Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad...
by shadilay on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:06AM
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Complete with wooden MG'S
Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad...
by Lev1a on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:30AM
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Nah, from what he told me the service pistol was an inaccurate POS, a pain to clean (which one would have to do often) and the G36 rifle is made in large parts (e.g. the stock) from polymer/plastic meaning they were forbidden from ever using the weapon body itself as a weapon because otherwise it would splinter and break.
The AK my father and grandfather used in the NVA instead was a real wartime weapon, rugged, dependable and able to be produced in mass quantities relatively cheaply. The G36 instead is apparently expensive, fragile and not that accurate, ie. more of a showpiece.
Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad...
by shadilay on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:52PM
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I am by no means an expert but even I know the story is more nuanced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfPHZFsw40M
- being a tall bald dude (19yo at the time)
- wearing his Bundeswehr uniform (as a conscript on his way home for weekend leave)
Apparently that appearance wasn't enough to make it obvious he was a little older than 12.
Anyway, at least I didn't have to go through that conscription BS since I didn't reach 18 until after the "abeyance" in 2011. The equipment/supply problems and ever shortening training/service time for conscripts (last before the abeyance was 6 months total) make it no wonder that the Bundeswehr is sometimes mocked as "Deutschlands größter Trachtenverein" ("Germany's biggest costume club").