Yes, but choose one with a smaller beaver tail. The 75 series would be far too pokey in the clavicle.

Suppressive fire is a thing, and it does look like this would be good enough to do that.

The real limitation is magazine capacity for that role. Slap a drum mag on there instead and you’ve got a winner.

security experts Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger demonstrated that naive software design left the rifle’s aiming computer open to remote hacking when its Wi-Fi capability was turned on

Not even “smart” weapon designers are taking embedded device security seriously enough. I wish I were surprised.

• leave your off-hand down at your waist, maintaining defense is for weak bitches

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If the momos make DT rifles their standard issue, the Amish will win.

I love this way of thinking about it.

I haven’t been interested in AI enough to try writing code with it, but using it as an interactive rubber ducky is a very compelling use case. I might give that a shot.

Oh my, what a throwback. Nicely done.

Command & Conquer Generals did it first.

Why hello there, Mr. 0352.

At least your MOS still exists. I was one of them SMAW guys, and now both my job and old unit have been deactivated. It makes me feel like even more of a dinosaur than I otherwise would when I talk to people about my time enlisted.

Depending on the beam’s weight, where it impacts, and what kind of tank it is, here are some possible effects:

1. Absolutely nothing
2. Cause the crew to button up, reducing their visibility
3. Draw the crew out to assess or repair damage, expsoing them to small arms fire
4. Remind the crew that their enemy is active in the area and slow the advance
5. Distract the crew long enough for infantry to employ a more effective weapon, possibly including approach the tank on foot without being seen
6. Main gun barrel impact - deform the barrel enough to disable it
7. Turret impact - disable turret rotation, reducing aiming capability
8. Track impact - mobility kill by damaging roadwheels and/or track, or just getting stuck there
9. Direct side impact - probably nothing
10. Random gear impact - even old tanks have external mounted machine guns, optics, radio antennae, and shit that could be disabled
11. Exposed crew impact - squishy squishy

Of all these possibilities, I think just trying to get the damn thing stuck in the wheels/tracks is the most likely to actually work, even on relatively modern tanks.

If you read the fine print, many “lifetime” warranties are like this too. They mean the “lifetime of the product” which is usually defined in the same fine print as like, 5 years or some other bullshit timespan.

Everyone at Mentor Graphics did before it got gobbled up by Siemens in 2017. I don’t know if they still do.

The difference between fault and responsibilty is definitely something I plan to teach my kids from an early age.

If someone rear ends me when I’m driving safely and following all the rules of the road, it’s not my fault. But it’s still my responsibility to get insurance information, arrange for car repair and transportation, reschedule appointments, etc. I don’t get to just walk away and hope everything takes care of itself.

It’s just one of those unfortunate facts of life. Everyone has to handle things that aren’t their fault sometimes.

That’s better, thanks.

The most important part of the kit is the grip pod. The tides will turn once those get in the Ukranians’ hands.

But are you going to add bleach to your dishwasher when you run the toilet brush, then do dishes normally on the next cycle?

Seems like you’re opening a whole new can of health-hazardous worms with that plan.

This is far too reasonable of a comment for shitposting. I’m going to need someone to shit this up a bit, please.

Thanks for the insight - jump humping and soaking sound like the kind of bullshit my parents would believe because it was featured in some local news story.

Most “teen trends”, especially those related to sex, are just wildly blown out of proportion “stories” based on a couple of people trying something weird, someone else hearing about it, and now suddenly all the teens are doing it.

It reminds me of being in high school when my mom asked me if my girlfriend’s jelly bracelets were a sex thing because she heard about girls owing sex acts to guys who can break one.

First published in fucking 1903.

Nothing ever changes.