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@ Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world

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  • W Celsius

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  • 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.

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    I never tought I would feel sorry for an inanimate object

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  • Glocks have some internal safety mechanisms which make them drop-safe, and which makes it basically impossible for them to go off without fully pulling the trigger, but they don't have a manual safety that you'd flip on and off with your thumb or whatever. The main point of a traditional manual safety is to keep the gun from firing while you're carrying it, like if you were walking through the woods and a stray branch or something pokes your holster hard enough to move the trigger, for example, the safety would prevent the gun from firing. Or on some pistols (but definitely not all pistols), the manual safety will keep it from firing if you drop it. But with pistols like Glocks which are already drop-safe, modern hard-sided Kydex holsters have made a manual safety kind of redundant because they're molded to the exact shape of the gun and they completely enclose the trigger guard to keep out anything that might accidentally move the trigger. It's sort of like having a hard case for your gun right on your hip. So if you're going to carry a pistol which doesn't have a manual safety, Kydex holsters are pretty much the only way to go.

    As for manual safeties being required by law, they definitely aren't where I live. I've don't recall ever seeing a Glock with a safety. But gun laws vary a lot from state to state. If you live somewhere like California it wouldn't surprise me if a law like that existed there, but I doubt it would most other places.

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    I never tought I would feel sorry for an inanimate object

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  • What do you think is going to get him first: heart disease, type 2 diabetes, or a negligent discharge from waistband carrying a pistol which doesn't have a manual safety?

  • warehouse fires, adventurism or?

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  • 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 forbidden fourth leche

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  • 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.

  • An employee who allegedly burned down a California warehouse compared himself to Luigi Mangione in a message to co-workers after setting the fire.

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

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • 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.

  • [Article] Deafness reversed: One injection restores hearing in just weeks

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  • Neat. Will it work on tinnitus?

  • 10 Million Grill Brushes Recalled After Some People Ingested Loose Bristles

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  • 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.

  • What's a good community to try to sell a phone?

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  • 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.

  • Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax

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  • What is this red and neon yellow rope thing? Kinda looks like a bracelet?

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  • It's a friendship bracelet. Back in the late 80s and early 90s friendship bracelets were super popular in elementary and middle schools. The idea was that you and your friends would make them by hand and give them to each other. I'm sure they're probably low key still a thing, but their popularity at the time was pretty much on par with how popular fidget spinners were a few years ago, so you could buy mass-produced ones in all the same places you could buy fidget spinners: gas stations, grocery stores, etc. This was the most common style of mass-produced one.

  • New tuners?

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  • I've used both Gotoh and Grover aftermarket tuners and they're both going strong 10+ years on. No problems to report with either brand.

    Different brands of guitars use different hole sizes for the tuning peg, so make sure you measure the diameter of the peg hole in your headstock before you order to make sure you're getting ones that will fit your guitar.

  • If there will be a fall of civilization soon, then what would you advise to do so as not to regret later?

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  • 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.

  • Well that certainly changed the tone

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  • 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.

  • I get Scandinavian DNA, but where does Spanish DNA come from?

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  • 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.

  • What are your favourite spice/herb combinations?

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

  • Wilson

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  • I remember the cast being at an awards show or something back when the show was at its peak popularity, and to continue the gag this guy wore a mask over the bottom half of his face that was a tiny fence made out of popsicle sticks so that people still wouldn't know what he looked like.

  • Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?”

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  • Yeah, that surprised me too.