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re: Bullet ejected from gun, detonates at the shooters feet
Posted by beerandt on 12/4/25 at 1:36 pm to Pvt Hudson
We'd tape a BB to the primer of a 12ga shell (shot still intact), Tee it up and hit it with a driver.
Smart? Maybe not.
But not nearly as dangerous as people think.
Smart? Maybe not.
But not nearly as dangerous as people think.
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re: US fires Minuteman III doomsday missile
Posted by beerandt on 11/5/25 at 12:47 pm to HenryParsons
We test at least one of these every quarter. Without a warhead.
This is a fake news reframe in action.
Eta: or possibly an intentional reframe by Trump.
Either way. New framing not new news.
This is a fake news reframe in action.
Eta: or possibly an intentional reframe by Trump.
Either way. New framing not new news.
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Just sideloaded an IPTV viewer to my Android Auto
Tell me more
re: More than 200 hikers still stranded as blizzard hits Mount Everest
Posted by beerandt on 10/6/25 at 7:52 pm to East Coast Band
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This isn't the time of year that climbers ascend to Everests peak. Thats in May
There's also a Sept/ Oct "season" but it's not as consistent as May, and not nearly as popular.
Partially bc storms like this popup.
I won't celebrate his passing like some will*, nor will I celebrate his reign, but can we all agree?
No more Jesuit Popes.
(*there's no way Benedict stepping down before death was on the up&up, but I doubt Francis was involved in anyway other than being the chosen successor.)
No more Jesuit Popes.
(*there's no way Benedict stepping down before death was on the up&up, but I doubt Francis was involved in anyway other than being the chosen successor.)
She's just a less blatant (and slightly less ghey) blippi
I ban them both on netflix
I ban them both on netflix
re: Bob Lazar- Area 51 Whistleblower
Posted by beerandt on 4/11/25 at 11:39 pm to TigerLicks
https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/
Otherhand is a civil engineer also known for finding a classified sr71 crash site and the 'death Valley Germans' missing tourists story.
But he's also pretty deep into area 51 stuff and has imo proven Lazar to be a fraud. At best a secret-adjacent extreme exaggeration story teller that got in over his head and committed to the lie.
The site linked debunks some of lazars claims.
Otherhand is a civil engineer also known for finding a classified sr71 crash site and the 'death Valley Germans' missing tourists story.
But he's also pretty deep into area 51 stuff and has imo proven Lazar to be a fraud. At best a secret-adjacent extreme exaggeration story teller that got in over his head and committed to the lie.
The site linked debunks some of lazars claims.
re: What Is The Most Bizarre Death You’ve Ever Heard Of?
Posted by beerandt on 4/11/25 at 1:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Paria Fuel Trading co. / Trinidad Tobago Oil pipeline accident in 2022
Divers sucked into oil pipeline, one crawls/ swims out, rescuers refuse to go after others despite survivor saying they (at least one) were still alive.
Instead send a pig to push the bodies out. Which probably finished off the others. Helluva way to go.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Caribbean_diving_disaster
This one seems to still be getting actively scrubbed from search results and the wiki is a fraction of the length it used to be. (Still being settled in court.)
Good rabbit hole for a Friday. There's also gopro video if you're so inclined. I'm not posting it.
Divers sucked into oil pipeline, one crawls/ swims out, rescuers refuse to go after others despite survivor saying they (at least one) were still alive.
Instead send a pig to push the bodies out. Which probably finished off the others. Helluva way to go.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Caribbean_diving_disaster
This one seems to still be getting actively scrubbed from search results and the wiki is a fraction of the length it used to be. (Still being settled in court.)
Good rabbit hole for a Friday. There's also gopro video if you're so inclined. I'm not posting it.
Did you try using it without a filter? Lots of the new ones just bypass and work fine if there's no filter installed, but they obvs don't volunteer that info.
re: Best Pair of Khaki Shorts
Posted by beerandt on 2/17/25 at 11:05 am to Shut Up Mulllet
Chubbies occasionally has "regular" shorts now also- flat front without the stretch waist and are presentable with a pole
But also recommend the short inseam filson's for a tough outside more casual short.
And the brooks brothers stretch shorts that don't look like stretch as a step up in dress.
Bonobos also a good goto, still available at perlis but recently taken over by Walmart
But also recommend the short inseam filson's for a tough outside more casual short.
And the brooks brothers stretch shorts that don't look like stretch as a step up in dress.
Bonobos also a good goto, still available at perlis but recently taken over by Walmart
re: Deep South winter storm and arctic outbreak - Jan. 20-23 timeframe
Posted by beerandt on 1/17/25 at 1:54 pm to bayoubengals88
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More than likely they just don’t want to have to make an announcement on a federal holiday when students would be at home anyway.
Ours said they made the call early so that books whatever else could be sent home today, and Tuesday will be 'distance learning'.
Good luck with that if snows on the ground.
My basic understanding:
10:1 is a rain model that just assumes a 10x rain multiplier for snow volume.
Kuchera is actually a snow model.
But supposedly the net and gross snow depth models are historically better predictors, especially with mixed sleet and ice.
And plenty of runs the last week it'll show 0" snowfall but like 6" accumulation and vice versa. They're not internally consistent.
10:1 is a rain model that just assumes a 10x rain multiplier for snow volume.
Kuchera is actually a snow model.
But supposedly the net and gross snow depth models are historically better predictors, especially with mixed sleet and ice.
And plenty of runs the last week it'll show 0" snowfall but like 6" accumulation and vice versa. They're not internally consistent.
re: washing machine and dryer recommendation
Posted by beerandt on 10/24/24 at 7:47 am to cypresstiger
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Get the one with the least bells and whistles. Fewer things to go wrong
Good advice for the washer, but...
All the (non-commercial at least) dryers are almost identical electronic insides now, and as I said up thread, I suspect the mechanical dial on our speed queen dryer is getting stuck. It's mechanical, but only in the sense it's acting as an electric switch. And an added layer to fail. Prob wouldn't happen with the upgraded push button or non-mech dial ones.
Not like the washers where it's direct drive vs transmission drive.
But wife had to have the matching set.
re: washing machine and dryer recommendation
Posted by beerandt on 10/23/24 at 4:56 pm to waiting4saturday
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Speed Queens are good but they don't make very large ones
The wash time more than makes up for the size difference. It'll do twice as many loads as the eco friendly competition.
The dryer I'm not crazy about, we've had to call them out bc it just kept running and the towels smelled burnt. And a year later it's doing it again.
But I suspect it's bc my wife turns the dial the wrong way.
re: Tell me why Imperial is better than the Metric system
Posted by beerandt on 10/23/24 at 2:57 pm to Stinger_1066
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At the operational level NASA, and especially the astronauts, preferred English units. This meant that before being displayed, altitude and altitude-rate (for example) were calculated from the metric state vector maintained by navigation, and then were converted to feet and ft/sec.
And then metric got reduced to probably some 6 or 8 bit hex-style number, which got reduced to binary for the computer.
Binary really doesn't like decimal- go look at all the calc hoops floating point has to jump through not to crash. And then still result in 0.99999999999 answers.
Imperial numbers were the final product.
Unless you want to argue we should work in binary everyday, the underlying system isn't relevant.
re: Tell me why Imperial is better than the Metric system
Posted by beerandt on 10/23/24 at 2:45 pm to bigfatpimp
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0 being the freezing temp of of a particular brine, in this case 50% ammonium chloride/water solution.
Which was meant to be a standardized way of recreating sea-water.
0 deg F is the temp for sea-ice.
With 32 plus 180 equals 212, all highly divisible numbers to work with.
100 deg being close to body temp was the least important to nail down, which is why it's ~2 deg off.
Decimal is different than n^2 fractions, and either theoretically could be used with either metric or imperial.
But n^2 fractions (and wholes) is substantially easier for building stuff, and completely goes against the spirit of metric, if not certain rules.
But n^2 fractions (and wholes) is substantially easier for building stuff, and completely goes against the spirit of metric, if not certain rules.
Ask the metric people why we don't use metric time, and see their attitude shift.
Then ask why metric units are based on (nominal) imperial seconds.
Then ask why metric units are based on (nominal) imperial seconds.
re: Louisiana leaders discuss getting a second live tiger to bring to LSU football games
Posted by beerandt on 9/26/24 at 5:28 pm to ragincajun03
I unironically think the governor reinstating canceled tradition/history/fun is a good thing.
Mike's gameday 1st, Lee Circle/High next, followed by the little woods/ maurepas/barrier island camps... half a dozen of these "don't you have better things to worry about" ideas and he could have Huey P levels of political capital to spend.
Mike's gameday 1st, Lee Circle/High next, followed by the little woods/ maurepas/barrier island camps... half a dozen of these "don't you have better things to worry about" ideas and he could have Huey P levels of political capital to spend.
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Gen Z is legitimately worse with computers than the average boomer. It's remarkable, really, but the iPhone dumbed down technology to Fischer-Price level.
Maybe, but there is nothing worse than a boomer white knighting a siri answer.
Uncle was arguing with me over kids tuition prices- I had just wrote the check that week, but siri was the 'more correct' answer for him.
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You posted that the data you're using is since 1973, which predates prevalent DNA use by a couple of decades. So what technology wasn't trusted before the 90s that would have exonerated people? Were the majority of those 2.5% released pre-DNA?
Usually this claim is about things like matching bitemarks or fingerprints, which the congressional study said shouldn't be used as absolute proof of positive ID.
Meaning, eg, if a matching bite mark was used as evidence, they now claim it could have been anyone's matching bite mark, unless you prove no one else in the world matches.
Of course the narrative has interpreted this as proof of innocence in such cases.
When really it just downgraded most pre-dna evidence to "circumstantial if matching, but exculpatory if not".
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