Thanks for picking up on the sarcasm, I was worried it might not be apparent enough, but it’s hard to judge with this medium.

The point I was making with the reply, of course, was that the narrative of ICE only going after hardened criminals is ludicrous on the surface of it, and even if one were to somehow believe that, the numbers simply don’t bear it out.

Ah, I see the worst of the worst rape-murdering narco-immigrants who are here only for violence have finally decided to almost shoot their most feared and hated enemy.

In my mind the rules are clear on that: to use deadly force there must be an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. Potential future harms can’t even begin to be accounted for, so the standard has to be judged with those immediate circumstances in mind.

Even in that situation there are means to deter a threat or determine a person’s intent prior to employing any sort of lethal force. There’s nothing justifiable about this.

Was it the head of the USDA withholding funds? I was under the impression that the administration said there were no funds, and then there was no way to release the funds, and then that it would be too complex to do so with any expediency.

Why are they appealing the ruling, do you think?

Is it? What is the more nuanced view?

The way I understand it, yes, Point Detonating rounds operate exactly like the 40mm rounds, which are supposed to have a 10 meter arming distance. But they’re not much more complicated than that.

That being said, CVT technology was certainly classified during world war 2. I think it’s even called “controlled variable timing” to make it sound more mechanical than it actually is. Interestingly, it’s part of the reason people think that carrots make eyesight better.

Hopefully I’m not misremembering, but when the Allies developed more miniaturized radar technology they wanted to keep it a secret from the Germans, and so started a rumor that the reason the Brits had such early warning for air raids was because the country was eating a lot of carrots due to rationing. Carrots, they said, are good for your eyes and can make them more acute.

In reality we were using radar, not only for early warning, but also for our anti-aircraft artillery. From what I recall, using the new radar-equipped CVT rounds took AA fire from 5% accuracy to nearly 40% accuracy, because the fuzes were no longer hand set.

I don’t know how strong CVT “radar” is, but I imagine it’s in the several yards range rather than some crazy distance that might make the round ineffective from long range. Actually, the “controlled” part is really just referring to the set arming distance of the fuze, which only needs to be long enough to get past any potential friendlies.

Ah, gotcha. Well, I appreciate the conversation regardless.

CVT rounds in the Navy are a generalist round, kinda used for everything. The idea is indeed proximity, but it works against all sorts of metal stuff, (including ground targets) with a supposed 50 yard kill radius, but I never got to see any of them land, so I’m going off of what little I can remember of various manuals.

Even the “dumb” point detonating fuzes worked on setback and spin, so the round actually has to be fired and in flight in order to arm.

I’ve never done 155mm artillery, but I assume it’s similar enough to naval artillery.

What kind of fuzes do they normally shoot, do you know? I think we always shot controlled variable time fuzes (that have point detonating backups, of course) and I’m struggling to imagine what would make a round explode in midair like that. They basically require a strong electromagnetic return from a nearby metal object in order to initiate. But maybe 155mm rounds are different, I don’t know.

I don’t think we ever shot over people’s heads, and any time we did have to shoot over a road (out at Cherry Point) it was closed off, because shit happens. If we did have to, we would use ordnance approved for OverHead Fire (OHF), which is just a fancy way of saying “highly reliable.”

And even then what the fuck is the benefit here versus the very obvious and severe risks?

Didn’t I read somewhere that they were operating at a faster than normal pace?

Opportunity as a way to reframe a bad situation is a good argument. “Is English your first language” is a very poor argument. Merriam-Webster shows it as positive, Cambridge says between positive and neutral, and Oxford just says neutral. As a native English speaker I feel comfortable saying that the connotation of opportunity is generally positive.

Lol, MNBA

Redistricting is normally done after the US Census, which happens every decade. Next one is scheduled for 2030.

So kind of an incompetence issue? If they can’t even secure an indictment, what kind of crazy shit are they pursuing?

Are grand juries the finger in the dike?

I’m not too hung up on the how at the moment

It was very in the open, but Trump said he didn’t know anything about it, so the sycophants believed him.

Are you kidding? Always dodge twice!

Oh please please please

Yeah, man, I get it. Language is complex. I’m not advocating for the reinvention of English, it was just a conversational observation about a silly quirk.

Do you think it’s a matter of choosing a complexity to care about?

I think in most cases where this administration seems to have a good idea it’s important to remember that it’s likely designed to keep them in power.

A national database that the trump admin controls will 100% be exploited for their own gain, just like every other aspect of government is being exploited for their gain now.