Phoenicianpirate
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- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’ 1 day ago:
It is a shit movie anyway.
- Comment on Pens in Space 3 days ago:
That is something I found weird, too. Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing!
- Comment on Do it 4 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Why would Israel want JFK dead?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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.
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 week ago:
Carlos looks like a cool guy. We should use Carlos in more measurements.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
I am aware. I am just saying it’s appearance is something else.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
Yes. How fucking embarrassing would it be for the first artist to set the standard of the t-rex as this intimidating best only for into look like a phat chicken…
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
And feathers… and feathered wings on its tiny arms…
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
Jurathicc park.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 weeks ago:
No idea.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 weeks ago:
I am in Canada. But I wholly support this. We must defeat the cheeto madman.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 3 weeks ago:
Fucking vpn blocking cowards.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 3 weeks ago:
Just use a different vpn server…
- Comment on He's just eccentric 3 weeks ago:
You were a protagonist of a 90s adventure game! You carried all manner of weird things to solve moon logic puzzles!
- Comment on He's just eccentric 3 weeks ago:
One way I look at historic figured for who might and might not been a high functioning autistic individual is to look at how well they may have functioned socially vs. How technical they were.
Take William Bligh for example. He was the captain of the Bounty when they famous mutiny happened. Contrary to popular belief, he wasn’t some tyrannical captain who was so monstrous that his crew were pushed beyond human dignity. He actually was milder than most captains and had unusual methods of keeping his crew in shape. For example he ordered his crew to dance on a daily basis. Why? Because for prolonged periods of time there was actually minimal activity needed on the ship, so many sailors would be lazy and get out of shape. By having them dance he was trying to keep them in shape to do their jobs when needed.
It worked and it was practical, but it made everyone hate him. He was a highly socially inept man and the mutiny on the bounty was NOT the only mutiny or rebellion he had to deal with.
But… as a sailor he was brilliant. He really did manage to keep his men healthier than normal, and as a navigator he was probably one of the best to have ever lived. No joke. When the crew set him adrift on a raft with the few loyal members with him. He navigated across the open pacific without a map and nonexistent tools, working only by memory and the stars that he had memorized and managed to make a trek of thousands of kilometers to the nearest safe port.
That kind of obsession on detail is not something that comes without being somewhat on the spectrum.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 3 weeks ago:
Amateur. Back in the 90s i collected odds and ends because I wanted to exactly be like a Sierra online adventure game protagonist.
Also I collected coins. But I guess that was not eccentric enough to be an autistic thing?
- Comment on ARMADILL-NO 3 weeks ago:
Stray kittens are like that. I knew some strays that had their kittens. I would come by with food and for play time. Their mom was quite happy and joined in. This made the kittens trust people too much and… well, some people took them home when they were too damn young to be adopted. Knowing how most people are who spontaneously adopt strays they probably got tired of them really quick and abandoned them far away. It pains me to think of that
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 3 weeks ago:
That’s a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass…
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 3 weeks ago:
Octopuses are awesome. I wonder if they are like the cats of the sea.