• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    It’s way too late for that. True Believers like Musk don’t just think it’s a simulation, they think they’re the main thing being simulated and the rest of us are NPCs, which is why it’s just fine to treat us all like dogshit. If he survived an assassination attempt, that would only prove it to him.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Somebody just needs to dig up and resurrect the White Death.

        Häyhä preferred iron sights over telescopic sights, as they enable a sniper to present a smaller target for the enemy (a sniper must raise his head a few centimetres higher when using a telescopic sight), and can be relied on even in extreme cold, unlike telescopic sights which tend to cloud up in cold weather.

        Simo Häyhä, often referred to by his nickname The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle (a variant of Mosin–Nagant) and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. Häyhä is believed to have killed over 500 enemy soldiers during the conflict, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war. Consequently, he is often regarded as the deadliest sniper in history.