I made another comment but my guess is the image in the meme is roughly Gulf War era… I’ve not been in the military but I don’t think ACOGs became a thing that was basically standard issue untill… well even before you went to boot in 09.
I’m thinking this picture was taken some time in the 90s, probably, maybe early 00s, is what I’m trying to say.
I think the used picture is even older than the meme itself, my guess would be that it is from roughly the Gulf War era.
And I know a buo engineered half human half angel thing who prefers .45 Long Colt…
… but also prefers to never use it to kill.
Give the GEP Gun.
Never know when you need to make a silent take down.
Yeah, this rule really irked me.
This is… its an older meme, motivational poster format, wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was made by a gung ho Gulf War vet either before or not long after Iraq 2 Electric Boogaloo commenced, drenched in Americana gun culture pride.
There are plently of pistol rounds other than .45 ACP that are quite good in combat scenarios, most at this point would probably agree that having more 9mm over less .45 is preferable, otherwise 2011s wouldn’t even be a thing.
Also: its less common, but uh… 5.7?
5.7 is actually more likely to pen body armor, than a 9mm or a .45, if your scenario is you’re fighting against other people with body armor.
And you can make a double stack magazine with it.
And there are a fair number of Police, Intelligence, Military organizations that use the FiveSeven regularly.
And… there are now even a growing number of hunters who will tell you that some kind of pistol in 5.7 is their backup, in case of something big ambushing them.
357 is of course very powerful, but they’re also huge rounds in comparison to .45 or 9m… kinda hard to fit into a semi-auto pistol.
Unless you wanna talk about the .357 SIG.
… but we don’t talk about the .357 SIG …
I’ve never been to Germany, but… I am glad that at least somebody, some people agree with me.
I’ve worn a fanny pack like that before, sort of like a very small messenger bag, but roughly over one side of my chest… it was a social faux pas, for some reason, despite being incredibly practical.
I mean… its worse than that.
Its definitive proof that we live in an anti-meritocratic society, that is ruled by nepotism and violent and dangerous sociopaths.
Yes, its violence if it goes through a complex system for the violence to happen, is done indirectly.
So yeah, our lives are ruled (and ruined) by utterly incompetent dangerous sociopaths, who will gleefully destroy the entire economy because… they like buzzwords and feeling like they are smart.
We either need to kill these people, or they will kill all of us, just give it a decade.
Personally I’m on Team Satchel, Team Messenger Bag… and also unironically think fanny packs should come back.
But yes. Mobile storage compartments that are wearable?
Pretty good idea, generally.
While we’re at it: GIVE WOMENS PANTS REAL POCKETS
Interesting!
Would you know where to find just the average/median income of a household, instead of an individual?
That would be closer to the same rough math I’m doing with the US figures.
If you were to try to set this up for another scenario, not a family of 4, but say, a single mom or dad with one kid, well then all the numbers change significantly.
And yeah, the … the whole mess of it is… who actually qualifies for what actual benefits, at what income levels?
A huge problem with the way the US is set up (the article goes into this) is that basically you end up with multiple glass ceilings that you have to break through.
You have to increase your income by substantial, not incremental amounts, for the net income gain to actually offset the benefits you now lose from only slightly breaching some income threshold.
So the whole system actually functions to disincentivize or punish people who… ‘succeed’ more… but not enough more.
Now, take that as your base scenario, and now… you tell me:
How much debt does it make sense for you to go into, to get a college degree, that… may or may not actually result in you either… staying at the same income level, only slightly breaching some threshold/glass ceiling, or perhaps, substantially breaching that threshold/glass ceiling?
Yeah.
…yeah.
Thats how bad it is.
I guess now maybe you better understand … why I am attempting to describe and convey … how bad it actually is and likely would get if things went ‘hot’ in terms of active armed resistance.
So hey, there, what caused this, how did we get here?
Full answer is complicated, but big parts of the answer are: vanity, selfishness, convenience, complacency, ignorance, normalcy bias.
Yeah, those are holodomor / holocaust numbers.
Thats how fucking bad this is.
I can’t really think of much to add to that… you and I seem to very much be on the same wavelength.
Oh, I guess I can update some of your numbers.
I used to be the data analyst / db admin for a large non profit of homeless shelters.
The PIT counts, the numbers we use as our ‘total homeless’ count basis?
They’re bullshit, the methodology is garbage, and the way its … attempted to be implemented is also garbage.
I was at one point able to compare our much more detailed data set of … need, number of people calling in basically, for some kind of help, vs how many we actually could help, or redirect to another non prof or something to get help… vs the PIT numbers for our area.
Long story short, a few years back, you needed to multiply the PIT by roughly 3x to 5x, to get an actual accurate number.
Carry that forward to now, the economic devastation that is occuring?
We are currently looking at somewhere in the ballpark of 5 to 10 million people homeless for at least 3 consecutive months, where homeless is defined as: you do not actually live at a location that you can recieve mail at, or you live in a homeless shelter, or you have been couch surfing (you’re living somewhere you aren’t on the lease for) for at least 3 months.
There are so many people who live in cars or RVs… because it used to be legal to do that. After the Grants Pass decision, it basically isn’t anymore, anywhere in the US. So your ‘home’ can and will be impounded and you will become ‘fully’ homeless.
Living on the streets is now also just actually illegal in basically all of the US. Everytime you hear a cop say that some encampment was contacted and offered support services before they cleared the encampment?
What that means is the cops gave people the numbers of shelters that are compmetely full and have no excess capacity.
Hows that for spin phrasing, eh? Makes the people in the encampment seem voluntarily noncompliant, when the truth is the cops gave them either utterly useless advice, or commands that are impossible to follow, depending on how you wanna look at it.
So yeah. 5 to 10 million people are homeless right now, thats gonna get worse, and a significant proportion of those people die from exposure, starvation, disease, develop a drug addiction, die from that, or just fun ole fashioned physical violence.
And, last I checked, its basically 60% of Americans right now, who if they missed a one paycheck, or had one $500+ sudden expense, well they’d have to go (even further) into debt for that, so basically 60% of the country is one bad day away from a fuse that lights and then blows up 3 to 12 months later in a debt death spiral, now they’re also homeless.
They’ll likely end up in the DHS/ICE/FEMA gulag archipelago that’s been hastily built to handle all the deportations, or basically its cousin or some specific subsection of it.
Oh well I mean, I’m sorry I don’t have the relevant data for… every country on earth, my bad.
What do those numbers look like for Chile?
EDIT:
… Also… Millenials and Gen Z are US-centric terms.
Their etymylogical origin derives from describing generations within the US.
What other country on earth has a mass shooting epidemic, predatory student loans and college costs crisis?
I think its reasonable to respond to a comic made by someone from the Los Angeles, that references US issues… with data relevant to the US.
Oh, we did that, remember Bernie Sanders?
How did that go?
Oh, the Boomer dominated DNC ratfucked 'im.
…Now it wouldn’t be the case that a Boomer would give out of touch, provably useless advice, now would it?
No no no, they always know exactly what everyone else should be doing.
Ok, now do the average age of congresspeople, governors, the president, supreme court justices.
For House Reps its ~58, Senators ~64.
Voting, for most of Millenial’s lifetimes, and all of Gen Z’s lifetimes, has basically been broken, in terms of being actually representative, due to pervasive and worsening gerrymandering.
And voting is now about to become truly and utterly pointless, after Trump cancels or rigs the midterms, as he has more than once now said he would like to do.
So what you actually mean is that uh, we now have to conduct a revolution.
Against the Boomers, who are still running everything.
The Boomers, Trump’s most reliable voting age-block.
The Boomers, who have been… the age of the average home buyer, for the last ~20 years.
(Meaning that the housing market has been dominated by and rigged in favor of Boomers for their entire adult lives)
The Boomers, the wealthiest generation, with the most money to throw at companies and politicians that they like, in a country that has been an overt oligarchy for over a decade, and has always been a functional oligarchy, where money has a much stronger correlation to passed laws and policy changes than popular support does.
… The Boomers are going to go down in history as the spoiled brats who destroyed the country, and possibly the world, thanks to their climate change denial.
We will be blaming ya’ll long after you are dead, because … sometimes… you can only fix a problem via reform within a certain time window, and if you miss that time window, well now its more like trying to unbreak an egg.
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie
tl:dr; to actually afford the bare minimum costs of living in the US, the average family of 4 needs an income of of ~140k.
https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentiles/
Only the top ~29% of households in the US have that much income.
So uh, basically, 7/10ths chance the answer to the question is:
No, not unless you want to raise kids you can’t actually afford to raise, provide with a decent childhood.
How to amputate your digits / hand, with extra steps.
“OP discovers quaternions.”
How do you solve gimbal lock?
3Vector Math / Matrix Algebra?
Nonsense rotational transforms?
You do nonsense harder.
Imaginary 4th Dimension, harder.
Shut up, don’t think about it, yes it will work if you don’t think about it.
… I guess that makes it like, the opposite of Orc Wauuugh or whatever?
Oh I also don’t disagree with the implication(s) of your question there.
This is a do or die moment, a hinge point or era of history.
I am just trying to make very clear that… now that we, collectively, have allowed the situation to get to the point it is now at?
Well now, instead of removing a small tumor or two, a bit of chemo maybe… now we’re at stage 4, its likely terminal, and none of the options are good, easy, muchless guaranteed to work.
Changing the situation, solving the problem… is now simply unavoidably going to be extremely costly, in ways that… probably most people who regularly post on internet forums think they understand, think they are or could be ready for… but in reality they likely are not.
Reading about the horrors of a civil war, watching a documentary or movie or reading a book about it, … that’s one thing.
Living it is quite another.
… do you really wanna live forever?
… can you handle anyone or everyone you know, essentially randomly dying?
People are gonna actually have to answer those questions, at least to themselves, honestly.
And our culture is primarily one of consumerist escapism… so this is going to cause even more existential crises and psychoses than we have seen so far.
We’re gonna see a lot of people’s true colors.
A lot of people simply will not be able to cope, they’ll implode, collapse in on themselves, or maybe explode outwardly.
And then, after that, we’ll have to see how many people are actually any kind of competent and effective, at living, at resisting… after all the toys and treats go away.
MicroSlop:
It’s not your computer, it’s our computer.
[followed by Bible length TOS]
Oh, fuck you’re completely right.
I somehow totally glossed over the digi cam.
… In my defense, I did not have my glasses on, and… well, the camo worked.
Fuck.
Ok, ok so… by your uh, constraints, this would have been basically more like mid 00s?
04 or later, but… prior to 09?
And, by old deserts… you mean the ole ‘chocolate chip camo’?
… I guess if you’re willing to induldge my mil-nerd questioning… do you know if the Army and Marines are mostly swapped over to some variant of MultiCam now?
Or does the digi stuff still exist in large numbers?
… Or am I just wildly off base with that line of questions?