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She's very sharp.
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Incredibly stupid, you mean. In a fucking suit my ass. Aside from whether you believe he was some great civil orator or a racist muckraker, he's an insignificant political operative. A pimple on the ass of the USA.
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Well, you could avoid going through any legitimate Disney/ABC/ESPN channel. Have your cake and eat it too.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
TwiceHorn replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
You assume that it is UT law enforcement, and that is a good initial assumption. But the FBI frequently assists local law, particularly with computer forensic and other technical subject matter, where locals really may not have the horsepower. And, here, the FBI has demonstrated an interest in the case. And, of course ol Kashyap didn't himself script the texts or discords or whatever they are, but he's a stand-in for FBI. -
And, although a .50 cal is highly likely to do really gross damage, anomalies happen.
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Broadly speaking, though, a .50 cal or 12.7 is a major destruction machine. Why in the blue fuck was your friend hunting deer with a .50 unless it was extreme long range? That seems like it should be illegal.
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Well, from a caliber or diameter standpoint, .30-06 is not huge. Rifle bullets caliber from roughly .22 up to .50. But then there's mass, and that's often accounted for by length of the projectile. Mass surely counts toward the energy of the projectile, which is a big factor, and .30-06 is a pretty high-energy round as they go. But it's not a monster. For reference, when you're reading military fiction or non-fiction and a .50BMG machine gun, M2 or Ma Deuce, or a 12.7mm heavy machine gun Dushka is referenced, that is a huge, heavy projectile fired at very high velocity. It's not just a long-distance sniper round. When a .50 or 12.7mm machine gun comes into play against personnel, they're being mutilated and blown to shit. That round does not drill through people or "through and through," it blows them to shit as if it were an explosive round.
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The difference being hitting the skull. It seems the Kirk shot went through soft tissue only. Any high-energy projectile will enter flesh and generate a shock wave ahead of it, which has the potential to "blow shit up." But when the projectile and the shock wave hit something big and hard like a skull, that's when things get "weird" and shit really starts "blowing up," because the direction of the shock wave and the projectile itself get changed from basically straight ahead to up, down, left, right, and some of the energy gets transferred to the bone, which starts heading off in its own directions. Here are some shots through ballistic gel that mimic soft-tissue only.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
TwiceHorn replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
I know this is tongue in cheek, but a reminder that you don't get a trademark on just a set of words. It has to be used to sell a product or services. I make this post only because it's such a common mistake on here. If you wanted to register a trademark in that phrase for goods like tshirts, hats, koozies, etc., that might be a possibility. -
CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
TwiceHorn replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
State. Murder prosecutions in federal court are pretty rare. -
If we're gonna lower flags to half-staff for a podcaster, might as well give security details to failed candidates.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
TwiceHorn replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Has anyone observed that the state of Utah, especially the parts outside of SLC, are about as close to New Gilead as you will find in the US? And that this kid was raised by white, church-attending, gun-loving, straight, cis, two-parent household? That he wasn't in college long enough to be indoctrinated, but instead went to a no-homo trade school?- 5009 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
TwiceHorn replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Another point is, for people with equivalent degrees and years of experience, just about everything else is subjective. This guy may be bald and you hate baldies, this chick may be fat, or hot, or this guy went to UT and this one to Aggy. And anyone that's lived long enough knows people with impressive academics that are professional and personal failures, or at least less capable of performing at higher or highest levels than someone with less impressive credentials. And also know people with relatively humble academics that are leaders in their field. So, it's pretty rare that "the most meritorious candidate regardless of race" is chosen. Says who? And what are those criteria? -
The behavior of a projectile in a body or "piece of meat" can be highly unpredictable. They are capable of producing gnarly exit wounds and also no exit wound at all and also just drilling pretty much straight through. A lot of it depends on the type of bullet (soft point vs. full metal jacket and there's a wide variety of behavior from various soft point designs) and what it actually hits on the way through. As pointed out above, that chart is pistol rounds, which have a lot lower velocity and thus kinetic energy than rifle rounds. 1/2mv^2. But a lot of pistol rounds also have a lot more mass than rifle rounds. A rifle round is more apt to produce a lot of hydrodynamic shock, which can help make a big exit wound. But sometimes that relatively small diameter projectile will go right through. Whereas the pistol may be less apt to produce that shock, but possibly more apt to tumble in the body and "fly off course," which can produce a pretty gnarly wound in its own right. So that chart is fairly simplified.
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