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I just bought a set of gouges for carving wood from a Ukrainian maker and they very thoughtfully included a packet of bandaids in with the chisels. The leatherworking knives I got from the same maker are viciously sharp, so that is appreciated.
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Saul Kain posted:This guys is one of my favorite youtubers. A Ukrainian blacksmith that makes cool knives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQA0YPmjKOo Someone buy this man a band saw for the love of Україні
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Aug 2, 2023 02:25
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Fearless posted:I just bought a set of gouges for carving wood from a Ukrainian maker and they very thoughtfully included a packet of bandaids in with the chisels. The leatherworking knives I got from the same maker are viciously sharp, so that is appreciated. That's actually pretty cool, the seller realizing "yeah he's gonna need these" and tossing in a pack of bandages
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Aug 2, 2023 02:36
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I've had some...injuries from assorted causes- one of the worst minor ones was accidental poking my left hand with a freshly sharpened chisel. It went effortlessly in about a half inch before I felt it. It was one of those where an adult would go to the hospital, but it needs stitches and I don't like needles. Put all those dudes say the knife was sharp enough they didn't feel it into some tiny perspective.
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Aug 2, 2023 02:43
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bulletsponge13 posted:I've had some...injuries from assorted causes- I intelligently hung my chisels up in a nice row, with another set right below them. I still have a scar on my arm from where it brushed against the top row while pulling from the bottom. Neer even felt it.
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Aug 2, 2023 02:48
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orange juche posted:That's actually pretty cool, the seller realizing "yeah he's gonna need these" and tossing in a pack of bandages I thought so too! I am going to make a bunch of little leather tip covers for them though.
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Aug 2, 2023 02:56
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M_Gargantua posted:Someone buy this man a band saw for the love of Україні Yeah I'd happily donate a Milwaukee to this dude. That hacksaw made my elbow hurt watching it.
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Aug 2, 2023 03:22
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Fearless posted:I just bought a set of gouges for carving wood from a Ukrainian maker and they very thoughtfully included a packet of bandaids in with the chisels. Haha, that's awesome. I'll have to tell my father that, he'll get a kick out of it.
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Aug 2, 2023 03:58
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Saul Kain posted:This guys is one of my favorite youtubers. A Ukrainian blacksmith that makes cool knives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQA0YPmjKOo speaking of ukrainian youtubers, i guess kreosan got the gently caress out of dodge a bunch of apparently judiciously timed pre-recorded videos of chernobyl in winter throughout the first half of 2022 and then shows up in thailand in june watching that channel transition from "we made a homemade flamethrower out of old washing machine bits and whatnot" to "well, luhansk has been occupied, here's how to make wifi extenders and also lets go check out the destroyed aiport" was real weird in 2014
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Aug 2, 2023 05:46
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bulletsponge13 posted:6 gun rotary mounted MG3s, the spider web sight in the middle of the circle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FGiNRyGqg (AFAICT, the gunner here misses the drone they're shooting at) But I'm genuinely flummoxed that we've not seen more data on a Designated Skeet Shotgunner as a counter-drone weapon. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Aug 2, 2023 |
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Aug 2, 2023 10:24
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I once read an account of a extremely posh British officer, in spring 1940, lecturing his newly raised and now highly bemused formation of ex-miners and brummie shop workers about how shooting down a Stuka with their rifles was 'Just like bagging a brace of grouse on the wing on the Glorious 12th!'.
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Aug 2, 2023 10:26
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Ukrainians and supporters in surrounding countries have started a cottage industry of 3d printing drone bombs, including EFP variants: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/01/ukraines-latest-weapons-in-its-war-with-russia-3d-printed-bombs quote:Some candy bombs can even be used against armoured vehicles. Copper and aluminium are pressed inside these bombs into a specially designed cone shape. When the explosives detonate, the metals are transformed into a thin jet of superheated plasma that can bore its way through armour. (The same technique is used by many commercially made anti-tank weapons.) Ukrainian drone operators claim to be able to destroy Russian tanks by dropping these bombs, which weigh around half a kilo, onto the vehicle’s roof, where the armour is thinner.
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Aug 2, 2023 12:18
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/20118quote:Similar odd stories emerged from other regions of Russia. In Rossosh, a 24-year-old teacher was detained after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the military enlistment office, sharing a similar account of being manipulated into committing the act. IRS/tech support scams but telling people to commit domestic terrorism instead.
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Aug 2, 2023 13:07
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As a computer toucher I don't know whether to be horrified to the bone or deeply impressed. Both? Impressively horrified? Do I have to worry about people getting phishing mails, but instead of stealing passwords it's forcing entry to my server room to pull out all the tape reels?
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Aug 2, 2023 13:16
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Mumbai accentishly: "we have detected fraud in your paypal account. Can you drive this truck to the entrance of the SVR? "
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Aug 2, 2023 13:21
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Dunno if middle-aged teacher is the one being naive here, or you guys (and the fsb)
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Aug 2, 2023 15:03
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Xakura posted:Dunno if middle-aged teacher is the one being naive here, or you guys (and the fsb) I propose a third option: turn on your monitor
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Aug 2, 2023 15:12
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Of course the context of all this is a world where the media is filled with propaganda, the government is openly corrupt, even your neighbors cannot be trusted, and the balkanized military is well-known for both waging covert strikes against their rivals and strong-arming civilians into doing their bidding. Making the wrong decision leading to you or someone you love manning in a trench in Ukraine is a very possible outcome from any interaction with a stranger.
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Aug 2, 2023 15:19
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PurpleXVI posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/20118 My first reaction is that people can’t be that stupid. My second reaction is that of course they can be.
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Aug 2, 2023 15:30
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Alan Smithee posted:Mumbai accentishly: "we have detected fraud in your paypal account. Can you drive this truck to the entrance of the SVR? "
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Aug 2, 2023 16:15
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Fearless posted:I just bought a set of gouges for carving wood from a Ukrainian maker and they very thoughtfully included a packet of bandaids in with the chisels. The leatherworking knives I got from the same maker are viciously sharp, so that is appreciated. Boss's kid and his girlfriend got into whittling and I was like "oh hey, that'll be fun. Here's a handful of bandaids because the 2 that came with your kit isn't going to be enough and they're crap anyway. the GF was offended. Until about 10 minutes later when she needed one.
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Aug 2, 2023 16:53
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PurpleXVI posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/20118 Reminds me of the Russian security service raid where they planted 3 Sims3 game copies instead of planting SIM cards.. someone got told to find people attacking their glorious conscription offices and went and created some terrorists to round up. Entrapment? No, more rebels!
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Aug 2, 2023 17:31
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Fearless posted:I just bought a set of gouges for carving wood from a Ukrainian maker and they very thoughtfully included a packet of bandaids in with the chisels. The leatherworking knives I got from the same maker are viciously sharp, so that is appreciated. I remember the first time i accidentally cut myself with a knife that i'd sharpened, i felt a mixture of pain & anger at being so stupid  ... closely followed by smugness that it had sliced in without me catching on till the blood pooled, nice clean scar too. 
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Aug 2, 2023 17:35
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Just Another Lurker posted:I remember the first time i accidentally cut myself with a knife that i'd sharpened, i felt a mixture of pain & anger at being so stupid I was sharpening chisels by hand without a guide. I felt a pinch and was pretty bummed to see that I'd taken a clean round of finger tip skin off but that I'd felt it. Same situation as you at first, but then I noticed I did it to my other two fingers and didn't feel those. Then I doubled down on smug and satisfied. 
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Aug 2, 2023 17:57
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Cannon_Fodder posted:I was sharpening chisels by hand without a guide. I felt a pinch and was pretty bummed to see that I'd taken a clean round of finger tip skin off but that I'd felt it. Happily my days in catering are long gone and as you say guides are a thing.  If i stab myself with a honing steel i'm doing it very, very wrong.
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Aug 2, 2023 18:12
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PurpleXVI posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/20118 ' domestic propaganda value.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:My hot take on this is that Russian security services don't want to admit that Ukrainian/domestic saboteurs are active and able to set draft offices on fire so they arrested a few random people and made up this insane but slightly plausible story which also has good 'Those dastardly Ukrainians tricking honest and loyal Russians I don't think Ukrainian saboteurs are responsible for setting fire to enlistment offices. Consider what danger they're in just being in Russia, the consequences of getting caught and what trouble it likely is to get a meaningful amount of weapons and explosives deep beyond the border, they probably have more important targets. Nascent domestic rebels? Possibly. I could genuinely see the SBU offering desperate Russians hosed over by the sanctions and etc. a bucketful of money for doing a bit of terrorism.
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Aug 2, 2023 19:04
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Just Another Lurker posted:I remember the first time i accidentally cut myself with a knife that i'd sharpened, i felt a mixture of pain & anger at being so stupid I did that the other day with a new folding knife like the idiot that I am, and my first thought was "god dammit if this wasn't a knuckle cut it would probably heal absolutely perfectly".
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Aug 2, 2023 19:12
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:My hot take on this is that Russian security services don't want to admit that Ukrainian/domestic saboteurs are active and able to set draft offices on fire so they arrested a few random people and made up this insane but slightly plausible story which also has good 'Those dastardly Ukrainians tricking honest and loyal Russians It could be both.
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Aug 2, 2023 19:33
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Unlike their horrific industrial maintenance practices leading to outcomes that are all but indistinguishable from sabotage (at least in the outcomes), attacks on recruiting offices would be a step up.
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IPCRESS posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FGiNRyGqg (AFAICT, the gunner here misses the drone they're shooting at) Olympic trap shooting is at pretty much the maximum range of what is possible with birdshot. 76 meters travel, but you try to break the clay closer than that. This is to hit a clay plate that is spinning fast enough to disintegrate with a less than full-on hit. There aren't a whole lot of Olympic level trap shooters in the world and their guns start at over $2000 USD, going all the way up to sky's the limit for a full custom gun. The payload a shotgun, even a 3 1/2 inch Magnum Goose Fucker, can deliver is too slow, too light, and too unpredictable to be really useful any further than 25m. Assuming, of course, that you can even see the drone well enough to hit it. They tend not to be painted bright orange and black.
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Aug 2, 2023 22:14
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Obviously the answer is the Yamato’s beehive round.
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Saul Kain posted:Obviously the answer is the Yamato’s beehive round. 23mm AA gun barrels get bored out to make the KS-23 shotgun. Reverse the process a bit and you have a dual or quad 23mm shotgun with a three foot long barrel!
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Aug 2, 2023 22:23
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A 4 gauge? Beef up the beretta semi auto system, add a drum, call it the sky sweeper, bingo bango let's goooooo.
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Deptfordx posted:I once read an account of a extremely posh British officer, in spring 1940, lecturing his newly raised and now highly bemused formation of ex-miners and brummie shop workers about how shooting down a Stuka with their rifles was 'Just like bagging a brace of grouse on the wing on the Glorious 12th!'. I mean, if you can actually pull it off you've got a great trophy story. And it is how they got the Red Baron (maybe).
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Aug 2, 2023 22:32
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21st Century Punt Guns leesssgooooo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTQQfKxkZpk
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I mean, if you can actually pull it off you've got a great trophy story. And it is how they got the Red Baron (maybe). That was an Aussie Infantryman with a Vickers... more than likely.
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Aug 2, 2023 22:50
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Just Another Lurker posted:That was an Aussie Infantryman with a Vickers... more than likely. It was a Canadian who got an airport named after him.
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It's mostly agreed on that it was an Aussie with a Lewis Gun that killed the Red Baron, but he wouldn't have been able to take the shot if Roy Brown a Canadian pilot hadn't been pursuing him.
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mikerock posted:It's mostly agreed on that it was an Aussie with a Lewis Gun that killed the Red Baron, but he wouldn't have been able to take the shot if Roy Brown a Canadian pilot hadn't been pursuing him. Also TBI.
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