I don’t understand.
The words “too”, “much” and “butter” don’t make any sense in that order.

I work in IT, and by now, every single 3-letter-abbreviation makes my eyelid twitch.

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I’m guessing they just defined the standard for any round fired by a human-portable rifle, without worrying about whether it’s possible to meet the standard.

My guess is, the institute developed a competent armor, showcased it and got the contract to build them.
Then several levels of managers and executives decided to use a bit less material, use a cheaper supplier and skip a few QC steps, pocketing the surplus contract money.
And then they re-used the vests taken off fallen soldiers several times, sewing shut the bullet holes in the cloth covering (or not).

The extra plate stops rifle rounds up to caliber .308 / 7.62mm (which carry more force than the assault rifles used by most infantry now), at least in the American Level III/IV vests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_body_armor_performance_standards#NIJ_armor_standard_(United_States)

Funnily enough, the European standard goes up to armor ratings that would protect against 3 point blank shots from 14.5×114mm rounds (what this thing shoots), but I couldn’t find a picture of any armor with that rating, and it would likely break every bone in your torso even if the bullet doesn’t penetrate.

This is what Level III/IV full body armor looks like:

I find it fascinating that AI, with all the major tech corporations backing it, still can’t handle hands.

“I found this strange fucking object” vs “I found this strange fucking object”

To be fair, humans have prevented the looming extinction of horses (their numbers were dwindling a couple thousand years ago, cause they were being outcompeted by bovines who can process grass more efficiently due to their multiple stomachs).

Horses, cows, chickens, dogs, cats, rice and wheat have spread all over the globe due to humans.

So purely from an evolutionary standpoint, being a slave or food for humans is the best thing you can do as an organism.

I know the distinction between /bin and /sbin, I just don’t know what purpose it serves.

Historically, /bin contained binaries that were needed before /usr was mounted during the boot process (/usr was usually on a networked drive).
Nowadays that’s obsolete, and most distros go ahead and merge the directories.

Yeah, but why?
You can mount a hard drive anywhere, and why not put all the cdrom and thumbdrive folders in /mnt, too?

I thought it was United System Resources.
And I still don’t know what’s the point in separating /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.
Also /mnt and /media
Or why it’s /root and not /home/root

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The issue for vegans is whether animal slaughter was involved and whether they supported it with their purchase.

The acceptable amount = refrain from hurting animals “as much as possible and practicable”. That takes care of all the gotchas and the well actuallys.

That second point would require intimate knowledge about which animal parts would be disposed of if they didn’t find a buyer.
In reality, everything is used. If there wasn’t a market for part of an animal, a use was found and a market created (which is part of the reason why industrially produced white sugar, beer, wine, apple juice, potato chips and bread usually aren’t vegan).

Anyway, vegans usually don’t care about whether an animal product could be leftover. Their philosophy boils down to “Just fucking leave animals in peace.”

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this:

Is this from Terry Pratchett?

If I use this to fertilize my veggies, are they still vegan?

I’m available for work after hours - 1 week a month, scheduled several months in advance.
I get about 1000€ extra for it, per month. And also 42 days of paid vacation per year, plus unlimited sick days.

That’s what this rule would do - force employers to make it worth your while if they need you after hours, and force them to think about whether they really need that.