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This stuff was so disgusting. I don't understand how anyone drank it.

The official beverage of “It’s the 70s and Mom’s on a diet again.” pic.twitter.com/ZIvesh3BoH

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) October 3, 2023

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annie88 said:

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This stuff was so disgusting. I don't understand how anyone drank it.

The official beverage of “It’s the 70s and Mom’s on a diet again.” pic.twitter.com/ZIvesh3BoH

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) October 3, 2023

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Remember when Diet Coke first came out and people became addicted to them, drinking 8-12 a day?

Same with the Tab. It was addictive. Had an aunt who guzzled down those Tabs like water. Anytime they came for a visit, she'd bring a case or two with her.

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The survey doesn't include the suicides.

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Took me a bit to put 2 and 2 together

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Too clever for me, or maybe I'm just out of touch--whats the connection?

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In WWII, they did a survey of planes returning from missions, marking on a chart like the one above, where they were hit by enemy fighters. The idea was to figure out where to add protection or armor

The problem was the survey was only done on planes that made it home It was not done on planes that got shot down (duh) so the survey was useless. What was needed was data on where planes were hit and shot down, not where they were hit and survived.

Just like a survey that doesn't include trans suicides

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Ulysses90 said:

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The example I provided was trying to illustrate that adding armor to aircraft or humans may lower survivability if it decreases speed or maneuverability. There's a point of diminishing return for armor. It was David's dilemma when Saul offered him his armor to face Goliath.

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Speaking of which, has he been arrested yet? Censured? Anything?

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Ulysses90 said:

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The example I provided was trying to illustrate that adding armor to aircraft or humans may lower survivability if it decreases speed or maneuverability. There's a point of diminishing return for armor. It was David's dilemma when Saul offered him his armor to face Goliath.

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David actually had the advantage over Goliath. David was a slinger, Goliath was infantry. Slingers beat infantry in ancient warfare. We're not even getting into the evidence that Goliath suffered from acromegaly (gigantism) that put pressure on his optic nerve and made him functionally blind, hence his need for a shield carrier to guide him on the battlefield.

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"A sling works by increasing the effective length of a stone-thrower's arm. Modern cricket bowlers or baseball pitchers can achieve maximum ball velocities of over 150 kilometres per hour. A slingshot as long again as the thrower's arm will double the projectile's speed, making the velocity of the bullet when it leaves the sling nearly 100 metres per second. This is already considerably greater than that of a longbow arrow, at only about 60 mps.

Intensively trained from childhood onward, there is no reason to believe that a professional slinger could not beat 100 mps (meters per second) fairly easily and perhaps even begin to approach the muzzle velocity of a .45 calibre pistol round: about 150 mps. What is more, a smooth slingshot projectile has a far greater range than an arrow, as much as half a kilometre, because an arrow's flight feather's produce so much drag.

The modern world-record distance for a stone cast with a sling was achieved by Larry Bray in 1981, who managed 437 metres, and thought in retrospect that he could surpass the 600-metre mark with a better sling and lead projectiles" (Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization, Kindle location 1633).

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CanyonAg77 said:

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It takes nothing from the bravery of David or God's support for David to acknowledge that the ancient Hebrews used organized units of guys slinging rocks routinely in battle.

https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/the_slingers_of_ancient_warfare.php

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"A sling works by increasing the effective length of a stone-thrower's arm. Modern cricket bowlers or baseball pitchers can achieve maximum ball velocities of over 150 kilometres per hour. A slingshot as long again as the thrower's arm will double the projectile's speed, making the velocity of the bullet when it leaves the sling nearly 100 metres per second. This is already considerably greater than that of a longbow arrow, at only about 60 mps.

Intensively trained from childhood onward, there is no reason to believe that a professional slinger could not beat 100 mps (meters per second) fairly easily and perhaps even begin to approach the muzzle velocity of a .45 calibre pistol round: about 150 mps. What is more, a smooth slingshot projectile has a far greater range than an arrow, as much as half a kilometre, because an arrow's flight feather's produce so much drag.

The modern world-record distance for a stone cast with a sling was achieved by Larry Bray in 1981, who managed 437 metres, and thought in retrospect that he could surpass the 600-metre mark with a better sling and lead projectiles" (Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization, Kindle location 1633).

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Ulysses90 said:

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The example I provided was trying to illustrate that adding armor to aircraft or humans may lower survivability if it decreases speed or maneuverability. There's a point of diminishing return for armor. It was David's dilemma when Saul offered him his armor to face Goliath.

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David actually had the advantage over Goliath. David was a slinger, Goliath was infantry. Slingers beat infantry in ancient warfare. We're not even getting into the evidence that Goliath suffered from acromegaly (gigantism) that put pressure on his optic nerve and made him functionally blind, hence his need for a shield carrier to guide him on the battlefield.

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Riiiiight...this is why literally no one else among the Hebrews would go anywhere near him while he stood by himself out in the open taunting them for weeks on end...because they didn't have anyone that could sling a weapon of any kind at an obviously blind decrepit giant. Cmon man. And shield bearers for warrior leadership were extremely commonplace from antiquity through the middle ages. Had absolutely nothing to do with poor eyesight.

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CanyonAg77 said:

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It takes nothing from the bravery of David or God's support for David to acknowledge that the ancient Hebrews used organized units of guys slinging rocks routinely in battle.

https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/the_slingers_of_ancient_warfare.php

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"A sling works by increasing the effective length of a stone-thrower's arm. Modern cricket bowlers or baseball pitchers can achieve maximum ball velocities of over 150 kilometres per hour. A slingshot as long again as the thrower's arm will double the projectile's speed, making the velocity of the bullet when it leaves the sling nearly 100 metres per second. This is already considerably greater than that of a longbow arrow, at only about 60 mps.

Intensively trained from childhood onward, there is no reason to believe that a professional slinger could not beat 100 mps (meters per second) fairly easily and perhaps even begin to approach the muzzle velocity of a .45 calibre pistol round: about 150 mps. What is more, a smooth slingshot projectile has a far greater range than an arrow, as much as half a kilometre, because an arrow's flight feather's produce so much drag.

The modern world-record distance for a stone cast with a sling was achieved by Larry Bray in 1981, who managed 437 metres, and thought in retrospect that he could surpass the 600-metre mark with a better sling and lead projectiles" (Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization, Kindle location 1633).

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BLM Chicago just posted this. They will bring these tactics here too. pic.twitter.com/LliOlyle1N

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 10, 2023