That makes sense. I'm thinking of this all with a cis male body and bias. As are firearms manufacturers I'm sure.
Doesn't the SCAR have a telescoping stock? I could be mixing things up though. It's been over a decade since I paid much attention to firearms.
Until 2018 the Democrats even allowed their "superdelegates" (typically elected officials from the state levels) to vote for whoever they wanted, no faithless action required. That could (and maybe did?) swing candidate selection, as superdelegates make up 15% of the total.
There's a bunch of different categories so I'll keep it general.
A delegate is someone who votes at the national party convention on behalf of the people who voted in the state or district party primary election for a given presidential candidate.
It's basically the electoral college but for the party.
Aren't most modern ones ambidextrous? Either in that the ejection port can be placed on either side, or like the P90 design where the brass comes out the bottom. I can imagine mag changes being awkward depending on the location and necessary movements.
How were they awkward to hold in your experience? I have no hands on experience with bullpups but my sense of balance makes me think they're better with the center of mass closer to your body.
Bullpup platforms are cool. I've always liked the FN P90 cause it's so unique but still very functional. Bullpup long guns like the Barrett M95 also just seem more practical. The combination of a shorter overall length, appropriately long barrel, and center of mass closer to the shooter just makes practical sense.
That's pretty much standard practice. Report what's politically expedient in the moment. Nobody will care about the revision half a year later.
It's also great when public transportation service goes until 01:00 at the absolute latest, but alcohol service goes until 02:00. And then a taxi costs something like $100/hour and it's not like a person lives in the area of where they've gone out for the night, so the ride home is long and expensive.
I'd suggest reading Michael Hudson's Superimperialism for some background on why the US went off the gold standard. To succinctly summarize, it's because the US had dug itself into a massive balance of payments problem in the post-war period, primarily due to the imperialist wars in Korea and Vietnam, and had no way out beyond simply telling the rest of the world that it wouldn't be bothering to balance its payments anymore.
Dropping the gold standard was a means to an end, not an end unto itself. It also wasn't done overnight in 1972, there was more than a decade of soft-dropping leading up to the final event.
I always cringe a little internally when I see someone pointing at the dropping of the gold standard as The Thing[TM] which has defined the neoliberal era, as in my experience it's some sovereign citizen type dreaming up some anarcho-capitalist world in which gold (coin) and lead (bullets) are the only two payment instruments worth anything and there is no such thing as society anymore.
The citation here seems to be a bit of a game of "telephone," and a really careless one at that.
The linked page cites a Xinhua article from January 30th quoting the Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina, who said "that 159 foreign participants from 20 countries have already joined the Russian system (SFRS)."
As per a Junge Welt article on the same arrest warrant, the German prosecution called the accused and informed them of the impending arrest warrant. Not even the bumbling infamous Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame would make such an asinine error, which leads one to conclude that German prosecutors have no intention of actually prosecuting this case. Since the call and the issue of the warrant, Polish authorities have not been able to locate the suspect (shocking /s).
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/481606.nord-stream-untergetaucht.html
As if.
There's a better chance of anti-trust legislation being changed to allow a larger degree of monopoly.
Given the detention in France I think the broader context of encryption policy in the EU is relevant as well.
The EU parliament has had multiple draft laws proposed over the past few years that intend to break private communication for everyday citizens. The proposals are varied, from the inclusion of backdoors to a requirement that service providers scan all messages for "CSM" (I put this in quotes because the content they actually want to track has nothing to do with minors and everything to do with class power). IIRC the current proposal is to just break SSL entirely by forcing browsers to accept certificates issued by the EU itself.
With seemingly random "terror" attacks occurring within the EU recently I can imagine that this will once again be used as the causus belli to go after private messaging and working class access to encryption. The politically motivated detention of the founder of Telegram is almost certainly part of the broader strategy to be able to surveil the thoughts of European citizens, residents, and guests. It's also worth noting that the founder of Telegram was already detained by some US alphabet agencies (FBI maybe?) years ago.