Forgotten Weapons
This is a community dedicated to historical arms, mechanically unique arms, and Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons content.
Posts requesting an identification of a particular gun (or other arm) are welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/
Rules:
1) Treat Others in a Civil Manner. Personal insults of other members are not welcome here. Neither are calls for violence.
2) No Contemporary Politics Historical politics that influenced designs or adoption of designs are excluded from this rule. Acknowledgement of existing laws to explain designs is also permissible, so long as comments aren't in made to advocate or oppose a policy.
3) No Advertising This rule doesn't apply to posting historical advertisements or showing more contemporary ads as a means of displaying information on an appropriate topic. The aim of this rule is to combat spam/irrelevant advertising campaigns.
4) Keep posts and discussions on Topic Keep it related to arms or Forgotten Weapons or closely adjacent content.
5) NSFW content must be marked, and is only acceptable if it is on topic. NSFW means gore or nudity. If such content is somehow on topic and is not just posted for shock value it may be allowed but must be marked.
Post Guide Lines
These are suggestions not rules.
-Provide a duration for videos. eg. [12:34]
-Provide a year to either indicate when a specific design was produced, patented, or released. If you have an older design being used in a recent conflict provide the year the picture was taken. Dates should be included to help contextualize, not necessarily give exact periods.
-Post a full URL, on mobile devices it can be hard to tell what you're clicking on if you only see "(Link)".
-Posts do not have to be just firearms. Blades, bows, etc. are also welcome.
Adjacent Communities
If you run a community that you feel might fit in dm a mod and we might add your's.
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3000 Cyclists of Uncle Sam
(I'm on .world ncd anymore though)
sorry I don’t get your phrase in parenthsis?
I post on !noncredibledefense@lemmy.world instead of !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
why? did something happen?
There was some... drama with the NCD mods on sh.itjust.works, ~~and now the NCD community there is banned from Blahaj.~~ apparently unbanned, but I'm still wary of returning after that.
It’s not banned on blahaj, it was mostly a big misunderstanding.
@CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works who is the power poster behind the community is banned from blahaj for “genocide denial”, therefore when viewing the community from blahaj it looks kind of empty.
Yeah I saw that. But then the SJW admin “shit” cleared it up.
https://lemmy.world/post/21611929
I’m on blahaj so trust me when I say it’s not blocked from here.
Though I have to say nuke’s comments on the original thread was in my opinion unfairly inflammatory so I completely understand a boycott of the SJW community in favour of the LW one.
What I love about this is that they took a contraption that is defined by having two big wheels, and set it atop eight tiny wheels.
damn, the recoil on that will have you speaking several Octaves higher
Great for fighting retreats!
Back then, this would have been a bold combination of emerging technologies.
I'm gonna need this next time I'm in the bike lane. No SUV is gonna cut me off now.
Wow, the general shape of a bike was figured out earlier than I thought
And that's 1897 AD - the BC ones were similar!
Yeah, but it was still a very different ride.
Wooden rims and solid rubber tires rattled your bones to bits on the prevailing cobbled roads
Ergonomics weren't well understood. With that saddle and grip position, you sat hunched over the bars in a cramped position for no good reason.
No gears or freewheel means as long as the wheels are turning, so are your legs - lot's of fun up and downhill!
No brakes. You brake by countering the pedals' movement with your legs which is really hard on the knees.
No foot retention means if you slip off the pedal with your leather-soled shoes, you're gonna have a bad time.
And the steel frame's tubes were a lot thicker, so even without the MG that bike has about twice the weight of a modern one.
Need.
When this getting added to execitebike?????
C/fuckcars