Black and white photography was cheaper than color all the way into the 90s. It was widely used.

Just the Swiss military showing off at an expo here, but I feel you on that. Half the time when I see war photos anymore I think “Jesus, they’re just kids.”

When I read history and compare it to ourselves, I can’t help but think we’re livestock that has been trained to be docile. At any other point in history, somebody would have murdered the worst offenders gleefully.

People in other points in history spent generation after generation living under much worse conditions without murdering their oppressors. Don’t romanticize the past.

So I’d assume ultra orthodox, from context, would be the most likely to be Zionist, based on the history of why Israel was created in the first place.

Israeli ultra-orthodox are kind of ambivalent about Zionism, despite living in Israel. Boy, do they hate non-Jewish minorities though.

“Surely the free market will fix this”

Kissinger can rest in piss.

It’s uh, definitely not a PRACTICAL gun. But some guns are made for the “Because we can” factor.

For the comic itself:

So, a derringer is a small pistol, usually with two shots, made for close-range self-defense. Normally they use, well, pistol rounds, like a 9mm, which has like, 700 joules of energy or someshit like that. When you fire a lightweight gun, you definitely get some kickback from it, even with a pistol round.

A 45-70 is a big-ass rifle round with something like 4000 joules of energy behind it. You uh, you put that in a little derringer and pull the trigger, both you and your target are gonna feel it.

This also might help put it into perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i89cMnfxXy0

For the comment, hardcast is a hardened bullet alloy (lead bullets are heavy but soft; alloying it with other metals makes it harder) for when you need to get through something thick, like a boar, or a human being’s entire fucking body. Not sure about thunderhead or CFA. 410 is a shotgun caliber. Dragon’s Breath is a fun little round that replaces the bullet with pyrotechnics, while flechettes spray you with these ugly little things.

A bolo round is apparently a bolo but fired from a gun. I’ve never heard of it before today but let me just say that I love the weird things people come up with.

You can fire it twice, but the guy only loaded one shot because he knew just once would be painful.

Ranked-choice voting has been implemented elsewhere. It reduces the incidence of ‘strategic voting’, where voters see that their preferred candidate is non-viable, and so vote for a candidate that they dislike (but less than the other leading candidate).

The point isn’t ‘quality of candidates’, which is highly subjective, but to more accurately reflect the will of the voters.

Pictured is a popular bracket amongst American sports fans, where they fill out predictions for winning teams, each time the matchup winnowing down the remaining teams by removing the loser.

This isn’t really much different than ranked-choice voting, except that ‘preference’ rather than ‘prediction’ is used.

Despite this, some people insist that ranked choice voting couldn’t work in the US because it’s ‘too complex’ for American voters, many of whom yearly do this similar and much more expansive process for the sheer fun of it.

In the other thread, someone posted this lovely video of someone firing this exact gun.

He’s clearly not some weedy kid firing a gun for the first time, but he’s visibly dreading the recoil. When he does fire it, it kicks up pretty high, and if he had a less firm grasp, he very well could have hit himself in the face with it (you hear of people breaking their noses or getting black eyes that way every once in a blue moon, firing a handgun they have no business handling). According to the description in the video, the guy later found out he got a stress fracture in his wrist.

Orthodontics were developed at that time, but I don’t know how widespread it was. Some people just have all the luck!

B-b-both sides

So, a derringer is a small pistol, usually with two shots, made for close-range self-defense. Normally they use, well, pistol rounds, like a 9mm, which has like, 700 joules of energy or someshit like that. When you fire a lightweight gun, you definitely get some kickback from it, even with a pistol round.

A 45-70 is a big-ass rifle round with something like 4000 joules of energy behind it. You uh, you put that in a little derringer and pull the trigger, both you and your target are gonna feel it.

This also might help put it into perspective

Okay, one might note a whole other topic of discussion there, but the point remains, tribalism and heirarchy are the root of all prejudice, and they weren’t invented by Portuguese slave traders.

That’s kind of what I’m getting at, man. Tribalism and hierarchy are related to racism, but calling all prejudices racism makes the term so broad as to be borderline useless. Racism, as we would recognize it, dates to the early modern period.

I think you’d need to put a lot of shots into the skirt to make the air loss significant enough to stop it.

Hey, I’m down for gun enthusiasts getting weird guns. It’s more environmentally friendly than a huge truck, that’s for sure.

Mostly I was just grabbing a pistol cartridge that I was vaguely familiar with to demonstrate the difference between a ‘normal’ round for a handgun and a 45-70.

That source poses a, uh, very curious look at race in the Medieval period.