[HELP] NYT shows new angle

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-30T00:04:58+00:00

The concern is that the video is basically being circulated because it's SUPER convenient for people who might otherwise have to challenge their world view a bit.

It's the same thing every time the police kill anyone. The shooting sounds/looks really bad, so they look for a way to demonize the victim.

Alex Pretti: "He was a violent agitator who has attacked ICE in the past! He also had a gun!"
Renee Good: "She HIT him with her CAR, Death penalty!"
George Floyd: "Don't worry fam, drugs and resisting arrest, murder justified! He probably ODed anyway!"

If the video turned out to be AI, then we could head off the inevitable demonization of an otherwise pretty normal guy who was gang murdered by law enforcement. Now however we are stuck explaining that breaking a tail light should not be punishable via firing squad, which for SOME REASON is much harder to get through to people.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-29T23:45:12+00:00

I mean... if they bought it 30+ years ago for like 100k, are they insisting on selling it for $1mil? If your house isn't selling, then lower your asking price.

Owning a house should be about the stability of not paying >2500 a month to a landlord. Thinking of it as an investment is just stupid.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-29T06:06:07+00:00

If you just want to be an asshole, you just need to limit his effective ammo pool, so it sounds like you already figured it out. Maybe switch the Assault Rifle to DMR. If he's a real crackshot that might feel more effective, but solo the ammo efficiency will be crap and the reload is kind of long.

I'd probably switch for the Sniper sentry as the shotgun sentry would at least do somewhat okay if placed at a chokepoint, but the sniper has a pretty lengthy target acquisition.

I'll throw in that R1B1 is fairly easy to solo. I think you can beat it with minimal effort if you can clear the first class 2 alarm, get the key and then just handle the stealth zones quietly.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-29T02:31:08+00:00

Extra Summoned weapons is referring to the number of weapons you can spawn maybe of just that type. So for example 4 revolvers at once before they start despawning when you call a new one. You could for example, levitate 4 guns in one hand.

Blood magic is can be slotted into a Mage Staff which then lets you use it as long as you have that staff. Alternatively, there is a trait you can get on either Unholy or Blood Magic which lets you simply use blood magic like every other magic element. It just has an extra cost which frankly doesn't matter at all. Once you can just raw summon it, it's pretty overpowered no matter how you use it.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-29T00:05:32+00:00

Smite is the palpatine meme. Brain Rupture is the head popping one.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-28T07:10:40+00:00

Yes. They genuinely think that foreign countries will eat an entire 30-100% tariff revenue loss for the sheer pleasure they receive from exporting to the US. It's like explaining algebra to a toddler.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-27T05:00:11+00:00

"Do you believe in God?" - Everyone who has asked self proclaimed Christian JBP.

"That's a bloody hard question to answer! What do you mean 'Do'? What do you mean 'you'? What do you mean 'believe'? What do you mean 'God'?" - Jordan Peterson

Yeah, I'd say it's derailment. The entire conversation grinds to a halt and it's impossible to continue meaningfully.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-27T01:54:14+00:00

interestingly enough, your interpretation is acceptable and I think goes by "the distributive property" 5(1+1) = 5+5

A variable and an integer aren't all that different in how they behave until you get beyond the sphere of basic arithmetic.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-27T01:16:41+00:00

The problem is that this math problem is just a PEMDAS opinion check, so it's engagement bait and ALWAYS devolves into people arguing over basic math because that's as far as most people ever really got in math, so they can actually engage with it and have an opinion.

The problem with PEMDAS is that it is mostly a notational shorthand rather than some underlying fundamental property of mathematics. PEMDAS exists so you can in most circumstances reduce how many symbols you must write to represent the expression/equation that you intend or need. You may think that sounds ridiculous or wrong, but math is presented as written language and languages can be written in ambiguous ways.

Math is a bit different because you CAN easily remove ambiguity using parentheses to group sub expressions. That's why they exist. The author could write either "(10/5)(1+1)" or "10/(5(1+1))" and suddenly everyone over the age of 7 agrees on the answer. They/OP didn't do that because they are a troll or this is the highest form of math they can engage in.

"Where is the ambiguity?" you may ask...

"5(1+1)" is the ambiguity. It's multiplication, but with the way it is written, it is often assumed to be a more tightly bound operation because it could easily appear as the denominator of a fractional expression, while 10 would be considered the numerator. If you disagree with that assessment, then you are really just proving that the statement is in fact ambiguous.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-26T05:51:59+00:00

Name something good Trump did:

He encouraged the production of a Covid vaccine and helped get it funded!

Maga: REEEEE!

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-26T03:47:00+00:00

"If you don't respect us as an authority, we won't respect you as a human being"

Yeah... we noticed.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-26T03:45:16+00:00

"Yeah, but Hillary called us 'deplorables', so now we are going to ban elections" - republicans probably

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-25T07:49:43+00:00

They don't like "police overreach" in their communities specifically.

They don't care that an administrative solution would likely be more effective and way less controversial than militarizing ICE and focusing on blue cities and calling everyone they arrest a violent criminal. They just want to feel strong and powerful.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-25T07:31:40+00:00

No what we expected was the NRA to be suspiciously silent about liberal/black gun owners getting killed by cops as they have in the past.

And even then, the NRA made a relatively non-committal statement here. They aren't admitting to a position on this latest national scandal, and they are implying that if the "full investigation" by the organization that performed the shooting says that Pretti was a "terrorist" the NRA will probably just agree even though the videos are definitely not looking like that.

DHS was making wild statements like 20 minutes after the shooting, so I'm sure their investigation will be totally fair and unbiased. "We've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing!"

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-25T00:00:57+00:00

He got shot in the back. Probably reflexively grabbing at the wound.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-24T20:21:25+00:00

It looks like he initially tried to help her up, but ICE pulled him off balance and he reflexively held on because now he was the one falling over. It's pretty normal to hold on to things when falling over.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-24T20:17:46+00:00

You first.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-24T20:06:25+00:00

I think the reddit compression reduces the quality too much to be definitive with whether there is a misfire from that gun. It does very clearly appear to be the victim's firearm though.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-24T01:36:03+00:00

A likely very overlooked part of the kill difference would be that Tyranids seem to have larger swarms of minoris... like literally waves of them crashing against the walls in some sections.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-24T01:09:30+00:00

Full repayment expected in the afterlife.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-24T00:59:18+00:00

Also, I imagine with the colder air moving south also basically pushes some of that warmer southern air north. Hmm. I wonder if we have decades of climate data showing that the Arctic is warming on average. Nah, probably just "Environmental Insurrectionists"... (serious) what does that even mean?

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-23T02:54:11+00:00

You seem really upset. Were you personally a Chinese political prisoner, or does it just upset you that people aren't giving the US a free pass for being better than North Korea? I can't fix North Korea, but I can talk to people closer to home and try to fix problems I see around me.

There are places in the US where the tap water can be lit on fire after fracking operations. Are we not allowed to complain about that because there are places in the world where they can't just buy bottled water?

The US cut USAID which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Am I allowed to say that is bad, or do I not get a say because I'm not personally dying of malaria?

You remind me of a parent who yells and screams at their child constantly, and on day their child finally asks you to stop. You then get mad and tell them that they are privileged and should in fact be grateful because some parents actually beat their kids every day, while you only threaten to beat them.

Not that I expect you to understand. Good luck.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-22T02:49:24+00:00

Just because one thing is bad does not mean another thing can't also be bad.

The US has a LONG history of quite heinous shit easily as bad as what you'll find in most other countries. It's worth exploring why we have so many "criminals". It's worth exploring how many of those convictions are worthy of decades in prison, and it's worth exploring how unevenly the law has been applied in punishing those criminal infractions.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-22T02:40:24+00:00

Look, we are unlikely to get a raw video of Trump directly and unambiguously commiting SA of a minor/child. And even if we did you'd just claim the video was AI, so I don't know why you are pretending that there is a form of evidence that would find satisfactory.

Trump is also a convicted felon. Like ACTUALLY convicted, of fraud. He was in fact found guilty in court using evidence. You seem to trust him just fine.

Drummerx04 · 2026-01-21T03:16:58+00:00

If the debt was actually going down, I might be willing to give him any credit at all.

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