Explain it to me like I'm in 6th grade
oh boy another head of a wanna-be samurai to collect. please, sir, present your neck.
Oh you'll have a well-rounded profile of comics to read between the two, then. The former's a more light-hearted fantasy-comedy, while the other is a more serious action-adventure(?) (I haven't read absolute batman. Nor any u,s comics for decades). If nothing else, it'll be interesting to bounce between the two when you find time to chill.
I'd recommend "greatest estate developer" because it was recently completed. Most excellent story, genuinely one of my favorites.
My escapism promotes philistinism, in the Marxist sense, so it can't be as bad as me just wallowing in the mud and eating slop out of it, proverbially, with my enjoyment of Korean webcomics
Thats like saying sun shines, snow falls, and birds fly lol
Lmao going full hog wild and just stomping the pedal is definitely the funnest solution to the issue no doubt. It's like you almost get to go mudding but within the comfort of your friend's neighborhood. Only downside is that if it freezes during winter wherever this is at, those ridges and ruts are gonna be absolute hell on your vehicle.
There really is a knowledge gap on the level of human suffering that occurred prior to the beautiful medical advancements of 20th century.
I can't think of anything either. Every scattered bit of info on actually-existing anarchist projects that I've read about have been mentions of experiments conducted in the Soviet Union by anarchists. Insofar as the closest I've heard of in the PRC has been the maoist communes.
Ah I hate those situations. Absolute perfect demonstration of hyperindividualism on display.
It makes me wonder if there is an anarchism of the 21st century. Something that actually logically works in theory and could be materially implemented. So at least if I come across another dork that wants anarchism-in-form-primitivism-in-action ism, I could at least point them in a direction for them to learn the most realistically up-to-date materials of their own worldview.
Then again that's just too far into the weeds even for me, and I'll just stick with saying "who's gonna build and maintain the roads"
Ah for the case of Val going back in time to try and overthrow the first hero of humanity, assuming somehow that happened, - assuming best cases happened through out their life - anything they accomplished within their lifetime would be quickly swept away after their death and whatever remnants that remained would too be swept into the dustbin of history as the Akkadians begin their conquest of the region.
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What a new survey of US Catholic priests does, and does not, tell us [spoiler: it says Gen X priests are more liberal than millennial priests]
(www.ncronline.org)
There's even neat graphs about the shit they care about
All in all an interesting article that may point to the next generation of american-born clergy being a bunch of shitheads.
And when i say hexbear users, I mean this 
I can only be thankful the mod is already historically out of touch with reality regarding all the "left" factions they feature. Or else it would be even more insufferable
Jonathan Walker, born 1799 in Massachusetts, was an abolitionist who spent his life aiding excaped slaves find safe lands to settle and build new lives.
His fame as an abolitionist came in 1844 when he was a ship captain attempted to smuggle slaves from Florida to the Bahamas, where the abomination of slavery was abolished, but unfortunately fell deathly ill and couldn't navigate his ship to freedom. His boat was rescued by a salvage sloop who took him to Key West where he was promptly arrested for stealing slaves and taken to Pensacola to languish in a squalid prison cell for months before being allowed his right to trial.
He was sentenced to one hour in the public pillory, a year's time in prison, to pay court costs and a $600 fine, and to receive a branding of "SS" denoting slave stealer on his right hand.
Upon his release in 1845 he would begin to tour the New England States, delivering fiery speeches of the horrific conditions he saw the slaves of the south were suffering, punctuating the end of each of his speeches by lifting his right hand to the audience and proclaiming it "the seal, the coat of arms of the United States."
He spent the rest of his life fighting against slavery, culminating in the reorganization the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society in 1853 in Adrian, Michigan alongside other named abolitionists such as Stephen and Abby Foster, Sojourner Truth, Marius Robinson, and Sallie Holley.
Famed poet and abolition advocate John Greenleaf Whittier, paid tribute to Walker in his poem, "The Branded Hand,"
Welcome home again, brave seaman! with thy thoughtful brow and gray,
And the old heroic spirit of our earlier, better day,—
With that front of calm endurance, on whose steady nerve in vain
Pressed the iron of the prison, smote the fiery shafts of pain!
Is the tyrant’s brand upon thee?
Did the brutal cravens aim
To make God’s truth thy falsehood, his holiest work thy shame?
When, all blood-quenched, from the torture the iron was withdrawn,
How laughed their evil angel the baffled fools to scorn!
They change to wrong the duty which God hath written out
On the great heart of humanity, too legible for doubt!
They, the loathsome moral lepers, blotched from footsole up to crown,
Give to shame what God hath given unto honor and renown!
Why, that brand is highest honor!—than its traces never yet
Upon old armorial hatchments was a prouder blazon set;
And thy unborn generations, as they tread our rocky strand,
Shall tell with pride the story of their father’s BRANDED HAND !
Jonathan Walker, the man whose Branded Hand stands fore the highest honour borne to those who worke to bring Salvation to the Slaves
Well... actually maybe just one.
Right in the middle.
I started arguing in the YouTube comments and I'm getting dragged deeper in the morass of jackasses. How do people deal with arguing with these people?
Anyways the silly ww2-day-by-day-play-by-play channel has lately been doing good shorts on Soviet contributions to the war effort, talking about the brave women that fought, the heroic partisans, etc. And in the one vid where they actually go out and start talking about GLADIO shit, the hogs start coming out.
I'm only posting this so you can have a taste of something decent only to have it be spoiled by the squeals of swine.
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Join me yet again as I go into a frothy ranting rage about the Army aiming a 155mm canister shell filled with buckshot at its foot and pulling the funny boom string over its continued development of its next-gen infantry armaments.
Previous rants I've had about the Army's choices in armaments
The U.S. Army has inked a contract with firearms company FN America, LLC to continue development of its Precision Grenadier System prototype, according to an announcement ahead of the U.S. Army Association’s annual conference.
Army officially committing to yet again flatten its infantry's combat capabilities after officiating the SIG Sauer’s M7 rifle and M250 automatic rifle as new the standard armament of the army. See my link above to previous ranks for my gripes about those rifles.
The agreement, officially a Prototype Project Opportunity Notice contract worth $2 million, advances development of a next-gen weapon system and ammunition the manufacturer claims will be a significant upgrade over past legacy grenade launcher iterations.
Starting contract pay is 2 milly but who knows how much it'll balloon up to with time and corruption.
The latest deal is expected to enable enhancements of the weapon’s reliability and ensure the platform can be seamlessly integrated with preexisting Army systems, according to the announcement.
"Enhancements of the weapon's reliability" and "seamlessly integrated with preexisting Army systems" really don't fill me with much confidence if I'm the one having to hump the piece of shit for days at a time.
“Once developed and implemented, this weapon system could radically change future battlefield strategies,” Mark Cherpes, president and CEO for FN America said in a release announcing the contract. “It will offer new capabilities at the squad level and upgraded tactical options, giving the warfighter a more effective systetime.
I'd be filled with existential dread if I was the designated boom boot putting my life on the line with this dogwater nade launcher.
The soldier-portable FN Multipurpose Tactical Launcher, or MTL-30, is a shoulder-fired, semi-automatic weapon that shoots a 30mm grenade on a flat trajectory at an effective range of 500 meters.
Folks do you know why the man-portable grenade launcher was developed? It was developed as a tool to lob anti-personnel explosives in an arc trajectory for the purposes of hitting dead spaces in the sectors of fire of an infantry unit. A dead space is an area where conventional rifle fire can not hit, i.e a wall or a ditch. Meaning a weapon with an arc trajectory is needed to either flush out or neutralize enemy forces in those dead zones.
I'm gonna be generous and assume the Army isn't completely brain-drained and is ordering this rifle with arc trajectory shooting capabilities but at minimum this is putting a lot more failure-points in their dog-water product that lead to troops dying because they had to fiddle with their shit to get it to work instead of just loading-aiming-shooting.
But sure make it an expensive-fucking glorified shotgun instead of just issuing a nelly for anti-drone capabilities.
While current 40mm grenade launchers employed by ground combat units are fired using a higher trajectory, The MTL-30’s ability to hit targets using a flat flight path should expand its applicability in combat.
Dawg its only got like 5 rounds per mag and they're shit-ass heavy. Not including all the fancy wunder-waffen bullshit kinds of round variants they'll griftvent to get more of that sweet taxpayer moolah, the fact that still pisses me off is that the squad is losing a rifleman with genadier capabilities for a pure grenadier. Less volume of fire, less ammunition, less capacity and capability to stay deployed in the field.
Weapon flexibility, from close-proximity fighting to taking out drones, was a focus of an Army solicitation of the prototype released earlier this year.
You can't make an all-in-one weapon. That's how you end up with dogshit that sucks at doing anything it was "flexibly" designed to do
“The PGS is anticipated to be deployed as a soldier’s primary weapon system, providing organic, close-quarters combat, counter-defilade and counter-UAS capabilities through a family of ammunition to ranges in concert with the rest of the squad’s battlespace, and requiring minimal resupplies to support,” the Army’s solicitation read.
Lmfao fucking cope. The new rifles ammo is shitass heavy and bulky as is so you can't carry as much = less volume of fire, and you're now down a rifleman because of this shitass design = less volume of fire. And this dogwater nade lobber's ammo - while lighter than a 40mm - is bulky, heavy, and takes up a lot of limited carrying capacity. If you want more nade ammo you gotta cross-load it across your squad, meaning they got more shit to carry meaning less space for their own ammo or other needed shit, and crossloading means you're also fighting your automatic rifleman for that cross-load space too since the auto-rifle is the cornerstone for infantry defense formations. Fucking cope.
Countering troops in defilade would ultimately require a round capable of piercing natural or artificial cover barriers that conceal enemy personnel.
You remember how I earlier was talking about dead spaces? That's what they're talking about. A defilade is, in very basic bootspeak, any space ahead of where you're shooting from that is recessed below the ground you're standing on. If you're standing on a mountain then everything around you that's below the point you're standing on is in defilade to you. Halfway up the mountain? Down is defilade, up is crest.
Anyways A FUCKING ARC TRAJECTORY WEAPON IS THE FUCKING POINT OF NEUTRALIZING ENEMIES IN DEAD SPACES SUCH AS DEFILADES
FN America’s Precision Grenadier System, meanwhile, is built with a modular, Picatinny-style rail system for mounting optics or other attachments, and includes Magpul-designed M-LOK system points on the handguard for hard-mounting additional accessories.
Grift talk. Barbie doll your bolter out with trumpian god-emperor seals of purity and shit.
An ambidextrous design allows right- and left-handed personnel to quickly operate the bolt catch, magazine release and safety.
That should be universal at this point, not a reason to jack up the costs by another 10k for basic shit.
The MTL-30 can also be equipped with various muzzle suppressor options, according to FN, and can be loaded by detachable 3- or 5-round box magazines.
GRIFT GRIFT GRIFT GRIFT
The weapon’s lower receiver, which is modeled after the widely-used M4, comes with a 6-position telescoping buttstock and modular cheek risers for added stability when firing.
Jesus christ this is all BASIC SHIT SHUT THE FUCK UP
Development of the MTL-30, which measures 34 inches long and weighs just over 10 pounds, was influenced by a combination of real-time soldier feedback and battlefield priorities that continue to evolve in places like Ukraine, the company said.
Oh hey they managed to shave off a bit of the weight from the last time I checked in with its production R&D saga. Good for them I guess.
FN America, the U.S.-based arm of the Belgian arms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale, runs its manufacturing operations out of Columbia, South Carolina
Please also start manufacturing explosives in-house so you can whoopsie yourself into kingdom come like those other dipshits that just went up like a match.
nothing wrong with that. only thing wrong is that they all focus on the wrong warfront.