• krigo666@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The american M2 “Ma Deuce” .50 cal is 105 years old. The design was introduced in 1918 and was adopted by the US military in 1933.

  • Walt J. Rimmer@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know shit about guns, so someone, please tell me, is this at all practical? Like, is this a surprisingly usable combination or a ridiculous pairing?

    • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
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      I always used iron sights and tracer rounds to track. Also you should have a partner that is tapping your shoulder to help you locate where to fire next.

      Fun fact, when firing a machine gun a good way to make sure you don’t overheat the barrel is by taking taking a firing pause for a few seconds in between the saying “die mother fucker, die.”

      If you’re uncomfortable saying that or prefer not to swear, “run fuzzy bunny, run” also works to the same effect.

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        When replying with an LLM generated piece of text, I would suggest at least reading it before posting.

      • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
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        Can you at the very least outline it when you have a GPT write your response for you? It’ll help us all ignore it without needing to waste any attention.

      • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
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        This is the problem with llm generated responses. It restates the same argument 4 times, providing no additional context or facts (because it doesn’t know any). It’s just close enough to real looking that it tricks me into expecting more is just around the corner but it never comes. Then the hallmark shitty conclusion to really seal it.

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      It’s simple - Russia is the ‘second strongest’ military on earth.

      When Russia does shit like this, it’s cringe, because a massive military budget for the past 80 years should be able to afford enough DShKs and RPDs/RPKs to go around without having to dip into WW1 stocks, at the least.

      When Ukraine does shit like this, it’s resourceful, because up until 2014 their military was an afterthought and they have to use everything they’ve got.