles, and warm blooded, too) and the T-rex chirped and kinda looked like a giant chicken?
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Damn straight. I was an open office guy for a while, but word had a slight edge. Now that edge is gone and Libre Office is the clear winner. I will not be going back.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’ 3 weeks ago:
It is a shit movie anyway.
- Comment on Pens in Space 3 weeks ago:
That is something I found weird, too. Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing!
- Comment on Do it 3 weeks ago:
Crawl to me… in my ass.
This is actually incredibly funny given that the song is a parody of nu metal songs of the late 90s.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 3 weeks ago:
I bought Star Wars squadrons and it worked for a bit. Now it doesn’t even boot and I don’t know why. Initially it was my shitty anti-virus that was causing the problem, but even after disabling it it doesn’t load.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 3 weeks ago:
This is why I will always have some nostalgia for physical media. I still got CDs I bought in the 90s (which I’ve copied onto my hard drives a long, long time ago) and while they need a like coaxing to work at times, they are forever mine and no one can take them from me.
I was very hesitant to go on steam specifically for their ‘you don’t own shit even if you paid and followed the rules’ garbage.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 3 weeks ago:
He does. His father lived a damn long time and his grandfather only died when he died due to the Spanish flu during and after WW1.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
The GOPers won’t assassinate him. He is too useful for them to want him dead. Steve Bannon made it clear that his interest in Trump is solely due to his unique ability to command such a following.
No one in the Republican party has even close to that kind of ability.
And Trump has been honing that ability ever since he was a kid. Countless people hated him back then. As a child his classmates couldn’t stand him, his teachers found him unbearable, and when he started in ‘business’ in the 70s writers of the period bashed him as a blowhard who can’t deliver anything near his lofty claims.
Yet for all that and despite a massive downturn and series of public humiliations in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, he somehow managed to cultivate the image of a successful businessman… despite having no business successes at all.
He was the perfect personification of what the libertarian movement wanted… wanting ‘not a politician, but a businessman’ for president. They got what they wanted but still thought the results were great despite it being a complete derailment of the US’s soft power in the world.
But he will still have enough people doing his bidding and will follow him to hell and stay there that he will sadly be idolized by millions for many, many years to come. Even going so far as to be a Reagan like figure despite being far, far worse and having no redeeming qualities as a human being whatsoever.
Kinda like Hitler, who held Germans in absolute contempt by the end of the war and refused to allow Berlin to be evacuated as the Soviets invaded. He and other top ranking Nazis even conceded that they were wrong about Germans being the master race and thus deserved the same kind of extermination that they had planned and were carrying out during the war.
With that in mind it legit makes you wonder why the fuck anyone would still admire Hitler… but I did have a Nazi tell me that it is because he made them feel supported and special, so they followed him into death and suffering and they refused to believe he was anything other than their savior. He said the first part, I added the second.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Not what I heard. But if that was the case then he was a worse shot than anticipated. He still came VERY close though.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
I think the Republicans personally hate him. His only use is as a charismatic rabble rouser. Without him they will lose the only guy truly able to get their movement together.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
He was using a .223.
The rifle he used was a cheap, bottom of the line AR-15. The AR-15s are so popular and made by so many manufacturers that they have super low end and super high end. He had on the lower end.
I do not know what kind of .223 he was using. But that round has been experimented with for so long that there is a load for every occasion. He probably didn’t use decent ammo. You need something that can is specifically designed for longer range, precision shooting. The rounds are much more expensive but you do get what you are paying for.
He also used iron sights. No scope. And he was not known as a particularly good shot. It is actually surprising how close he came.
BTW, the .223 would still have penetrated soft body armor even at that distance. Even military vests designed for combat zones don’t stop rifle rounds until it is fired from a few hundred meters. It would not have stopped a .223 to the chest.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Why would Israel want JFK dead?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
In Australia that was the case until around 1987. No permits for rifles. Some tourist from Germany went to Australia, bought a rifle and went on a shooting spree.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Even with soft body armor. A high velocity round like the .300 win mag or 6.5 creedmoor with boat tail JHPs would still zip through like nothing is there. The cavitation that those rounds make is devastating. Also the shooter tried to go for a follow up shot but missed. Double hitting the chest would have been more possible and that would be much more likely to do it.
I am aware of the circumstances that president’s and ex-presidents have in terms of medical support. All of his bodyguards are probably EMT level trained and they probably have a full on trauma team ready. But getting the head under those circumstances would have been tough.
But then again… if he did have a proper target rifle and long range caliber… the head would have been easier to hit and maybe the wind wouldn’t have blown it off course as much.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Sadly there have been people who lived to be 99 or 100 while having remarkably unhealthy lifestyles.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Range - Trump was over 300 yards away from the shooter.
He was around 150 yards. Not 300.
But if he had a proper target rifle in a better long range caliber and a telescopic sight he would have had a much better chance of succeeding.
At that distance and wind conditions a chest shot would have been better. But he aimed for the head.