Yeah no doubt the global capitalist regime is licking their lips and has been licking their lips for a long time about the opportunity to open up and exploit North Korea... North Koreans want to preserve their community togetherness, which is almost stronger than any other nation in the world
our elites are desperate to maintain the Monopoly they have had for many years on the ability to insert ideas into the minds of young people, which they have done for decades through the educational curriculum... now that social media is so ubiquitous and older people are getting onto it, there is now another stream of ideas being fed into Young minds.. and the elites have nothing to do with it, which tears them up.. the elites understand something that normal people do not, which is that young people are shaped and molded by the ideas put in their heads.. the the child is the father of the adult, as the saying goes, and Proverbs 22:6 tells us, if you show a child the way that he is to go, when he is old he will not depart from it..
so that is how the elites transformed society, and divided society among the different factions and thus maintained control... by changing society via educational propaganda fed into Young minds... the elites have long had a monopoly on shaping society by shaping Young minds.. the elites fear that ordinary people will soon wake up to the power and potential in social media for older people to feed their ideas into the minds of younger people and thereby put a stop to The divided society the elites have created
as we age, humans reflect more upon the past, probably because doing so helped the tribe to survive... the memories of the older members of the tribe provided information that was important to survival of the tribe, such as hey remember that water hole that we came across 40 years ago etc... thus humans developed adaptively a tendency to reflect upon the past as they age
And even if there is global warming caused by man, there's a 100% chance our inept government will be unable to do anything about it just like they're unable to do anything else except foment war between the races and genders and war overseas
>And even if there is global warming caused by man
No offense, Climate Change is cause by Man by burning fossil fuels in large amounts over the past ~150 years. The only question is can we stop, I think stopping is very much doubt.
The real problem is that Congress is bought and paid for by the tax return industry so that they can create an ever more complicated tax system that forces people to use the tax return industry
The "ever more complicated tax system" is actually intended to make it easier for rich donors (with lawyers and tax accountants) to pay less taxes. That the complexity also props up the tax return industry is just gravy.
I don't think this is true. The total lobbying dollars of H&R Block and Intuit is not really a lot of money[1][2] although it is something. I think there is an incentive for these companies to support more complicated taxes but I doubt they are the cause of complicated taxes. The IRS brings in a lot of profit on extra collections and penalties.[3]
Once these big tech companies get really big and famous like Facebook and Google and stuff, they go awry in their hiring and management and business culture.. they start focusing on ideology, political ideology and censorship and so forth,.....and at that point they have all sorts of excess employees that do nothing but say write papers about political ideology and so forth.. that is when the software starts to go buggy.. Facebook is real buggy now much bugger than it used to be... As an example once Elon musk took over Twitter he fired like 80% of the employees and it works better than ever now
Hey, pigs can be very dangerous too.. many a lad has been treed in rural America in decades past by a herd of feral hogs.. go read the book Old yeller or even watch the movie if books are not your thing
> How do I kill the 30-50 feral hippos that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?
1. This[1] page suggests:
> The minimum suggested caliber for hunting hippo is a 375 and up, using solid bullets.
I assume that means .375 H&H magnum.
If you're actually going to try to kill Hippos, you're going to want to study their anatomy carefully. From what I understand, most hunters take headshots because Hippos are typically mostly submerged. But for most large game, a heart shot is seen as less risky since the brain is surprisingly small and well protected, which is an option unless your yard is deeply submurged.
2. 30-50 is almost certainly impossible in 3-5 minutes. Even with extensive practice.
Almost all rifles that shoot such high powered ammunition have an integral magazine, which means you'd have to load each bullet individually. And shooting that many targets at speed virtually guarantees that you'll miss their vitals somewhat regularly.
Also, 40-80 rounds of .375 H&H magnum would be extremely physically punishing to shoot.
I know that the intention is somewhat humorous here, but...
A lot of caliber recommendations out there are significant overkill, based on limited data. In cases where we do have data, calibers signicantly less powerful than recommendations often prove surprisingly effective.
For example, in a survey of 104 grizzly and polar bear attacks with handgun calibers, there were only 3 failures, all of which involved firing after the bear had already caused damage (an automatic failure) or completely missing[1]. You'll often see guys carrying 44 magnums in grizzly country, but the evidence seems to suggest that common 9mm rounds are effective enough. Even the lowly 22 rimfire is represented in the data with success against black bears (but not polar bears). I don't know anyone who would recommend 22 rimfire for deer let alone bears.
Given this, I think it's reasonable to select the venerable 7.62x39. This is a common chambering for semi-automatic and even automatic rifles with high-capacity magazines, which would obviate the need to load each bullet individually. It also is easy to obtain armor-piercing rounds in this caliber if penetration is your concern. This is still a punishing round to fire a lot of, but with a modern recoil management system it's manageable.
Additionally, the heart is a small target as well, but luckily most hunters' experience is that larger target including the lung and liver can provide reasonably ethical kills (i.e. the animal dies quickly without a prolonged tracking during which the animal suffers). For most animals striking the scapula proves disabling, allowing for an easier follow-up. So just aiming slightly forward of center of mass should be sufficient--no detailed knowledge of anatomy or high-speed, high-precision shooting needed.
All this is to say that with a different approach, killing what can only be described as a stampede of 30-50 hippos in 3-5 minutes isn't as implausible as a more conservative approach might make it seem.
> You'll often see guys carrying 44 magnums in grizzly country, but the evidence seems to suggest that common 9mm rounds are effective enough. Even the lowly 22 rimfire is represented in the data with success against black bears (but not polar bears). I don't know anyone who would recommend 22 rimfire for deer let alone bears.
> Given this, I think it's reasonable to select the venerable 7.62x39. This is a common chambering for semi-automatic and even automatic rifles with high-capacity magazines, which would obviate the need to load each bullet individually. It also is easy to obtain armor-piercing rounds in this caliber if penetration is your concern. This is still a punishing round to fire a lot of, but with a modern recoil management system it's manageable.
So, the .308 is extremely common in the US and is somewhat similar to the 7.62x39. A .308 fires a typical round with, oh about 2500 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. Meanwhile a 44mag has maybe 1000 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. An Ak-47 is also 7.62x39 and has ~ 1500 ft-lbs of energy. That's a hell of a lot more grunt than a 44 magnum, any way you dice it.
At that point, skip the armor-piercing or FMJ and go hollow point. There's more than enough power in that round and the larger wound channel is probably a plus.
The caliber stuff isn't about the "bear" minimum, it's about overkill because it not working can be an issue.
Reference that Tokyo Joe article posted here a few days ago where the dude took some number of .22 shells direct to the skull and lived.
I have read that too high powered a rifle can also be an issue, as the bullet just punches through the animal leaving a small entry wound and a relatively small exit wound, allowing the animal some significant time before it bleeds out.
> I have read that too high powered a rifle can also be an issue, as the bullet just punches through the animal leaving a small entry wound and a relatively small exit wound, allowing the animal some significant time before it bleeds out.
It's not.
"Solid bullet" typically means hard cast lead; it's a non-deforming bullet. The name of the game when it comes to the "big 5" is penetration. If you hit the brain or heart, it's dead quickly. If not, it'll probably shrug off the wound.
These are animals that fight lions and crocodiles, not to mention other hippos. Their bodies can take pretty massive damage (compared to humans anyhow) and just keep trucking.
To be fair most game hunting is (at least arguably) for meat or trophy, weaponry that completely turns your hippo into a thin red mist works for hippo control but is hard to mount on your wall, so your CSAM would probably work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heLuUd0VK2s
If they're charging at you, it seems most effective to aim for the brain, that's the target (1). I would prefer the armour-piercing rounds, to get through the thick skull.
At that angle, the other vital organs are also well-shielded, by bulk if not by skull.
If you're hunting in the African bush (not the scenario described, I know) I'd want to carry the largest possible caliber. These animals are big and fast - you get one shot if you are lucky.
There are also other animals that share an environment with the hippo that are very well-armoured and hard to kill with one shot, like elephants, Cape buffalo, etc.
Minor point here "feral" as in "feral pigs" means "of domesticated ancestry, but reverted to a mostly wild state".
This does not apply to hippos since they have never been domesticated at all, and those commenters suggesting that "just domesticate the hippos" would be a feasible task are IMHO very much underestimating something that they know nothing about.
A good SRE doesn't only prepare for the obvious failure modes, but also considers other possible avenues (especially since if it works for 50 hippos it will probably help against 50 elephants, maybe).
Rural Americans have a .30-06 (or similar rifle) and know how to use it, and they often have access to more powerful guns. The question is can you hit a moving target without hitting the kids in the yard - unlikely no matter how much you train.
.30 caliber is a little light for this job, but it will work if you aim well. Generally you would want a more powerful gun.
I don't think that still holds true at the extremes. These extremes include
1) very small calibre
2) high stress situation where quick reaction is needed, very precise placement such as the eye is nigh impossible. "head" is a good as you'll realistically get.
My understanding (and you'll have to check your local laws) is that there is no "hunting season" for wild pigs because they are considered a pest species and thus they can be culled at anytime, with no restriction on type of weapon.
So basically, this is one case where an AR-15 would actually be a decent weapon for civilian use. Most places won't let you use a high-capacity, auto-loading rifle for hunting, but wild-pig-pest-control isn't hunting.
On the other hand, AR-15s are kinda 'spensive, so an AK-47 pattern rifle in 7.62x39mm might be a better choice (and surplus ammo is plentiful). The AK-74 pattern rifles in 5.45x39mm that I've seen have tended to be almost as expensive as a "cheap" AR-15, so at that point I don't know why you wouldn't just get an AR-15 for the more common ammo type.
If price is especially a problem, then a Hi Point carbine in 40S&W or 45ACP won't break the bank and should have enough stopping power. Plus, they usually come with some cheap optics that are more than adequate for the effective range of the rifle, which basically makes the thing almost as easy to shoot as a video game. But they are quite, erhm, ugly (mushy trigger pull, bad ergonomics), so if you can swing a more expensive rifle, that'd be preferable.
Investment quality ars are still holding value fine. The cheap ar rifles are... well, cheaply made. Not my favorite feature of a firearm that rests next to your face while use.
