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Stick grenades?

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That and all the other reasons. The only stick grenades still around in appreciable numbers are anti-armor grenades where the handle has a parachute inside. For normal fragmentation grenades, essentially everyone has moved to non-stick grenades (except the USMC who want to make stick grenades).

Even in WW2, the Germans produced more of the boring looking Model 39 grenades than they did of the iconic and eye catching stick grenades. People notice what they want to notice.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

Their doctrine was the stick type was for offensive operations

A minor addendum, the M24 and M43 stick grenades both had fragmentation sleeves produced for them. These could be quickly fitted over the grenades to change them from offensive to defensive grenades. Similar to the RGD-33 stick grenades used by the Soviets.

I assume this has something to do with the distance you can throw them.

The difference between offensive and defensive grenades is defined by how much fragmentation they produce. Without a fragmentation sleeve, a German stick grenade produces blast and concussion but very minimal fragmentation, making it's practical danger area smaller. This is good for an offensive grenade where the person throwing it likely has less cover than the person receiving it. A defensive grenade produces fragmentation, and is desired when the person throwing it has cover to hide behind safely.

The non-stick grenade commonly used by the Germans in WW2, was the Model 39 ("egg grenade"), and it actually came in both offensive and defensive flavors. So really, either a stick or egg grenade could be used for either role.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

I know, I know we are on lemmy, where all judges are wrong and evil, but this actually seems pretty cut and dry.

Act No. 320 of 1937 ("Pennsylvania Election Code"). Section 1306-D:

(a) General rule.--At any time after receiving an official mail-in ballot, but on or before eight o'clock P.M. the day of the primary or election, the mail-in elector shall, in secret, proceed to mark the ballot only in black lead pencil, indelible pencil or blue, black or blue-black ink, in fountain pen or ball point pen, and then fold the ballot, enclose and securely seal the same in the envelope on which is printed, stamped or endorsed "Official Election Ballot." This envelope shall then be placed in the second one, on which is printed the form of declaration of the elector, and the address of the elector's county board of election and the local election district of the elector. The elector shall then fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope.

Abridged:

At any time after receiving an official mail-in ballot, but on or before eight o'clock P.M. the day of the primary or election the mail-in elector shall [...] then fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope.

The "correct date" is any date before or on the day of the election, according to the code. A judge reads and interprets the written law, and this seems like a simple read.

The counter argument to the apparently unanimous reading of the law by all parties presented in court hinged on: "Pennsylvania's constitution, which says that elections in the state 'shall be free and equal' " making the law itself unconstitutional, which I'm not surprised wasn't very persuasive. Ballot envelopes without written dates were presumably treated equally (as opposed to being treated differently based on the vote cast) and the state didn't interfere with the ability to fill out the date. The rules were laid down and everyone who followed them had their vote counted equally.

I can already hear people in the comments screaming about how they don't like it. The standards for the mail-in ballots have been there since 1937 and nobody had a problem with them until right this moment when it looked like letting them slide might flip a close election. If you still don't like them, pressure the legislature, not the judges. There's not a ton of wiggle room in how to read the code.

SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

I've been getting that response in multiple places. I think I figured out how to unlock peoples' core memories.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

Rumors from who?

SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

Thanks!

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

I draw a lot of organic things. I think the organic looking lines are just a result. Other people here and else are also seeing neurons and the inside of an eye.

SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

So this is how liberty dies.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

I'm getting us over a needed benchmark this week, doing a handoff meeting to somebody, and then coming back in December to jointly work on it with them. At that point all the work should be done and it should be more of giving them a tour of the thing. Everyone knows this is a terrible situation. A lot of things went wrong to get us here.

Edit: Having a coffee right now after fixing an automation thing from another company which attaches to our robot. The guy that company sent was "I dunno what's wrong with it." I just want to sit next to my cat, paint minis, and watch Stargate.

SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

Documented? They print a warning on the block packaging now.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

Yes, although that response image is about Lucas' supposed hate of Mara Jade as a character and less about her not being a Jedi. I know exactly what footage that's from.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

Oh you see, this is a project that's been going on for years, and I started into it six months ago to get it done by 2025. It's not just a computer thing, but a robot with a lot of both hardware and software work. Naturally last month suddenly a lot of overhauls were made to the design, and since I've single handedly installed all of them, no one person except for me is familiar with exactly how everything fits together. The project plan and timeline is "get it done fasterer." At this point they will throw whatever material resources are needed to me, but we just don't have the personnel aside from me.

The project management is also not from the same continent as me, so meetings are a painful thing to schedule. The manager has finally come to the US to oversee the last round of acceptance work.

Right now the mechanicals are 99.9% done and I'm interacting remotely with software people to be their onsite hands.

The project manager is flittering around the room.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 1y ago

Literally dealing with that right now. The project manager is on site, and I thought that I'd finally have some backup on putting together this monster project. He's so far been asking a lot of questions legitimately trying to wrap his head around what he's seeing.

I'm the most (only) experienced person on the project and I don't like it.