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  • mobotsar@sh.itjust.workstoFunny@sh.itjust.worksThe Rent Reducer 9000
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    3 days ago

    Shooting actually straight up is very safe, at least for people on the ground. The terminal velocity of a bullet is fast enough to make you say “ouch”, but not much else.

    Problems can arise if you’re shooting up-ish, but shooting straight up means the bullet has zero velocity relative to its origin at the apex, so the only speed it has from that point forward is imparted by gravity and wind, pretty much.

    The image is of a starter pistol, though.
















  • you can’t amass that type of wealth without . . .

    Sure, but that’s not for being billionaires; that’s for what they did to become billionaires and perhaps for what they are (or are not) doing to maintain their status.

    Leftist messaging is plagued by the fact that what what is said literally is often something obviously wrong or stupid which is supposed to stand in (by convention, I suppose) for the point that is “actually” being made.

    It makes dismissing leftist messages pretty appealingly mechanical for those who are opposed or even just unfamiliar – they need only point out the obvious way in which the literal meaning of the actual words the leftist has said is wrong or stupid. You can’t fault much the latter sort of person here, because there’s really not any indication that you don’t just wholesale believe the stupid thing you said.

    It’s a critical problem that’s had a crippling impact on the acceptance of leftist movements in the United States. So it’s best to say what you mean. It really helps.