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Nov 14

This dude from Ukraine made a 2,710 meter shot.

Assume a McMillan TAC-50, zeroed at 100m, shooting a 660 grain M1022 projectile with a ballistic coefficient of 0.65 at 2,700 meters per second.

That's 4.2 mils up, or 42 clicks up (hah).

At 35x it's off the bottom of the scope😂

*assuming a Nightforce ATACR 7-35x56mm scope with 0.1 mRad clicks

Crazy numbers, those are crazy

@LivFaustDieJung

hey do you have a ballistic calc handy for a fact check @LivFaustDieJung?

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JChoe

@JoohnChoe

Nov 13

Here, I'll show you something fun about disinformation.

Organized disinfo - like we encounter in Russia's war on Ukraine - displays two formal features that define what it is: synchrony, and diversity.

Usually, that means they post the same memes.

Sometimes, they screw up.

This is a Derek Utley-affiliated spam ring from 2019; I think they must have had someone new running things.

So instead of copy-and-pasting the same content, they shared it.

This gives you a glimpse of related accounts and pages - here, an apolitical page called "Memes".

...and another page, called, imaginatively enough, "Memes 2".

This is, I want to stress, unusual, because instead of copy-and-pasting the image - so that they all (diversity) end up mysteriously saying the same thing at the same time (synchrony) - they just straight shared it.

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JChoe

@JoohnChoe

Nov 7

If you think about it, a leaderless movement of activists resisting disinformation around a war is a kind of "anti-weapon".

"True" anti-war activism the way I mean it - getting, not just talking about, outcomes like sanctions & war crimes prosecutions - doesn't fit elsewhere.

First, nuclear weapons gave the U.S. a counter-advantage against the numerically superiority of the Warsaw Pact.

This was the first offset.

"Small wars" (in the Marines' sense), COIN and asymmetric conventional conflicts led to the second offset: precision munitions.

The third offset, though this is still a somewhat novel term to some people, I think (or at least an unfashionable one) is developing American technology superiority and innovation capabilities.

This is one way we're planning to address "near-peer" adversaries, basically.

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JChoe

@JoohnChoe

Nov 6

Let me show you an activist trick from the resistance years.

Interview ~150 people about a political candidate and ask them to use two, three words at the most to describe them.

Personality psychologists found that most words about people boil down to 5 dimensions -

1/4

- so in principle, every word you're hearing should cluster together with similar words.

Take those clusters together, and simplify them even further, until you have three to five (seven at most) words you use to describe someone.

The result is a consensus message.

2/4

When you take those boiled-down terms and then put them back into memes, the folks who responded to the poll are already "invested" and will spread your memes, because you listened to them and cared what they said.

This is the relationship you want.

3/4

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JChoe

@JoohnChoe

Nov 6

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1588758556060553217

She burned her rep by publicly backstabbing a fellow Berner.

And for what?

For a frankly piddling amount of fame: she was ~50th place for 'trending' on Twitter, because she tried to attack NAFO as racists, and we accidentally called her 'Brie' (like Brie Larson & Alison Brie).

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1588758556060553217

Here, I'll tell you a story about rep:

I've linked this NYT article before, but this is the spot where my company is mentioned and linked.

For the next two months after this came out, I turned down Washington Post & New York Times interview requests.
nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/…

In January of 2019, when that story came out, I could have gone public with, essentially, a lot of details on how political operations on the center-left are financed.

I mean names, companies, meetings, phone logs; basically the kind of thing that Breitbart or Fox would use.

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JChoe

@JoohnChoe

Nov 6

Saint Olga of Kyiv was a Varangian queen whose husband was killed by Drevlians whose diplomats proposed a marriage.

Olga agreed then buried the diplomats in a ditch.

Then she burned more in a bathhouse.

Then she went to the capitol and killed 5,000 more at a feast.

Yup. Olga.

thecollector.com/olga-of-kiev-r…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_K…

theconversation.com/saint-olga-of-…

The lesson here is, don't f**k with Ukrainian women named Olga

...actually wait I don't think the name has anything to do with it 🤔

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