Phoenicianpirate
@Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 9 hours ago:
America has not been subsidizing Canada. Canada has been subsidizing the US.
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 11 hours ago:
The rich man’s boots vs. The poor man’s boots. Terry died too damn young.
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 11 hours ago:
I think it was Mark Twain who said that in order for a man to be moral he needs to be well-fed first.
- Comment on Do you understand how many people 350 million is? How did this worm ridden ball sack float to the top? 4 days 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 4 days 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 Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 days ago:
That is why it is a backup. The others will still be used. There is one drive I want to get rid of, and it is because it has been malfunctioning for a long, long time.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 days ago:
I have HDDs that have been with me for almost 10 years. I need to replace one with one that I can use as a backup for all of them AND have some to spare.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 5 days ago:
Fuck you Sony…
Signed a lifelong pirate.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 week ago:
I say please and thank you to AI chatbots all the time. This is to make up for my misspent youth insulting Dr. Sbaitso…
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week 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 China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
Thorium? Fucking sweet!
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
It is actually astonishing it took so long for lead to be banned in the US. Even Ben Franklin railed against the use of lead in daily life and he was someone who lived and died in the 18th century.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
I never liked 4Chan even when /b was the big thing and not the /pol.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Don’t forget airbags have also killed people.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
And also you wash it down with radithor! The healthfully radioactive water.
- Comment on Do it 2 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 2 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 The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
He stocks them in his stomach.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
Pete Hegseth is not top shelf, but his liquor is.
- 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 weeks ago:
Why would Israel want JFK dead?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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.