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So that's how they get those snakes in my Hawaiian punch.
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For us, this is a video of a harrowing experience everyone involved is lucky to have lived through. For her, it wasn't even Tuesday, it was just 'Not this poo poo again... Gimme the snake jar.'
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Dec 6, 2022 21:35
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All in all, Prometheus was a pretty realistic movie
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Dec 6, 2022 21:38
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GABA ghoul posted:All in all, Prometheus was a pretty realistic movie The whole time during that movie, I was like this is so stupid nobody would ever go to an alien planet and do all this dumb stuff. Taking their helmet off all willy nilly, touching random alien poo poo, etc. Then 2020 happened and I was like oh wait, yeah that was pretty realistic lol people are idiots
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Dec 6, 2022 21:40
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holtemon posted:The whole time during that movie, I was like this is so stupid nobody would ever go to an alien planet and do all this dumb stuff. Taking their helmet off all willy nilly, touching random alien poo poo, etc. I'm pretty sure there have been examples in this very thread of things falling towards people and those people running along the axis of the fall instead of to the side, too.
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Dec 6, 2022 21:42
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I'm curious how she even got to the position of holding a cobra's tail.
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Dec 6, 2022 22:25
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This ain't her first snake rodeo.
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Dec 6, 2022 22:29
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:These are the same people that say that a boot lace and a Garand is a machinegun, and will try to argue in court that you're a dangerous criminal for having two of those things together. Please cite the case where the ATF argued constructive possession against someone who had a shoelace and a garand.
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Dec 6, 2022 22:31
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holtemon posted:The whole time during that movie, I was like this is so stupid nobody would ever go to an alien planet and do all this dumb stuff. Taking their helmet off all willy nilly, touching random alien poo poo, etc. also dumb people doing dumb poo poo is a horror staple
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Dec 6, 2022 22:34
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:These are the same people that say that a boot lace and a Garand is a machinegun, and will try to argue in court that you're a dangerous criminal for having two of those things together. This never happened. Someone sent a photograph of a Garand with a string used to tie the bolt handle and trigger together so the rifle would fire the entire magazine in one burst when the trigger was pulled. The ATF's response letter said this was creating an illegal machine gun through modification by adding parts but no conviction was made because it was only a letter asking for a theoretical ruling if they were to catch you doing that. You can also own things like short barrels and rifle stocks as separate parts and the ATF won't try to arrest you unless you put them together into an unregistered illegal configuration.
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chitoryu12 posted:This never happened. Someone sent a photograph of a Garand with a string used to tie the bolt handle and trigger together so the rifle would fire the entire magazine in one burst when the trigger was pulled. The ATF's response letter said this was creating an illegal machine gun through modification by adding parts but no conviction was made because it was only a letter asking for a theoretical ruling if they were to catch you doing that. The ATF later overruled itself and changed its mind and said "the string itself is not a machinegun, whether or not there are loops tied on the ends." http://www.nfaoa.org/documents/2007-06-25%20String%20Trick%20-%20ATF%20FTB%20Overrules%20Itself.pdf quote:You can also own things like short barrels and rifle stocks as separate parts and the ATF won't try to arrest you unless you put them together into an unregistered illegal configuration. The ATF might not, but states have different opinions. California's SRB laws specifically include constructive possession as a crime. Florida arrested a guy who was selling a pistol which was legal to own and a vertical foregrip which was legal to own and a stock which was legal to own, but eventually dropped the charges and gave him his stuff back.
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Phanatic posted:The ATF later overruled itself and changed its mind and said "the string itself is not a machinegun, whether or not there are loops tied on the ends." Calling the string the machine gun isn't weird because the way the law works a specific part is always going to be considered the machine gun. This is a machine gun. 
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Dec 6, 2022 23:07
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holtemon posted:The whole time during that movie, I was like this is so stupid nobody would ever go to an alien planet and do all this dumb stuff. Taking their helmet off all willy nilly, touching random alien poo poo, etc. My biggest issue with that part was the guy literally flew to an alien planet then got lost and panicked but as soon as a Nope Cobra came along he wanted to cuddle it. Dumbest writing
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Atticus_1354 posted:Calling the string the machine gun isn't weird because the way the law works a specific part is always going to be considered the machine gun. That's a legal machine gun. This is an illegal one (unless you're an SOT and can legally bend a coat hanger into this specific shape): 
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Laws be weird I mean why not make all the parts of a machine gun controlled instead of this weird song and dance?
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Dec 6, 2022 23:22
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champagne posting posted:Laws be weird In my limited understanding an automatic pistol or rifle is one springy bit away from hold the trigger and spray. Which is actually pretty ineffective. I think most combat weapons have a selector between single and three shot bursts.
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Dec 6, 2022 23:30
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champagne posting posted:Laws be weird Many parts of an illegal fully-automatic firearm are identical to the corresponding parts in the lookalike semi-automatic model that is perfectly legal to own.
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champagne posting posted:Laws be weird American laws be weird, you mean. Please don't tarnish the rest of mankind with that bullshit.
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Nenonen posted:American laws be weird, you mean. Please don't tarnish the rest of mankind with that bullshit. A stan for the law? I never.
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SamBishop posted:Isn't it generally accepted that you shouldn't touch the wheel when you're going through a crash because it could snap a wrist or something if the wheels hit wrong? I honestly can't remember where or why I think that's a thing, but their placid faces during the whole thing are absolutely hilarious to me. As her hands were on the steering wheel she was flung against it and her thumb hyper extended causing all sorts of drama: bone fragments, dislocation, ligament damage, whatever. It’s been 6 weeks and the physiotherapist has just started to introduce a small amount of motion to the extent of letting her close her fist up to 3 times a day. In short: take your hands off the wheel.
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holtemon posted:The whole time during that movie, I was like this is so stupid nobody would ever go to an alien planet and do all this dumb stuff. Taking their helmet off all willy nilly, touching random alien poo poo, etc. Yeah, there used to be a point where I'd see people acting like the dumbest motherfuckers in media and it would break immersion. "Rules don't apply to me" "Nah I'll be fine" etc. etc. Nowadays I'd feel upset if there wasn't at least one person acting like a dumbass and walking towards the fire or something.
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Dec 7, 2022 00:22
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How many times has she done this? BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:In my limited understanding an automatic pistol or rifle is one springy bit away from hold the trigger and spray. I understand how the single works, mostly understand how fully automatic works, but have never understood mechanically how they get it to do just 3.
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Dec 7, 2022 00:34
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ilmucche posted:How many times has she done this? You add a rotaty indexy boy into the trigger group that takes 3 whackums to cycle. Sometimes you make it so when you release the trigger the rotate boy resets, sometimes you don't so your burst then has memory, so if you squeeze off one, and then hold you'll get 2 rounds the second time.
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Dec 7, 2022 00:41
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ilmucche posted:How many times has she done this? Sounds like you need some time with Ian… https://youtu.be/0utf9Wu--W8 Edit: beaten above. I just love watching his videos and I’m not even “into” guns. I just love mechanical and history stuff like that
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Serjeant Snubbin posted:A few months back my partner was in a relatively low speed crash on a tight corner. She had stopped. The other vehicle drove into the front wheels of our car. Wow. Usually the airbag handles that by pushing you away at just the right speed but that sounds awful.
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Sockington posted:Sounds like you need some time with Ian… You might enjoy this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4 I guess the OSHA aspect is the poor guys in the Iowa who accidentally put in two sacks of propellant and then hit the compressor.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I guess the OSHA aspect is the poor guys in the Iowa who accidentally put in two sacks of propellant and then hit the compressor. For battleship OSHA I always think of the poor bastards on the Fuso.
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ilmucche posted:I understand how the single works, mostly understand how fully automatic works, but have never understood mechanically how they get it to do just 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxwPEL8winI&t=274s It uses a gear and pawl mechanism to count to 3.
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thepopmonster posted:Given that you can presumably still buy a trigger that fires one bullet on pulling the trigger and one on release, and it's also "legal" to create a hand-cranked gatling gun (presumably only if it's inconvenient to hook up a motor to said crank) so the drone case would probably be "legal" as long as you had a dedicated single-action button for firing without any auto-repeat (or a separate controller, etc). I had the crazy idea of having a “vigesimal trigger”. It has twenty positions as it sweeps fore to aft on its pivot. At each of these positions, it prevents aftward motion of itself unless the breach is locked. Once the breach is locked, the trigger releases the bolt and allows movement to the next position. Steady finger pressure leads to twenty trigger functions and twenty bullets fired. It works like a crank in that if you keep moving it in the same direction, it keeps cycling the gun. Now this would be difficult to make mechanically, and I am sure that ATF would find that actually this wasn’t at all like the AR GatCrank, but I like it as an idea. Blue Footed Booby posted:This is an example of a weaponized chilling effect. The idea is if you have no idea where the line is and crossing it sends you to prison forever, most people stay the hell away instead of playing I'm-not-touching-you games. This phenomenon is why courts shot down W Bush's plan to let law enforcement subpoena records of what people check out from libraries: it was transparently a tactic to scare people away from topics the government doesn't like. They usually don’t prosecute gun smiths for making a prototype and asking “hey ATF what do you think about this mechanism?”, but technically if they don’t like it, you just handed them Exhibits A, B, and C in a case for manufacture of a machine gun.
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Something tells me there's no recovery mechanism for this on board, like a giant crane. Is there even anything they could do to stop it once it begins? 
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Every time a gun weirdo tries to o explain why it's totally dumb to ban one kind of gun because uh, actually, if you knew anything about guns you'd know it's impossible to single any of them out, I just sorta feel like, ok, so you're saying just ban all of them then?
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champagne posting posted:Laws be weird I remember getting into "but actually" fights with libertarians and I bet that's why the law and policy preferences around small arms are nightmarishly complex
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Swilo posted:Something tells me there's no recovery mechanism for this on board, like a giant crane. Is there even anything they could do to stop it once it begins? not really. containers get lost at sea sometimes, worldwide about 2 a day on average
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Slugworth posted:Every time a gun weirdo tries to o explain why it's totally dumb to ban one kind of gun because uh, actually, if you knew anything about guns you'd know it's impossible to single any of them out, I just sorta feel like, ok, so you're saying just ban all of them then? Oregon's new gun laws go into effect in two days apparently. Seemingly normal people will tell you about their gun collections and how people are walking out of Sportsman's Warehouse with armloads of banana clips right now. Why? Because they enjoy hunting. That's why you have ARs in double digits and a 30 round magazine just doesn't cut the mustard. e: apparently the thing you have to do (and this guy seemed really off) is take a picture of your future illegal firearm and email it to yourself for a timestamp before Dec 8th. I have no idea what that means but okay
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This was posted in the #blessed pics thread, but I really think it belongs here instead:Snowglobe of Doom posted:Brushie brushie! The stains on its teeth are the blood of the previous 8 Hippo Oral Hygienists.
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Swilo posted:Something tells me there's no recovery mechanism for this on board, like a giant crane. Is there even anything they could do to stop it once it begins? Nope Google posted:The typical year sees hundreds of containers lost at sea. On average, there's somewhere between 700 and 1000 sunken containers annually.
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That's what is going to wake Cthulhu from His Eternal Slumber. Getting bonked on the noggin by an overboard shipping container.
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Proteus Jones posted:That's what is going to wake Cthulhu from His Eternal Slumber. Getting bonked on the noggin by an overboard shipping container. w̷̬̒h̵̤̏o̷̧͗ ̷̤̓t̶̞͆h̸̤͝ê̴̟ ̷̖̂f̷̞͠ũ̶ͅc̶͎͗k̵̢͝ ̴̨̂o̵̰̊r̷͔̄d̵̛̙e̵̩͗r̴͖̾ę̴́d̸̘͝ ̷̹̃a̴̱̾ĺ̸̮l̷̲̾ ̸̛̰t̶͚͝h̵͙̎e̷̪̅s̵̻͛e̴̝͊ ̸̙͋š̵̝e̴͓̒x̷͖̽-̴̨̋ȧ̵̠r̷̦̾s̴̗̆e̴͎͋s̸͕̆
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Potato Salad posted:I remember getting into "but actually" fights with libertarians and I bet that's why the law and policy preferences around small arms are nightmarishly complex It’s an infinite game of “I’m not touching you so you can’t tell Mom”. Anything technical will lag behind legislation, and those that can profit or just like to win will double-speak past legislative intent, so this kind of rules-lawyering is rewarded. Banking does the same dammed thing, hell, FCC gets played the same way.
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