what he thought was a quick trigger that only made it so that if you racked the slide wrong, it would drop the hammer
Okay, until this part I was like "it's not really a safety issue, still illegal and stupid but not unsafe." Jeez. I could see modifying the barrel or stock of a gun if you just really really wanted to- as long as you don't plug it you can't really cause any harm to anything but your accuracy. Absolutely fuck trying to rig up modifications to the trigger or anything involving the actual firing mechanism. I'm not tryna kill someone on accident.
Our gun laws are more permissive than most, if not all, places, but they still exist and are an absolute mess.
Federal laws define anything under a 16" barrel as a short barreled rifle- SBR. That's a colossal no-no and a felony. That is enforced.
The other big thing is that one trigger pull = one round fired. If it breaks that rule, or fires from an open bolt the ATF considers it a machine gun and those are pretty tightly restricted. You can't manufacture more machine guns for the civilian market, they have to be grandfathered in from before they were banned.
There's tons more whacky Federal stuff- like how they treat suppressors. Federal laws have nothing on state laws though. Man does that get confusing when your gun is absolutely fine in Nevada but is a turbo-crime in California. God forbid you bring a thumbhole stock into California. And then there's concealed carry permits- a lot of places it's illegal to carry a handgun concealed with a permit. But the permits are all state issued and whether they're valid in other states is entirely fucking random.
TL;DR: we get a lot of shit for having lax gun laws- and we do- but they definitely exist and navigating them can be a gigantic pain.
The entire Creeper World series is on sale- Creeper World 1 and 2 are $2.49, Creeper World 3 is $4.94, and Creeper World 4 is $9.99. Personally, I don't like Creeper World 2 so I would suggest any of them but that one. CW2 is side on and I'm not a fan. CW1 and 3 are top down, and CW4 is properly 3D.
The first couple of Creeper World games used to be flash games you could play in browser, but after the age of Java games they ported them to Steam and kept making more and better games.
The basic concept is that it's a cross between a very simplified RTS and a tower defense game, with the added curveball that the enemy is just a liquid that won't stop showing up everywhere.
Some instances just disable downvotes. I have no idea exactly how that functions exactly, but I'd guess that matters. IIRC Beehaw and Lemmynsfw have both disabled downvotes. There's probably more.
I also have an Arctis 1- I paid ~$70 USD- and I'd recommend them as well. They're very comfy, and the mesh pads mean they're reasonably breathable. I have zero complaints with the battery life- I've never had it manage to die during a very solid day of use. Though if I forget to charge them overnight they usually die sometime the next day. And that's after nearly 2 years of use- I bought them in June 2023.
Interestingly, I've had a very different experience with the mute switch. I find it pretty stiff. Which I'd say is a good thing. The volume wheel next to it, however, is really easily moved. I occasionally turn the volume down accidentally just taking the headset on and off.
Also: If you have a phone case the USB C dongle might not fit. I have to remove my case to use them with my phone. Not a huge deal, but worth mentioning.
Maybe a plus, maybe not depending on your preferences, but I think they look normal. They're not explicitly gamer-y, or anything. I wouldn't feel embarrassed wearing them in public like I might some jagged RGB'd monstrosity.
I decided to make a new Reddit account yesterday after deleting mine back a bit after they shut down the mobile API.
I deleted it again this morning. I might have some minor issues with Lemmy, but my god Reddit is a toxic cesspit. People just suck there, and I'm not sure exactly why.
It depends? I've honestly never heard of a firearm being irreparably broken- there's not usually a ton of different parts involved like with a car so repairs are drastically similar.
The amount of use and abuse a gun would need to be broken in some kind of semi-permanent way would be a lot. Generally if you've got the money for that amount of ammo, you're going to have the money to have your gun- which you clearly like- repaired.
If you really just want to get rid of it, though, from my understanding you can take it to any police station (probably call ahead showing up with a gun randomly is a bad idea) and they'll dispose of it for you.
If you're asking about the mechanics of it, all you need to legally 'destroy' a firearm is an oxy/acetylene torch. The ATF has a nice little guide.
That title is definitely difficult to understand lol
The Judge used the fact that he played D&D in the 80s when it was 'well known' that D&D would make you a satanist- which is obviously ridiculous- to refute that it's 'well known' that kids are addicted to social media today.
MR. GOLEMBIEWSKI: Well, Your Honor, it is well known in this country that kids are addicted to these platforms. This is a mental health —
THE COURT: It was well known when I was growing up that I was going to become a Satanist because I played Dungeons & Dragons. Is that — I don’t know what really that means. You can say that there’s studies, Judge, and you can’t ignore expert reports that say X.
It's entirely possible that the F-35 or F-22 has something like that. Even if it doesn't, it's definitely expecting regular software updates which it wouldn't be getting.
The older jets, like the F-16s they've given to Ukraine, I highly doubt have any kind of kill switch.
Even if they're obsolete there will almost certainly be some way to retrieve your data unless you're expecting to go away for a LONG time- if you went away in the 90s and did this I'm pretty sure it'd be as simple as buying a SATA-IDE adapter.
Yep. I wish I liked the side-on games. I'm not sure what it is about them exactly that doesn't click like the rest.