He was not wearing body armor.

To cause a straight-on shot from a 30.06 or a 5.56 from 150 yards to deflect, at that extreme of an angle, into his neck, externally, he would have had to be wearing plate armor.

Plate armor carriers are quite bulky and noticable.

They would be obviously visible, under a form fitting T Shirt.

There are tons of pics and video of Kirk that day, bending in different directions… at no point does he appear to be wearing a plate carrier under his shirt.

Kevlar or a more flexible kind of armor would not have deflected such a straight-on shot, it would have ‘caught’ it, or just slowed it down and spread some of the impact energy over the rest of his chest, while ultimately failing to stop the bullet from penetrating into him… at the point of impact, which would have left him with a chest/waist entry wound, which does not match the autopsy at all.

Either a straight-on shot to kevlar or plate would have caused brusing and/or fractures to his chest, whether the scenario is deflection or penetration.

Those were not indicated by the autopsy.

If he had been wearing body armor, been shot from the front, and the bullet then ricocheted into his neck…

The shirt would have a hole or tear or at least abrasion damage of some kind where the initial impact happened.

It does not.

He had a backup lapel mic above his right pectoral, which was magnetically attached under his shirt, which then had a wire going across his chest, to a powerbank/transciever on his left side.

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/viral-conspiracy-theory-about-charlie-kirks-death-is-false/

The deformation of his shirt was a result of the impact of the round hitting him, causing him to jolt, which knocked off the lapel mic, which tugged on the wire under his shirt.

Kirk wearing the lapel mic at another event:

The visible backup lapel mic above his right pec, immediately prior to being shot:

Well they tried to order a sausage link first, but the only ones that Arby’s had were just those little dinky ones.

Sorry I should have clarified that I meant that at the range of the Kirk shot, roughly 150 yards, a 30.06 has approximately an order or magnitude more kinetic emergy than a 5.56.

Roughly 900 ft-lbs vs roughly 2150 ft-lbs.

Thats another 0, aka, another order of magnitude.

And I stand by a 30.06 at 500 yards having enough KE to shatter a Moose femur.

I guess my point is that this is but a stepping stone to perhaps a better systemic way of trying to understand things…

… or, perhaps the fact that you have to keep complexifying and expanding on the original concept and giving it caveats and special cases… means that some other kind of fundamental approach would be superior.

Do you not think the person arrested for this is the killer?

Correct.

I think he was/is a patsy.

I think he did take a weapon, on that day, to the spot he was at… but he cannot have fired the shot that hit Kirk, from that location, with a 30.06.

Also… there is inconsistency about the entire timeline of where he was when, what he did with the weapon, and even what weapon we are even talking about.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Trp2oAltsj0

Did he… dissassemble it, and then reassemble it, and then go to the location, and then disassemble it, run and jump off the roof, and then reassemble it, and then hide it?

That doesn’t make sense.

The FBI said that he wrapped up the gun in a towel or blanket, and hid it and planned to retrieve it later.

But … the picture of the supposed recovered firearm … is not wrapped in anything, its … in a cardboard box.

The optic is mounted so poorly that it would probably be an overall detriment to making the shot it supposedly made.

So did he… hastily reassemble a weapon he intended to hide, poorly, for some reason?

And did he wrap it up, or put it in a box?

Theres also a … lot of doubt that the correspondence between the shooter/patsy and his ‘boyfriend’, from the day itself is actually real, it uses highly unrealistic language.

You’ve got the weird older crazy guy who loudly announced he was the shooter, but… he wasn’t.

But he also said the point of him doing that was to allow the actual shooter to escape.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e1jx0p5jo

A 71-year-old man who was briefly detained moments after the assassination of Charlie Kirk tried to help the suspected gunman escape by faking a confession, authorities say.

Utah County Sheriff Michael Smith said George Zinn admitted to police that he had “yelled that he was the shooter to allow the actual suspect to flee”.

…

Mr Zinn “intentionally yelled he was the shooter and by doing so, obstructed Law Enforcement from focusing on the actual shooter”, the sheriff said in a statement.

Court documents filed by campus police allege that Mr Zinn began shouting: “I shot him - now shoot me.”

…

Mr Zinn is well known among organisers of public events in Salt Lake City, the New York Times reported. “He showed up frequently to public forums with the intention to disrupt the event or question a high-profile speaker,” it said.

He also has a long history of minor crimes, including an arrest in 2013 for sending a threatening email to the hosts of the Salt Lake City Marathon just days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the newspaper wrote.

I mean, I can’t prove this, but if there ever was a plant, a paid agitator, a ‘crisis actor’… this is what it would look like.

I think the kid genuinely did plan and intend to kill Kirk… and that other people knew about this, and essentially shadowed him.

Palantir? Discord?

Oh, yeah, turns out all that shit’s monitored and catalogued in real time.

So, shadow the kid with a crew.

If the kid was gonna do it, great, he did it, mission accomplished.

If not, well, shooter 2 will pull the trigger if patsy wusses out, and then patsy takes the blame.

And I think scenario 2 is what happened there.

Who all, specifically, is involved in scenario 2?

Well, I don’t know all the exact names, but Kash Patel is one of them, you know, Captain Coverup, some of the others would have to be close to Kirk.

All of this, this is all speculation.

As I said, I know what a gun can and can’t do, the rest of this is a fucking mess.

Games that I am working on in my spare time, haven’t finished yet due to spending the last 2 years recovering from becoming homeless amd becoming greivously injured.

Mods for Garrys Mod that don’t exist as I originally made them anymore, because Garry deleted the entire FacePunch forums…

But, if you play with any reasonably advanced SWEP bases… pretty good chance they’re based off of the bones of what I made 20 years ago.

You’re of course free to not believe any of that, but you could also maybe try an actually go through and check the math that I’ve already done.

Its not that hard for a non crippled person to search through a user’s comments.

It is on the other hand quite painful for a crippled person who has been doing nothing other than Physical Therapy for the last year as a full time occupation to keep trifling with MachismoGrande.

while I sorta doubt you did the “math on the physics”

As I said, look through my comment history.

.30-06 as 30.06, as one of those doesn’t exist, as far as I’m aware.

Oh my god, I made a formatting typo, therefore I am wrong.

but stating, factually, that there is “zero chance” of the bullet embedding in the collarbone, is pretty irresponsible.

Not it isn’t, because I am correct, about a 30 awktua 06, from the range it was fired from, impacting Kirk at the angle it did.

You must I guess not be aware or how the intial reports from before the autopsy was fully done/released were that Charlie Kirk must have just had literally superhuman bone strength.

https://www.totalprosports.com/general/surgeon-makes-miracle-claim-after-operating-on-charlie-kirk-everyone-doubts/

Kolvet claimed a doctor told him Kirk’s “incredibly dense bone” stopped a high-powered round that entered his neck during the September 10 shooting at Utah Valley University.

“It was an absolute miracle that someone else didn’t get killed. It should have gone through. It likely would have killed those standing behind him too,” Kolvet quoted the surgeon as saying. Instead, the bullet lodged beneath the skin. He added that Kirk’s body prevented it from striking people standing behind him.

“Even in death, Charlie managed to save the lives of those around him,” Kolvet wrote.

This is, as we say, fucking obvious horseshit.

You of course don’t know about this, because you have not done any research into the actual Kirk assassination whatsoever.

There are many, many more things that involved people said, elements of the supposed story of how Kirk got got… that do line up, that do not make sense, that are inconsistent.

I’m not confident enough to say ‘Israel killed Kirk’ because I have not yet seen conclusive evidence of that.

But I am confident enough to say that the official FBI story is full of obvious holes, say what I said about the 30000000.6, that this all stinks to high heaven.

there are a multitude of other things that need to be accounted for in ballistics analysis, which even then can be misinterpreted.

You could go look through my comment history to see doing that, or, you can just assume I didn’t.

I’ve designed entire realistic ballistic physics models for games and mods, I’ve shot firearms, I’m one of the ‘realism purists’ when it comes to tactical shooters, I taught myself coding and vector algebra as a teenager literally to solve this ‘problem’ that I thought most games of the time were being too ‘lazy’ about.

I’ve made ballistic models that will figure out likely penetration/ricochet/splatter apart impact angles, when a bullet of various speeds and itself being made of different materials, in different configurations (FMJ, HP, etc), impacts against different materials, which are themselves layered volumetrically.

You don’t need anywhere near that level of real world physical fidelity to be able to confidently state what I stated. Its rather trivial.

Good, but realize there are two people, each with their own idea of which part of this diagram applies to their relationship with the other person.

P1: Love + Sex

P2: Friendship + Sex

---

Situationship?

P1: Love + Friendship + Sex

P2: Friendship + Sex

---

Unrequited Romantic Love for P1.

‘Its not that serious’ for P2.

And then this gets even more complicated when you try to account for just sexual attraction, desire to have sex with the other, but not having actually had sex yet, as a variable for both parties.

P1: Friendship

P2: Love + Desire for Sex

---

Clueless ‘Friend’ for P1

Limerence/Infatuation for P2

P1: Friendship + Love

P2: Friendship + Love + Desire for Sex

---

… Greek Tragedy.

And and, this is just for monogamous couples or pairings and doesn’t well describe polyamory, cucks, cheaters, swingers, etc.

And and and, as Macchi the Slime points out, this also is inadequate to describe asexuals aces, for whom both P1 and P2 sharing Friendship and Love constitutes a full couple relationship, potentially a perfect match, or where an ace paired with a non ace can follow different dynamics/rules.

And and and and… people have different definitions of what constitutes ‘Friendship’ and ‘Love’, and, those definitions may change overtime, and, people may change whether or not they consider the other person a Friend or a Lover as time goes on.

In conclusion, nice try cartoon cat, humans are unfortunately considerably more complicated than that.

Candace thinks Israel killed Charlie Kirk.

Because Kirk had reportedly refused to keep taking money from a prominent Israeli donor, and didn’t want to keep being so pro-Zionist.

Frankly, I don’t actually think that’s totally impossible, though its far from conclusively proven.

However, if you know anything about guns or ballistics… the scenario that has thus far been presented by the FBI as to the kind of weapon that shot Kirk and the angle and distance he was shot from…

Its completely impossible, and does not align with the evidence on the scene.

If Kirk had been shot from basically the front, by a 30.06, in the neck, it would have blown half of his neck off, there would have been a massive back blast of viscera behind him, not the popped geyser of blood from a broadly intact neck that we saw.

What the actual wounds from the autopsy point toward is that roughly a 5.56 round from Kirk’s above and right, entered his upper neck on the right side, traversed around and through various parts of his neck, untill it ended up severing the corotid artery on his right (EDIT) left side and lodging most of itself into his left collar bone.

That bullet trajectory actually matches the specific injuries from the autopsy, and the video evidence.

A 30.06 from roughly 150 yards away, from the front… would have zero chance of embedding itself into a collar bone.

It would detonate it, shatter it, blow it apart.

A 30.06 from 500 yards away will shatter the femur of a moose… there’s an order of magnitude more kinetic energy in a 30.06 than a 5.56 round.

You can run all the math on the physics of this yourself if you doubt it. I’ve already done it, search through my comment history if you want to see it.

If your instinct here to just instantly defer to the official story:

Who do you trust more?

Random internet person?

Or Kash Patel, the guy who perjured himself repeatedly in order to hide and delay the release of the Epstein files?

Brother, you’re tensing up the wrong region if that’s your concern.

Just assert dominance.

There’s a reason that nearly every ancient culture has an erect member as a fairly prominent element of their cultural symbolism.

… Because men and women have differently scaled and proportioned pelvises, slightly different configurations of muscles layered over and anchored to the pelvis, significantly differently configured pelvic floor regions, as well as different propensities to store fat in different areas.

This leads to slightly different standing postures between the two primary sexes, which further introduces subtle shape differences to an ass, due to different muscle groups tending to be developed to slightly different amounts.

Seriously, they look different because sexual dimorphism is a thing, the anatomy is actually slightly different.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say… you’d know that, at least generally, if you’d seen a reasonable amount of differently sexed butts.

No, it doesn’t, because, you used ‘embraced’ when the it would be more accurate to say that Dorsey started and oversaw the development of BlueSky.

Hitler didn’t go fully nuts into megalomaniacal monument planning, overuling his generals, micromanaging superweapon projects, untill … what, 1942ish?

Hitler embraced the autobahn, he didn’t oversee it as an involved executive, he appointed Fritz Todt to make actual decisions and lead the project.

He also didn’t invent it or found it. It was a thing that already existed, that he thought was a good idea, despite himself having really nothing to do with its early development.

(also just ‘holy shit’ at immediately jumping to literally Hitler as a comparison. I don’t even have that much smoke for Dorsey, sheesh)

Dorsey, on the other hand, started BlueSky, and ran BlueSky the way all VC/‘Angel Investors’ run their projects: You can’t really say no to them, what they say is basically understood to be what you do… or, they leave, as Dorsey eventually did.

He was obviously frustrated that he was not being listened to, on this project that he set up.

You can’t be frustrated that people aren’t listening to you if you’re not saying things, giving guidance, suggesting policies… that people are disregarding.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twiiter-nostr-interview-2024-5

Very early in Twitter’s history, Dorsey imagined that Twitter could be an open-source protocol that wasn’t controlled by anyone, instead of a venture-backed, for-profit company. But that didn’t happen. And later on, when Dorsey got frustrated while running the for-profit version of Twitter, he imagined that Twitter could help start an independent, open-source protocol version of itself — Bluesky.

But then — in Dorsey’s telling — he got frustrated that Bluesky was doing things like the old Twitter. Things like raising money, and moderating what happened on its platform, and having a board. Which Dorsey was on.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/jack-dorsey-reveals-why-he-left-bluesky-deleted-account/473992

Key Takeaways

Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter, now X, and later founded and funded an X rival, Bluesky.

He left the Bluesky board on Saturday and announced it on X.

Dorsey explained that the trouble started when Bluesky started moderating content.

I really have no idea how anyone can pretend that BlueSky wasn’t Dorsey’s idea, his project, his baby.

Oh wait, no, I know.

If thing becomes bad, then person I like wasn’t actually involved with it that much, therefore person I like is not bad.

… Either that or bro is high as balls on catnip.

That hurt my brain to read, but I think, basically yes.

Its a cabal of mostly vertically integrated companies vs basically a horizontal monopoly that gatekeeps all of them, that’d they’ve all tried and failed or are currently failing to break through.

And yeah, petulant publishers does sound like a match to me.

Its basically mob tactics, just higher class.

Find your nearest cat cafe, introduce a ‘business proposal’.

Actually just made some comments elsewhere on lemmy about that lol.

As a Deck haver/user:

Steam Input

Added missing buttons to Mode Shift Button selection menu: Left Stick Touch and Right Stick Touch

Button Chord Activator’s drop down list of available buttons has been replaced with a multi button selector. This means that newer controllers have full access to extra grip buttons that were previously unlisted.

Gyro to Joystick Camera’s Minimum Joystick Output now matches Gyro to Joystick Deflection’s behavior, which is useful for identifying a game’s internal joystick deadzone.

Improved input latency while controller rumble is happening on third party controllers.

Added option to apply Gyro to Joystick Deflection range remapping and acceleration settings on an Per-Axis or Circular basis.

Fixed a bug in Gyro To Joystick Deflection mode where a setting of 0 for Minimum Gyro Deflection, and any non zero Minimum Joystick Output would still result in zero output without a significant amount of gyro deflection. This should help gyro users to dial in games’ internal joystick dead zone size more easily.

… I had, for months, been trying to tweak most of these exact things, and thought I was going insane, as nobody I could find anywhere online discussing this kind of stuff seemed to even be aware of these problems.

So its nice to know that I am not insane, and that these things have been fixed.

… but that only makes sense if you genuienly believe that Rockstar and/or EA have less cash than Valve, and/or Rockstar and EA never had their own relevant liscensing agreements.

I may be wrong, but as best I can tell, there is no precedent in UK law for a platform/retailer being found liable under the cited Section 20, unless the content being distributed/retransmitted/sold itself did not have proper liscensing arrangements, and it can be proven that the platform/retailer/retransmitter knew that to be the case.

I kind of find it unlikely that Rockstar and EA did/do not have liscensing agreements in place.

My theory?

The entire Publically Traded gaming world seems to be mobilizing and coordinating efforts to get every kind of secondary organization they are connected to, to sue Valve, right now.

Because they are all financially imploding, and they’re trying to do as much damage as possible to Valve, who isn’t a part of their club, as a means of trying to level the playing field.

All these people on the boards of top gaming companies… are also on the boards of other top gaming companies, they know each other, they have people and contacts who sit in all the gaming industry lobbying groups, and the astroturf fake ‘gamer advocacy’ groups, in the IP rights groups, etc etc.

Yeah, this… doesn’t really make sense, unless the goal is to get Steam to adopt a policy of delisting the specific offending games in the UK.

I am not a lawyer, but… this seems spurrious?

I don’t know, I can’t find a single example of a platform or ‘retransmitter’ being successfully ruled against, in cases where the content itself already had worked out a rights/royalties agreement with the rights holders… unless it can basically be proven that the platform operators / retailers knew that the content itself was not properly liscensed, and sold it anyway.

So basically they would have to prove that Rockstar and EA never had the proper liscensing, and also that Valve knew that.

I am going to go out on a limb and say that Rockstar and EA probably did/do have the proper liscensing.

That being said, the UK leaving the EU… makes all of this exceptionally confusing to my layman self, as to the exact current standards and precedents that are currently in play and relevant.

Aka, money is more important than challenging people to think, so, pander to morons and make more money.