I’ve got a project coming hopefully this fall. You probably just saved me hours next summer.

I would think a two-hander is massive enough to be a blunt weapon if turned sideways, striking with the flat of the sword. But, my opinion is really uninformed.

They even sent us a big statue so we wouldn’t forget.

No, you fucking dolt!

The whole reason we’re in this position is your refusal to think for yourself.

You keep repeating it because a false dichotomy, that you must choose between a D or R, prevents you from accepting that the lesser evil is, in fact, evil. So, you’re stuck on stupid and not asking questions. This should help:

The Democrats already, quite predictably, ignored the outcome of their primary to nominate Clinton. They’re not going to do a fucking thing that doesn’t make a corporate donor money. All of Sanders proposals took from corporations to provide for humans. He never stood a chance of being nominated as a Democrat and he damned well knew it. If we give him the benefit of the doubt then his goal was education. If not, he rallied for Democrats to avoid the rise of a Labor Party during a critical time in history.

We’ve seen this before with Reagan. We took the military industrial complex to the next level. If history repeats with banks deregulated as they are now… It won’t matter one fucking bit, really. It’s not very important whom they choose to front their cons. No President can save us, or would want to. Our oppressor is not our savior.

Perhaps it’s because we immigrants have a broader world view and more quickly realized that none of those assholes represent us. Perhaps white natives are too easily scared by propagandist headlines and shitty science.

Sad.

marching doesn’t do shit

It’s a beginning.

what else are we gonna do

We’ll boycott, strike, riot, and revolt.

If it’s after they’re elected then it’ll run down the line of succession: VP, Speaker of the House, president pro tempore of the Senate, then the cabinet.

If it’s before they’re elected, I’m no expert but I believe the Democratic and Republican parties are private organizations that can do whatever the fuck they want, even fail to abide by the results of their own primaries.

As without a President we’ve no Vice President, the duty would fall to the Speaker of the House, then the president pro tempore of the Senate: the heads of our bicameral federal legislative branch. They’d serve the remaining portion on the term until the next regularly scheduled election.

This is much more about increasing fear in the proletariat than Russia. The military is being used in the political campaign with plausible deniability.

This is much more about increasing fear in the proletariat than Russia. The military is being used in the political campaign with plausible deniability.

Do you know of any actual metrics/tests done that show this clearly?

No one probably cared to design a barrel and firing mechanism just for this experiment since maybe the late 1930s. And, I’d guess that possible someone was the US military.

Honestly, no one really cares. There’s so many variables that change slightly for each cycle of the action. Variables change more for each round, assuming typical ammo. And, there’s a lot of variables that change a helluva lot between humans. After deciding usage and the appropriate round to chamber, one starts picking their pistol based on what feels good in their hand. Those are the ones they’ll shoot most accurately with.

my physics classes were a long time ago

The hardest part by far is visualizing a graph. Force is the y axis. Time is the x axis. A line represents a changing force over time called an impulse.

Impulse 1: acts with a force of 1000 Newtons for 0.01 second

Impulse 2: acts with a force of 10 Newtons for 1 seconds

The impulse magnitude is the integral, the area under the curve of the graph of force over time. The math is easy for these situations because they’re rectangles: 10 x 1 and 1000 x 0.01.

Both impulses have the same magnitude: 10 Newton x seconds. Both impulses, applied upon a mass, can do the same amount of work. Both impulses could be the equal and opposite reactions to firing the same round if fired from different pistols.

The revolver delivers a short, violent, mess of peaks and vallies along a big peak. The modern semi auto delivers a smooth increase to a lower plateau that falls off just as smoothly. The modern semi auto takes much longer deliver the same magnitude impulse.

But, a human brain and body doesn’t care much about “much longer” when it’s still “instant”. The brain and body care about the how high the peak is and how “messy” (signal noise).

I accused the other of misinformation when the article even said I was wrong. I’d be a hypocrite, an idiot, and an asshole to not make it right.

Thanks for not only recognizing but also taking the time to reinforce what we both want to see more of.

Thank you for the compliment. But, in this facet the biggest difference between us is probably only how much time our parents bought us before we had to fend for ourselves. My ideas aren’t special, just regurgitated and stitched together pieces of work by actual smart people.

We’re on the same side because any reasonable and intelligent person is on our side. We came from all directions, reasoning our way to the same basic conclusions: It’s broken and humans suffer. We’ll sacrifice to fix it together.

Thank you for pointing out that I’m being an idiot in such a kind manner. I apologize. I also learned more about mpox.

Still no sources to counter the medically accepted status quo? Sweet story, bruh.

Stupider or wiser relative what? If we measure against a what it takes to live a wise life at the time then people are definitely getting stupider (and you are absolutely correct). The wisdom required is rising much more quickly than the wisdom possessed.

You made me think more about pot smokers. I think you’re correct. Even in my own observation they’re a much more diverse group than I present. And, I bet a lot of them keep their habit totally private.

I came down on you pretty hard there. I think you saw I wasn’t attacking you personally. You received it so well you even changed my perspective.

This is why I’ve faith in humanity. We’ve still got the special sauce.

You’re not making sense. COVOD’s a virus. It does substantially better in cool, dry air, as do the majority. The best study we have on best COVID conditions is hasty crap work. We’ve done nothing for mpox, definitely not for a new strain we’ve just discovered.

You’re bullshitting about a virus with a 5% kill rate. I’m no doctor. You just suck at being a bullshitter. Maybe you should stop.