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You're playing with words. We have video of what happened.

Not playing with words. The 5.56mm bullet had around 1.8kJ of energy, mostly from velocity. Dumping even a fraction of that into human tissue can cause rather devastating effects, with additional effects from the pressure wave from traveling at supersonic speeds. It's not like in the movies or video games where just getting "winged" is not a big deal.

A small laceration from a piece of plastic that had been, uh, acutely accelerated in his direction makes a lot more sense.

This or getting cut when tackled/ducking really make the most sense and match the injury characteristics the most.

It's not like a video game where a glancing shot is going to send him spinning through the air like a top

Indeed. The only way that something like that is happening is the nervous system doing it (or tissue ejecting like JFK).

and rip his ear off.

Again, handgun, no, high-velocity rifle, pretty likely. The two act very differently when they contact tissue. An instantaneous transfer of even a fraction of 1.8kJ of energy to tissue is pretty devastating.

It is possible that he was hit but, the minute amount of contact needed to transfer enough energy from round as small as 5.56mm to cause a "cut" without any damage to the surrounding tissue is exceedingly unlikely. The fact that the medical records were not just withheld from the public but even investigators, after which he paraded around bragging about it really makes "he was hit by a bullet" the non-credible scenario.

The rounds used were high-velocity rifle, not handgun rounds. Were it a handgun round, it could be believable. The greater amount of kinetic velocity leads to much more devastating wounds, even with grazes. He may have been grazed by debris or indirectly by a fragment from a bullet that hit something else, but, that's not the claim.

Source: I've spent a significant amount of my life learning about firearms and I've been next to someone who was hit by a .45 ACP that ricocheted at a shooting range after hitting a rock about 15-20m away. He was hit solidly in the meaty bit of the shoulder at an almost straight-on, vertical angle. Not a graze. The round did not penetrate, fortunately. The wound had minor, superficial lacerations or tears radiating about 1.5x the round diameter and a bruise the size of an orange. Bleeding was easily stopped with a single gauze pad.

Why does that matter? Well, the wound experienced was similar, if not more significant and visible, considering it's a less vascular and bleed-y than an ear. A common .45 ACP FMJ round has about 1/4 the energy of a 5.56x45mm NATO round when it leaves the barrel. The reduction of velocity from the ricochet was extreme, likely below 200ft/s (60m/s), roughly 1/4 of initial velocity, but it still had enough energy to create a similar degree of wounding.

Kinetic energy (KE) is proportional to mass times the square of velocity, meaning that every time velocity doubles, KE quadruples. So, a .45 ACP round traveling at ~1/4 of its velocity posesses ~1/16 of its initial KE (supposing it didn't lose any mass, which it did). That makes it around 1/64th of the KE of the 5.56mm round. The likelihood of a 5.56mm round making little enough contact to transfer less than 1/64th of its energy into a ear, without the pressure wave impacting the surrounding tissue at all is not technically impossible but it is about on the scale of the chances of Ghandi not pulling out nukes in the original Civ.

Add to that the suppression of any medical evidence and it's a pretty clear picture.

When moving at supersonic velocities, barely nicking something is still enough to transfer enough energy into the ear to, at minimum, leave visible scarring, more likely, require reconstructive surgery.

This isn't Hollywood. A graze wound from a 5.56x45mm round at supersonic velocities doesn't leave a small, easily healed cut; it transfers a portion of the bullet's kinetic energy into the tissue, in a radiating pressure wave that tears, shatters, and emulsifies the surrounding tissue. Even the slightest amount of contact transfers enough energy to cause wounds that take a substantial amount of time to heal, even more so with an ear that is primarily cartilage, which doesn't, itself, heal.

A graze would have resulted in needing reconstructive surgery that would have taken months to heal and would have had visible bruising much longer than his ear bandage was worn. Graze from fragments or debris? Sure, that's a lot different than his claim. And it's at least equally likely that he cut his ear when tackled, which would be consistent with the seen wound as well as the lack of visible scarring or need for reconstructive surgery.

Epic signed a contract with the union stating that they would bargain (and then willfully violated it).

Intentional misunderstanding for comedic purposes. "Sub" doesn't have meaning on Lemmy, any more than it would on an old school phpBB forum. It's a reddit naming convention.

With the video game industry's history of unfair labor practices, the burden of proof for credibility that this did not violate contract is on Epic.

My argument is that the LLM is just a tool. It's up to the person that used that tool to check for copyright infringement. Not the maker of the tool.

Build an inkjet printer exclusively out of stolen parts from HP, Brother, and Epson and marketed as being so good that experts can't differentiate what they print from legal currency (except sometimes it adds cartoonish moustaches). Start selling it in retail stores alongside them. They would battery be announced, much less stocked on the shelves before C&D letters and/or arrest warrants arrived.

I remember reading an article from a few years ago a cop brought a handgun into the room after ignoring staff warnings... Then, hit the quench button.

EDIT: it was last year. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-officer-lost-gun-in-mri-machine-during-mistargeted-raid-report-says/

There's a comm on lemmynsfw, if you're interested in subs.

Seasoned Linux users i don't even recommend it unless they have basic programming skills.

I've been using Linux about a decade and a half, and programming for almost twice that. I really just don't like the Nix language (or DSLs altogether). I also had a poor experience with my first test of NixOS, by the docs, having not configured my networking stack, in making it impossible to fix without booting back to the live USB.

For people that do like the syntax and don't mind DSLs, it's pretty great and it's excellent that the ideas have been propagating elsewhere. I love the concepts but not the implementation.

I think I understand my feelings most of the time

I thought I did too but just had trouble communicating them. It turned out that I had overestimated my comprehension. Practice has helped me a lot.

but I do have difficulty controlling them.

Something that I'd caution is that framing altogether. Emotion is part of our experience as humans and an integral part of our consciousness. Controlling our emotions (with exception of those with conditions like Bipolar PD that need help with emotional stability) is not the best goal. Emotions are important, involuntary, and frequently serve evolutionary purposes.

The more healthy way to look at it is addressing how we react when we experience our emotions. That is something that we do have control over. Those of us with ADHD often have trouble with emotional dysregulation (kind of a misnomer, IMO, as it is more about managing reaction to experienced emotions), which makes it more of a challenge. It is still possible though with practice (and accepting that failure is part of the process).

Thanks for the very comprehensive answer internet stranger, I appreciate it.

You're very welcome. If I've helped yourself or anyone else in the slightest, I am delighted.

This is true. It can be done but would require functionality not included in stock Ansible.

I'd say, from my experience with Ansible, that it can absolutely do all of that. Might be able to use a single task for the package install, if the distro supports the generic package module. There's also a pamd module that would likely cover your needs there. If not, it would still be possible with a custom module or some Xinfile fuckery (if it can be fine programmatically, it can be done in Ansible, more niche things may require writing code, however).

It would not be as terse though. Really wish there was a good middle ground.

Terrible. Unless you like Haskell, DSLs, and the like.

That said, America didn't seem to always been fucked - surely there was a post war period up until the late 70s were for most things were pretty good (certainly as a kid I used to look up to that America), though with the caveat that it was only true if one wasn't an Afro-American.

About that...after WWII, the US fought two major proxy wars with the USSR, including the Vietnam War, which had the "bonus" of being partly motivated by France being unable to secure colonial rule, as well as other "bonuses" like heavily documented crimes against humanity and, domestically, events like the May 4th, 1970 Kent State Massacre, where national guardsmen were dispatched to disperse a 2000 student peaceful protest, leading to the murder of 4 unarmed students and injury of 9 more, when they began firing indiscriminately into the crowd. Extra "double-bonus" of charges against the 8 indicted being dismissed by a judge and none of the victims or their families receiving anything in the way of meaningful compensation (civil damages were ultimately reduced to legal costs, despite the finding that the killings were unjustified and illegal).

And that's just the tinniest slice of this shithole's history that has been largely papered over with propaganda boosting the myth of the US being the "shining city on a hill" and champion of democracy. Don't even get me started on the US treatment of South and Central America throughout its history.

Absolutely. I'm happy that people have options.

Related to the image, not the article: I find the asymmetrical thumbstick layout to be terrible, ergonomically - the layout on the Switch sometimes causes me physical pain. I'm very glad that Valve didn't go that way.