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I get that, but once it put the bucket up and started doing donuts, it was started turning unbalanced. Even baring that, you hit that loving thing at 20-25 mph, even if it doesn't flip, it's not doing poo poo. Again, I'm a dumbfuck, and like crashing things.
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I think if you hit it at the sort of speeds you can get to with such a short runup that both you, the driver, and the guy in the bobcat will be sort of concussed and out of it for the next few minutes. As the emergency responder you really don't want to ring your bell and tangle with airbags for the next five minutes with an unknown outcome.
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This is some real "why didn't he just shoot the gun out of his hands" bullshit.
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M_Gargantua posted:I think if you hit it at the sort of speeds you can get to with such a short runup that both you, the driver, and the guy in the bobcat will be sort of concussed and out of it for the next few minutes. As the emergency responder you really don't want to ring your bell and tangle with airbags for the next five minutes with an unknown outcome. That's the point. You stop it in the safest, fastest way possible, and you take the hit. Better than trying to shoot the guy, or letting him continue until he really hurts or kills anyone. But I'm just spitballing from an arm chair.
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A.o.D. posted:This is some real "why didn't he just shoot the gun out of his hands" bullshit.
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pseudosavior posted:It amazes me that we spend $800+ billion a year on 'defense', but our actual equipment is just as ancient, grizzled, and broken-down as our politicians are. It amazes me that you yanks spend 3x my countries entire GDP just on defense. It's also living proof that conflicts aren't won by the best military, rather the least inept/corrupt
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The only way to stop a bad guy in a Bobcat is a good guy in a Bobcat.
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I'd rather be a Bobcat than a Sheepdog. 
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Arcella posted:The only way to stop a bad guy in a Bobcat is a good guy in a Bobcat. The good guy needs a bigger cat. 
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Then it's just a race to "who gets the Bagger 288 first".
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pseudosavior posted:Then it's just a race to "who gets the Bagger 288 first". Its usually busy with godzillas and doom robots from the future.
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CS:Go Gungame but with industrial machinery
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pseudosavior posted:It amazes me that we spend $800+ billion a year on 'defense', but our actual equipment is just as ancient, grizzled, and broken-down as our politicians are. Politicians have twenty-six years on the ships. USS Blue Ridge was launched in 1969 and expected to remain in service only fifteen more years. Ships only beat the politicians if Constitution counts.
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The Blue Ridge looks way more modern than the age suggests, I think it's that super sleek superstructure.
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Arcella posted:The only way to stop a bad guy in a Bobcat is a good guy in a Bobcat. I literally believe this, I watched it thinking "none of you motherfuckers thought to get in another one and Battlebots his rear end?"
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Naramyth posted:That would be an lol/lmao moment Yeah, unless you have a cop that is also forklift certified there's just no chance.
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Hrm. Actually a forklift might win a fight against a bobcat because slipping the tins into something it can lift n’ tip will be a lot easier than snagging to shovel on it but you couldn’t let the bobcat hit your side up high or you’ll tip over too easy.
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Lotta hydraulics on that bobcat for a forklift to put holes in.
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:Yeah, unless you have a cop that is also forklift certified there's just no chance. No cop is cool enough to be forklift certified.
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Crab Dad posted:Hrm. Actually a forklift might win a fight against a bobcat because slipping the tins into something it can lift n’ tip will be a lot easier than snagging to shovel on it but you couldn’t let the bobcat hit your side up high or you’ll tip over too easy. Oh man. Someone needs to remake BattleBots but with bigger robots so we can see what would win in a forklift v. bobcat match.
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Donald Trump wins the Iowa caucus. He's getting more than 70% of the total votes.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Donald Trump wins the Iowa caucus. He's getting more than 70% of the total votes. Kind of a telling anecdote: https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1747069512359580139 Leave posted:That's not a surprise, though, is it? Depends on what you listened to. Polls and on-the-ground reporting essentially agreed (reports like 1:1 reporter:ratio at DeSantis events). Pundits, opinion columnists, and TV news sources hurfed and blurfed a lot. Also it still hasn't connected for a lot of normies that it's a Biden vs. Trump general election. They're still making up random poo poo about either one of them dropping out for nonsensical reasons.
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the country will be so hosed when trump gets elected again and just hand waves away all of his crimes, then installs more chudges
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If Trump gets re-elected, this country is hosed even worse than it already is. We'd be doomed.
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We are properly hosed if he gets back in office.
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yeah I don't have much faith in the DNC to actually have an effective campaign against him. I do have faith they will again talk about him and his followers like they are big idiots, though
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maffew buildings posted:yeah I don't have much faith in the DNC to actually have an effective campaign against him. I do have faith they will again talk about him and his followers like they are big idiots, though The problem is they're dangerous idiots whose threat needs to be taken seriously.
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I’ve said before that I never want to hear anything from Hillary Clinton every again. Her complete silence would still be fine by me, but if DJT pulls the coveted Grover Cleveland, I also wouldn’t mind hearing her remarks on the matter.
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maffew buildings posted:yeah I don't have much faith in the DNC to actually have an effective campaign against him. I do have faith they will again talk about him and his followers like they are big idiots, though good thing the DNC isn't really a functional thing that exists outside of an extension of the Biden campaign if you're going to do the doomer thing, please doomer correctly Edit: mainly this is my frustration with the concept of the DNC as this all-powerful thing when it's loving nothing Also, part of the whole "expectation" thing is that "the media" wants this primary season to continue on for weeks/months to juice ratings. It's not really competitive though, it's basically been Donnie's since the indictments came in. The base is pro-insurrectionist anyways and the other candidates didn't even really run against him.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:We are properly hosed if he gets back in office. The whole world is. I'd genuinely rather survive and suffer through the results of a full-scale strategic nuclear exchange than have four more years of Trump as president.
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facialimpediment posted:good thing the DNC isn't really a functional thing that exists outside of an extension of the Biden campaign It's been irritating ever since the internet left has made "the DNC" this all powerful yet inept cabal controlling the destruction of Bernie Sanders.
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facialimpediment posted:good thing the DNC isn't really a functional thing that exists outside of an extension of the Biden campaign whoops used DNC as a stand in for "whoever the gently caress is supposed to have a plan to counter a Trump presidential run and get battleground state voters to vote Biden"
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Voter perceptions will align with “the metrics” that say that the economy is doing great any day now. Any day now.
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we're all powerful shitposters here, let's open our own superpac and be the messaging we want to see. It can't be that hard to sucker these megadonors into opening the checkbook if Amy McGrath and Jaime Harrington cleared $200,000,000 between them to lose by 15 THIS MESSAGE PAID FOR BY SGT CHOWDOWN FOR LIBERTY
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maffew buildings posted:whoops used DNC as a stand in for "whoever the gently caress is supposed to have a plan to counter a Trump presidential run and get battleground state voters to vote Biden" The Biden Campaign! Yell about him and I will have zero complaints about your choice of target (outside of the doomerism). Kazinsal posted:The whole world is. To some extent, horseshoe lefties haven't quite grasped the binary choice involved here because either NEVER VOTING FOR GENOCIDE JOE or "lol DNC gonna pick someone else". Still not being fully grasped that the nominees are going to be the nominees and a lot will happen before November. But a solid, worrying point is being made by some commentators. If democracy/society is dependant on Biden getting reelected, but the Republican party is going full donnieloony, it's not exactly viable that we basically need nothing but democratic presidents. Other countries have kinda noticed too: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/15/what-foreign-diplomats-say-about-u-s-politics-behind-closed-doors-00135326
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I'll note that he had 70% way early on. He's hovering at around 50% now with Haley and DeSantis fighting for first loser.
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https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1747077811838533842?t=qPNr1ETURRGhi_rlJa9xMQ&s=19 Still, courts, don't fail me now, because this country is Turbofucked if he doesn't go to jail, lose, or die before the election. 
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