Greg Grunschel

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@SoNotBettyOK The interesting thing here is that he said “people who do nothing but take shouldn’t get to vote” and your response was “this asshole thinks women shouldn’t get to vote”.

That’s quite a self-report, there.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@number_pizza111 @ww_dasilva What an absolute luxury belief

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

No, that’s the entire point of the analogy. He doesn’t want rats, but knows that rats are inevitable if the policies are unchanged. It’s the rats that are going to be destructive to everything, so it’s in everybody’s best interest to do what they can to change the conditions that are going to attract rats.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@vincentnowak1 @ShamashAran The man who tells people that they need to store their grain properly or it will attract rats, is not a fan of the rats. In fact, he dislikes the rats so much, he would prefer not to get them at all!

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@SpaceKoala I asked grok to create a rough breakdown of the experiments that flew on the ISS by experimental duration. Here’s what it came up with:

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

It depends. What’s the loiter time for Starfall? (I’m legit asking, I haven’t seen it listed anywhere). Most of the ISS-specific experiments I can think of off the top of my head ran for weeks, months, or years. If Starfall is like Crew Dragon and can only fly independently for a few days, it won’t really replace the ISS for a lot of things.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@men_among_ruins @MattWalshBlog And heavier bowling balls float better.

See, I can just say things, too. Can you name even a single “brutal society” that was considered polite? Note that serfs/slaves/prisoners bowing to their overlords under pain of death does not count as politeness.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@zimweasel @MattWalshBlog Like I said, right-wing virtue signaling.

Does it make you tingly to fantasize about barbaric punishments that will never, ever become policy? Or is this “MAGA Zimbabwe” (VPN) account just being used to amplify violent rhetoric to make right-wingers look like deranged sadists?

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

Why? What possible advantage is there for a civilization to build an industrialized system for the infliction of mass suffering? The brutality it creates will naturally cause it to be used (at least at first) very rarely, so it’s not actually much use as a deterrent. Which means the optics of torture will either be used by opponents as a reason to end the death penalty entirely, or the institutional sociopaths will play up the idea with their populist base and expand the program to anyone they don’t like. Neither option seems particularly good for civilization in general or the citizens in particular.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

Maybe, maybe not. It depends on how bad the weapon fails when the parts can’t be replaced due to extended combat/logistics issues/budget shortfalls.

As for reliability, it’s hard to get a good comparison. .22 WMR is pretty famously unreliable in autoloaders, but it’s also rimfire. 10mm is often less reliable than .45, .40, or 9mm, but it can be argued that that’s due to most 10mm weapons just being rechamberings of weapons designed for those other calibers. The best comparison is probably .40 vs. .357 Sig, where .357 Sig is generally more reliable than .40 even in guns originally designed for .40. I have also seen quite a few reports of failures to feed and/or extract with intermediate-sized straight-wall calibers like the .350 Legend or the .400 Legend.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

Interesting, but is the claim that a CIP-spec chamber matches a .223-spec chamber, so firing 5.56 in a CIP barrel is the same as firing 5.56 in a .223 barrel? If so, I’m not sure that data is a slam-dunk, because most (but not all!) of the 5.56 ammo did show a 1-5k psi increase in the CIP barrel vs. the NATO barrel, if I’m reading the chart correctly.

I’m not arguing that shooting 5.56 out of a .223 will blow your face off (clearly, that’s not the case). But to say they’re identical cartridges is also not correct. (Especially when talking about GGG ammo, apparently…)

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

> the hypothetical is improbable

You’re probably correct. But it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that experimental results disproved a widely-held theory. It’s too bad that all the places with the funding and equipment to do a valid comparison test couldn’t care less about .223.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@AngryThorr42069 @Nap51M @kboperatorttv What? I’m not referencing anything. I’m asking a hypothetical. I made zero claims about the accuracy of any hypothetical testing.

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

Good to know. Thanks for the follow up. Based on some of your other replies, I have a question for you: if someone were to do the testing, and discover that 5.56 in a .223 chamber actually does average, say, 2k-3k PSI additional pressure above SAAMI spec for .223 (still well within proof test pressures), would you still say they’re identical cartridges because they both end up with the same external results?

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@Nap51M @kboperatorttv [citation needed]

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@TheRangeApe @vers_laLune Those are the helicopter equivalent of RAID 0

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@TracketPacer

[Greg Grunschel @grunscga]

@esrtweet If we were talking about adults, I mostly agree. But children don’t have most rights, and if the 14-year-old didn’t have a supervising adult with him during the robbery, then I’d say he was in fact in unlawful possession of a firearm.