[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I don't own one. Can someone objectively confirm a few things about Glocks? Is the following true?:

  • They don't really have a "safety". They have several mechanisms that prevent accidental fire when a finger isn't on the trigger, but if you have a round in the chamber and pull the trigger, it's going to fire (which sounds obvious, but I mean it doesn't have a safety switch like a bb gun usually does)

  • You have to pull back the slide to chamber a round and fire. And once it's chambered, the trigger just needs a light squeeze to fire (as opposed to a full motion squeeze - in other words, the trigger is partially pulled back once racked and easier to fire)

If the above is true, these two things in combination seem like an irrisponsible design to me. You are asking for accidental fires like the one that happens recently where a guy pointed a gun at some kids in his driveway and claims "the gun went off". You should either have a real safety, or it should be harder to squeeze the trigger accidentally.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Circuit City blew all their money trying to create a disposable DVD called Divx. It was intended to replace video rental stores.

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Not really me. A friend of mine is moving out of state. His neighbor has been a total dick the entire time he's lived there. Constantly commenting on how my friend's yard isn't as good as his. Mean to my friend's wife and kids for no reason. Just an asshole of a person.

What are some ideas for fun pranks my friend can leave behind?

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago

This is going to be my new way to antagonize conservatives I know:

ME: Did you know Harris has had 5 kids with 3 different partners?!

MORON: I don't doubt it. She's a whore!

ME: Oh sorry, I meant Trump.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 152 points 1 month ago

As we know from Gore and Clinton, national numbers mean jack shit. Vote!

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Most don't load for me. Just get a black screen. The ones I've checked were mp4s from imgur. Not sure if that accounts for all of them though.

Edit: I think it started after the most recent update. Edit 2: mp4s from catbox.moe also doesn't work. It shows a spinner at the bottom but never loads.

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Time to get some coffee and doughnuts

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submitted 4 months ago by Waldowal@lemmy.world to c/movies@lemmy.world

Since it recently hit Netflix, I decided to see just how bad Madame Web really is.

45 second in, while showing the ever-present Marvel logo with the flipping comic book pages, I notice the sound effect is different. It vaguely sound like pages flipping, but it's definitely a toilet flushing.

Did they buy into the bad reviews and literally decide to say: "check out this turd of a movie" with the intro sound?

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 105 points 4 months ago

Those are "de-escalation devices". First, you beat them with thing 1. If that doesn't calm them down, you stun them with thing 2. If they are still not calm, you shoot them with thing 3. Repeat until America great again.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 139 points 4 months ago

"So there I was, watching Fox News on one TV, NewsMax on another, dick in hand of course - I'm an alpha you see. And I see this dude trying to steal my freedoms. I ran after him, and I heard him say something woke. It was either "Sorry - wrong house" or "I want to rape your wife and abort the baby". I couldn't tell which. Of course I had my blue steel beauty in the hand I wasnt using to rub one out - so I started blasting...."

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 116 points 5 months ago

If your goal is rehabilitation, driving people insane with sleep deprivation isn't going to help.

Secondly, think about how irritated and pissy you are when you don't get enough sleep. Now imagine that in an entire prison population. You're asking for trouble.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 181 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As a Gen-Xer who's been beaten into believing you can't realistically "fight the man", I fucking love the Gen-Z attitude.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 121 points 7 months ago

I expected another story about a Tesla self-driving passengers to their doom. Instead, "the driver accidentally hit the gas pedal", so it being a Tesla is really an irrelevant detail. Would the headline have read "Hyundai plunges into Norway fjord..." if it were a different car.

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DALL-E meme (lemmy.world)
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Filter to 1-star and note how many reviews are direct copies of each other - many referencing that the Obamas are executive producers.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 98 points 9 months ago

If you remember when this happened, his parents were in interviews trying to turn it into a "This is how the libs come for your guns!" situation. The kid was also reported to have said he hoped "Biden gets impeached due to my shooting". He was 15 at the time of the shooting.

This is a prime example of people being radicalized by the rhetoric from right-wingers. The parents first, then they brainwashed this kid into thinking he'd somehow be a hero for doing this. Sad all around.

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[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 102 points 10 months ago

New policy from the corporate office: If you are working in a public place, like a coffee shop, please scream while typing your login password.

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This all revolves around conservatives focusing on ARR instead of RRR numbers on vaccine efficacy. Here's a description I found of the difference from another article:

Let’s say a study enrolled 20,000 patients into the control group and 20,000 in the vaccine group. In that study, 200 people in the control group got sick and 0 people in the vaccine group got sick. Even though the vaccine efficacy would be a whopping 100%, the ARR would show that vaccines reduce the absolute risk by just 1% (200/20,000= 1%). For the ARR to increase to 20% in our example study with a vaccine with 100% efficacy, 4,000 of the 20,000 people in the control group would have to get sick (4,000/20,000= 20%).

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[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 123 points 1 year ago

You don't have to run the rat race to get promoted. You don't have to be at your desk at 7am and leave at 7pm to put on a show. Just be competent. Most people are not. You'll eventually get promoted once you are old and white enough.

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