JamesTBagg

@JamesTBagg@lemmy.world
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Maybe riding a motorcycle has made me hypersensitive to it, but it seems, yes. I see all of you and so many of you are on your cell phones while driving. It's bad enough I've learned to spot you from a hundred yards behind; the subtle drift of your car, checking your speed with the brake pedal, you aren't smooth in stop & go traffic.
It apparently is a challenge for a lot of you to stay off your phones, a-fucking-lot of you. So it looks like WisDOT is speaking to many of you like children, because many of your fellow drivers are acting like children, unable to prioritize operating their 3,000lbs+ machine safely over Instagram/tik tok/Twitter or whatever the fuck.

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What's that line from Liar Liar? "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!"

What makes it worse, those people almost never actually struggled. Otherwise they may have learned to suffer some empathy.

That's always been my take. The Navy has the experience with big-ship operations, and operating smaller craft from those large ships, and it's supply and logistics would likely evolve from ocean to space faring ships.
The Marines are historically an amphibious force, an extension of the Navy, specialized in ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore operations; ship-to-surface would be the evolution of that.

They know, their comment was sarcastic.

Hired to coach actors to act like drill instructors because he was a drill instructor. Turns out it was more effective to just have the former drill instructor act like a drill instructor. Turns out the drill instructor did do it better than the actors, and ended up being one of the most accurate portrayals ever put to film.

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There were conspiracies the morning of. I asked if anyone at work had seen it, about 9 California time, they hadn't but soon after seeing pictures and video some of these guys were calling for a conspiracy.
So I leaned into it. Yeah Republicans refuse to fund infrastructure maintenance, so the conspiracy is get shipping companies to ram dilapidated bridges so their insurances fund the rebuilds.

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You should risk reading the article before you sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

You're right but wrong about how comfortable flying used to be.
Flying used to be heavily regulated and was heavily subsidized by air mail contracts. Aircraft were roomier and much more comfortable. After some trust and monopoly busting, and deregulation, the loss of air mail contracts, then share holders took more control.
Then over the years prices have declined, leg room has declined, comfort has declined, passengers are now treated like sardines, being flight crew used to be a glamorous, sought-after job. We still romanticize PanAm. Now AA attendants are looking to strike because they're making poverty wages.
You can find stories of nightmare passengers and crews from all over the world if you look, but Americans are going to hear American news. I studied aeronautics and aviation in college. Hard to explain more from my phone while I'm pooping, but yes, flying used to be a MUCH better experience for all involved.

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No predatory animal is looking for a fair fight. Hell, if the fight is too fair the animal is likely to just choose different prey.

Again, that's an outlier and an anecdote.

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No there's not, the scan thats been used has cropped out the nudity, it's in like the second paragraph,

Usage of the Lenna image in image processing began in June or July 1973 when an assistant professor named Alexander Sawchuck and a graduate student at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute scanned a square portion of the centerfold image with a primitive drum scanner, omitting nudity present in the original image. They scanned it for a colleague's conference paper, and after that, others began to use the image as well.

Landlords are already leaving housing empty rather than lower rents. Perhaps heavy handed regulations are needed because unfettered capitalism isn't offering any solutions.

It's all demographics. I ride a motorcycle and I can spot who is playing on their phone from way off; the slight swerving, randomly and unnecessary tapping the brakes to maintain speed, unable to regulate follow distance, in stop & go traffic, traffic starts and they don't. When I pass and look in at them they often still don't see me.
I see all of you.

A gun store near me, here in southern California, has a picture of Reagan on the wall. Standing under that picture I listened to an employee explain to a man in a wheel chair that the recoil from a Desert Eagle would push him backwards across the room.

Ugh, nobody talk to me, just sell me my bullets.

I hate the Cybertruck as much as the next guy, but this could really boil down to just tire choice and nothing more.

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Having been through boot camp I can tell you there is a big over lap between what officially wouldn't fly and what unofficially does happen. He became a spokesperson for The Corps, even getting promoted after leaving service, of course he wouldn't sully the reputation of the Marine Corps on record.

The Colt Single Action Army is likely one of the most iconic pistols in the US, "The gun that won the west." You've seen them in many movies without realizing it.
The term you're looking for his "single action" or sometimes "cowboy action" though that will also include lever action rifles and shotguns, and break actions as well.
Single Action is defined by the trigger having the single function of releasing the hammer (you thumb and cocks the hammer which rotates the cylinder separately). Double action trigger pull will rotate the cylinder and cycle the hammer.

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Why are you assuming to know who their opponents are? I'm pretty socialist leaning (union steward like, convince my friends to read the Communist Manifeso like) I own a handful of guns. I know my "opponents" are likely armed.
The Socialist Rifle Association is assuming their opponents will be armed.

No they wouldn't. That logic has not stopped one single, shitty remake and almost all of them have been worse than the originals. So bad we forget they even exist. Robocop, Mummy, Red Dawn, Total Recall come to mind... garbage. I think Road House, Twister, and Mr & Mrs Smith are getting remakes this year, and they don't look good either.

To be fair, you don't know what you're talking about.

1, Hamas is a political party, literally voted into power. Not all members would be militia.
B, Even if the man was of the militant arm, in full uniform and battle-rattle, killing a surrendered foe is murder and a war crime.

This coming from my experience as a Marine having acted in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, that were occupied by many civilians and combatants.

My first thought was, "this post brought to you by not mechanics." Otherwise they'd recognize the superiority of hex and torx over Philips and especially flat. But then I realized this is, in fact, a very shit post.

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You mean, quite literally what Saudi Arabia is asking for?

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during school days.

Literally, the first sentence. So, no. Not even the first school to ban cell phone use during the school day.

That used to work. Tried that with Comcast a few months ago; they refused to match AT&T's price for the same speeds. So I'm with AT&T now.

When is the prosecution allowed to appeal(?) for a different judge due to obvious bias for the defense?

A Rolls will be my "I made it" car. Now to start playing the lotto.

Well, Airbus was victim to the fraud as well. The supplier created fake documentation. Both Boeing, Spirit and Airbus have all said the tested the discrepant metal and it was the correct alloy it conformed to standards. This isn't the first time fraudulent parts have infected aviation supply, and likely won't be the last.

The article barely even touches want had been happening in Myanmar. The military coup, the rounding up and murder of civilians... but what about China!?

I think you're missing the hyperbole in their statement. They're suggesting they're both misguided ideas.
We could also argue, but the 2nd Amendment protects the 1st.

Fear won't stop me, if she enjoys it, I'm tongue punchin' it.

I feel the same about a lot of metal. I often really love the instrumental portion of lots of really heavy metal, then often the vocalist opens his fucking mouth and ruins it.

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Me, being simple minded, assumed it was two different actors for hunchback-Yen and smokeshow-Yen.

I don't think he literally wants to, otherwise he could do it himself, but he's certainly not doing much to prevent it

Yeah, they sound good, his voice is great. I like American Capitalist (I just assume it's satire) and and Wrong Side of Heaven makes me feel some shit (being a veteran), they're covers are pretty good, but a lot of it falls flat or just eh.

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1st, yes, single-action revolvers are analogous to bolt action rifles. 2nd, no single actions are not considered semi-automatic. Single Action or double action refers specifically to the trigger function(s).
Semi-automatic or fully-automatic refers to functions after the hammer falls. Semi-autos automatically cock the hammer and load the next round, then waits for you to pull the trigger again. One trigger pull fires one round, and loads one round. Fully automatic will fire a round, cock the hammer, load the next round and automatically fire it, continuously until the trigger is released or source of ammo runs dry.
A semi-auto pistol can be single-action (see:1911) or double-action (see: M9).

Research "ninja rocks."

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Darn Tough socks naming is a little better now that I know this.

Hopefully not the Uvalde Cavalry Corps.

No it doesn't. How does it prove Deckard is a replicant versus proving Tyrell Corps had become just that good at replicating life. In both Blade Runner movies to prove something was replicant they had to get electron microscope close to find printing on cells. Perhaps Rachael was just that human. Unless it was explained somewhere I missed.

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