I’ve done a whole 8-ball in one night. Coke doesn’t make you stupid or blow out your inhibitions. This guy was something special to begin with.

That book is hilariously expensive now. Check eBay or Amazon, $150+.

Read this at lunch today! Very convincing evidence.

Rob Davis, a Paleolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, said the combination of high temperatures, controlled burning and pyrite fragments shows “how they were actually making the fire and the fact they were making it.”

Iron pyrite does not occur naturally at Barnham. Its presence suggests the people who lived there deliberately collected it because they understood its properties and could use it to ignite tinder.

All true! But in the end, they still affect my life, so I do have to care what’s said, even if it is a bot or a filthy Russian.

No? I just hate legal and governmental obligations. Day-to-day life is fine. I can hate work if it’s a “lawful” kinda place, but I don’t last in those places anyway.

For jobs I have my “Hawkeye Pierce Theory of Work”. Be so damned good they can’t get rid of you and have to let your fuckups slide. Been working great for me!

Shit. I was thinking MacOS. Never mind.

Got two vintage bolt-action shotguns. Both suck, but they weren’t that great to begin with. Been wanting a lever action! Seems that would be about as fast as a pump? Never touched one. LOL, never seen one IRL.

I didn’t say a bolt-action was potentially worse? I did say that a pump is mostly better than a semi. I did say a single-shot is potentially worse than all of the above.

I know that doesn’t make sense, very counter intuitive. But I have never, not once, had a single-shot fail unless the load itself failed, and I have some truly shitty single-shots. I should add the caveat that the single-shot needs to eject the spent shell, or you’re really going to be slow.

Hard to explain unless one has the experience. With a single-shot you get into a rhythm; aim, fire, break, reload, fire, aim, fire, break, reload, fire. It’s easy to spaz out with a semi and loose all your ammo. When your shots are limited, you take the extra split second to aim, make it count.

Or, consider this, if we’re talking about mass causalities; what about reloading? There are techniques like “violin reloading”, or “combat loading” singles, that go fast, but take serious and continuous practice. If we were both challenged to send 10 shots downrange, on target, bet I could do better with a single shot. First 5? Ya got me, assuming you didn’t spaz out and spray lead all around. 10? I never stopped or hesitated, and I had the extra second to consider the situation and aim.

Anyway, if you ever make it to Florida, hunt me down and we’ll go to my little camp in the swamp. Have a friendly shoot!

Managed a reprographics shop where our #1 vendor had a lock on repairmen. We had to pay $10,000 for the training fee, and I think we had to re-up on that occasionally. The tech’s laptop had to have a key to login to the machines for diagnostics. He couldn’t even manage most mechanical repairs because the software wouldn’t allow it.

Océ is the asshole manufacturer, so you all know what not to buy.

This is lemmy. You have to spell out every detail, in finer detail, or you will be misunderstood.

My take? Harris would have done nothing different in materiel support to Israel. She would have made slight condemning noises, but America would still be shipping money and munitions.

OP was asking about Israeli support in particular.

Their gun laws are strict, compared to America. But the notion that Europeans and other first-world citizens can’t have guns is far from the truth. Hell, some laws are looser. Most (all?) Europeans can buy a suppressor, and I gather those are mandated in some places, or at least you’re frowned upon for not having one.

One of my favorite GunTubers was visiting and interviewing in a central European gun shop (forget the country, sorry) and I was like, “Well, shit. They can buy about anything we can buy!”

America doesn’t have a gun problem. America has a culture problem. I could tell you a dozen stories of idiot Americans not understanding the laws we already have. Many of those idiots are dead or in prison.

A pump shotgun is far more reliable than a semi-auto. Want to kill a bunch of people? I’d never trust a semi. Bring the pump.

Hell, for that matter I might pick one of my single shots. Takes less practice than a pump, cannot fail to send lead down range. I know that’s all counterintuitive. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, as they say. :)

SOURCE: Own 12 shotguns of all ages and sorts.

We have one little theater in town, 6 or 8 screens? Got to see Blade Runner 2049 with my ex-wife, just us. Saw IT by myself and only 3 other people in the house.

I’d kill for a cinema where you can order real food and drink beer on the cheap. There’s one in the “big” town, too lazy to go that far.

Nah, the billionaires didn’t want this fucking American anarchy. Business depends on stability and predictability. The current admin is the opposite of what they wanted. Witness the oligarchs kissing Trump’s ass at his inauguration. They thought they could control a narcissistic toddler falling down a dementia cliff.

You might be surprised what you’ll do when the shit hits the fan. I’ve saved my own life twice, arguably three times. I think most people can summon more courage than they think when confronted with life-or-death decisions.

It’s just that most have been scared shitless, but not “I’m going to fucking die if I don’t act in the next 3-seconds” kinda scared shitless. Time crawls, our brain starts sorting solutions, picks one, acts.

This man was extra though. His life wasn’t immediately in danger, he could have frozen or run backwards. But sometimes our monkey brain says, “attack the threat to the tribe” and we just go. He went.

Imagine carrying that extra confidence for life. Hero indeed.

Not defending those guys, but it was a clusterfuck of Biblical proportions more than a lack of courage or will. PBS has an awesome documentary on it. I can’t watch it twice.

Isreal’s genocide has dramatically changed opinions. I was always for Isreal; we American’s love an underdog! Yeah, no longer. Now I say that Israel has forfeited their right to exist.

Now imagine all the people who hate Jews as an extension of Israeli policy. Fuck me, people hated the man who played Joffrey on Game of Thrones and Rose from Star Wars! It’s less of a jump for such people to say, Israel evil -> Jews evil.

Depends. Saw my dad die of mesothelioma (asbestos from being a Torpedoman 3rd class, WWII). Remember Dr. Dyson dying in T2? Like that but a bit worse. Stood by as a family friend had the plug pulled, nothing but a flatline.

My family is hillbilly going back a gen or three, Appalachia to the Ozarks. Can’t claim any foreign blood. :(

Yeah, but isn’t Japan about the toughest country on Earth to emigrate to? I’d have a nervous breakdown going through all that. I have a special hatred for rules and forms and legal doings.