Waldowal

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[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

I don't own one. Can someone objectively confirm a few things about Glocks? Is the following true?:

  • They don't really have a "safety". They have several mechanisms that prevent accidental fire when a finger isn't on the trigger, but if you have a round in the chamber and pull the trigger, it's going to fire (which sounds obvious, but I mean it doesn't have a safety switch like a bb gun usually does)

  • You have to pull back the slide to chamber a round and fire. And once it's chambered, the trigger just needs a light squeeze to fire (as opposed to a full motion squeeze - in other words, the trigger is partially pulled back once racked and easier to fire)

If the above is true, these two things in combination seem like an irrisponsible design to me. You are asking for accidental fires like the one that happens recently where a guy pointed a gun at some kids in his driveway and claims "the gun went off". You should either have a real safety, or it should be harder to squeeze the trigger accidentally.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Circuit City blew all their money trying to create a disposable DVD called Divx. It was intended to replace video rental stores.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The one I hate most: "Art of the Possible".

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yea, I read it. I'm not buying it.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel like this is just gift wrapping being a dumb racist hick in prettier paper. They are scared of cities because their full of black people, gays, and Mexicans. They like assholes who show the same level of hate as they do - who will keep the black people, gays, and Mexicans away. And they like someone who justifies hiding behind religion so they can tell themselves that God made them this dumb and rascist. So they can delude themselves into thinking they are really the good guy.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing valuable, but I discovered a cache of Matchbox cars, coins, spoons, and small plastic toys all in a small spot in my yard when I first moved in. Seemed cool imaging the kids playing there years prior. Building tunnels in the dirt to drive their cars through and accidentally burying them for me to find later.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just rewatched that as well. Some of my favorite parts:

  • It's set in 2021
  • His brain implanted hard drive holds a whopping 80GB. He uses a "doubler" to increase his capacity to 160GB. The whole plot of the movie is that he loads 320GB in, which leaks into his brain, and he has to get it back out before it kills him.
  • The encryption key to the data is photos of a tube television screen that have to be faxed to the recipient.
  • One futuristic aspect to his hotel room is that the TV wakes him up with a personal message on screen and then he uses it for a video call.
  • The local rebels are a group called the Low-Teks - led by Ice-T. They end up having the highest end tech.
  • The best doctor around is Henry Rollins.
[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

The fetish stuff is all created by people who can't experience ASMR and just assume it's what being horny feels like. Sad really.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What, you think I don't have any friends? Sigh. You are mostly correct. But I have this one.

He's been renting for years. He's definitely moving. All clear.

 

Not really me. A friend of mine is moving out of state. His neighbor has been a total dick the entire time he's lived there. Constantly commenting on how my friend's yard isn't as good as his. Mean to my friend's wife and kids for no reason. Just an asshole of a person.

What are some ideas for fun pranks my friend can leave behind?

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is going to be my new way to antagonize conservatives I know:

ME: Did you know Harris has had 5 kids with 3 different partners?!

MORON: I don't doubt it. She's a whore!

ME: Oh sorry, I meant Trump.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I figured Joe Pesci was done after The Irishman.

[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That must be something else because he was charged with 83 counts of attempted murder. 1 for each passenger.

 

Since it recently hit Netflix, I decided to see just how bad Madame Web really is.

45 second in, while showing the ever-present Marvel logo with the flipping comic book pages, I notice the sound effect is different. It vaguely sound like pages flipping, but it's definitely a toilet flushing.

Did they buy into the bad reviews and literally decide to say: "check out this turd of a movie" with the intro sound?

 

Filter to 1-star and note how many reviews are direct copies of each other - many referencing that the Obamas are executive producers.

 

This all revolves around conservatives focusing on ARR instead of RRR numbers on vaccine efficacy. Here's a description I found of the difference from another article:

Let’s say a study enrolled 20,000 patients into the control group and 20,000 in the vaccine group. In that study, 200 people in the control group got sick and 0 people in the vaccine group got sick. Even though the vaccine efficacy would be a whopping 100%, the ARR would show that vaccines reduce the absolute risk by just 1% (200/20,000= 1%). For the ARR to increase to 20% in our example study with a vaccine with 100% efficacy, 4,000 of the 20,000 people in the control group would have to get sick (4,000/20,000= 20%).

 

In unrelated news, Google Maps site traffic from North Korea sees odd spike.

 

Double boxed, surrounded by air pouches and held firm with layers of wax paper. How bad do you have to treat a package to get this level of destruction?

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