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PS: And how could anyone in their right mind go against this little sweetie...? Omigosh... Little Miss Olga (also known as the Ukrainian "Witch"): https://www.businessinsider.com/witch-olga-bigar-ukraine-civilian-mortar-platoon-commander-bakhmut-2023-4

Republicans are compromised. Not 100%. But they are rampant with Putin Boot-Lickers. Based on Trump's 20-years boot-licking of Putin in search of some Trump Towers Moscow. Or a white supremacist love of Russia's all-white Christian fascism. How absolutely pathetic.

To whit: Patriots are smacking down Russian Hypersonic Missiles... as if they were nothing!!!

And it continues... 1992-2023... so far (so good).

Where do you get scared? It's called a Communism/ Fascism Smackdown. FYI.

Are you CELEBRATING THIS? I mean... seriously... just asking...

Yeah I wasn't commenting specifically on Miller's chances of getting to #5 as much as (1%? Probably... but then stranger things have happened so I don't want to completely rule him out... but most likely...): My interest in a SF-sized 3&D guy. I don't want an athlete that can't shoot. Or a PG that can't shoot. If we lost out on #1 my next target was Miller. But if Whitmore and Hendricks also fall into that bucket of "can hit the 3/ excellent spot-up shooter/ excellent defense", and maybe they're better defenders/ not quite as good a shooters as Miller which could still work, then those 3 are the guys I'm looking at. Maybe Weaver is correct that there's little difference between 3 to 8. On that... I can live with whoever falls to #5 and I won't sweat it if Miller ain't there. But I still hate mf'ing lotteries just like the Bubonic Plague... I don't give an "F" about tanking... but that's just me. I'm really getting annoyed over Detroit teams getting screwed in nearly every single lottery though...

So our options for a 3&D at the #5 spot are: Miller/ Whitmore/ Hendricks...? and at least one if not more than one will be available at #5. I guess we'll have to live with that.

I didn't state that he replaced 3,000 agents. Quit misrepresenting my posts. Or else find where I stated that specifically. He replaced all of his Secret Agents (purged) that were not loyal to him with loyal supporters. That does not say he replaced 3,000 agents. He has corrupted the Secret Service. That also does not state 3,000 agents were replaced by him. Corrupted enough that Biden took specific actions: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/31/joe-biden-secret-service-team-trump-loyalty PS: Tell me how Pence reacted to his Secret Service agents when they tried to get him into a car on Jan 6th? He absolutely trusted them, correct? Oh wait... they weren't CORRUPTED, were they?

What you quoted has nothing to do with bump stocks. I am speaking specifically about muzzle velocity and it's relationship to "battlefield" or "sonic" damage. Also called "stress cavity" as a result of the shock wave from the bullet. You disputed this (different conversation that we had a month or two ago...); let me know when you catch up here... Such a big difference that there were ONLY 500 casualties in Las Vegas. From ONE MAN/ shooter! Congratulations. 😖

I don't have to believe this, it's the truth. He purged his assigned Secret Service agents and replaced them with loyal supporters only, in the Secret Service. The culmination on Jan 6th...? This: https://www.newsweek.com/secret-service-ties-donald-trump-ring-alarm-bells-jan-6-revelations-1720584

It was MAGA so they let the dude pass through... Secret Service is compromised/ corrupted. Beginning with Trump's purge and recruitment of Trump supporters only in the SS.

The Tigers moved up in this years draft. Not the Wings or Pistons but...

Totally ****ed by the lottery. I F'ing HATE lotteries. Just in case I haven't mentioned that before...

Keith has added 120 points to his OPS tonight, so far... From .791 to .912

How about a medical study University of Utah: https://webpath.med.utah.edu/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINJ.html#:~:text=Wounding is an extremely complex,even under controlled test conditions. The higher the velocity of the bullet, the more kinetic energy, and the greater the temporary cavity size, which may be more than 10 times the caliber of the bullet... Rifle bullets generally have a high velocity >2000 feet per second (fps), or >609.6 meters per second (mps), while bullets fired from handguns more typically have lower velocity. Bullets that traverse tissue without deformation or tumbling impart less kinetic energy and are more likely to exit the body. Or do you want a US Governmental study on the "Physics and Biophysics of Wound Ballistics" repeating everything I just said above? https://medcoeckapwstorprd01.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/pfw-images/borden/conventional-warfare/Chap4Pages1-12.pdf I'm not certain what NRA PROPAGANDA Archie is going to cite to try and refute this... nor do I care. Just know that I KNOW that how, when and with WHAT, an attempt is made to refute these studies that they are propaganda BS, pure and simple.

Fragmentation is also a component of wound damage.. but is highly dependent on muzzle velocity. Too low a velocity drops the effectiveness of fragmentation wounding to almost nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56×45mm_NATO Fragmentation, if and when it occurs, imparts much greater damage to human tissue than bullet dimensions and velocities would suggest. This fragmentation effect is highly dependent on velocity, and therefore barrel length: short-barreled carbines generate less muzzle velocity and therefore lose wounding effectiveness at much shorter ranges than longer-barreled rifles. Here is the actual formula for kinetic energy (as you can see, Velocity is SQUARED... the higher the velocity, SQUARED, the MUCH HIGHER impact on kinetic energy than weight or anything else). Also, this is a forensics study that SPECIFICALLY talks about sonic damage ("shock wave") causing a larger stress cavity a point that I SPECIFICALLY made previously and Archie SPECIFICALLY refuted: https://www.whitemountainforensic.com/wound-ballistics-motion-effects-projectiles-human-body/ K.E. = W*V2/2g, where W = weight of the projectile V = velocity of the projectile g = gravitational acceleration What happens when a projectile impacts a human body? As the bullet enters the body it crushes and shreds tissue in its path – this creates a permanent cavity – the “bullet hole”. In addition, the energy of the impact is dissipated in a shock wave that radially flings surrounding tissue away from the path of the projectile, creating a cavity larger than the diameter of the bullet, this is the temporary stress cavity. The temporary stress cavity exists for around 5 to 10 milliseconds with a series of gradually smaller pulsations & contractions before the formation of a permanent wound track. The ultimate extent of the wound is determined by the kinetic energy on impact, extent of the temporary cavity and the amount of bullet fragmentation. Do you prefer a report on high velocity wound ballistics by the Police instead (this report attributes damage more to yaw than velocity, but yaw does not occur without the velocity, similar to fragmentation)? https://www.police1.com/police-products/firearms/articles/wound-ballistics-of-high-velocity-cartridges-3X2LZRf2FslJbLsF/ Wound ballistics of high-velocity cartridges The 5.56 x 45 mm cartridge fired from the M-16 rifle series (including the AR-15) is a 55 (or 62) grain bullet roughly three times the speed of modern handgun rounds. Dr. Vincent DiMaio, a renowned expert in wound ballistics, says ... that when a full metal jacketed 5.56/.223 round contacts human tissue it will travel along a circular path while beginning to yaw or turn sideways. This turning effect will become significant at 12 cm (approximately 4.7 inches). At the point of maximum yaw, the bullet will be turned at a 90-degree angle as it moves forward in the body. If the bullet remains intact, it will yaw to 180 degrees and continue to travel base first until it comes to rest. Handgun rounds do not yaw while traveling through human tissue. This turning or yaw effect releases tremendous kinetic energy into the tissue surrounding the permanent cavity created by direct bullet contact with human tissue. Not only is the permanent cavity larger due to the sideways path of the bullet, thereby destroying more tissue through direct bullet contact, but the surrounding tissue, i.e., tissue not directly touched by the bullet, is severely impacted as well. This surrounding tissue is called the temporary wound cavity. DiMaio reports that this temporary cavity will have a diameter from 11 to 12.5 times the diameter of the bullet itself. Damage to the tissue in the temporary cavity will include “severe…compression, stretching, and shearing of the displaced tissue. Injuries to blood vessels, nerves, or organs not struck by the bullet, and at a distance from the [bullet] path can occur.”

I have one additional point to clean up: A while ago, Archie and I got into an argument over muzzle velocity causing battlefield, or sonic, damage. I stated that high velocity weapons were developed to inflict greater wound damage, Archie called that bogus. I was in the Army. I don't know if Archie ever was in the military. I specifically worked with the M-16 rifle, designed SPECIFICALLY to be a lighter, lower caliber, higher velocity weapon than the M-4. I don't know where Archie is getting his answers on this... but I am guessing he is only reading NRA propaganda, and has absolutely no clue what he's actually talking about. Weapons designers SPECIFICALLY found out that lower caliber-higher velocity bullets caused more wound damage than higher caliber-lower velocity bullets: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/ Nearly a century before American troops were ordered into Vietnam, weapons designers had made a discovery in the science of “wound ballistics.” The discovery was that a small, fast-traveling bullet often did a great deal more damage than a larger round when fired into human or (for the experiments) animal flesh.

I'd look at the first few teams drafting immediately after us... within the top 4 I think. If we could get another asset (a young player), plus drop from #2 to 3 or 4, and still get a player Weaver wants... to me that's 1st choice. Now, granted, I have no clue how NBA draft trades work, especially within the top 6 picks or so... so I might be totally talking out my, umm, yeah. Maybe those trades are non-existent. But I'd be looking for some young 3&D guy to add to a top 4 draftee... if that's workable/ viable/ realistic. First choice IMO. I think that works within the top 4 or maybe even 5 (I don't know where the drop offs are this year)... but at 6 (trading up to 2) I'm asking for next year's 1st as well. Maybe that's too much... but I'm asking... I believe quality trumps quantity in the NBA by a monstrous margin and that's what NBA GM's both believe and operate on... that belief. So I'm asking outside of (I think) the top 4 for an overwhelming package. Also, on that basis... what package could we be offered for the #1 pick (if we are so fortunate) that is a trade "offer that just cannot be refused." ditto.

I can add one more: The 2017 Las Vegas Mass MURDER was done with bump stocks. 60 dead, 413 wounded. By ONE MAN. Without the bump stocks, casualties would have been drastically lower. A ban on bump stocks was put in place directly as a result of their use in the 2017 Las Vegas Mass MURDER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

Interesting concept. Although I don't think distance or location saves anyone from Putin's radioactive retribution if he so chooses it...

A bump stock causes the trigger (red) to be actuated when the receiver moves forward, being reset each round by receiver recoil. This allows semi-automatic firearms to somewhat mimic fully automatic weapons.

What does bump stocks mean? Bump stocks or bump fire stocks are gun stocks that can be used to assist in bump firing. Bump firing is the act of using the recoil of a semi-automatic firearm to fire ammunition cartridges in rapid succession. In effect, changing the actions of a semi-automatic into automatic firing actions.

Prigozhin is walking a fine line between self-aggrandizement and treason. A razor's edge... and I think he's on the verge of getting permanently sliced.

What he didn't tell anyone is that semi-automatics can be turned into an automatic with a bump stock and bump stocks sold like hotcakes when Trump was in power.