Not a single “she’ll be right” between them. Smh.

They were a feature on typewriter keyboards back before personal computers were even a thing, so I think it’s probably just that Sony didn’t bother to put them on that specific keyboard.

I think you should go with something strong, like Powers, Kingslayer, or Grimaxe. Your enemies aren’t going to strike fear into themselves.

Saying you don’t like podcasts is like saying you don’t like music. There’s so many, made by so many people, in so many different ways, on so many subjects, that there’s bound to be at least a couple you think are amazing. I mean, if all podcasts were just a bunch of dude-bros having a verbal wank into a microphone once or twice a week, then yeah, miss me with that shit. But a lot of them put a lot of effort into producing a high quality professional sounding show. Some of my favorites are 99% Invisible, which is a very well made show about not so obvious features of architecture and design; One Song, where they break popular songs down into all the isolated tracks and talk about how it was all put together; This Podcast Will Kill You, where they do well researched histories of diseases and toxins, their discovery, treatment, social impacts, etc; and You Are Not So Smart, which is a podcast about psychology and sociology. Other people already mentioned Behind the Bastards and Darknet Diaries, which I also listen to regularly. Chances are that no matter what subjects or hobbies you have a deep interest in there’s at least one or two really well made podcasts about it.

I think I would have been a lot happier if I’d never learned that.

“She got a sentence that was harsh. It was a 9 year sentence,” Polis said in March.

It actually wasn’t harsh though. MAGA is just pretending like it was because they’re pissed that one of them had to face any kind of consequences for their criminal behavior. The maximum penalty allowed by statute for each count she was convicted on was double what she actually got. Despite her showing absolutely zero remorse or contrition, the judge still gave her half the sentence they could have.

I can’t imagine why Polis would ever think pardoning her was a good idea, but I suspect he’s looking ahead to when he leaves office next year, and this is the beginning of his heel turn into becoming a right-wing grifter.

Can someone help me understand once and for all what an “assault style” weapon is?

So, “assault rifle” is kind a colloquial term. It’s not an actual military category or designation as far as I know. But in a military context the type of gun that people commonly call an assault rifle is a type of light machine gun which shoots what’s called an “intermediate round.” That’s a smaller caliber or lower power rifle round that is spicier and has a longer range than the pistol rounds that sub-machine guns shoot, but which are less spicy and easier to control than the bigger .30 caliber rifle rounds that regular full size machine guns shoot. It sort of splits the difference between two types of weapon to hopefully be more effective in a broader range of circumstances. AR platform rifles like M-16s and M-4s shoot a spiced up .22 caliber rifle round (.223 Remington/5.56 NATO), and AK platform rifles shoot a toned down .30 caliber rifle round with a shortened casing (7.62X39mm aka 7.62 Soviet).

The military version of these rifles are actual fully automatic machine guns, meaning that when on the full auto setting when you pull the trigger they will keep firing bullets until you let off the trigger again. That full-auto capability is pretty much the entire “assault” part of an assault rifle. And it’s kind of the difference between military rifles and any other rifle. And even though they look virtually identical, the civilian versions of the same rifles are not capable of doing that. They’re just regular semi-automatic rifles, which means they automatically re-cock themselves after each shot so you don’t have cycle the gun’s action manually, but each shot still requires a separate trigger pull. You can’t just spray bullets like an action movie. They work the same as any traditional wooden-stock semi-auto hunting rifle that you’d use for hunting deer or elk.

What makes an assault style weapon more deadly than a non assault style weapon?

They’re not. In terms of power and effective range they’re pretty thoroughly outclassed by your average deer rifle. It’s why they’re so hard to ban. .223 Remington/5.56 NATO is one of the smallest center-fire rifle cartridges that’s commonly available. If you banned every rifle that shot a larger or more powerful round you’d flat-out be banning most rifles, including the one grandpa goes hunting with every year. Since there aren’t many legislators who are willing to try to take away PopPop’s hunting rifle, most bans focus on cosmetic things like pistol grips or adjustable stocks instead of the actual capability of the gun. It all pretty much just comes down to vibes. Regardless of any evidence, people who have little or no firearms experience tend to just sort of assume “assault” rifles still must somehow be deadlier. Otherwise why would soldiers out fighting a war have the one and not the other, right? Plus, for most people, their entire knowledge of firearms comes from Hollywood movies and police procedurals, which means whatever they know about guns that isn’t flat out wrong is probably wildly exaggerated. They’ve spent their whole lives watching guys on their TV with M-16s take down helicopters and blow up trucks just by shooting at them. On some gut level they feel like there must be some truth to it, and it’s very difficult to convince them otherwise when they don’t have any first-hand experience.

Also, fix the damn calendar

13 months, 28 days per month = 364 days. New Year’s Day can be its own holiday separate from the rest of the year, and every fourth year it can be 2 days long.

Now we just need to get Big Calendar on board.

There really isn’t a trend of warehouse fires. The It Could Happen Here podcast did an episode on it the other day. Warehouse fires are just really common. They happen on average of four times a day in the US. But now you have a ton of content creators trying to paint every new one as a WaLuigi copycat to get those social media clicks. And since these fires are a daily occurrence, there are tons to choose from. They’re conflating events that are almost certainly not connected at all.

While I’m sure we’re going to get a WaLuigi copycat at some point in the future, there is no evidence that’s happening right now. A lot of people desperately want to believe that it is, though. I would like to believe that it is. But there just isn’t any actual evidence that it’s true.

Not that that’s going to stop lawmakers from clutching their pearls and passing some new draconian laws that further put the screws to the working class. I’ve been paying attention to politics for over 30 years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen Congress pass up a chance to screw over poor people when the opportunity arises.

The three original milks are evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and half and half (or heavy cream if you’re feeling nasty), so the fourth milk could be just plain ol’ regular milk.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that commerce and capitalism are the same thing.

The Internet K Hole . A rotating collection of old snapshots (occasionally nsfw) presented without context. It’s weirdly enthralling. You can lose hours and hours on that site.

Neat. Will it work on tinnitus?

I don’t think it really matters which models have officially be recalled. No matter how well made that type of brush is, you’re going to have bristles break off eventually. It’s just the nature of that type of tool. I have a couple of friends who are ER nurses, and it seems like every time I see them at a BBQ they’ve got a new story about people accidentally swallowing a metal bristle that broke off one of those. Apparently it happens a lot, so I stopped using them a long time ago. There are so many other safer types of grill brush out there that there really isn’t any reason to. I’ve got one that’s basically a chain mail scrubbing pad on a stick, and another one that’s like a loosely coiled spring that can conform to the shape of my grill and clean the gunk in between the grill slats. If you don’t have anything else, a ball of wadded up aluminum foil does a pretty good job too. The foil does tend to leave a few flakes of aluminum behind, but at least if you accidentally swallow one of those it won’t embed itself in your throat or cut up your digestive tract.

Lemmy isn’t really the platform for that. If I were trying to sell a phone I’d probably list it on Swappa, eBay, or Facebook Marketplace. It wouldn’t even occur to me to try and sell it here. And if I were buying a second hand phone, of those three I’d be most inclined to buy off of Swappa.

I Will Pay Any Amount To Not Pay My Taxes.

One of the really great things about the USA is our national parks, so if you’re in the US you should go see as many of them as you can before MAGA starts selling them off to oil/mining companies and real estate developers.

On top of the two movies and the AMC+ show, HBO also put out a reboot series of Interview With the Vampire fairly recently as well.

Even if your entire family came from Norway it actually wouldn’t be that surprising that you’d get some DNA from other cultures popping up in there somewhere. The Viking Age, which spanned several hundred years, was pretty wild. The Vikings developed a type of boat that could sail the open ocean, but still had a shallow enough draft that it could navigate most of the major networks of Europe, and which was light enough that they could be carried overland from one river to another. It was an absolutely devastating technology for the time. They could often sail up a river, sack an entire city, and be gone before the surrounding area was able to raise an army to fight them off. As you can probably imagine the Vikings got all over the damned place. They got all the way to North America to the west, and pushed into Asia and founded Russia to the east. Some sold their mercenary services to the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople and served in his Varangian Guard. They got around Europe so much and sacked so many European cities so often that at one point Europe straight up completely ran out of silver.

The Viking Age also overlapped with the Muslim expansion throughout the Mediterranean coast of Europe and North Africa. The Muslim conquest of the Iberian region of Spain, and the famous Viking raid on Lindisfarne in England only happened about 70 years apart. So the Vikings were also bumping into them as well. Most people have this idea of the Middle Ages where everyone pretty much stayed put, and nobody traveled more than 20 miles from where they were born. And while that was probably true enough for some people, lots other people moved around a ton, and there was actually quite a bit of cultural cross-pollination and trade. It’s not hard to imagine that somewhere in all of that one of your Scandiwegian ancestors might have gotten a piece of some Spanish hotness.

Also, when the Vikings went raiding, they didn’t just take silver, they also took slaves and brought many of them back to Scandinavia. And sometimes they had sex with those slaves. So there’s also that possibility.

This + some kind of chile powder. I put it on damned near everything.