[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

You speak Texan, not American English. Ya'll get your own way of talkin' and power grid.

Best country in America.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

HUDs in cars have been a thing since the late 80s, not the same thing as an whole windshield display for AR.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The ads are a concern, but it would be neat to have your nav overlayed on the road. I imagine manufacturers removing instrument clusters and putting all the relevant information on the windshield in the next evolution of Tesla's dumb idea to put everything on the infotainment.

There totally will be driverless taxi with obnoxious and unmutable ads, just like with gas pumps. You will be able to watch ads on YouTube and Netflix while your car drives you to the next location of a realized dystopian nightmare.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Why do I want this so bad?!

$19.99? Sold! I have no idea what I will use it for, but for God's sake I know how I am probably going to accidentally hurt myself.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

It does have some value(like shooting a turkey neck to avoid lead-tainted meat), but it is a novelty or exotic round at the end of the day since it is far too powerful a round to be used for squirrel privateering. Also most woodland mammal cargo vessels haven't use sails for decades before the bolo round cartridge became viable.

It may be a bit of a joke round, but it wouldn't be very funny to find yourself at the business end of a derringer with one in the pipe.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

"Thunderhead" is hardcast or an alloy with a channel cut in both sides that causes it to do some gnarly stuff to soft tissue as the round hits and the tissue "splashes" through the gaps instead of displacing from the round. Kind of a more extreme version of a Lehigh Defense Xtreme Defense.

"CFA" is Controlled Fracturing Ammunition, like the G2 RIP. Think hollowpoint but the petals are meant to disperse into the target while the back of the round dumps energy.

"Bolo" isn't meant to tie something up like a normal bolo, it just allows the round halves to widen out and disperse energy across a wider area. Some people like them for shooting turkey necks, but those people are weird.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

A man of culture, I see.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

All my homies love diagnosing problems by decoding LEDs blinking in code.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Mir egal, aber plastic waste, artificial flavors, proprietary CO2 bottles, doesn't save money; pick your poison.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

You see why I said dragon's breath, flechette, or bolo.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Load it with .45-70(hardcast, thunderhead, or brass CFA) and .410(dragon's breath, flechette, or bolo), you will solve the problem one way or the other.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 190 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Their linguistic prowess is limited but hilarious.

My bird knows probably a dozen or more human vocalizations and their rough usage. He has maracas that he likes to fiddle with and sometimes he will tap it against his head, which makes it rattle, and he will say "stahp eht"(stop it). He has a hatred of things that rattle or jingle and he loves to destroy things to make them stop. He is trying to tell the maracas to stop making noise that he causes. He will approach a toy that rattles and will say "stahp eht", and then pick it up or knock it about as if telling it to not make noise will make it not make noise; entirely absent is the concept that he is causing it to make noise.

It is quite funny to be told by a 63g bird to "shaddap" when the TV is too loud for him to sleep in his covered cage at night.

I do wish he would use "bed tyme" more appropriately for when he wants to be put to bed and not just whenever he wants to take one of his 6-10 naps a day. Close enough for an Amazonian Hitler pigeon with a final solution to the rattle and jingle question, I guess.

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