The main advantage of torso shots is the large target area close to the center of mass. That means it can't change direction as quickly, and the zone of effectiveness is largest. Misses are likely to hit other effective areas of the target.
If you target COM and hit 10 inches high, that's...
The idea of "independent agencies" is an anathema to the constitution.
The "independent" part of them is that they are independent of any accountability to any elected official.
To the left that is a feature. Much as they prattle on about "democracy" they hold the electorate in utter contempt...
It's only treason if committed during a war, but I'm not sure there is anything preventing congress from retroactively declaring a war...
OfC we weren't in a declared war with the Soviets, but that didn't stop us from executing the Rosenbergs, so maybe it doesn't matter.
I doubt he's enough of a germophobe to send the whole desk out for refinishing over a couple boogers.
He might have the cleaning staff scrub it within within an inch of it's life overnight, but a even Sheldon Cooper level obsession doesn't require removing it from the premises and all that entails.
If she has no idea where it is, no reason to eliminate her.
Another mysterious death would bring it back into the news and they're probably not all that interested in another round of "didn't kill herself" memes.
If things heat up, that calculation could change
The difference between billionaires and bureaucrats is that the billionaires don't pretend to be doing their shit "for my own good".
I have no illusions that Musk or Trump are altruistic, or that either of them give a fuck about me.
But, on many issues that matter, their interests and mine...
I wouldn't be surprised if there was videotaped evidence of the rapes for blackmail purposes.
And it would pain the FBI greatly to destroy that, rather than hold on to it for "a rainy day". That's basically what the FBI was formed to do back in the day.
OfC, I am sure it's not exactly laying...
Eh, I've been on the receiving end of this sort of directive.
Sure, compliance is annoying.
But if you're actually a productive employee it's like 5 mins and an email.
I am sure the hard working guys are well aware of why this is necessary, and that it is a temporary measure.
Don't blame us for laughing. Blame ABC for making such ridiculous statements.
How can you *not* laugh at "it hurts trans people more when their house burns down".
I am the same.
I think that maybe my principles are just a but more sophisticated than yours.
It's like the difference between a real libertarian and an anarchist. A real libertarian understands that *some* rules are necessary to maximize freedom, and *some* group needs the power to enforce...
You know who writes history and decides what is right ?
The people who are left.
You're not wrong about the road to hell. But if you aren't willing to fight dirty out of some misguided sense of superiority, then you're going to end up there anyway.
Rules are for sports, not fighting.
Maybe others, but not me.
I refuse to fall into the "be the better person" trap.
I believe in strong libertarian principles, because that's the world I want to live in. But I have no illusions that you won't have to do some pretty heinous shit to get there from here.
Imagine what WWII would...
It's wrong. But you need to fight fire with fire.
Just like I support the bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki in WWII. All three were atrocities of the first order. But once you are in a war with existential stakes you need to decide if you would rather be morally pure, or...
You're not wrong. But Trump isn't the one who set up the "taking". And he *is* setting up an environment where even the democrats are starting to see that arrangement isn't a good one.
Go over on Democratic Underground and see how many of the lefties are now calling for CA to withhold their...
Since congress was involved, like insider trading, they probably engineered the appropriate loopholes in the law so that they're *not* actually crimes.
Again, that's threatening to *cut off* money.
Money that probably shouldn't be spent at all. The federal government shouldn't be subsidizing any state crap.
So, again, what's the problem ? I'd like to see *all* of that money cut off to *everyone*.
So, it's like the government shutdowns...
There's no better proof anywhere that unions don't work for their members than that phrase right there.
Your union doesn't protect you anymore than the Corp HR department does.
No incumbents, ever.
If you held any elected federal office at any time during the previous term you are ineligible to run for an office.
If the people like you, you can have as many terms as they will let you, just not back to back. You have to work a real job in the mean time.
Except Trump isn't wielding dollars. He is welding *cuts*. Basically "un-dollars".
I am OK with the executive having unrestricted power to *not* spend money.
The alternative is for it to be an requirement to spend every dollar that congress allocates.
Imagine sending your son to the store...
Trying to kill a popular Republican president does not have a good track record for Dems.
Last time they tried they supercharged Reagan.
This time Trump.
Yea, but that's why Trump is pushing stuff that makes no difference just to get then to burn through that cash.
I kinda hope they spend a bunch litigating the "gulf of America" LOL.
They've got a ton of it, and we need to whittle it down.
Just like a boxer stepping into the ring with Ali. He...
Good, that finally means they're burning up their own money to fight my tax dollars.
Instead or them making Republicans burn our money against our own tax dollars.
Trump should see how much he can get them to spend. The DOJ has a lot of lawyers and they're all already paid for.
I'm in a Facebook group with a bunch of the guys I went to college with.
A couple days ago one of the guys who drank the full kool-aid accused a man he has known for 30 years of being a Russian bot.
They are truly deranged.
Western Europe pretending they're really part of NATO is like groupies pretending they're part of the band.
You may ride on the tour bus, but when it's time to go on stage you don't have a part to play.
The difference between bitcoin and the US dollar is that Bitcoin isn't $37T in debt, and doesn't have crooks printing more every day to service that debt.
OfC, Bitcoin doesn't have the largest military the world has ever seen backing it either, but without the debt, it doesn't need it.
Or, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe the federal government shouldn't be taxing residents of states just to take a cut, add some strings, and then give it back to the states ?
Government shouldn't be in the business of wealth redistribution at all.
How about exponentially increasing sentences.
Your sentence for a crime is multiplied by the number of times you have been previously convicted of felonies.
This would have to be coupled with an end to prosecutorial discretion. You charge the exact crime they committed or nothing at all. You...
I'm sure it's obnoxious given it's age.
Probably feels archaic.
But I think someone of the caliber of the guys that Musk has working for him could get proficient in a day or two.