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In case anyone was in the market to buy a Ruger mini-14, be warned they beat themselves up to the point of buffer breakage in 1 000 rounds give or take.
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I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."
about 6 days ago from web-
@awl The way we spell "forty" is stupid. Like it's "Four" and "Fourteen" so it really should be "fourteen"
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@elli It's really so common and obvious that we could probably stand to officially change it, I mean it's not like Webster's is making the rules, nothing but convention and mental inertia behind it
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@elli no we don’t let foreigners dictate how we spell words. English is to never change ever.
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I’m not proud of this but I’ve been playing the Gex Trilogy for most of the night
about 13 days ago from web-
@zeldatra GEX 3D: Enter The Gecko was awesome. I had to guy a 3DFX Voodoo graphics card to get the game to work back in the day. It was the best Mario 64 replacement a PC gamer could have without owning a N64.
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just voted. Tactically, both of the men I supported are black, which removes the possibility of me having accidentally platformed a guy who did blackface… again…
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I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.
about 14 days ago from web-
@adiwan I laughed exactly once at the OJ joke in the first trailer but I have been unimpressed otherwise.
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@zeldatra I got a slight chuckle at max out of this. I feel like the stuff in the trailer was off-putting serious in tone while being off-putting outlandish in the next. I don't remember the originals being like that. Also I don't like that he is so trigger happy for a comedy film. I guess, according to the Youtube comments, it will be a moderate success, as I have seen a ton of positive comments. Cinema is dead, I guess.
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The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.
about 15 days ago from web-
@scribus Words like "go away" and "idiot" were uttered. That stupid stubborn little piece of poop and spiky bristles either didn't move at all or it moved quickly back to under the bush to make the whole process comically on repeat. 10 minutes for a distance of 1.5 meters.
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@adiwan I spent half an hour yesterday chasing a duck around the yard, also on account of poop. I warned it for months that the pool wasn't going to keep me out forever, and yesterday was the point where I finally said "Oh ho, it's Speedo time," stripped down to my underwear, and cannonballed on about a meter away from it.
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in case anyone is wondering how Trump’s military parade is going: there were actively more people in DC when I was there yesterday than there are tonight.
about 16 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Saw video where you can hear the tank treads squeaking over the complete lack of a crowd
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I gotta say… every time I see an F-150 in DC I gotta ask wtf these dudes are doing
about 17 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Compensating and pretending they need the flat bed for the off-chance to transport something big enough to warrant the purchase and ignoring trailers are a thing.
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While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.
about 20 days ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@adiwan Until now I was cheering for the two MQ9 Reaper drones flying circles over LA, but you have convinced me to cheer for the Inter City Express instead.
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@nerthos Too bad. The train has a delay of 50 minutes and the AC doesn't work. Seriously, the trains here are a joke for decades ever since Deutsche Bahn is run like a normal capitalist company.
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The pharmacist keeps telling me she gave an android device to “the lady with the jihad”. I think she’s trying to say “hijab”.
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https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/garbage-and-glory/news/garbage-and-glory-rpg Who wants to roleplay a party of trash pandas?!
about 24 days ago from web-
@scribus That looks fun. I guess my D&D group's taste would like a little bit more serious setting. I own the Humblewood books and I wait for the day I can do a one-shot in that setting when we start a Spelljammer campaign next year.
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It's pride month. For me it's pide month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C3%A7li_pide
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan I like the "Bride Month" initiative some people took this year
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navigating the leasing website for my new apartment is more painful than childbirth
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Had my first time a militant vegan was commenting on my post on bluesky. Shouldn't have replied to them. It baffles me that they cannot frame their interaction in a more positive light like saying that other products might be better and be positive to try more. Guess that's the Internet in a nutshell.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan I didn't want to look into the person's profile but I did it anyway. As suspected the person is as stereotypical of a militant vegan as it can be. Their personality is fully based on spreading veganism by being a dick to everybody and guilt-tripping for eating dead animals. Cool bro. You found an interesting hobby.
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FBI reports that the man who bombed the fertility clinic in Palm Springs had access to bomb-making material, wonder how they figured it out
about a month ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@scribus Oh wow! What a surprise! A determined person could brew something simple as gunpowder from the knowledge from Wikipedia.
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I equip my TI-83+
about a month ago from web -
What if school classes were RPG classes in a game? Having a party of students that is composed of a physics student, a foreign language student, a history student and a religion student could be for example a fantasy equivalent of a wizard, a bard, a rogue, and a cleric.
about a month ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@adiwan I had actually just been mentally workshopping something like that, where your character sheet is a report card and instead of numbers it was letter graded, "Oh I've got this puzzle, with my A+ in Ancient Sumerian Math!"
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@scribus Hmmm.... Weirdly compelling. So you have to find books, teachers, information and then to write an exam to level up a skill?
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I own the least profitable company in the entire state (as in it does not profit at all and in fact bleeds money) which is great for taxes but not great for convincing people you know what you’re doing
about 2 months ago from web -
Bought 275 rounds of 9mm irl and was so suddenly happy that ammo has no weight in Fallout
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It is bonkers to me that people give so much authority to the catholic church. If they were doing the right thing the child diddling pieces of Fluffle Puff were in jail and excommunicated.
about 2 months ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@nerthos Sounds great! I was not very informed or I forgot the news about that. I guess my avoidance of religious news is the culprit.
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@nerthos Plus, the vast majority of said CSA cases happened in the 60s and 70s. At the same time hippies were taking 14 year olds to concerts and giving them drugs to sleep with them, Michel Focault (of marginality theory fame) was leading a political movement to remove age of consent laws in France, and universities worldwide taught that you should do LSD and pedophilia was actually a very good thing for the kid's development.
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@adiwan Yeah it was nice. They excommunicated like 900 priests between 2004 and 2014 when serious investigations took place.
Obviously there will always be incidents like with any crime (there are over 400k active priests plus a whole lot more clergy staff, nuns, monks etc) but the cover up policy is over. Now they try to do an internal investigation first and if they find anything, excommunicate and report to secular law, unless it's within the vatican, which as a sovereign state has the authority to trial.
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I mean, the current Pope was in elementary school in the 60s
about 2 months ago from web-
@nerthos and what was he doing there then? http://rainbowdash.net/url/876713
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@zeldatra Studying I'd imagine, he was born in late 1955
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I learned recently that I have near identical political views to Daniel Tosh. If I said this fourteen years ago you guys would’ve dog piled me on Skype.
about 2 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Lucky for you I'm as unaware now as I was 14 years ago about who that is, so no bully
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Also I can verifiably say I was one of the pope’s first six thousand followers on Twitter, this should make me eligible to be a bishop
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I know this is going to come off like some lame joke, but today I watched White House security wave in two 20-somethings in suits riding Razer scooters into the drive
about 2 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Rise of the Blartists, don't mess with their mall
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18 naked cowboys filing for bankruptcy because tariffs are hurting small businesses
Ram ranch is under foreclosureabout 2 months ago from web-
@zeldatra US marines in their black ford raptors going hungry today
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I think this idiot's parents celebrated the pregnancy with daily shots
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Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.
about 2 months ago from web-
@adiwan You can use a drill to make holes in a stump and pour acid in to rot the wood quickly and make it easy to dig out, but obviously this makes the wood unusable.
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@nerthos Thanks. I'll try it with an old bush next to my terrace that will be a cherry to remove. I have a bottle of Hydrochloric Acid and some Citric Acid powder.
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I've disposed of my jalapeno plants. They were not in good health, floppy leaves and all-around yellowed and had a silvery layer (mildew?) on the leaves. Despite having flowers in bloom and some growing fruit I went to the decision to get rid of them in case they spread mildew to nearby plants.
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In a moment of 2000IQ clarity, one of the students zapped his phone's charging port with a lighter electric igniter and killed it
Immediately after, he asked me if doing so was harmful for the device
I love my jobabout 2 months ago from web -
I find that the screen keyboard on my phone seems to be more or less of a piece of crap depending on what app or field I'm typing into, but in no case is it unlike trying to speak with one's tongue cut out and jaw wired shut. I hope there's a Hell bad enough for Steve Jobs.
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus One thing he did was good: kill off the Adobe Flash plugin. It was a lot of trouble security-wise and performance on PC and especially mobile was atrocious. My HTC Desire Z could run Flash but more on paper than in practical terms. Also this move has eradicated Flash websites. They work now as good as they did back then, not at all.
Despite of that I agree to everything you said.
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