TeknOShEeP
5d ago
Yes, in generally virtually none of the managed/hedge funds outperform the S&P 500, but thats not the point of most of them. Their point is to offer returns uncorrelated with how the S&P500 is doing, hence the term "hedge". In the long run, having a portion of your assests sufficiently diversified from the rest will return higher overall yields.
TeknOShEeP
6d ago
So... you're reading a bunch of transcripts and concluding that he was a mainstream milquetoast conservative. Well, you'd be correct on that. But Charlie Kirk's power was not in his ideology, or his ideas, or his intellect. Charlie Kirk was extraordinary because alone among any political commentator in the US, he would go to various colleges and universities and welcome open, civil debate with anyone who showed up. This is something that our society is sorely lacking and we need more of, but there are very few people who have the courage to do it. Probably fewer now.
If your point is to dismiss him because he's not an ideological tentpole of conservatism, you are missing the big picture entirely.
TeknOShEeP
23d ago
Metalworking? No- despite the popular misconception water and ice are considerably more compressible than essentially all metals. You'd probably want something more along the lines of Dexpan, which when mixed with water can (according to the tech specs) provide 18 ksi of compressive force, which might be enough to form some softer metals like copper or aluminum.
TeknOShEeP
24d ago
This is excellent information, thank you!
TeknOShEeP
25d ago
Conversely, NY, CA, WA, etc... could be significantly more gerrymandered.
Uh, without some blatantly illegal actions, none of those three could be really any more gerrymandered than they already are. NY was a 57-43 D-R split last election, and yet splits seats 19-7 (76-24%), CA was a 60-40 split and yet seats are split 43-9 (82-18%), and WA was 57-43 splitting seats 8-2.
Conversely Texas was 58-40 with independents, and split seats 25-13 (66-34%).
The problem (and dirty secret) of the DNC in this whole dust up is they have no juice left to squeeze. Their biggest safe states are already gerrymandered as hell, and even friendly courts only bend so far. Gavin Newsome won't do shit because if he pushes harder he might get his already incredibly advantageous map thrown out for one that might more proportionately represent the voters.
To his credit though- he's not as cringe as the Connecticut democratic party and governor who are taking the high road on social media about how they are "avoiding partisan warfare". This conveniently glossed over the fact thst they have already achieved what is proportionally the most gerrymandered state in Amwrican history- the 42% of GOP voters gets exactly zero congress critters, a flawless victory.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
So since we last spoke, i stumbled across this video which has only reinforced my suspicions that SIG knows they have a serious engineering defect. TL;DW- despite having nominally the same fire control group as the P320, the P365 incorporates a number of changes clearly intended at providing additional layers of safey against accidental discharge, which is why it hasn't been indicted in this whole cluster foxtrot.
As it stands now, while i am happy with my P365, there is no way in hell i would buy or even shoot a P320.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
perhaps calling Republican Rome atheistic is a stretch
It's not a stretch, its just entirely wrong. It would be wrong for Imperial Rome as well. Like, there are many, many dissertations written about the importance and universality of religious ritual in Rome, but if you really want to experience it first hand, just go there and tour any of the hundreds of temples they built. They didnt do it for aesthetics.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Er, where are you located? That sounds just ridiculous enough to interest me.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Lol, options are so much fun. They will fuck you 99.99% of the time. But the one time they dont... your broker calls you on January 27 about that Gamestop $10 call you bought 6 months ago on the advice of some idiot degen who's math actually penciled out. "Dude... you gonna exercise or what?"
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Agreed only on practical grounds, and only for the moment.
It is impossible with current technology to not use a nuclear bomb and adversely affect basically everyone on Earth. Millions of people use guns every day without affecting anyone who doesnt choose to be affected (usually on the gun range wearing ear pro). When humanity spreads among the stars, if you want to make pretty flashes on airless chunks of rock utterly devoid of life, you should be able to.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Disagree entirely. While i do not agree with them politically, many of my leftoid friends have suddenly discovered the purpose behind the second ammendment, and are wondering why our state has so many idiotic gun laws.
Guns may be fun, and they may provide a constructive outlet, but their purpose is potential violence. Thats the point. Pretending otherwise is dishonest and pointless.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
The telos of a great many very useful inventions that are today essential to a civilized world was first to kill people.
Satellite navigation was invented for the explicit purpose of missile guidance during nuclear sneak attacks.
The internet was invented as a command and control loop to enable retaliation in the event of a nuclear sneak attack.
Precision measurement and machining was invented by the gun industry, to make guns, which kill people.
Pesticides that enable the feeding of 8 billion people and freedom from devastating famines are just repurposed chemical weapons.
Modern central planning and crisis response centers are organizational descendents of the Prussian General Staff, which was invented to enable the Prussian army to be a great deal more efficient at killing people.
Essentially any breed of horse not explicitly a draft animal is the result of breeding for war.
That the common European value system ignores these basic truths is not a recommendation in its favor. Rather it serves to illustrate how divorced from reality it is (just in case its current suicidal impulses weren’t obvious enough). Homo Sapiens did not evolve to sit atop this world by being pacifists. We exist because our ancestors (and some currently alive) embraced the necessity of potential violence.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
I guess it depends on what your standard for pulls is, I dont own a P320 but i would called them on the lighter side of average for the ones I've shot.
But again, engaging the sear to any point before release should not fire the gun. Tolerance stackup is a thing, but it needs to be managed for safety critical applications.
The issue here is that this gun has like 3 million copies in the U.S. and has undergone numerous rigorous testing and trials.
Sort of? The XM17 selection has been controversial for a while- the P320 did poorly on the drop safety tests resulting in a redesign, and then after down select to just Sig and Glock, Sig was awarded the contract before endurance testing was actuslly accomplished (allegedly because Sig cut their price massively at that point). Police departments appear to have based their selection on the military's selection, but I havent heard much about any of their testing, there doesnt appear to be a whole lot of it done.
Now I agree if this was just bitching about one Glock-clone vs another then there might not be anything to it, but the P320 is not a Glock clone, and has some rather unique elements to its design such as a fully cocked striker on recoil that no one else has done (including Sig on their other guns like the P365), and there appears to be a good reason for that.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Quick glance at their stock price shows a roughly 15% jump since the ad campaign started in stark contrast to what has otherwise been a crappy year for them, so I'm fairly certain their boardroom is drooling over every hit piece.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Mmm, going to have to disagree. The P320 has a fairly light trigger pull compared to most DA striker fired guns, 1mm of travel is maybe 2 lbs at most? Probably less.
And no, partially engaging the sear then jostling the gun absolutely should not result in a discharge, thats the whole point behind drop and firing pin safeties. Except as newer videos reveal, the P320s firing pin safety does not actually block the firing pin, and the drop safety is easily defeated by any slide canting, which occurs even under normal trigger pulls.
It appears to be a uniquely terrible design, even compared to other Sig pistols with teething issues, and a possible exception to the "guns dont kill people, people kill people" rule.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
The screw is to demonstrate the effect that quite a lot of holsters might have of putting slight pressure on the trigger shoe. The fact that you can get the gun to fire without pulling the trigger past the sear release simply by jostling the slide is, in firearms terms, completely and totally unacceptable.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
Technically, the National Reconnaissance Office operates the satellites and allegedly does not recieve direct tasking from the CIA, due to asinine interagency spats. And if you believe that, there's a certain bridge for sale.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
The middle ground is modern medicine is good enough to save people who 10 years ago would have been pronounced dead almost immediately upon arriving at the hospital, but even fully replacing a humans blood capacity several times over can't save them from brain death.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
did he actually do this
There's a FB video of it somewhere, amongst all of the other Satanist content (not derrogatory, he is apparently a practicing Satanist). Lacking a FB account, i cant actually log in to find the specific one. But he posted it himself.
Now i personally dont give a fuck what he does, but for branding purposes he's sort of pigeonholed himself into a very specific niche that a) most gun owners and gun curious people probably dont align with, and b) would definitely affect the squeaky clean image Gun Jesus cultivates.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
ThisIsSin covered it pretty well, the only thing I would add is GunJesus tries very hard (and succeeds!) at not taking sides in the culture war and keeps his videos and other endevours open to all. In this day and age, thats a very admirable thing and one of the main reasons he is universally respected.
Karl, on the other hand, at least by going off social media posts, rather vocally and militantly left wing, and not in a family friendly way either. (Drinking cum out of skulls is, uh, certainly a choice).
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
Jimmy John's has superior cold sandos to Jersey Mikes, but no one can top the Big Kahuna cheesesteak from Mikey.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
I do, but boomer-fuddville is convenient to me, so if i need to zero a scope or try a new build I can be in an out in under an hour instead of making it a half-day excursion. I make a point of loudly calling out all of these violations to the RSO, and they are pretty good about clamping down on it, but they shouldnt have to intervene in the first place.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
I think that was definitely true for the first Trump admin, one of the many personnel problems it had. But my reading of the tea leaves is that Vance is absolutely being groomed as Trump's successor- he is being sent out to do the sort of foundational policy making that you wouldn't fob off on the average do-nothing VP. Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference is one of biggest moments in international relations of the decade, fundamentally changing the relationship between the US and EU, and full of lines that I would imagine Trump himself would have loved to drop, and yet JD is the one doing it.
Also, Vance is low key probably the smartest (in terms of IQ) major figure in American politics today, which is always a plus for his future prospects.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
children were born without marraige
Er, you mean "within marraige"?
To me Buttigeig managed to utterly disqualify himself by being probably the worst Secretary of Transportation America has had in at least a quarter century. He essentially was AWOL for at least a quarter of his stint (though given the SecDef was also able to go AWOL for medical reasons, perhaps this was an unannounced policy of the Biden admin?) and offered the weakest possible response to any of the notable transport disasters that occured under his watch.
What policy he did managed to push seemed entirely focused on DEI rather than any actual effectivity or improvement, and in doing so he managed to deeply piss off a number of otherwise apolitcal career professionals, any number of which would be happy to offer damning soundbites to the media outlet of your choice.
The lesson here is if you get a cabinet post as a pay-off for dropping out of the primary, be like Hillary and actually get shit done (we can argue about whether the shit being done was good or bad, but no one was debating that she wasnt capable). If you pull a Pete, your career is dead.
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